What are the Problem Passages in Scripture?
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1 Christology: The DEITY OF CHRIST IN THE BIBLE What are the Problem Passages in Scripture?
2 Problem Passages 1. First born of all creation Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
3 Problem Passages Answer: First born (prototokos) does not mean that Christ was created. In Scripture it could either mean, The first born Child, or it often meant, one who possessed priority.
4 Problem Passages 2. Only Begotten (monogenes) Used five times in N.T. to refer to Christ (Jn. 1:18; 3:16, 18; 1 Jn. 4:9)
5 Problem Passages John 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
6 Problem Passages Answer: Recent linguistic studies have shown that the Greek word monogenes ( only-begotten ) does not come from gennao, to bear, beget, but from genos, kind, class. Therefore, monogenes would be better translated, one-of-a-kind or unique. This explains why Isaac is referred to as the monogenes of Abraham when Abraham did have another son, Ishmael (Heb. 11:17).
7 Problem Passages 3. Beginning of creation
8 Problem Passages Rev. 3:14 To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this.
9 Problem Passages Answer: Beginning of Creation simply means that Christ is the origin of all things created.
10 Problem Passages 3. The Father is greater than the Son
11 Problem Passages John 14:28 You heard that I said to you, I go away, and I will come to you. If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
12 Problem Passages A king may be greater then his servant, but that does not mean that his actual being is greater. Just his current position is greater. This passage speaks of functional, not ontological,
13 Christology: The Humanity of Christ in History How did the early church understand the humanity of Christ?
14 Humanity of Christ in History Questions: Now that we know that Christ was fully God... How is it that Christ could be both God and man? Did He sacrifice some of His humanity to remain deity? Did He sacrifice some of His deity to become human? If He retained full humanity and deity, which one had control?
15 Humanity of Christ in History Key terms: Incarnation The biblical understanding that Christ took on a human nature Hypostatic Union The theological description of the union of the two natures of Christ Theanthropos Theological name of Christ affirming that He is the God-man
16 Humanity of Christ in History Early Christological heterodoxy: 1. Apollinarianism 2. Nestorianism 3. Monophysitism
17 Humanity of Christ in History Apollinarianism 325 C.E. 381 Council of Constantinople 500 C.E.
18 Humanity of Christ in History Apollinarianism: Proponent: Christ was God who took on a human body without a human mind. The divine mind took the place of what would have been the human mind. The Word became flesh only in the sense that God took on a human body. As some have termed it, Christ was God in a bod. Apollinarius of Laodicea (ca ), friend of Athanasius and teacher of Jerome. Condemned: Council of Constantinople 381 and Chalcedon 451.
19 Iraneus (c.175-c.195) Lyons The Early Church Fathers Pelagius (c ) Briton Carthage Augustine ( ) Tertullian (c.160-c.220) Rome Clement of Rome (c ) Jerome (c.345-c.419) Marcion (c.100-c.160) Hippolytus (c ) West East Constantinople Nestorius (c.381-c.455) John Chrysostom (c ) Montanus second century) Eutyches (c ) Basil (329-c.379) Gregory of Nyssa (330-c.395) Papias c.60-c.130) Gregory of Nazianzus ( ) Polycarp (c.70-c160) Apollinarius (c.300-c.390) Antioch Ignatius (d.107) Eusebius of Caesarea (c.265-c.339) Justine Martyr (c.100-c.165) Jerusalem Legend Map Italics: Condemned as heretics Bold: Church Fathers Large Bold: Major Bishoprics Alexandria Clement of Alexandria (c.155-c.220) Athanasius (c ) Origen (c.185-c.254) Arius (c )
20 Apollinarianism Human Mind Divine Logos Human Body
21 Humanity of Christ in History He assumes that man who came down from above is without a mind, not that the Godhead of the Only-begotten fulfills the function of mind, and is the third part of his human composite, inasmuch as soul and body are in it on its human side, but not mind, the place of which is taken by God the Word. Gregory of Nazianzus Letter to Nectarius
22 Humanity of Christ in History What is wrong with Apollinarianism?
23 Humanity of Christ in History What God has not assumed is not saved. Gregory of Nazianzus Epistulae 101.7
24 Humanity of Christ in History Apollinarianism Nestorianism 325 C.E. 381 Council of Constantinople 431 Council of Ephesus 500 C.E.
25 Humanity of Christ in History Nestorianism: Christ was fully man and fully God, and these two natures were united in purpose, not person. They had difficulty understanding how someone with two natures could be a single individual. Proponent: Nestorius (d. ca. 451), the great preacher and disciple of Theodore of Mopsuestia, is said to be the main proponent of this teaching, although most would see his condemnation as inaccurate. Condemned: Council of Chalcedon 451.
26 Iraneus (c.175-c.195) Lyons The Early Church Fathers Pelagius (c ) Briton Carthage Augustine ( ) Tertullian (c.160-c.220) Rome Clement of Rome (c ) Jerome (c.345-c.419) Marcion (c.100-c.160) Hippolytus (c ) West East Constantinople Nestorius (c.381-c.455) John Chrysostom (c ) Montanus second century) Eutyches (c ) Basil (329-c.379) Gregory of Nyssa (330-c.395) Papias c.60-c.130) Gregory of Nazianzus ( ) Polycarp (c.70-c160) Apollinarius (c.300-c.390) Antioch Ignatius (d.107) Eusebius of Caesarea (c.265-c.339) Justine Martyr (c.100-c.165) Jerusalem Legend Map Italics: Condemned as heretics Bold: Church Fathers Large Bold: Major Bishoprics Alexandria Clement of Alexandria (c.155-c.220) Athanasius (c ) Origen (c.185-c.254) Arius (c )
27 Nestorianism Separate Human Person Divine Person
28 Humanity of Christ in History What is wrong with Nestorianism?
29 Humanity of Christ in History Apollinarianism Nestorianism Monophysitism 325 C.E. 381 Council of Constantinople 500 C.E. 431 Council of Ephesus 451 Chalcedonian Definition
30 Humanity of Christ in History Monophysitism: Alternate name: Proponent: Condemned: Christ s human nature was integrated with His divine nature, forming a new nature. Christ was from two natures before the union, but only one after the union. Eutychianism Eutyches (ca ), great preacher and disciple of Theodore of Mopsuestia. Council of Chalcedon 451.
31 Iraneus (c.175-c.195) Lyons The Early Church Fathers Pelagius (c ) Briton Carthage Augustine ( ) Tertullian (c.160-c.220) Rome Clement of Rome (c ) Jerome (c.345-c.419) Marcion (c.100-c.160) Hippolytus (c ) West East Constantinople Nestorius (c.381-c.455) John Chrysostom (c ) Montanus second century) Eutyches (c ) Basil (329-c.379) Gregory of Nyssa (330-c.395) Papias c.60-c.130) Gregory of Nazianzus ( ) Polycarp (c.70-c160) Apollinarius (c.300-c.390) Antioch Ignatius (d.107) Eusebius of Caesarea (c.265-c.339) Justine Martyr (c.100-c.165) Jerusalem Legend Map Italics: Condemned as heretics Bold: Church Fathers Large Bold: Major Bishoprics Alexandria Clement of Alexandria (c.155-c.220) Athanasius (c ) Origen (c.185-c.254) Arius (c )
32 Monophysitism Human Humine Divine
33 Humanity of Christ in History What is wrong with Monophysitism?
34 Definition of Chalcedon (451)
35 First Eight Ecumenical Counc 2. Constantinople I (381) 5. Constantinople II (553) 6. Constantinople III ( ) 4. Chalcedon (451) 1. Nicea I (325) 7. Nicea II (787) 3. Ephesus (431) These seven of councils were convoked by emperors and had representation from the East and West
36 Definition of Chalcedon Therefore, following the holy fathers, we all with one accord teach men to acknowledge one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, at once complete in Godhead and complete in manhood, truly God and truly man, consisting also of a reasonable soul and body; of one substance with the Father as regards his Godhead, and at the same time of one substance with us as regards his manhood; like us in all respects, apart from sin; as regards his Godhead, begotten of the Father before the ages, but yet as regards his manhood begotten, for us men and for our salvation, of Mary the Virgin, the God-bearer...
37 Definition of Chalcedon... one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Onlybegotten, recognized in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the distinction of natures being in no way annulled by the union, but rather the characteristics of each nature being preserved and coming together to form one person and subsistence, not as parted or separated into two persons, but one and the same Son and Only-begotten God the Word, Lord Jesus Christ; even as the prophets from earliest times spoke of him, and our Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us, and the creed of the fathers has handed down to us.
38 Humanity of Christ in History Orthodox Definition of the Hypostatic Union Christ is one person who exists forevermore in two complete natures: God and Man.
39 Chalcedonian divide Eastern Monophysite Churches Coptic Jacobite Armenian Roman Catholic 451 Chalcedonian Protestants Eastern Orthodox
40 Chacedonian divide Roman Catholics: Heretical Bent: Christ is both fully divine and fully man. The controlling force within Christ was His Deity. He neither had faith or hope since this would undermine His deity. Even from His mother s womb, He was aware of all things being omniscient. He exercised all the attributes of His deity at all times during his life. Apollinarianism and Docetism
41 Chacedonian divide Lutheran: Christ is both full divine and fully man. In the incarnation, Christ s humanity fully contained his deity (finitum capax infiniti). While there is no confusion in the natures, there is an intermingling of the properties of each nature (communicatio idiomatum). Heretical Bent: Monophysitism
42 Chacedonian divide Reformed: Heretical Bent: Christ is both full divine and fully man. In the incarnation, Christ s humanity cannot contain His deity (finitum non capax infiniti). Therefore, Christ exists in the humanity of Jesus, and in the eternity of the Second Person of the Trinity. The unity of the natures is in one person. There is only one state of consciousness contained fully in Christ. Nestorianism
43 Illustrations Fire and iron
44 Illustrations Light: waves and particles
45 Illustrations Eyes: two eyes, one vision
46 Humanity of Christ in History Unity Diversity Trinity Nature Persons Christ Person Natures
47 Heresy Teaching Proponents Condemned Apollinarianism Christ was God who took on a human body without a human mind. Apollinarius (ca ) Council of Constantinople 381 Nestorianism Christ was fully man and fully God, and these two natures were united in purpose, not person. Nestorius (d. ca. 451) Council of Ephesus 431 Monophysitism Christ s human nature was integrated with his divine nature forming a new nature. Eutyches (ca ) Council of Chalcedon 451
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