1.4 Person of Jesus Flashcards
IN PROGRESS
what are 3 ways Jesus can be understood as divine?
- knowledge of God
- miracles
- resurrection
what are the four types of miracles?
- nature
- healing
- raising the dead
- exorcisms
what is an example of a nature miracle?
Mark when Jesus calms the storm
Jesus was sleeping in a boat when a violent storm hit. Jesus told the storm ‘hush! be still’ and it was
what is an example of a healing miracle?
John Jesus heals an official’s son
He healed an official’s son in Galilee who had a fever and was going to die
He simply said ‘your son will live’ and he did
what is an example of Jesus raising the dead?
Luke Jesus raises a widow’s son from the dead in Nain
It was her only son and she was widowed, Jesus felt bad for her and told the son to get up and he did
what is an example of an exorcism?
Mark
Jesus was teaching in a synagogue and a man came in shouting that Jesus wanted to destroy them
He told the man to be quiet and for the bad spirit to come out of him
The impure spirit shook the man violently and came out with a shriek
what two creeds reassert Jesus to be the son of God?
the nicene and apostle’s creed
defining statement of belief of maintstream christianity
‘I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord’
what is a bible quote that shows Jesus is one and the same as God?
- John 1:1 - in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God
- word comes from logos that describes the incarnation which existed from the beginning of time - of one substance and equal to the father
scholars in favour of Jesus’ divinity
Bonhoeffer
- the incarnation is necessary in meeting God through everyday people
C.S. Lewis
* 20th century writer and theologian
* people should either denounce Jesus altogether and not follow him or accept him as the son of God
Rahner
- used to explain Jesus’ self-awareness in being both man and God
- Rahner said that self-awareness is layered, like an onion, Jesus’ human self-consciousness is close to the surface and his divine self-consciousness is deep within
scholars who do not think Jesus is the son of God
Hick
* when you remove elements of the gospel that are likely to have been written after the time of Jesus we are left with only a teacher of wisdom
* the only thing that set christianity apart was the incarnation - by taking it away his good moral teachings can become accessible to all
scholars against miracles
Hume
- his 1748 essay on miracles said that because we have no present day experience of them we cannot trust biblical accounts
- favoured hard empiricism
what are issues with Jesus being divine?
- how he could get angry (john when he flips tables in the temple)
- did he know everything that was going to happen to him
- can he suffer if he is God (garden of gethsemane)
- is he flawed with original sin
what are terms to describe Jesus’ relationship with God
- homoousios: of the same substance/being
- hypostatic union: the belief that christ is both fully God and fully human (indivisible)
what 4 main things does Jesus teach about in the sermon of the mount?
- the law
- anger
- adultery
- divorce
- Jesus has not come to replace the law but to fulfil it ‘I have not come to abolish them but to fulfil them’ (except for turning the other cheek as opposed to an eye for an eye)
- christian’s must strive for harmony for anger can lead to worse things
- christian’s must be pure in their thoughts as well as their deeds ‘it is better to cut off parts of your body that cause one to sin than for your whole body to go to hell’
- divorce should not be used often
what are 2 quotes to show Jesus’ stress on the importance of poverty?
- Luke 18:25 - It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is a rich man enter heaven
- the beatitudes - ‘blessed are the poor for they shall inherit the kingdom of God’
what are 2 instances of Jesus encouraging equality?
- when he touched the women who bled for 12 years it broke social norms and taboos
- when he forgave Zacchaeus the tax collector
evidence that Jesus was a political liberator/a challenge to religious authority?
4
- he made tax collectors who represented the government turn away and follow him
- upset the social order (e.g. eating with outcasts)
- was accused of not following laws such as the sabbath
- forgave sins when only God should be able to forgive sins
evidence that Jesus was not a political liberator?
- he encouraged his followers to pay taxes and be lawful citizens
- did not resist his arrest
- the messiah was expected to be a warrior king to overturn authority but he lived under it
- he disagreed with the view of the zealots who wanted to overthrown authority
- more concerned with inner purity than force
