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NASB | John 14:10 "Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 14:10 "Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you I do not say on My own initiative or authority, but the Father, abiding continually in Me, does His works [His attesting miracles and acts of power]. |
Bible Question: When Jesus was teaching, Was his teachings considered theology? |
Bible Answer: Dear John, You asked, "When Jesus was teaching, Was his teachings considered theology?" (sic) That is a good question! The answer is yes. Let us first define the word theology. The word is composed from the Greek theos (meaning God) and logos (meaning word/logic). We may broadly call theology the "reasoned discourses concerning God." More particularly as far as we as believers are concerned, Christian theology is "the rational study and understanding of the nature of God and doctrines of the Christian faith based on the God's revelation of Himself..."; i.e., the Bible. (Quotes from Theopedia.) That is the cool thing about orthodox Christian theology: it derives its whole authority from the Word. Dr. Wayne Grudem describes systematic theology -- if I recall it properly -- as everything the Bible has to teach on any given topic. Doctrine is everything the Bible has to teach (the basis of the word doctrine) on a specific topic. (You would like Grudem, I think, as he is often described as having Charismatic leanings.) Christ taught about God (theology proper), Himself (christology), the Holy Spirit (pneumatology), the Scriptures (bibliology), man (anthropology), sin (hamaritology), salvation (soteriology), the church (ecclesiology), the end times (Eschatology), etc. "Let us not thinkā¦ that we really have a choice between having a theology and not having one. We all have our theologies, for we all have a way of putting things together in our own minds that, if we are Christian, has a shape that arises from our knowledge of God and His Word. We might not be conscious of the process. Indeed, we frequently are not. But at the very least we will organize our perceptions into some sort of pattern that seems to make sense to us. The question at issue, then, is not whether we will have a theology but whether it will be a good or bad one, whether we will become conscious of our thinking processes or not, and, more particularly, whether we will learn to bring all of our thoughts into obedience to Christ or not. The biblical authors had a theology in this sense, after all, and so too did Jesus. He explained Himself in terms of biblical revelation, understood His life and work in relation to God, and viewed all of life from this perspective." --David F. Wells In Him, Doc |
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