Person of Christ (Done) Flashcards
Humanity of Jesus
Luke 2:7, 52…she gave birth to her firstborn son,
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man
Hebrews 4:15… has been tempted as we are in every way, yet without sin.
He was hungry, thirsty, tired, etc…
Divinity of Jesus
John 1
John 8:58
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
Colossians 1:19
In him all the fulness of God was pleased to dwell
Colossians 2:9
in him the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily
Hypostatic Union
…acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons,.
Impeccability of Christ
Hebrews 4:15
For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
James 1:13
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
Luke 4
(Temptation of Jesus)
Incarnation
Incarnation was the action of taking on flesh to himself
Romans 5:12-21
For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us
Docetism
1 John 4: 2– 3
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. This is the spirit of antichrist
The word docetism comes from the Greek verb dokeō, “to seem, to appear to be.” Any theological position that says that Jesus was not really a man, but only appeared to be a man, is called a “docetic” position. Behind docetism is an assumption that the material creation is inherently evil, and therefore the Son of God could not have been united to a true human nature.
Nestorianism
Nestorianism is the doctrine that there were two separate persons in Christ, a human person and a divine person, a teaching that is distinct from the biblical view that sees Jesus as one person.
Nestorius was a popular preacher at Antioch, and from A.D. 428 was bishop of Constantinople. Although Nestorius himself probably never taught the heretical view that goes by his name
Nowhere in scripture is Christ referred to as a plurality or complexity of persons.
Apollinarianism
Hebrews 2:17
Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Apollinaris, who became bishop in Laodicea about A.D. 361, taught that the one person of Christ had a human body but not a human mind or spirit, and that the mind and spirit of Christ were from the divine nature of the Son of God.
Christ had to be fully and truly man if he was to save us (Heb. 2: 17). Apollinarianism was rejected by several church councils, from the Council of Alexandria in A.D. 362 to the Council of Constantinople in A.D. 381.
Eutychianism
Called monophysitism, the view that Christ had one nature only (Gk. monos, “one,” and physis, “nature”). Eutyches taught that Jesus was a mixture of divine and human elements in which both were somewhat modified to form one new nature.
The primary advocate of this view in the early church was Eutyches (c. A.D. 378– 454), who was the leader of a monastery at Constantinople.
