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Holy Trinity - 8

Holy Trinity - 8. The Second Person The Only Son of God. Experience. Draw a picture of the Son of God, after you see the next slide. Share with the class what you were trying to say in your drawing. Discussion & reflection:. How do you explain that Jesus is the ONLY Son of God?

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Holy Trinity - 8

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  1. Holy Trinity - 8 The Second Person The Only Son of God

  2. Experience • Draw a picture of the Son of God, after you see the next slide. • Share with the class what you were trying to say in your drawing.

  3. Discussion & reflection: • How do you explain that Jesus is the ONLY Son of God? • How do you explain that Jesus is the only SON of God? • How do you explain that Jesus is the only Son of GOD?

  4. Discussion & reflection: • If you walked up to Jesus and put your arms around Him, what would you feel? If He feels warm and solid, is He a human being? • Athanasius of Alexandria (b. ca. 298 – d. 2 May 373, Egypt) He would not have been spoken of in this way if he belonged merely to the rank of creatures. But as it is, since he is not a creature but the offspring of the God who is worshiped, an offspring proper to his substance and a Son by nature, this is why he is worshiped and is believed to be God…

  5. Discussion & reflection: • Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 313-386) Moses says to him “Show me yourself Exodus 33:13.” You see that the prophets in those times too saw the Christ, that is, as far as each was able. “Show me yourself,” that I may see you with understanding. But God said, “No mortal shall see my face and live Exodus 33:20” For this reason then (because no one could see the face of the Godhead and live) He took on Himself the face of human nature that we might see this and live.

  6. Discussion & reflection: • Do you ever hesitate to say you belong to Jesus? • Shepherd of Hermas (c. 1st or 2nd Century, Rome) The name of the son of God is great and incomprehensible and sustains the whole world. If, therefore, all creation is sustained by the Son of God, what do you think of those who are called by him and bear the name of the Son of God and walk in his commandments? Do you see, then, what kind of people he sustains? Those who bear his name with their whole heart. So he himself has become their foundation and gladly sustains them because they are not ashamed to bear his name.

  7. Discussion & reflection: • What if someone asks you how Jesus can be the SON of God and not be younger than the Father? • John Chrysostom (349-407, Constantinople) Someone may ask, “How can Christ be a Son, without being younger than the Father…We answer that such arguments suppose a human context…though we are discussing the nature of God…Come now, does the sun’s radiance proceed from the sun’s own substance or from somewhere else?

  8. Discussion & reflection: • What if someone says that since the Father produced a human son through Mary, He must be human too? • Origen (c.185-254, Israel) We are forbidden the impiety of supposing that the way in which God the Father begets and sustains his only-begotten Son is equivalent to the begetting of human by human or animal by animal. There is here a great difference, so it is fitting that this should be so, since nothing can be found in existence … or imagined that can compare with God.

  9. Discussion & reflection: • What if someone suggests to you the reason why Jesus hasn’t returned is because he can’t, meaning he died and went to heaven and that’s where he is right now and always will be? • Ireneaus (2nd Century, France) The Son always coexists with the Father and had revealed the Father from of old, from the beginning. • Where is God right now? If God is here, Jesus is here!

  10. Discussion & reflection: • What if a friend asks you if their baptism also makes them a son or daughter of God, just like Jesus? • Gregory of Nyssa (c 335-394, Turkey) But in fact the Deity is incapable of change and alteration. So, everything that is excellent and good is always excellent…Mark you, he always says, “who is in the bosom of the Father John 1:18” not “who came to be” there. • Jesus is unique, “in the bosom of the Father.”

  11. Written reflection Name: Date: • What was most important to you in today’s lesson?

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