Athanasius On The Role Of Corruption In Jesus

Also, there would not be Christianity without the incarnation, atonement, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and when God took human form through his Son, Jesus became fully human and God. He was the Messiah that Gods people longed for to save humanity from a sinful life (“Lecture 4”, 2017). Also, it is important to understand as a Christian that before Jesus Christ died humanity could not enter Gods Holy Kingdom after they passed because humanity was sinful. God sacrificing his son was a way to lay a path for humanity to follow if they choose to and if they follow Gods commandments can join God in his holy Kingdom after they pass away (“Lecture 4”, 2017). The truth of the Bible is the incarnation of Jesus Christ. Even though the incarnation was torturous Jesus knew it would be and God new how much torcher was needed to make clear that reconciliation accrued. Jesus Christ is the Son of God, but he is also our Godhead or divine Trinity. He is humanity’s

Jesus and the Disinherited begins the first chapter with the interpretation of Jesus. Dr. Thurman explained that Jesus was a poor Jew and was a minority in the midst of a dominate society. Dr. Thurman gives his analysis on the worldviews Jesus. People around the world have their own interpretation of Jesus; yet, people have an orthodox view of him being fully God and fully man. In chapter one, the author references the nonviolent resistance approach, which is a tactic Dr. Martin Luther King Jr used in the civil rights movements. He interprets Jesus as a black man who lived his life as an outsider in the world. Jesus was the disinherited and oppressed like African Americans.

Jesus was the son of God, who was created by God and the second person within the trinity. God is viewed as the father, the son, and the holy spirit, according to the Christian worldview. Jesus was created from God planting a seed in Virgin Mary. Jesus was thus born to spread the word about God and all the gospel. Jesus lived a life as a human as all of us do now. He experienced a lot of things we as human’s experience. Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins where he died on the cross. Jesus is important to the Christian worldview because he is the ultimate reason we are who we are today. “God is both holy and just, so although he created humanity to be immortal, he could not accept them into his holy kingdom in their sinful state (Lecture 5). After Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross, this served as redemption and it was then that god allowed them into the

He wanted to build creatures that are capable of recognizing him, serving and loving him and this is when the world was created. And he created this to show the unity of his essence through his unity in his works. God “wanted to choose a subject to be a work of his own, which was unique, singular and unlike any other; rare and surpassing all the other works of his hands.” (pg 111). This subject would have a perfect relationship with God and a perfect relationship with his own unity. This is all known as the mystery of the Incarnation. Out of all the different natures God choose human nature to receive his greatness. He chose only one and that is the “Son of God”. Jesus is stated as a world. We adore in Jesus the “unity of a divine person” who exists in two natures and who serves the supreme unity of the divine

Moreover, he was crucified because of pardoning our sin. I know this stories about Jesus, but, at that time, Jesus existentially came to me as the incarnation. I realized that Jesus Christ is my lord but also sincere friend as he came down to Zacchaeus in the plan of God. This is my experience of and understanding God and God’s love.

For most people, growing up is easy because the majority of families have plenty of privileges, but they usually are overlooked since many expect more than what they already have. But in the story Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes, Estrella is a girl who is deprived of a steady home because she is constantly moving from farm to farm. While she works arduously in the fields every day in unbearable conditions she attempts to maintain a stable environment for her siblings. By doing so, Estrella learns how to take responsibility in her family because she is beginning to mature out of her childish self. As she matures into an adult, she discovers the ability to associate herself with other adults and how to take risks that

Jesus Christ, God incarnate came to earth to save everyone from eternal damnation in hell. As humans, with Adam and Eve as our representatives in the Garden of Eden, they broke God’s one commandment, therefore allowing sin to come into the world. Because of this fall, we all deserve damnation, and because of the sin nature inside of us, everyone deserves to die and be eternally punished. However, because of the loving and gracious nature of God, He sent his only son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross to be our representative for sin. When he took the cross, not only did he bear the physical pain of the lashes, the dehydration, and the cross itself, but he also drank God’s cup of wrath for us. Everyone on earth deserves to be on that cross, but Jesus, through his great love for us, paid the ultimate price of his own life to save us.

What we know about Christ comes from what scripture reveals to us and the understand that He was a tool for salvaging man (473). As Aquinas taught earlier, God stays true to his nature and because God is good, “God’s very nature is goodness, and goodness is self-giving” (475). His sacrifice was essential for mankind’s salvation in order for the inherited sin be taken away (475-6). Aquinas uses a moment to teach the importance of time in correlation to God’s work. A things have a final cause but that final cause cannot happen right away rather there are appropriate steps that need to be taken. Similarly, because man had such “pride” after the fall, one could not recognize his failures right away so over the generations man needed to be humbled to yearn for the salvation of the creator (477). Though Jesus is not the Father who created, His role as the Son is to bring life and salvation through His word. He is able to do this because, though of one Godhead, they are three persons who are truly distinct from one another (478-9). Important to note is that Thomas does say, “One can no more say God took on a man than one can say

The first idea comes from the article What Does the Word ‘Incarnation’ Mean. The article states that the “church calls the incarnation the fact that the Son of God assumed a human nature in order to accomplish our salvation in it (CCC 461)” (WDWIM). It also stated that most of the arguments of the first five centuries of the

Jesus is the Son of God who was sent to Earth by His Father to live a perfect and sinless life. Jesus performed many miracles and brought many people hope. He was destined for death on a cross so that all who may choose to follow Him can live eternally in Heaven. Three days later, Jesus rose from the grave and later returned to live with His Father in Heaven. As a result of the death and resurrection of Jesus, all children of God have the free choice of accepting Christ and living eternity in Heaven.

Now you are probably thinking ‘now, wait just a second, what about when Christ came to earth He was bound by time.’ Correct! Christs’ nature being so perfect, He as all man do, came into the world being birthed by a woman (the incarnation of Christ), but the difference between Him and us is very clear. Christ was not conceived by man but He was conceived by the virgin Mary through the Holy spirit, thus why his human nature was so perfect. Christ was Not created by man (sinners) but by the Holy spirit which perfect (sinless) using Mary’s womb as a “Vessel” The incarnation of Christ is important because this is when Jesus becomes man this allows Christ to be

Jesus came so that each of us could know and understand God in a personal way. Jesus alone can bring meaning and purpose to life.

Whilst I think that Jesus’ divine authority has a significance importance for Christians, I think that Jesus’ moral authority is more important because of its larger relevance to society. Some of Jesus’ moral teachings are still relevant in non-religious communities are therefore this is more important than divine authority because it has had a more significant effect on the world that his divine authority which is mostly limited to those of the Christian faith.

Humans are powerful, but there are tasks that can only be done by certain individuals. The individual needs to have infinite power, which only God has. Saint Anselm’s writes “If then, as is certain, that celestial city must be completed from among men, and this cannot happen unless the aforesaid satisfaction is made, while no one save God can make it and no one save man ought to make it, it is necessary for a God-Man to make it.” (2,6). The celestial city is a heavenly city. The only person capable of constructing a celestial city is God and for this, God needs to be Man. The city proves that incarnation happened since no human can construct such a city. God is the highest figure in the hierarchy of power and since nobody below him was able construct the city, it only leaves God. In Dante, Beatrice said “Man, in his limits, could not recompense: for no obedience, no humility, he offered later could have been so deep that it could match the heights he meant to reach through disobedience; man lacked the power to offer satisfaction by himself. Thus, there was a need for God, through His own ways, to bring man back to life intact-I mean by one way or another.” (7. 97-103). Like Anselm’s story, God was the only one who had the power to complete such a task. God needed the people to fight through the disobedience and for that to happen they needed a guide. God is the only person who has infinite power, so he needed to bring Christ into the world to help the helpless beings. God is the only one who had the power to create someone like Jesus to help the people who were

Jesus Christ lived on earth more than 2000 years ago (John 1:14). He interacted with mankind, both Jew and Gentile (Matthew 8:5-13), as the human offspring of a woman (Matthew 1:18), married to a carpenter in Nazareth (Mark 6:1-6). However, the issue is not whether he was human but rather his deity as the Son of God. Moreover, it is specifically of import to testify of the significance of his resurrection after his horrendously brutal death. Thus, the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the pinnacle of Christian faith (1 Corinthians 15: 12-19) and the theology of atonement must be brought into view and examined.