Doctrine 4 Flashcards
Christology
The study of the person of Christ
Doctrine 4
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.
Theanthropos
Theos=God
Anthropos = man
The perfect union of God and man in one individual.
Name 4 Old Testament witnesses to Christ being truly and properly God
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)
New Testament witnesses to Christ being truly and properly God
Peter (2 Peter 1:1)
Paul (Titus 2:13)
Thomas (John 20:28)
Peter, James, and John - Mount of Transfiguration (Matt 17:5)
When did Jesus witness to himself as truly and properly God
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)
New Testament books devoted to the doctrine
Gospel of John
Epistle of Colossians
Epistle to the Hebrews
Who does Jesus receive worship from
The magi
By the disciples
By angels
By all creation
What are witnesses to the attributes and powers of God
Eternal nature, Love, Every divine attribute, Omniscience, Immutable, Holiness
Names and titles that indicate deity
Son of God The Lord The word Pre-Existed One I Am
Incarnation
God appeared in the flesh in the person of Jesus
Paths toward error regarding christology
Overemphasize Christ’s humanity
Overemphasize Christ’s divinity
- deny unity of natures
Ebionitsm
-Jewish sect of ‘Christians’
-Jesus was solely and purely human with charismatic gifts
-anointed as messiah at baptism
Good man-religious genius
Adoptionism
- Denies eternal nature
- Adopted by God at his baptism as a ‘Son of God’
Arianism
Jesus is supreme/first created being
Denies divinity
Refutation of ebionitism, adoptionism, and Arianism
John 1:2-3
Philippians 2:6-11
Colossians 1:15-20
Hebrews 1:3
Docetism
Jesus was purely divine with only the appearance of a man
Gnosticism
Jesus just ‘seemed human’
God cannot become material or human.
Refutation of Gnosticism/Docetism
John 1:1-18
1 John 1:1-3
1 John 2:18-27
1 John 4:1-6
Nestorianism
Separation of Christ into 2 persons and 2 natures (Siamese twins)
- Denies the incarnation
Eutychianism
Neither God nor man
A complete 3rd type of being
Apollinarianism
Jesus possessed the body of a man, but the mind of God
- Soul is disengaged from the body
Refutation of Nestorianism, Eutychianism, Apollinarianism
John 5:6-12
Hebrews 1:1-6
Hebrews 2:9-17
1 Timothy 3:16
Council of Nicea
Countered Arianism
Emphasized the Incarnation
Nicene Creed
Facts that Jesus was a man
Jewish
- born of a woman, tribe of Judah
What are the major differences between Jesus and humanity
- He was without sin
- He and his father are one
- He won over all temptation
Names and titles that indicate humanity
Jesus- common name
Son of David - common affiliation
Son of Man - identification with humanity
