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Famous Quotes… (or “misquotes”)

Famous Quotes… (or “misquotes”). Divinity of Christ – Review Sheet. Who was Arius and what did he teach about the divinity of Christ? Arius was a priest of the 4 th century who taught that Christ was not “God” and not eternal. Explain the theory that Christ was the “Angel of the Lord.”

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Famous Quotes… (or “misquotes”)

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  1. Famous Quotes… (or “misquotes”)

  2. Divinity of Christ – Review Sheet • Who was Arius and what did he teach about the divinity of Christ? • Arius was a priest of the 4th century who taught that Christ was not “God” and not eternal. • Explain the theory that Christ was the “Angel of the Lord.” • This idea claims that Christ was a created angel. He was the “messenger” but not an angel.

  3. Divinity of Christ – Review Sheet • List the primary verses in the New Testament which prove that Christ is God and has eternally existed. • John 1:1; John 20:28; Titus 2:11-13; John 8:57-58 • What is unitarian? • A unitarian does not believe in the trinity, but believes that God is one being.

  4. Divinity of Christ – Review Sheet • What is the meaning of John 1:1? Is this literal or is it symbolic? • We believe these verses are literal. The Word (Jesus Christ) was God. • Explain John 1:18. What are the two families o manuscripts that translate this verse differently? • John 1:18 can be translated “son” or “God.” The two families are Alexandrian and Byzantine.

  5. Divinity of Christ – Review Sheet • Who is the Yahweh sitting next to Yahweh in Psalm 110? How do we explain this odd statement? • Yahweh sitting next to Yahweh is the One who became Jesus Christ (the Word). John 17 states that Christ had glory with the Father before the world began.

  6. Class Schedule – Spring 2011 • Introduction to Doctrine – Sabbath, Jan. 22 • Plurality of God – Sabbath, February 19 • Divinity of Christ – Sabbath, March 19 • The Holy Spirit – Sabbath, April 16 • The Word of God – Sabbath, April 30 • The Angelic Realm & Satan – Sabbath, May 21 • Humanity – Sabbath, June 18

  7. Fundamental Belief: The Godhead God the Father is an eternally existing Spirit, a perfect, personal Being of supreme love, intelligence, knowledge, justice, power and authority… There is one Lord, Jesus Christ, who has eternally existed. God is an eternal family currently consisting of the Father and the Son. Both the Father and Son are involved in the creative work of expanding this family by bringing many children (sons and daughters) to glory. The Holy Spirit is the power of God and the Spirit of life eternal, not a separate entity or being.

  8. Origin of the term Trinity… “In Scripture there is as yet no single term by which the Three Divine Persons are denoted together. The word trias (of which the Latin trinitas is a translation) is first found in Theophilus of Antioch about A.D. 180. He speaks of "the Trinity of God [the Father], His Word and His Wisdom ("Ad. Autol.", II, 15). The term may, of course, have been in use before his time. Afterwards it appears in its Latin form of trinitas in Tertullian ("De pud." c. xxi). In the next century the word is in general use. It is found in many passages of Origen” ("In Ps. xvii", 15). Catholic Encyclopedia; Online Edition.

  9. Ancient drawing illustrating the trinity…

  10. The Trinity… “What is the meaning of blessed Trinity? The name Blessed Trinity expresses the revealed truth that God is one in three persons. In the unity of the one divine nature or essence, there are three distinct persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Each one of these is God, yet there is but one God. This is the most sublime of all Christian mysteries, the most inaccessible to human reason. As with all the truths of our faith, we believe it because God Himself has revealed it. How has the Blessed Trinity been revealed? God has revealed this mystery not all at once but gradually leading up to it, as to a climax, in the course of the history of salvation.”

  11. The Holy Spirit... Armstrong, Karen, The History of God. The doctrine of "God the Holy Ghost" came very late into the Trinitarian theology of the 4th and 5th centuries. It was the last, after the Father and the Son, to be declared to be "God." The Apostles' Creed knows nothing of it; and its appearance in the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds has, according to some authorities, the appearance of being "an afterthought."

  12. The Holy Spirit, quotes... The Triune God, by Edmund Fortman “Although this spirit is often described in personal terms, it seems quite clear that the sacred writers [of the Hebrew Scriptures] never conceived or presented this spirit as a distinct person.” “The Jews never regarded the spirit as a person; nor is there any solid evidence that any Old Testament writer held this view…The Holy Spirit is usually presented in the Synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke) and in Acts as a divine force or power.”

  13. The Holy Spirit, quotes... The Catholic Encyclopedia: “Nowhere in the Old Testament do we find any clear indication of a Third person.” New Catholic Encyclopedia: “The Old Testament clearly does not envisage God’s spirit as a person… God’s spirit is simply God’s power. If it is sometimes represented as being distinct from God, it is because the breath of Yahweh acts exteriorly…The majority of New Testament texts reveal God’s spirit as something, not someone, this is especially seen in the parallel between the spirit and the power of God.”

  14. The Holy Spirit, quotes... A Catholic Dictionary “On the whole the New Testament, like the Old, speaks of the spirit as a divine energy or power.” “The third Person was asserted at a Council of Alexandria in 362, and finally by the Council of Constantinople of 381 AD.”

  15. The Holy Spirit, quotes... McClintock and Strong, Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature “[Matt. 28:19] proves only that there are three subjects named… but it does not prove, by itself, that all the three belong necessarily to the divine nature, and possess equal divine honor…This text, taken by itself, would not prove decisively either the personality of the three subjects mentioned, or their equality or divinity.”

  16. Gregory of Nazianus in 380… “Of our thoughtful men, some regard the Holy Spirit as an operation, some as a creature and some as God; while others are at a loss to decide, seeing that the Scripture determines nothing on the subject.”

  17. John Wesley… So what’s the issue that faces us? The ultimate issue as always is, does the biblical evidence support the doctrine of the Trinity or tri-personality of God? If biblical evidence supports it, we can know it is true. Comprehending it is another matter. John Wesley said, “Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the triune God.”

  18. The Holy Spirit, a definition... It is completely misleading to read into the Bible a third Person, the Holy Spirit. “The spirit of Elijah” (Luke 1:17) is not a different person from Elijah. Nor is “the Spirit of God” a different person from God. The Holy Spirit is the operational presence of the mind and influence of God as well as His character. It is God extended to His creation.

  19. Trinitarian Scriptures… • Acts 5:3-4 • “But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? 4“While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”

  20. Trinitarian Scriptures… • 2 Corinthians 13:14 • “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.” 1 Corinthians 10:16 “The cup of blessing which we have, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ…”

  21. Trinitarian Scriptures… • Matthew 28:19 • “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” Greek eis, better translated “into.” “Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” (ASV)

  22. Matthew 28:19… Greek word for in [into] is eij". “Into” is a better translation than “in” (as found in KJV and NKJV). Translated “into” 538 times in NT as compared to “in” only 138 times. eij"h; ejnp; diavc: markers of the means by which one event makes another event possible - ‘by means of, through, by.’ (Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains). eij"Retains the force of entering into anything; where one thing is said to be changed into another. After verbs of going, coming, leading, etc.eij" is joined to nouns designating the condition or state into which one passes, falls, etc. (Thayer).

  23. Greek: pneuma hagion (Holy Spirit) or parakletos (Comforter) • In Greek (also English) there are three persons: • First person singular/plural. I/We. • Second person singular/plural. You. • Third person singular/plural. He, She, It/Our, Us, They, Those.

  24. Greek: pneuma hagion (Holy Spirit) or parakletos (Comforter) The Pronoun must agree with noun that it refers back to in person. Pneuma hagionis the noun. It is neuter and therefore should have the pronoun “it” and not “he.” Romans 8:16 “itself” used by translators.

  25. Question of Grammar… • 1 Corinthians 6:19 • “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?” • Titus 3:5-6 • “. . . not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior.”

  26. Christ is begotten of the Holy Spirit… Matthew 1:18 “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.” Christ is begotten of the Spirit, but Christ was the Son of God the Father. The Holy Spirit is never referred to as the father of Christ.

  27. Paul consistently leaves the Holy Spirit out in his greetings… Romans 1:7 “…Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 1:3 “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” 2 Corinthians 1:2 “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”

  28. Paul consistently leaves the Holy Spirit out in his greetings… Ephesians 1:2 “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:2 “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”

  29. The Holy Spirit was involved in creation but not the Creator... Genesis 1:2 “. . . And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” We are told that all things were created through Christ... Colossians 1:16 “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth.”

  30. Holy Spirit is received as a gift... After baptism: Acts 2:38 “. . . Repent, and let everyone of you be baptized. . . And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” With the laying on of hands: Acts 8:17 “Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.” Those who never heard of the Holy Spirit: Acts 19:2 “He said to them, ‘Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?’ So they said to him, ‘We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.’”

  31. Holy Spirit as the power of God... 2 Timothy 1:6-7 “Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” Holy Spirit is measured by fruit... Galatians 5:22-23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, Against such there is no law.”

  32. Holy Spirit as the power of God Job 33:4 John 20:22 Psalm 139:7 Acts 4:8, 31 Isaiah 11:2 Acts 13:9 Isaiah 42:1 Acts 15:8 Isaiah 61:1 2 Corinthians 1:22 Ezekiel 36:27 2 Peter 1:21 Ezekiel 39:29 Luke 1:15, 35, 67 Jeremiah 51:15 Luke 11:13

  33. Holy Spirit in symbol... “Breath” -- Genesis 2:7 “Oil” -- Psalm 45:7 “Dove” -- Matthew 3:16 “Wind” -- John 3:8 “Water” -- John 4:14; John 7:37 “Seal” -- Ephesians 1:13 “Sword” -- Ephesians 6:17 “Lamps” -- Revelation 4:5

  34. Trinitarian must explain… • Psalm 33:6 • Hebrews 6:4-6 • John 20:22 • John 3:34 • Not one prayer, psalm or hymn to the Holy Spirit • Who was the father of Jesus Christ? (Matthew 1:18)

  35. Trinitarian must explain… • In 17 epistles in the NT, only once is the Holy Spirit referenced in a greeting (1 Peter 1:2). • Stephen’s martyrdom– he sees the Father and the Son but no Holy Spirit • Revelation doesn’t picture the spirit (Revelation 5:9; Revelation 7:10; Revelation 21)

  36. April 30, 2011 Class… Fundamental Belief: The Word of God

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