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Discipleship for Mission @ DCBC. Christology. Heresy’s Docestism - Jesus Christ divine and appears human Ebionitism - Jesus is purely human with special gifts. Arianism. Jesus is a create being - but he was supreme in God’s created order
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Christology Heresy’s • Docestism - Jesus Christ divine and appears human • Ebionitism - Jesus is purely human with special gifts
Arianism • Jesus is a create being - but he was supreme in God’s created order • Jesus was a similar substance to God but not the same.
Colossians 1:15-20 What does it says about Jesus and his role in Creation and beyond?
Nicean Creed • What are the main themes that you are covered in this creed? • Why those? • What would you include if you were to re-write this creed? • What is the point of creeds?
Heresies • Tritheism - three separate God’s • Modalism - that there are not really three persons in God but only three ways in or modes in which God acts. • Subordinationism - hierarchy
Three Theories • Penal Substitution • Christus Victor • Moral Theory
N T Wright • The real enemy, after all, was not Rome but the powers of evil that stood behind human arrogance and violence … [On the cross] the kingdom of God triumphed over the kingdoms of this world by refusing to join into their spiral of violence. [On the cross, Jesus] would love his enemies, turn the other cheek, go the second mile.
Group Question • What does the cross mean to you?