Doctrine 4

Question 0

Christology

Answer 0

The study of the person of Christ

Question 1

Doctrine 4

Answer 1

We believe that in the person of Jesus Christ the Divine and human natures are united, so that he is truly and properly God and truly and properly man.

Question 2

Theanthropos

Answer 2

Theos=God
Anthropos = man
The perfect union of God and man in one individual.

Question 3

Name 4 Old Testament witnesses to Christ being truly and properly God

Answer 3

Father and son (Psalm 2:7)
Lord to Lord (Psalm 110:1)
Body & obedience (Psalm 40:6-8)
The crucifixion (Psalm 22)
Father and sons name (Proverbs 30:4), Virgin birth (Isaiah 7:4)

Question 4

New Testament witnesses to Christ being truly and properly God

Answer 4

Peter (2 Peter 1:1)
Paul (Titus 2:13)
Thomas (John 20:28)
Peter, James, and John - Mount of Transfiguration (Matt 17:5)

Question 5

When did Jesus witness to himself as truly and properly God

Answer 5

He knew he was God (Luke 2:49)
He brought his son-ship with him from heaven (John 6:38)
He declared his divinity “I ams” (john 10:30)
Jesus Showed His Divinity (John 1:47)

Question 6

New Testament books devoted to the doctrine

Answer 6

Gospel of John
Epistle of Colossians
Epistle to the Hebrews

Question 7

Who does Jesus receive worship from

Answer 7

The magi
By the disciples
By angels
By all creation

Question 8

What are witnesses to the attributes and powers of God

Answer 8

Eternal nature, Love, Every divine attribute, Omniscience, Immutable, Holiness

Question 9

Names and titles that indicate deity

Answer 9

Son of God
The Lord
The word
Pre-Existed One
I Am

Question 10

Incarnation

Answer 10

God appeared in the flesh in the person of Jesus

Question 11

Paths toward error regarding christology

Answer 11

Overemphasize Christ’s humanity
Overemphasize Christ’s divinity
- deny unity of natures

Question 12

Ebionitsm

Answer 12

-Jewish sect of ‘Christians’
-Jesus was solely and purely human with charismatic gifts
-anointed as messiah at baptism
Good man-religious genius

Question 13

Adoptionism

Answer 13

• Denies eternal nature

- Adopted by God at his baptism as a ‘Son of God’

Question 14

Arianism

Answer 14

Jesus is supreme/first created being

Denies divinity

Question 15

Refutation of ebionitism, adoptionism, and Arianism

Answer 15

John 1:2-3
Philippians 2:6-11
Colossians 1:15-20
Hebrews 1:3

Question 16

Docetism

Answer 16

Jesus was purely divine with only the appearance of a man

Question 17

Gnosticism

Answer 17

Jesus just ‘seemed human’

God cannot become material or human.

Question 18

Refutation of Gnosticism/Docetism

Answer 18

John 1:1-18
1 John 1:1-3
1 John 2:18-27
1 John 4:1-6

Question 19

Nestorianism

Answer 19

Separation of Christ into 2 persons and 2 natures (Siamese twins)
- Denies the incarnation

Question 20

Eutychianism

Answer 20

Neither God nor man

A complete 3rd type of being

Question 21

Apollinarianism

Answer 21

Jesus possessed the body of a man, but the mind of God

- Soul is disengaged from the body

Question 22

Refutation of Nestorianism, Eutychianism, Apollinarianism

Answer 22

John 5:6-12
Hebrews 1:1-6
Hebrews 2:9-17
1 Timothy 3:16

Question 23

Council of Nicea

Answer 23

Countered Arianism
Emphasized the Incarnation
Nicene Creed

Question 24

Facts that Jesus was a man

Answer 24

Jewish

- born of a woman, tribe of Judah

Question 25

What are the major differences between Jesus and humanity

Answer 25

• He was without sin
• He and his father are one
• He won over all temptation

Question 26

Names and titles that indicate humanity

Answer 26

Jesus- common name
Son of David - common affiliation
Son of Man - identification with humanity