I believe in one God, the Father Almighty. Many Christians have grown up reciting something along the lines of the Nicene Creed. What seems to be a simple oath of the Christian believer has a deeper relationship with what each word really means, for it declares that God is the divine nature. Although the Council of Constantinople adopted the Nicene Creed along time ago, it will be looked at by how it applies to the present day believer in God. The creed supports how God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are homoousios. By looking at how the creed relates God and Jesus Christ, how the Old Testament is exclusively reserved for God and how Jesus is associated with God in the New Testament. As the Nicene Creed starts out with believing in one God, …show more content…
In John 1 of the Bible it talks about the word being with God, the word was God and He was with God in the beginning. This verse shows the homoousios relationship of the Father and the Son. This creed distinguishes the two separate roles of the Father and the Son, and the need for each position and then shows the uniqueness of the relationship. The Early Church was clarifying the Old Testament to the New Testament with the Nicene Creed, in regards to the New Testament stating that Jesus was with God all ways, and Jesus having the ability of forgiveness of sin here on earth. Needing to show the New Testament does not contradict the Old Testament (Highfield, R. 2008). The Early Church supported the Nicene Creed with Biblical text from the New …show more content…
John 1:1 shows how Jesus was with God in the beginning of creation, in Genesis 1:2 it tells how Jesus was hovering over the waters. John 5:24 show how Jesus has the power of forgiveness, and again in John 8:51. In John 20:28, 31 Thomas calls Jesus, my Lord and God, and goes to say, so that you may believe Jesus is the Messiah and the Son of God. Here in 1 John 5:20 at the end of the verse it reveals how Jesus is not only the Son of God, along with being the true God, “…We are in the true One — that is, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. ” God placed His name above all others, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord, (Philippians 2:9-11). In Mark 2: 5 Jesus tells the paralytic man that his sins are forgiven, also in Luke 7:48, 23:43 even as Christ was hanging on the cross He forgave the criminal next to him that ask for it. Thomas Torrance lays it out in his book Incarnation The Person and Life of Christ, that Christ is more than just a witness, which God is His own mediator and reveals himself to us. (Torrance, T.
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John focuses on the profound meaning of the life of Jesus, whom he saw as the
Christians, unlike Muslims and Jews, accept and submit to Jesus as God who came down to earth to save mankind from their sin and eternal consequences. One of the main goals or themes of the book of John is to prove or recounts Jesus’ claim that He is God. The book of John is full of many examples where Jesus following his miracles wishes to make people understand that He is God. He wasn’t just a prophet as many Muslims believe, or some speaker, or radical Galliealiean as many Jews thought. He was God! In (John 10:30), Jesus stated, “I am and the Father are one.” This short verse mentions two members of the trinity, and does not separate them as different entities. Jesus is saying I am a form of who God is, or the Father. We are one! “Whoever has seen the son has seen the father.” For this reason, the Jews almost stoned him on that occasion. Their hardened hearts had chosen not to believe, and so they were insulted that a man standing right in front of them had proclaimed himself to be God. Another time Jesus proclaimed his divine existence comes from (John 8;58). “Before Abraham was born, I am.” Again the religious Jews almost killed Him for daring to state that. This man had the nerve to call himself and identify himself as what God had identified himself to their beloved and sacred leader, “I Am.” Not only that, but he stated that before Moses and Abraham existed, He already existed. Yet scripture always backs itself up, and had (John 8:58)
He is God incarnate who became flesh to take away the sins of the world. He was a poor servant, an obedient child who grew up with wisdom and understanding and became man so that the Word became flesh to dwell among humanity (Weaver, 2014). For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). Jesus’ ministry was to preach and teach about the Kingdom Of Heaven and these teachings are the revelations that mankind are to live by in order to get into Heaven and find salvation (DiVincenzo, 2015). The teaching about the Kingdom was for God to restore his creation into the right relationship with himself (DiVincenzo, 2015). This was established so that he and his people can be together in peace, justice, and truth (DiVincenzo, 2015). This identity of Jesus and the work that he did on earth is important to the Christian worldview because it shows that God fulfilled his promise of the Messiah to save the world and it also fulfilled the scripture of the one that was to come. This is an essential element to the beliefs as a
...tween God and Jesus. Arius was a leader of a congregation that believed, “Christians worshiped Jesus, but at the same time came from monotheistic Jewish tradition, in which God alone is worshiped (Fisher, 2008, p. 320). In other words, Arius believed Jesus did not have the same status as God because he was a human. Others believed that “Jesus is properly worshiped as the incarnation of God” (Fisher, 2008, p. 320). In order to resolve this issue, Constantine formed a general council, called the Nicene Council. They debated the issue for decades and they finally dismissed Arius’s beliefs and created the Nicene Creed. The Nicene Creed states that the Father came down from heaven as the Holy Spirit and he was made man through the Virgin Mary. This creed is a “profession of faith for many Christians dominations” (Fisher, 2008, p. 320) and has helped unify all Christians.
The New Testament teaches about who Jesus is and what he did on the earth. John wrote the last of the four gospels which recount Jesus’ life and what is to come. The gospel of John is somewhat different from the other three gospels, in that it is more symbolic and less concrete. For example, John expresses Jesus as the Passover Lamb when Matthew, Mark, and Luke do not. This gospel is showing that Christianity is moving away from the long-practiced Jewish traditions. John’s gospel can be laid out into four parts: the prologue or the incarnate word, signs of the Messiah with teachings about life in him, the farewell teaching and the passion narrative, and the epilogue or the roles of Peter and of the disciple whom Jesus loved. The Gospel of John is arguably the most
John’s Gospel is unspeakably mission oriented. John the Baptist come out and go to the community and tell them what it means to get rid off their sin, enjoy freedom, and being justified. John the Baptist did not present the one to come (the Son) as a humble and ordinary human rather he presents him as powerful, mighty (John 1:27). But later in John Chapter 13 we see a humble and feet washer Son of God. Does Jesus came as a mighty and powerful who human being is even unworthy to untie His sandals straps (John 1: 27 NIV) or humble feet washer and fish cooker (John 13 and 21:7), came to create incredible relationship with humanity? How do we see both John the Baptist and Jesus mission to community, how much the humanity (becoming flesh) favor the mutuality between the messiah and human being. There no time when Jesus’ Divinity overshadow his humanity. Our justification is based on...
The answer can be found in God’s Word. Colossians 1:13¬¬–20 explains all that humanity needs to know in order to begin understanding the Deity of Christ, who He is and how He and God are One. This passage talks of Christ being the Firstborn over all Creation (Colossians 1:15) and how in Him, everything has come into being (Colossians 1:16). Jesus Christ, being on earth as God incarnate dwelt amongst the people claiming to be God. Colossians 1:18 (NIV) says “He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in
What was the Holy Spirit referring to when he influenced the author to write " in the beginning" in John 1:1-2 ? Theologians and Biblical Scholars associate “in the beginning” to the creation account in Gen 1:1-3. However, John 1-3 concentrate its subject matter to the incarnate Christ and his mission to the world, which Jesus would come to live and sacrifice his life for those who would believe. Furthermore, the book of John demonstrates the power, knowledge, and wisdom that accompanies your calling. Raymond Brown stated: ‘If the Gospel begins with “In the beginning,” it is because the coming of Jesus will be presented as a new and definitive creation.” When we look at Gen 1:1-3 and John 1:1-2 it is easy to define similar themes in both. Gen 1:1-3 speaks to a time concerning the beginning of humanity and the world in which humanity lives. A testament to the strengths and failures of His greatest creation and the glory, power, and mercy of a true living God. A moment in eternity that will distinguish God as a creator, Lord, and Savior to his people. An era defining the frailty of humanity and it 's need for something greater than the created. John 1-3 wrote about the father, his Logos and the Logos as the acting force behind creation as well as a savior for the world. He wrote about of the origin of the Logos and his impact on the those who would listen and hear. John was trained from his youth to fulfill his calling to the father as a witness to the coming King. furthermore, John as child was taught about how God created the world and it inhabitants. It is easy to understand John’s knowledge of creation and why he would utilize this knowledge to explain Christ origins. The book of John brings to light the origin of the life of man (John 1:5). The Holy Spirit led the writer to see that both Genesis and John referred to the creative power of the father, his plan for Man, and
As we read John, we see that the stories center around the concept of belief. In the second chapter of John, we are told of the miracle that Jesus did at a wedding: turning water into wine. This miracle was told so that we may believe. “Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him” (John 2:11). Through these miracles we are able to see signs of Jesus’s power and glory and how God’s presence is in him, leading many to believe in him. After this, Jesus went to Capernum, then Jerusalem to the temple, where he found people selling things
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." This verse - John 3:16 - is perhaps the most important in the Bible. Jesus Christ was the son of God, but he was also the son of man.
I am a Christian and I believe in the Holy trinity: God, the Son, the Holy Spirit.
Each religion believes in a higher being than any human. In the Catholic religion we believe in God. There are three divine persons in one being whom we perceive as God. We give God this recognition because He created all things including the covenant in which humans received their salvation. In the book On the Incarnation by Saint Athanasius many challenges of why God is the only God are confronted. It is justified that God is the one and only God through examples, parables and scripture. The covenant in which God came to the Earth in human form as Jesus Christ to bring salvation to all His people is known as the Incarnation and was unquestionably accomplished through Jesus Christ.
The term “creed” is derived from the Latin “credo” which means "I believe." In this context, a creed is a systematic summarization of religious theories and beliefs. It would be difficult if not impossible to study the general history of Christianity and specifically Christian Theology without studying these ecumenical creeds: The Apostle’s Creed, The Nicene Creed, The Chalcedonian Creed and The Athenasian Creed. These creeds serve to demarcate the doctrinal substance and boundaries of orthodox Christian theology. These four creeds represent the culmination of several hundred years of early Christian debate centered on what eventually became known as the doctrine of the trinity.
27; John, x, 36), while the Fourth Gospel declares Him to be the Word (Logos),