Multiple Choice Flashcards
When passages in the OT refer to a son, do they signify a duality in the Godhead?
There are a number of references to the Son in the OT, but none of them signify a duality in the Godhead.
When passages in the OT refer to a son, do they prove a pre-existent Son?
No, where is the Holy Ghost?
What do each of these verses regarding the son have in common?
Psalms 2:2, 2:7, 8:4-5, 45:6-7, 110:1, Proverbs 30:4, Isaiah 7:14, 9:6
ALL are prophetic in nature.
Whom does Hebrews show these passages are fulfilled by?
Hebrews 1 and 2 show this prophecy to be fulfilled by Christ.
Are these passages in the Psalms conversations between two persons in the Godhead?
No.
What are these “son” passages in the OT referring to?
Prophetic portraits of God and the Man Christ (foreseeing the coming of Jesus).
What do these passages describe?
God begetting and anointing the man Christ (Psalm 2:2-7).
What do the OT references to the Son look forward to?
The future to the day the Son would be begotten.
What do these “son” references speak of?
NOT of 2 Gods or 2 persons in God, but rather of the humanity in which God would incarnate Himself.
What do the other OT references to the Messiah point to?
They are prophetic and represent Him as both God and man.
Is the Word of God in the OT a second person in the Godhead?
No.
Why can’t we see the Word as a separate person?
God’s Word is a part of Him. We cannot separate God’s Word as a separate person any more than we can separate a man’s word into another person.
Is Wisdom personified as a person in the OT which is a separate person in the Godhead?
No, wisdom is merely personified as a literary or poetic device (personification of an attribute).
What is going on with the personification of Wisdom as being “with God” in the beginning?
Wisdom is personified as an attribute, so “with God” indicates that all wisdom dwells in Christ.
Does this threefold repetition in Isaiah 6:3 somehow hint that God is in a trinity?
No.
