Multiple Choice Flashcards
What do other OT references to the Messiah point to?
They represent him as both God and man.
When passages In the OT refer to a son, do they signify a duality in the Godhead?
No.
When passages in the OT refer to a son, do they prove a pre-existent Son?
No.
What do each of these verses regarding the son have in common?
They are prophetic in nature.
Whom does Hebrews show these passages are fulfilled by?
Jesus 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?
They are prophetic portraits of god and the man Christ.
What do these passages describe?
They describe god begetting and anointing the man christ, the man christ submitting to the will of God, and becoming sacrifice for sin, and God glorifying and giving power to the man christ
What do the OT references to the Son look forward to?
They look forward into the future to the day when the son would be begotten
- What do these “son” references speak of?
They speak of the humanity in which God would incarnate himself.
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 something that belongs to him and comes from him, not a separate person in the godhead
Is Wisdom personified as a person in the OT which is a separate person in the Godhead?
No.
What is going on with the personification of Wisdom as being “with God” in the beginning?
Christ is God manifested in flesh, and all the wisdom of God is in Christ
Does this threefold repetition in Isaiah 6:3 somehow hint that God is a trinity?
No.