Synopsis (1625) warned: “When he is said to have become flesh, not a phantasm of it is meant, but a true body consisting of flesh and bones and blood.”7 Yet as orthodox Christians we must insist that divinity was not transmuted into bodily flesh but that it assumed flesh while still remaining divine. True Humanity and True Divinity The church has always affirmed that the Jesus Christ of history was at the same time truly God. Paul proclaimed that “Christ … who is over all” is “God blessed for ever” (Rom