What does it mean to be human? Having my own thoughts of how things are and why they are make me human in contrast, we were made in the image of Christ with our own thought process but we process data differently. Isiah 55:8, “Humans are no more important than animals. Humans were made to care for the things of the kingdom. Genesis 1:31, “God made us all and everything he made he saw it to be very good” (KJV).
The hope of the coming of an eschatological Davidic king is found in many second-Temple Jewish texts, some of which are composite and difficult to date. The Old Testament messianic expectation, however, undergoes some further development. First, this Davidic king is explicitly said to be without sin. Second, based on messianic interpretation of 2 Sam 7:14; Ps. 2:7, the Davidic messiah comes to be designated as the "son of God. " Third, the reference to "the one like a son of man" in Dan 7 develops into a pre-existent Messiah in 1 Enoch and 4 Ezra.
Genesis 1:26, shows the conversation between God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. He said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness...” By making man and woman in His image, He made us different from the rest of creation. These verses show how special you are to God.
JESUS AND HIS FATHER The key to the Trinitarian doctrine is the Father-Son relationship. In Christian theology, God is symbolised as a divine Father primarily because Christ is symbolised as the divine Son. Not the other way around. The Gospel of Mark describes Jesus as the Son of man and the Son of God.
Through God’s interactions with mankind, he uses certain individuals to perform tasks to reach specific outcomes and rewards them for their actions. But as conflicts arise throughout man's existence, challenges arise and people begin to question God. A challenge to God’s authority as portrayed by Abraham, Jacob, and Moses is justified by its prevalence to the underlying effects each challenge possesses on the future of mankind, in other words God accepts these challenges through the realization that each will consequently change the future and carry out his goals. Abram was one of the many prophets in which God quarrels with in response to questioning God's righteousness. God chooses Abraham, reckons him as righteous, and creates a covenant
Wolfram begins his look into religion in through the eyes of a young Parzival who asks “Oh mother, what is God? (Pg 71)” While seeming to be an innocent and simple enough question, it in fact is one of the most complex and controversial questions that the human race has ever come across. In this question we also see some of the parallels Brian Murdoch discusses between Parzival and Adam. Where Parzival grows up in “idyllic surroundings but in isolation (Murdoch 147)”, much like Adam who was created into a perfect world but was isolated.
Anselm delivered the first known ontological argument in a prayer. He claimed, 1) God exists in the understanding, 2) good might have existed in reality, 3) if something exists only in the understanding, then it is possible for it to be greater, 4) suppose God exists only in the understanding, 5) God might have been greater than it is, and 6) the greatest possible being could have been greater. There is a contradiction between #4 and #6. Guanilo counters Anselm’s argument by demonstrating that one could substitute different words with God and make absurd claims. For instance, he substitutes God for
Covenants in the Hebrew Bible In the Hebrew Bible, the relationship between God and men expressed differently and it gradually transforms with different descendants. In the end, it leads to an increase of power of God not only toward an individual, but also toward all human beings through codifications called “covenants”. The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology defines Covenant as “A compact or agreement between two parties binding them mutually to undertakings on each other’s behalf” (). To understand the whole principle of covenants’ development, we need to begin with a story of creation in Genesis.
Simply professed, I believe Jesus is God. In the Gospel of Matthew 1:22-23, His Divine identity is revealed to his biological father Joseph as the fulfillment of the messianic prophecy spoken in the book of Isaiah 7:14. Traditionally, the divine qualifying attributes such as: his “sinlessness” or his “teachings” pointed to define his divinity. The two can points can easily be diminished by identifying Jesus as an “extraordinary individual”. His death alone, offers very little affirmation of his divine nature, due to claims of Jesus simply being a political victim or martyr.
However as the name of the fresco suggest it gives a crucial clue on the intend subject by Masaccio the trinity or three in one, or one God with three entities (Kloss, Lecture 13, 25:40) God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. God the Son is the most noticeable for both Christian and Non-Christians alike in the literal form of Jesus Christ. God the Father is not quite as noticeable but the uniqueness of the perspective of the divine man in the foreground brings out an aura that he is occupying both spaces and logically God the Father is the only divine figure that could be in two places at once (Kloss, Lecture 13 25:31). Even more ambiguous is God the Holy Spirit, which is traditionally seen as a dove through out the holy texts; God the Holy Spirit can be overlooked easily since it is found with wings outstretched in front of God the father, it almost looks like it is a part of his robe or perhaps a white shirt or
The textbook says, “This coming deliverer was referred to as the Messiah, which means "anointed one." Messiah is the Hebrew term that is the basis for the term Christ, as in Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament, kings were anointed. When the New Testament refers to Jesus as Christ, it is not referring to Jesus’ surname but to Jesus’ title as messiah, as king.” (Diffey, 2015)Jesus was believed to be the Son within the Holy Trinity: The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
On Jacob’s journey, back to Canaan he got into a wrestling match with a man. This passage of scripture has been heavily debated. Many commentators have different views on this passage of scripture. Davis stated in his book, “this man is regarded by some as the preincarnate Christ, and by others as an angel, a special messenger from God.” During this altercation, some exceptional things took place.
To relate this theory to the Bible, Apollinarius’ interpretation could be related to the Bible verse found in Galatians 5:17 which states, “For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.” He relates to this verse, but twists it to say that Jesus could not have had a human mind/spirit because it was corrupt and against the divine nature. What he missed though is that Jesus is not just partly human and partly divine, but He is one hundred percent God and one hundred percent man. The Christian belief of the incarnation of Jesus is quite different from what Apollinarius believed. Christians believe that Jesus in the flesh was not only fully man but also fully God; not half and half, not a mixed nature, not a divine mind with a human mind and soul, but all God and all man!
The scripture texts mention Jesus as one who breaks all walls that divide humans under certain categories or label them with captions. In other words, if we are able to see God’s love manifest in the love of Christ, we would be able to understand the love of God too. On the other hand, Burton Z. Cooper states that “God has acted in Christ to redeem us.” This satisfies Jesus’ claim that our faith in Christ will help us be one in Christ as he is one in the Father, as mentioned in John 14:20.
The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?" which conveys the ironic nature that Christians deemed other converts as not equal yet they all are men who are sons of God. Repeating the same question but incorporating different races, Voltaire tries to show that everyone is the same under God. By comparing the races to one God, Voltaire stressed the importance to see through the sectional differences