The guiding intuition is the Aristotelian idea that it is possible for an object a and an object b to be "one in number" - that is, numerically the same - without being strictly identical...
We believe in things that are very plausibly characterised as hylomorphic compounds whose matter is a familiar material object and whose form is an accidental property. For example, we believe in fists and hands, bronze statues and lumps of bronze, cats and heaps of cat tissue, and so on. Why we should believe all this but not that sitting down is a way of replacing one kind of object (a standing-man) with another (a seated-man) is an interesting and surprisingly difficult question.
- Jeffrey E. Brower and Michael C. Rea, 'Material Constitution and the Trinity' in Michael C. Rea (ed.), Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology Volume 1: Trinity, Incarnation, Atonement
How can Jesus be 'the Son of God' and 'God' at the same time?
That's like asking, how can a lump of clay be 'a lump of clay' and 'clay' at the same time?
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