Does depicting Jesus in an image separate His humanity from His divinity and fall into the Nestorian heresy?
A viewer asks whether images of Jesus, which can only depict his humanity, separate his person from his will and fall into the Nestorian heresy.
Answer
No, not at all. When you have a statue of Jesus as a man, that is simply all you can see, but implied in it is his divinity too, because the God part is never separated from the man part. We cannot speak of Jesus as just God or just man; he is the God-man, the only creature composed of two natures, and Scripture calls him the unique Son of God. So whenever you have the man part you have the God part, and vice versa; the two natures cannot be torn apart, nor mixed or confused. An image of his humanity therefore does not fall into the Nestorian heresy; it still represents the one person with two natures joined in the hypostatic union.