Christian Doctrine Test 2

• Fully Human
• Fully Divine
• One Person

an inference about Jesus that compromises His unity, divinity, and/or oneness

someone who is aware that their inferences compromise Jesus' unity/divinity/oneness and proceeds in believing they are correct

• Sin had a particular beginning and became universal with Adam
• Redemption has a particular beginning and becomes universal through Jesus

• Prooftexts: single verses that prove divinity
• Narrative Roles/Acts: forgiver, judge, healer, etc.
• Pervasive worship using the same texts that we use to worship God

• Adoptionist Heresies
• Word-Man christology
• compromises Jesus' divinity
• adoptionism, ebionism, neostorianism 

• word-flesh christology
• Docetism heresies
• compromises Jesus' humanity
• Docetism, monophysitism, apollonarianism, arianism

In Christ, divinity and humanity are "without confusion, change, division, or separation'

• Metaphysical Dualism: human is two parts soul+body
• Our Human Appearance
• Powers of Reasoning or Speaking (Athanasius) 

we are chemicals and nothing more

• there is no physical element of soul,but the atoms within us act as more complex parts
• i.e. the heart is a bunch of atoms but it acts like a heart

do we image God as single people or as humanity as a whole?

• Vocation: a covenant of cultivation
• Israel's covenant relationship with God

Stan Grenz: systematic reflection on, and articulation of, the fundamental beliefs we share as followers of Jesus Christ 

• Stage 1: up to 3 years, catechism, sponsored by more seasoned believers (God Parents), exorcism (cast out demons), church attendance, prayer, intercession
• Stage 2: 40 days of lent, instruction, prayer, fasting
• Stage 3: Apotaxis (turning away from false) Syntaxis (turning toward truth), Immersion thrice in holy water

• From the Father: not just those who call me lord but those who do the will of my father will enter heaven. praying lord's prayer, 10 commandments, beatitudes
• Death in the Son: we are part of the son's project to bring about new creation. worship, discipleship, service
• Resurrection by the Holy Spirit: cardinal virtues: patience, kindness, etc. Theological virtues: faith hope love 

• Jesus is a prophet appointed by God but not divine
• Jesus as a teacher
• Unitarianism
• WWJD?

• Jesus received His divinity at baptism
• this means that he received divinity because of good favor and that is how we receive grace
• Jesus as the perfect Son
• Mormonism

• Mary only mothered the human nature of Jesus
• this says that His divinity and humanity can be pulled apart
• If mary didn't bear God, neither did the cross
• Churches of the East

• The human Jesus was merely an illusion
• Gnosticism

• Human and Divinity are fused into one
• suggests that they are similar enough to be fused like an alloy
• hot iron
• Sufism: they want to be fused into God

• human flesh but divine spirit/mind
• suggests that only the human corpse was resurrected and not the human spirit
• some evangelicals

• Jesus is created
• this makes Jesus in second rank to God and with lesser power
• Jehovah's Witnesses

• 1. I am the lord your God
• 2. No false idols
• 3. No Lord's name in vain
• 4. Honor the Sabbath
• 5. Honor mother and father
• 6. No Murder
• 7. No Adultery
• 8. No Stealing
• 9. No lying
• 10. No coveting