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Christology

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The study of the person of Christ

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Doctrine 4

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We believe that in the person of Jesus Christ the Divine and human natures are united, so that he is truly and properly God and truly and properly man.

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Theanthropos

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Theos=God
Anthropos = man
The perfect union of God and man in one individual.

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Name 4 Old Testament witnesses to Christ being truly and properly God

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Father and son (Psalm 2:7)
Lord to Lord (Psalm 110:1)
Body & obedience (Psalm 40:6-8)
The crucifixion (Psalm 22)
Father and sons name (Proverbs 30:4), Virgin birth (Isaiah 7:4)
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New Testament witnesses to Christ being truly and properly God

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Peter (2 Peter 1:1)
Paul (Titus 2:13)
Thomas (John 20:28)
Peter, James, and John - Mount of Transfiguration (Matt 17:5)

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When did Jesus witness to himself as truly and properly God

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He knew he was God (Luke 2:49)
He brought his son-ship with him from heaven (John 6:38)
He declared his divinity “I ams” (john 10:30)
Jesus Showed His Divinity (John 1:47)

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New Testament books devoted to the doctrine

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Gospel of John
Epistle of Colossians
Epistle to the Hebrews

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Who does Jesus receive worship from

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The magi
By the disciples
By angels
By all creation

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What are witnesses to the attributes and powers of God

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Eternal nature, Love, Every divine attribute, Omniscience, Immutable, Holiness

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Names and titles that indicate deity

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Son of God
The Lord
The word
Pre-Existed One
I Am
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Incarnation

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God appeared in the flesh in the person of Jesus

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Paths toward error regarding christology

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Overemphasize Christ’s humanity
Overemphasize Christ’s divinity
- deny unity of natures

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Ebionitsm

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-Jewish sect of ‘Christians’
-Jesus was solely and purely human with charismatic gifts
-anointed as messiah at baptism
Good man-religious genius

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Adoptionism

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  • Denies eternal nature

- Adopted by God at his baptism as a ‘Son of God’

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Arianism

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Jesus is supreme/first created being

Denies divinity

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Refutation of ebionitism, adoptionism, and Arianism

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John 1:2-3
Philippians 2:6-11
Colossians 1:15-20
Hebrews 1:3

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Docetism

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Jesus was purely divine with only the appearance of a man

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Gnosticism

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Jesus just ‘seemed human’

God cannot become material or human.

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Refutation of Gnosticism/Docetism

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John 1:1-18
1 John 1:1-3
1 John 2:18-27
1 John 4:1-6

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Nestorianism

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Separation of Christ into 2 persons and 2 natures (Siamese twins)
- Denies the incarnation

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Eutychianism

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Neither God nor man

A complete 3rd type of being

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Apollinarianism

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Jesus possessed the body of a man, but the mind of God

- Soul is disengaged from the body

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Refutation of Nestorianism, Eutychianism, Apollinarianism

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John 5:6-12
Hebrews 1:1-6
Hebrews 2:9-17
1 Timothy 3:16

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Council of Nicea

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Countered Arianism
Emphasized the Incarnation
Nicene Creed

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Facts that Jesus was a man

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Jewish

- born of a woman, tribe of Judah

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What are the major differences between Jesus and humanity

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  • He was without sin
  • He and his father are one
  • He won over all temptation
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Names and titles that indicate humanity

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Jesus- common name
Son of David - common affiliation
Son of Man - identification with humanity