My dear students,
This is it. Thank you very much for waiting.
This is the link: http://www.kofc.org/un/eb/en/resources/cis/cis105.pdf
Thanks and God bless.
sir hector
Showing posts with label CHRISTOLOGY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CHRISTOLOGY. Show all posts
Monday, July 5, 2010
Monday, October 12, 2009
CHRISTOLOGY HERESIES
CHRISTOLOGICAL HERESIES/CONTROVERSIES
Jesus Christ is true God and true man. During the first centuries, the Church had to defend and clarify this truth of faith against those falsified it.
Heresy is an erroneous theological teaching or opinion that contradicts the teachings of the Church.
1. Gnostic Docetism – held that Jesus’ humanity was merely an illusion, thus denying the incarnation.
The Church from the very beginning insisted on the true incarnation of God’s Son “come in the flesh” (1John 4:2-3; 2 John 7)
2. Adoptionism – held that Jesus had been a man whom God adopted as his own Son.
The Church from the beginning affirmed that Jesus Christ is Son of God by nature and not by adoption.
3. Arianism – the fourth century heresy that denied the divinity of Jesus Christ. According to Arius, the Son is only a creature, made out of nothing, like all other created beings.
This heresy was condemned by the Church and declared Arius as heretic and affirmed the teaching that Christ is true God and true man.
4. Nestorianism – a fifth century heresy that held there were two persons (distinct) persons in the Incarnate Christ, one human and the other divine.
This was condemned by the Church through the Council of Ephesus and affirms the teaching that Christ was a divine person who assumed a human nature.
5. Monophysitism – affirmed that the human nature had ceased to exist as such in Christ when the divine person of God’s Son assumed it. It other words, he is only God not human.
The Church declared that Jesus is true God and true man. He has two natures, not confused but united in the one person of the God’s Son. He is fully human, like us in all ways except sin.
CHRISTOLOGICAL COUNCILS OF THE CHURCH
Ecumenical Council is an assembly of the Bishops of the World in which matters of faith and morality are discussed.
There 21 Ecumenical Council of the Church:
Council of Nicaea 1 (325AD) – the first
Jesus Christ is true God and true man. During the first centuries, the Church had to defend and clarify this truth of faith against those falsified it.
Heresy is an erroneous theological teaching or opinion that contradicts the teachings of the Church.
1. Gnostic Docetism – held that Jesus’ humanity was merely an illusion, thus denying the incarnation.
The Church from the very beginning insisted on the true incarnation of God’s Son “come in the flesh” (1John 4:2-3; 2 John 7)
2. Adoptionism – held that Jesus had been a man whom God adopted as his own Son.
The Church from the beginning affirmed that Jesus Christ is Son of God by nature and not by adoption.
3. Arianism – the fourth century heresy that denied the divinity of Jesus Christ. According to Arius, the Son is only a creature, made out of nothing, like all other created beings.
This heresy was condemned by the Church and declared Arius as heretic and affirmed the teaching that Christ is true God and true man.
4. Nestorianism – a fifth century heresy that held there were two persons (distinct) persons in the Incarnate Christ, one human and the other divine.
This was condemned by the Church through the Council of Ephesus and affirms the teaching that Christ was a divine person who assumed a human nature.
5. Monophysitism – affirmed that the human nature had ceased to exist as such in Christ when the divine person of God’s Son assumed it. It other words, he is only God not human.
The Church declared that Jesus is true God and true man. He has two natures, not confused but united in the one person of the God’s Son. He is fully human, like us in all ways except sin.
CHRISTOLOGICAL COUNCILS OF THE CHURCH
Ecumenical Council is an assembly of the Bishops of the World in which matters of faith and morality are discussed.
There 21 Ecumenical Council of the Church:
Council of Nicaea 1 (325AD) – the first
Vatican II (1965 AD) – the 21st
1. Council of Nicaea 1 (325 AD) – Condemned Arianism, defined that the Son of God is consubstantial (one in being) with the Father, formulated the Nicene Creed.
2. Council of Ephesus (431 AD) – Condemned Nestorianism. Defended the right of Mary to be called the Mother of God.
3. Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) – Condemned Monophysitism by defining that Christ had two distinct natures, and was therefore true God and true Man.
1. Council of Nicaea 1 (325 AD) – Condemned Arianism, defined that the Son of God is consubstantial (one in being) with the Father, formulated the Nicene Creed.
2. Council of Ephesus (431 AD) – Condemned Nestorianism. Defended the right of Mary to be called the Mother of God.
3. Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) – Condemned Monophysitism by defining that Christ had two distinct natures, and was therefore true God and true Man.
Friday, July 18, 2008
JESUS CLAIMS TO BE GOD
Jesus Christ Claims to be God
Matt. 4:7; Luke 4:12 - Jesus tells satan, "you shall not tempt the Lord your God" in reference to Himself.
Matt. 5:21-22; 27-28; 31-32; 33-34; 38-39; 43-44 - Jesus makes Himself equal to God when He declares, "You heard it said...but I say to you.."
Matt. 7:21-22; Luke 6:46 - not everyone who says to Jesus, "Lord, Lord." Jesus calls Himself Lord, which is God.
Matt. 9:2; Mark 2:5; Luke 5:20; 7:48 - Jesus forgives sins. Only God can forgive sins.
Matt. 12:8; Mark 2:28; Luke 6:5 - Jesus says that He is "Lord of the Sabbath." He is the Lord of God's law which means He is God.
Matt. 18:20 - Jesus says where two or three are gathered in His name, there He is in the midst of them.
Matt. 21:3; Luke 19:31,34 - Jesus calls himself "Lord." "The Lord has need of them."
Matt. 26:64; Mark 14:62; Luke 22:70 - Jesus acknowledges that He is the Son of God.
Matt. 28:20 - Jesus said He is with us always, even unto the end of the world. Only God is omnipresent.
Mark 14:36 - Jesus calls God "Abba," Aramaic for daddy, which was an absolutely unprecedented address to God and demonstrates Jesus' unique intimacy with the Father.
Luke 8:39 - Luke reports that Jesus said "tell how much God has done for you." And the man declared how much Jesus did.
Luke 17:18 - Jesus asks why the other nine lepers did not come back to give praise to Him, God, except the Samaritan leper.
Luke 19:38,40 - Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. If these were silent, the very stones would cry out.
John 5:18 - Jesus claimed to be God. The Jews knew this because Jesus called God His Father and made Himself equal to God. This is why Jesus was crucified.
John 5:21-22 - Jesus gives life and says that all judgment has been given to Him by the Father.
John 5:23 - Jesus equates Himself with the Father, "whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him."
John 6:38 - Jesus says, "For I have come down from heaven."
John 8:12 - Jesus says "I am the light of the world." - 1 John 1:5 - God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.
John 8:19 - Jesus says, "if you knew me, you would know my Father also."
John 8:23 - Jesus says that He is not of this world. Only God is not of this world.
John 8:58 - Jesus says, "Before Abraham was, I AM." Exodus 3:14 - "I AM" means "Yahweh," which means God.
John 10:18 - Jesus says He has the power to lay down His life and take it up again - Gal. 1:1 - God raised Jesus to life.
John 10:30 - Jesus says, "I and the Father are one." They are equal. The Jews even claimed Jesus made Himself equal to God. Jesus' statement in John 14:28, "the Father is greater than I," cannot contradict John 10:30 (the Word of God is never in conflict). Jesus' statement in John 14:28 simply refers to His human messianic role as servant and slave, which He, and not the Father or the Holy Spirit, undertook in the flesh.
John 10:36 - again, Jesus claims that He is "the Son of God."
John 10:38; 14:10 - "the Father is in me and I am in the Father" means the Father and Son are equal.
John 12:45 - Jesus says, "He who sees Me sees Him who sent Me." God the Father is equal to God the Son.
John 13:13 - Jesus says, "You call me Teacher and Lord and you are right for so I AM."
John 14:6 - Jesus says "I am the way, and the truth and the life." Only God is the way, the truth and the life.
John 16:15 - Jesus says, "all things that the Father has are Mine." Jesus has everything God has which makes Him God.
John 16:28 - Jesus says that "He came from the Father and has come into the world."
John 17:5,24 - Jesus' desire is for us to behold His glory which He had before the foundation of the world.
John 20:17 - Jesus distinguishes His relationship to the Father from our relationship by saying "My Father and your Father."
Rev. 1:8 - God says He is the "Alpha and the Omega." In Rev. 22:13, Jesus also says He is the "Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the beginning and the end." The only possible conclusion one can reach is that Jesus is equal to the Lord God.
Rev. 1:17 - Jesus says again, "I am the First and the Last." This is in reference to the God prophesied by Isaiah in Isaiah 44:6, 41:4, 48:12.
Rev. 1:18 - Jesus, the First and the Last, also says "I died, and behold, I am alive for evermore." When did God ever die? He only did in the humanity of Jesus Christ our Lord and God.
Rev. 2:8 - Jesus again says, "The words of the First and the Last, who died and came to life." When did God die and come to life? In our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Monday, July 14, 2008
JESUS CHRIST IS LORD AND GOD!
If you have doubts about the Divinity of Jesus or somebody asked you about his divinity, then, this is a must for you so that you will be able to answer and prove to them that Jesus is God.
Visit this webpage and know the truth about Jesus' divinity.
http://scripturecatholic.com/jesus_christ_divinity.html
Visit this webpage and know the truth about Jesus' divinity.
http://scripturecatholic.com/jesus_christ_divinity.html
IS CHRIST GOD?
This article is from the Catholic Answers website. It is part of a lengthy article about the Iglesia ni Cristo in the Philippines. This article refutes the teaching of the Iglesia ni Cristo about Jesus.
Is Christ God?
The Catholic teaching that most draws Iglesia’s fire is Christ’s divinity. Like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Iglesia claims that Jesus Christ is not God but a created being.
Yet the Bible is clear: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1). We know Jesus is the Word because John 1:14 tells us, "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." God the Father was not made flesh; it was Jesus, as even Iglesia admits. Jesus is the Word, the Word is God, therefore Jesus is God. Simple, yet Iglesia won’t accept it.
In Deuteronomy 10:17 and 1 Timothy 6:15, God the Father is called the "Lord of lords," yet in other New Testament passages this divine title is applied directly to Jesus. In Revelation 17:14 we read, "They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings." And in Revelation 19:13–16, John sees Jesus "clad in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. . . . On his thigh he has a name inscribed, King of kings and Lord of lords."
The fact that Jesus is God is indicated in numerous places in the New Testament. John 5:18 states that Jewish leaders sought to kill Jesus "because he not only broke the Sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God." Paul also states that Jesus was equal with God (Phil. 2:6). But if Jesus is equal with the Father, and the Father is a God, then Jesus is a God. Since there is only one God, Jesus and the Father must both be one God—one God in at least two persons (the Holy Spirit, of course, is the third person of the Trinity).
The same is shown in John 8:56–59, where Jesus directly claims to be Yahweh ("I AM"). "‘Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day; he saw it and was glad.’ The Jews then said to him, ‘You are not yet fifty years old, and you have seen Abraham?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.’ So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple." Jesus’ audience understood exactly what he was claiming; that is why they picked up rocks to stone him. They considered him to be blaspheming God by claiming to be Yahweh.
The same truth is emphasized elsewhere. Paul stated that we are to live "awaiting our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ" (Titus 2:13). And Peter addressed his second epistle to "those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Pet. 1:1).
Jesus is shown to be God most dramatically when Thomas, finally convinced that Jesus has risen, falls down and exclaims, "My Lord and my God!" (John 20:28)—an event many in Iglesia have difficulty dealing with. When confronted with this passage in a debate with Catholic Answers founder Karl Keating, Iglesia apologist Jose Ventilacion replied with a straight face, "Thomas was wrong."
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