Unit B Flashcards
What are three ways Jesus is referred to in the bible?
1) Jesus ben Joseph (Hebrew for Jesus son of Joseph - a relational name - eg. Josephson)
(Luke 4:22; John 1:45, 6:42)
2) Jesus van Nazareth (Dutch for Jesus from Nazareth - a locational name)
(Acts 10:38, Mark 1:24; Luke 24:19)
3) Jesus Carpenter (or Jesus the Carpenter - a vocational name)
(Mark 6:3; Matthew 13:55)
Who is Jesus?
- christ was the Greek word. The writers of the New Testament chose to use in place of the Hebrew word Messiah.
- Jesus is the “ anointed one”
- Messiah and Christ came to mean the one to choose to lead the world and thereby save it Christians believe that Jesus was and is the Messiah that is the saviour of all people
define creed
A statement of faith, a confession of what someone believes in it comes from the last word credo which means I believe
- the Christian creeds came into existence because of heresy, a false or misleading, teaching a departure from the accepted religious understanding
The first misunderstanding was Arianism, and that was a theological doctrine attributed to Arias of Alexandria. Arias taught that Jesus was not fully God, but rather creation of God.
- the second belief of heresy was narcissism, which taught that only the spiritual room could be pure, and that the physical realm was corrupt the second concluded that Jesus could not have been truly human, but only appeared to be human
What was the issue with heresy?
The problem with both Arianism and agnosticism is that only as God can Jesus have the power to offer forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life to all people, and only as human can Jesus fully relate to us to our struggles suffering and death without Jesus’s death there could not be a resurrection so both aspects of Jesus nature needs to be affirmed according to Christians throughout the centuries
What are the three articles divided into?
The apostles creed is divided into three parts called articles:
1. The first focusses on the father and the creator.
2. The second focusses on the sun and saviour or Redeemer.
3. The last refers to the Holy Spirit/sustainer or comforter..
What does the first article deal with?
- talks about God with both relational and vocational terms. This article states I believe in God, the father Almighty, the relational term is father and the term Almighty implies that God is all powerful.
What is the second article of the apostle creed
God’s only son our Lord
Conceived by the holy
Born of the Virgin Mary
Suffered under conscious pilot
Crucified died and buried
On the third day he rose again
Ascended into heaven
Seated at the right hand of the father
Will come to judge the living and dead
How does the second article of the apostles? Creed show the divinity of God and the truth about the Holy Spirit
God:
- seated at the right hand of the father, (god as the created is the most powerfully, will be handed to Jesus)
- god’s only son our Lord (god created Jesus to be a lord for the people)
Holy Spirit:
- conceived by the Holy Spirit (may be natural in some human ways but came to be by the holy spiritual of god.)
- Will come to judge the living and the dead (he is divine and will decide the fate of people but not necessarily in a prosecution way)
What does the second article teach?
- Tales of Jesus‘s full humanity and full divinity, two out of the three rules in Jesus’s incarnation.
- An older translation of the apostles creed says Jesus descended into hell, but this translation is misleading as the original word is simply the Pete place of the dead shield rather than a place of eternal punishment, Gehenna (translation)
What does the terms descendit ad inferna mean
He went down to the lower regions in the history of Christianity therapy variety of interpretations of this line some have understood as emphasizing the reality of Jesus‘s death. Others have seen it as a stating that Jesus entered into the lowest step of our human condition and others have thought it as beginning the resurrection sequence with Jesus, proclaiming his victory to the souls of the departed.
What does it mean when the apostle creed says that Jesus will come to judge all living and dead
To say, Jesus will come to judge the living and the dead is not primarily about determining guilt and punishment, but rather as one who will set all things right (bring justice) that’s more like a civil court than a criminal court
What are some examples of the gospel suggest that Jesus is human and divine
- First is Mark two; one to 12 Jesus healing a paralyzed man who had been lowered through the roof by some friends
- Second is John, four; 4 to 26 in the storage Jesus human nature shown through his being tiredness and thirstiness his divine nature is displayed in his ability to reveal private details about the woman’s life
- third is Luke’s second; 1 to 21. This is the account of Jesus’s birth and Bethlehem as a vulnerable baby, born into poverty and difficult circumstances and indication of his human nature.
- fourth and lastly, Matthew fourth; 1 to 11. Jesus faces the tempter in the wilderness who first appeals to Jesus as humans nature Jesus is hunger after fasting so long when that doesn’t work, Satan uses Jesus is relation to God to tempt him to jump into the temple roof in indication of Jesus, define nature, the final temptation had to do with offerings. Jesus is Lord ship over all the earth, which ironically Christian believe he has already had all along.
