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10.24.2021 – “God’s Word Across Time” Session 8 – “The Person & Nature of Christ”
An incisive look at how God’s people applied the Bible to various circumstances across time, what the effects were, and how we can learn from them to apply in today’s church.
FOUR (4) Guardrails of Theology – “In agreement, therefore, with the holy fathers we all unanimously teach that we should confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is one and the same Son; the same perfect in Godhead and the same perfect in manhood, truly God and truly man, the same of a rational soul and body; consubstantial with the Father in Godhead and the same consubstantial with us in manhood; like us in all things except sin; begotten of the father before all ages as regards his Godhead and in the last days the same, for us and for our salvation, begotten of the Virgin Mary the Theotokos (greek; ‘Mother of God’) as regards his manhood; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, only-begotten, made known in two natures without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the difference of the natures being by no means removed because of the union but the property of each nature being by no means removed because of the union but the property of each nature being preserved and coalescing in one prosopon (greek; ‘proposal/plan’) and one hypostasis (greek; ‘reality/substance’), not parted or divided into tow persons but one and the same Son, only-begotten, divine Word, the Lord Jesus Christ; as the prophets of old and Jesus Christ himself have taught us about him, and the creed of our fathers has handed down.”