1. Doctrine of Christ
a. deity of Christ
This section I will explore the deity of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. The deity of Christ was well established by Christ himself throughout the Bible. Therefore, my belief is that our Lord came onto this earth fully man, yet fully God. In one of my favorite verse John 1:1 is bluntly stated that he is God.
In John 1:1 was the verse that helped lead me to faith. It showed me a where Jesus fits into the whole picture. Therefore, the divinity of our Lord was established and settled in that verse in my opinion. Thus, all things were made through Him, and there could never be darkness found in Him. Only, light. The bible establishes it very thoroughly that Our Lord was and is the Christ. He was fully divine, yet fully man.
b. humanity of Christ was fully human, yet fully God. This doctrine is one that confused me for a long time. Through the years I have come to understand that Jesus needed to fully human, and fully God to fulfill the sacrificial system that was in place. Jesus needed to live among us and have normal human interactions. The pain of scabbing your knee, the pain of everyday
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sanctification
We are sanctified by the blood of God. We are made right in His eyes by the work of His Son on the cross. 1 Corinthians 1:30, states my belief in the work of Christ, and allows us to be sanctified in our Lord and made right before God.
e. perseverance
Perseverance is a key aspect of faith. I have known many people that have fallen away in faith because of sin, the world and everyday life. They can start off on fire for the Lord, but not finish the race. I want to finish the race, I want to fight the good fight. Therefore, this calls me to persevere in Christ and turn into Him. The world may reject you, spit on you, or abandon you. You may have tragedy, lose everything. This is here the race analogy enters and you must persevere to the end. Christ will be with you the whole way, but He never said there would not be
Also, there would not be Christianity without the incarnation, atonement, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and when God took human form through his Son, Jesus became fully human and God. He was the Messiah that Gods people longed for to save humanity from a sinful life (“Lecture 4”, 2017). Also, it is important to understand as a Christian that before Jesus Christ died humanity could not enter Gods Holy Kingdom after they passed because humanity was sinful. God sacrificing his son was a way to lay a path for humanity to follow if they choose to and if they follow Gods commandments can join God in his holy Kingdom after they pass away (“Lecture 4”, 2017). The truth of the Bible is the incarnation of Jesus Christ. Even though the incarnation was torturous Jesus knew it would be and God new how much torcher was needed to make clear that reconciliation accrued. Jesus Christ is the Son of God, but he is also our Godhead or divine Trinity. He is humanity’s
Jesus is the son of God and the firstborn of creation. He is higher than all of creation, but still inferior to Jehovah. “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; because by means of him all other things were created” (New World Translation, Colossians 1:15). The word “other” in this passage is important because it emphasizes that Jesus too was created (Reichert 5). Another important passage concerning Christ’s status is John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god” (New World Translation).
Jesus was the son of God, who was created by God and the second person within the trinity. God is viewed as the father, the son, and the holy spirit, according to the Christian worldview. Jesus was created from God planting a seed in Virgin Mary. Jesus was thus born to spread the word about God and all the gospel. Jesus lived a life as a human as all of us do now. He experienced a lot of things we as human’s experience. Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins where he died on the cross. Jesus is important to the Christian worldview because he is the ultimate reason we are who we are today. “God is both holy and just, so although he created humanity to be immortal, he could not accept them into his holy kingdom in their sinful state (Lecture 5). After Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross, this served as redemption and it was then that god allowed them into the
As creatures created by God and who share in His life, we all have “inestimable value” (JP II 2). By virtue of the fact that He sent His Son to die for us on the cross in order to bridge what was broken in the Garden, God shows how much He really loves humanity. The Incarnation is proof positive how important human life is in the eyes of the Trinity. Jesus Christ could have taken on any form, yet as Philippians 2:7 teaches us, He took the form of a human servant and died a human death on the cross in order to provide salvation for humankind. Because of this relationship, all humans are valuable and share a divine dignity with one another and with God.
God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; I believe God is the creator, ruler, and redeemer. (Genesis 1:1 , Revelation 4:11) Jesus Christ is the Son of God.( John 1:14) Jesus became a man and was conceived by the Holy Spirit, lived a sinless life, and willingly gave himself as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all
In this essay, I will be looking at different theories of atonement and how they make a difference to our theology of salvation. I will argue that different understandings and theories of atonement affect our theology of salvation by highlighting different aspects of salvation and answering the
When exploring the concept of ‘God the Son’, the incarnation and attributes of God as seen in Christ enter the picture. In order for human sin to be covered, a human sacrifice is all that could meet the requirement ordained by God, yet, they had to be sinless. Only the incarnate God could fulfill this role, exhibiting qualities of God Himself, such as selflessness, unconditional love, and purity. Another core trait was humbleness, although Jesus held the highest status in all the world, which shone brightly in His ministry, as He also served the children of God. Paul captured the essence of Jesus as God and the reality of the incarnation in these verses, “let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God…made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men” (Philippians 2:5-7, NKJV).
In the view of His deity, Christ is God. Not only is he Christ, but the Son of God, and called God in the New Testament.
No one on the face of the earth was more intimate with the Creator God than His Son Jesus. He was one with God. John 17:10 quotes Jesus as praying, “You are in me and I am in You.” Not only was Jesus God, but also He yearned to continually communicate with God. He modeled what it meat to be a man of prayer. Jesus frequently left the crowds to be alone with God to pray (Matthew 14:23, Mark 6:46, Luke 6:12, 9:28). Jesus also knew the Words of His Father. He often quoted
Jesus is God’s answer to the need of humanity for saving. Jesus is the only Son of God and the second person in the Holy Trinity. To say that Jesus is Savior is to acknowledge that we were guilty and Jesus took the punishment for our sins upon Himself and sacrificed His life in our place so that we could escape the penalty of death. He died for us so we could be saved. (Rom.5:8) Jesus is our deliverer.
The ministry of Jesus began when Jesus was 30 years old, after his baptism in the river Jordan. Within three and a half years of his ministry Jesus did more miracles than any man in the world could have accomplished. He preached about the ways of changing lives and often gave parables to educate people. Even though he was rejected Jesus continued to spread the gospel in different cities around Israel, including Capernaum and Bethsaida.
There are thousands of religions on this planet named Earth, and many of those religions worship countless false gods and/or idols. However, Catholics are a monotheistic people; they believe in and worship the one and only, all-powerful being. This being is comprised of three distinct natures: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. These three, although distinct from one another, come together collectively in one Divine Person known as the Trinity, or God. God is the ultimate creator of all things. When these things, namely the human race, began their sinning ways, they were in dire need of a Savior. These wretched ways are expressed in St. Athanasius’ book On the Incarnation. Because of His loving nature, though, God came
One of the early heresies was Docetism, which held that Jesus only “seemed” human. They based this belief on an assumption that God can’t become flesh. Docetism treats John 1:14 as figurative where it states that the Word was made flesh. Part of their reasoning for this belief can be attributed to the view of flesh as sinful which would result as a problem for God, who is divine, to become “imprisoned” inside. However, Jesus was nailed to a cross and real blood flowed from his hands and side that is proof that Jesus was in fact human.
However, the Gospels explain that Jesus had two natures the second being fully God. In John 1:1-5, John shows us that what it means for Jesus to be fully God and that Jesus is and always was eternal. Jesus was not created but in fact he always existed, Christians understand this as the Trinity. When we talk about the divinity of Jesus it’s important to understand why we believe this or why we don’t believe this. When we say that Jesus was only Human or just a blessed man we loss all of our foundations and truths from the gospels and the New testament.
Scripture reveals to us this essential doctrine in the teaching of there being only one God, the LORD (Deut.6:4-5), who reveals himself as Father (Is.64:8; Ps.89:27), Son (Mk.1:1; Jn.3:16) and Holy Spirit (Jn.14:26). Similarly, scripture teaches that in Jesus, we see the image of the invisible God (Col.1:15) as Lord over all (Jn. 20:28; Ro.9:5; Tit.2:13). Jesus is the Word of God (Jn.1:1), the perfect incarnate expression of the Father and the one who is the good news to be proclaimed. He is the expression of the Father, yet differentiated from the one who sent him (Ro.15:5-6) through the incarnation, his work of atonement on the cross (1Cor. 15:3-4), personhood (Gal. 4:4) and function as savior (1Tim. 2:5). The NT also gives evidence of the third person of the Holy Spirit as the Breath of the Godhead (Gen.1:2; Jn.20:22; Acts2:2), God’s abiding presence leading all creation to its intended goal (2Cor.5:1-5; Eph.1:11-14). He is acknowledged as divine (Acts5:3,4), with aspects of personality attributed to him (1Cor.2:10; Ro.8:26-27), though a distinct person from the Father and the Son (2Cor.13:14). Each person is fully God, eternally existing as three Persons (hypostasis) in a loving unity of one indivisible essence (homoousia), with distinctions between the three, not as some amorphous entity.