LUKE 23:56\u201324:5<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cAre you the Son of God?\u201d So He said to them, \u201cYou rightly say that I am\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
(Luke 22:70)<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The most controversial issue about Jesus is His deity. Since the earliest days of the church, skeptics have hammered at this doctrine. Debate between those who maintained Christ\u2019s divinity and those who rejected it raged in the first few centuries after Christ. The dispute focused on the doctrine of the Arians.<\/p>\n
Arius, a Greek rationalist, taught that the Son was subordinate to the Father. He and his followers believed so strongly in the immutability of God, that they could not accept the teaching that divine substance could be shared with or communicated to any other being.<\/p>\n
The Arians maintained that Jesus Christ was a created being\u2014first in the created order, but still created. Arius strongly asserted that there was a time when the Son was not. He and his followers argued that Christ had been created out of nothing before anything else had been formed.<\/p>\n
In the fourth century, the Council of Nicea rejected Arianism and answered its objections to the divinity of Christ, saying, \u201cin one Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God, begotten of the Father, only-begotten, that is from the substance of the Father.\u201d The council asserted that Christ is \u201ctrue God from true God, begotten not made.\u201d This has been the standing doctrine of the orthodox Christian church since that time. But the struggle was intense. The early church vacillated back and forth. But in the end, truth prevailed. The church officially upheld the divinity of Christ as the only biblical doctrine.<\/p>\n
The debate concerning Christ\u2019s nature is central to the Gospel, for our Mediator must be both divine and human to settle the dispute between God and man.<\/p>\n
Only our Lord, who possessed an eternal Spirit, could forever perfect those who believe in Him. Only Christ our God can be the source of life that comes through faith in Him. Such life cannot be imparted by creatures, who do not have life in themselves. And finally, none but a divine person can be the object of our worship and the source of religious life for all who are redeemed.<\/p>\n
CORAM DEO<\/b><\/p>\n
Genesis 38\u201340<\/p>\n
Matthew 13:1\u201332<\/p>\n
Mormons, Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, and other non-Christian groups object to the divinity of Christ as expressed in the Nicean creed. They distort the truth and try to convert Christians to their false doctrine. Be on guard against such groups. Study today\u2019s verses so you will be better equipped to stand fast.<\/p>\n
For further study: John 1:1\u20132; 10:30\u201338; 14:7\u201310 \u2022 Rom. 1:1\u20134; 9:5 \u2022 Col. 2:9\u201310<\/i><\/p>\n
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