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The Real Jesus: God and Man

This Sunday Evening Programme explores the concept of Jesus as both fully God and fully man. The discussion will touch on the struggles of expressing Christ and God as one being, the Nicene creed, the nature of Christ as a mystery, and the role of faith in religious debate. Join us to delve into the depths of understanding the true nature of Jesus.

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The Real Jesus: God and Man

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  1. Sunday Evening Programme Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? 20/9 Jesus - God and man (Eucharist service) 27/9 Jesus the Rabbi (ft. Rob Bell) 4/10 Jesus the Revolutionary and Rebel (Ian) 11/10 Jesus in the non-canonical Gospels (Robin) 18/10 Eucharist (Taize service – Jesus the pray-er - Christel) 25/10 Jesus the Mystic (Elaine)

  2. Sunday Evening Programme Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? God and Man Fourie, EM says: Writers and theologians seem to really struggle with expressing the notion of Christ and God as one being.

  3. Sunday Evening Programme Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? God and Man The Nicene creed (and Apostle's creed?) is based on: the incarnate Christ is fully God, one in nature with the Father and at the same time fully human, one in nature with all of humanity and like human beings in all things except sin

  4. Sunday Evening Programme Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? God and Man Thoughts of a “Double Consciousness”, where consciousness relates to everything inside our awareness: Human awareness e.g. tiredness, fear, compassion Divine awareness e.g. knew about the Samaritan woman

  5. Sunday Evening Programme Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? God and Man What about the Gospels? Matthew, Mark and Luke – • Descending Christology John – Ascending Christology Paul – Kenotic Christology

  6. Sunday Evening Programme Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? God and Man Where do we stand? Nature of Christ is a mystery, i.e. not something to be understood, worked out or proven scientifically. Paradox – fully man and fully God To be accepted by faith

  7. Sunday Evening Programme Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? God and Man Faith is a concept integral to religion and thus religious debate. Faith assumes that there is a degree of irrationality, of inability to substantiate in science what we believe in

  8. Now unto Him who is able to keep, Able to keep you from falling. And present you faultless before the presence of His glory With exceeding joy! To the only wise God our Saviour Be glory and majesty Dominion and power, both now and forever Amen!

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