POLL: The Deity of Christ
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One view of Adoptionism is that He became the Son through adoption, which is silly based on the vagueness. One of the other Adoptionism views is that He became the Son of God at conception, and became God the Son at Ascention... or rather at His Resurrection, as the definition of "begotten" places it.
That is something left out in Scripture.
But, the facts given are:
His Virgin Birth, through the Spirit,
His sinlessness,
His preaching,
His Resurrection,
and His Ascention.
There are sooo many verses tied in between. To be honest, I think the topic is beyond revelation. My true intent is not to create a new orthodox,
but to purify the old one that was taught to me, to make it more solid upon what is revealed, and less dependent upon logical patterns and inferences.
But, the facts given are:
His Virgin Birth, through the Spirit,
His sinlessness,
His preaching,
His Resurrection,
and His Ascention.
There are sooo many verses tied in between. To be honest, I think the topic is beyond revelation. My true intent is not to create a new orthodox,
but to purify the old one that was taught to me, to make it more solid upon what is revealed, and less dependent upon logical patterns and inferences.
S
The greatest power and most rapid growth of the christian church was seen before the emergence of the scholar and theologian, not after.
One wonders how the NT church survived and grew so rapidly, not having the benefit of all the theological understanding now available. But they did have the Holy Spirit, and relied totally on him
One wonders how the NT church survived and grew so rapidly, not having the benefit of all the theological understanding now available. But they did have the Holy Spirit, and relied totally on him
νήπιος and παιδίον both refer to an infant or a child irrespective of age. Metaphorically it refers to one who is unlearned or unenlightened. Even when Jesus was a child he was never referred to as the νήπιος or παιδίον θεοῦ.
τέκνον refers to one who is a child as one who is a descendent. Jesus is never referred to as a τέκνον or descendent of God.
υἱὸν can imply descendency as in one who is an offspring but more appropriately it emphasizes likeness of character, nature, form or behavior. It also signifies one who has the legal right to the Father's inheritance.We can see examples of υἱὸν used to define the nature, actions, form, or character of a person such as Mark 3:17 where Jesus calls James and John “sons - υἱοὶ - of thunder;” Not because they were literally the offsprings of a natural phenomenon but, because of their violent and explosive nature. In Matthew 23:15, Jesus calls the Pharisees the υἱοὶ of hell because their character reflected the nature of darkness. Since we have so many passages that represent Jesus as eternal we know that υἱὸν cannot then refer to descendency because as God he has none. Only as a man do we see him as with a linage as a descentent of the human race. Jesus, who is the υἱὸν θεοῦ – Son of God, is so because he bears the same nature, form, and and moral character of God. Christians are also called υἱοί Θεοῦ - sons of God for the same reason. As Christians we take on the character and nature of God. We are also called the τέκνα - children of God because we are his children by adoption, a term that is never used in scripture to refer to Christ. Jesus is NEVER called the child of God, always the υἱὸν - the one who bears the image of God. This is Phil 2 and Heb 1.
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