An objection that has been raised against the doctrine of divine immutability pertains to the Incarnation. [1] It seems that the Second Person of the Trinity taking on human flesh represents a change in God. But does it? This is an age-old question, which the fathers of the Church noted and addressed. Taking on humanity does not denote a change in the being of God; rather, in the Incarnation, divinity takes on—not converts to —a human nature (a real being) becoming the person of Jesus Christ. According to Chalcedonian Christology, the one and the same Christ is to be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten, God the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ. [2] The precise language of the incarnati