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Bible Question:
God the Son On another page some one asked is Jesus Christ, God. I answered that God is Jesus Christ. I know some of you answered that Jesus Christ is God. I am an Australian, and follow English Theological Doctrine (such as I know). There exists the Westminster Confession of Faith - 'In the unity of the Godhead there be three persons of one substance, power, and eternity; God the Father, ***God the Son***, and God the Holy Ghost. The Father is of none, neither begotten nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father; the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son'. What I wanted to know is what other confessions of faith exist among christians. And what other standards peculiar to the different denominations are there. To me saying God is Jesus Christ or God is the Son is a confession of my faith. I hope I am still accepted here? Is it a Catholic site? |
Bible Answer: G'day, Leslie! No, we are not all Roman Catholics here... but I guess we are all catholic (little c) as being part of the universal body of Christ. We're quite a motley crew, though! I for one welcome you here very hardily! :-) If you can suffer through my poor spelling, here's the rest of your answer: Both Martin Luther and John Calvin affirmed the triune nature of our God. So, as you would expect, Lutherans and Presbyterians have confessions that state this. You will the Canons of Dort (Reformed), the Thirty-Nine Articles (Episcopalian), the Savoy Declaration (Congregationalists), and the Baptist Confession of 1689 (Baptist) all affirm this truth. Of course, this was commonly held by the Roman Catholic Church prior to and since the Reformation (at least, I don't see a repudiation of it in their most recently published Catechism). In the United States there are a few groups who call themselves Christian, but who deviate greatly from orthodoxy. I'm thinking of Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses. These two groups deny the diety of Christ in the orthodox sense. The Mormons hold that Christ was born as a result of a sexual act involving their version of diety and Mary. The JWs hold that Jesus is a god (little g). Their drift from orthodoxy is so great that it is difficult for most to accept them as Christian at all. One other group, the Pentecostals, believe in something they call Oneness. This idea is that Christ, the Father, and Holy Spirit are not distinct, just different names for one God. They vigorously deny the Trinity. However, orthodoxy has held the Trinity as truth since it was articulated clearly at the council in Nicea in 325 AD. That council came together to deal with a heresy called Arianism, Apollinarianism, Manicheanism, Modalism (and maybe a few more that I can't remember). (Other heresies have attempted to assail this doctrine before and since.) Thus was born the Nicene Creed. This creed does not represent the discovery or invention of the idea of the Holy Trinity. It simply articulated it. Scripture does not use the term, but it is inescapable. Apparently the apostles and early Christans thought this way because of the things they wrote. However, it might have seemed so obvious to them, that they never explicitly articulated this truth. |