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In: Christology, Theology

Andy Naselli has a brief from Bruce Ware’s The Man Christ Jesus: Theological Questions on the Humanity of Christ. The thesis is strikingly different from common parlance on the issue of whether or not Christ could have sinned. Ware states: The impeccability of Christ by virtue ofread more ➜

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In: Christology, Discipleship

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of aread more ➜

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In: Apologetics, Christology

“Knock, knock.” “Who’s there?” “Jehovah.” “Jehovah who?” “Jehovah’s Witnesses who do not believe that Jesus and Jehovah are one in essence.” My good friend from Birmingham, Alabama called me a few days ago and indicated he had Jehovah’s Witnesses come to his home. Being passionateread more ➜

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In: Christology, Church History

Tim Kimberley at Credo House Ministries has begun a new series entitled “Top Ten Theologians” and he starts with Irenaeus. It’s well worth the read and gives an excellent primer on this important figure. Here’s a snippet: Irenaeus becomes the first human being to fullyread more ➜

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In: Apologetics, Christology, Theology

The belief that God was incarnate in Jesus of Nazareth would be a logical absurdity if one were to assert that Jesus had the essential attributes of deity and, at the same time, did not have the essential attributes of deity. Example: Contradictory statements are not theread more ➜

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In: Bible, Christology

Jesus of Nazareth is the eternal Son of God and God the Son who is fully God and fully human, conceived by God’s Holy Spirit and born to the virgin Mary. Entirely without sin during his earthly existence he died a substitutionary death on theread more ➜

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In: Apologetics, Bible, Christmas, Christology

I can’t think of a better time than Christmas to rehearse the importance of orthodoxy. Believers everywhere must clearly articulate what we believe and do not believe about the Christ child. What follows are brief [early] historical views on the identity of Jesus along with theread more ➜

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In: Christology, Philosophy, Theology

What follows is excerpted from my thesis “The Mystery of God Incarnate: An Analysis and Critique of John Hick’s Christology.” See also The Christological Heresies. The Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) opposed the two extremes of Eutychianism and Nestorianism (the former failing to distinguish betweenread more ➜

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In: Bible, Christology, Discipleship, Theology

If Jesus is not fully God, then . . . If Jesus was not fully human, then . . . Since Jesus is the God-Man—fully human, fully divine . . . Because Jesus is the Incarnation of God, we can proclaim with confidence the wordsread more ➜