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Divinity is Perfection In the Field Audio Blog
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- Christianity
Called into question is Jesus’ divinity, initially amongst His disciples, after His arrest and His crucifixion. It is “Jesus’ ‘legal’ execution, which is overturned by the resurrection with its aim bringing justice for all people.” Jesus spoke about His divinity, whereas biblical scholars identify as “[a]nother path to seeing Jesus’ divinity starts not with the idea of Jesus as the Son of God but with Jesus as the Son of Man.”
Referring to the visual interpretation of Daniel 7, it is the Son of Man, who is Jesus Christ, that rules a just and righteous kingdom replacing the beasts or the Anti-Christ. Even “Stephen’s vision in Acts 7:56 likewise portrays the Son of Man as standing at the right hand of God,” referring that Jesus is co-equal with God.
“The mediatorial kingdom is to be contrasted with the universal kingdom, the direct rule of God from heaven over all His creation.” Therefore, the last step after sanctification, reconciliation, and justification is glorification before God for humankind's deliverance from the presence of sin.
Understanding Jesus’ position as Son of Man is similar to God’s relation to humankind through Jesus’ missions. It is noted that “our understanding of the kingdom or reign of God is closely tied to Jesus' parables, and it is hard to make them cohere as a systematic set of insights.” It is the union between Christ, as the Son of Man, and God the Father that one realizes the value of John 14:6, setting a clear path to divine glorification. It is how “the human nature of Christ was assumed into essential union with the divine Person of the Word of God and has no other personal center than that of God the Son.” Divinity is perfection in Jesus; He is God in the human flesh.
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Called into question is Jesus’ divinity, initially amongst His disciples, after His arrest and His crucifixion. It is “Jesus’ ‘legal’ execution, which is overturned by the resurrection with its aim bringing justice for all people.” Jesus spoke about His divinity, whereas biblical scholars identify as “[a]nother path to seeing Jesus’ divinity starts not with the idea of Jesus as the Son of God but with Jesus as the Son of Man.”
Referring to the visual interpretation of Daniel 7, it is the Son of Man, who is Jesus Christ, that rules a just and righteous kingdom replacing the beasts or the Anti-Christ. Even “Stephen’s vision in Acts 7:56 likewise portrays the Son of Man as standing at the right hand of God,” referring that Jesus is co-equal with God.
“The mediatorial kingdom is to be contrasted with the universal kingdom, the direct rule of God from heaven over all His creation.” Therefore, the last step after sanctification, reconciliation, and justification is glorification before God for humankind's deliverance from the presence of sin.
Understanding Jesus’ position as Son of Man is similar to God’s relation to humankind through Jesus’ missions. It is noted that “our understanding of the kingdom or reign of God is closely tied to Jesus' parables, and it is hard to make them cohere as a systematic set of insights.” It is the union between Christ, as the Son of Man, and God the Father that one realizes the value of John 14:6, setting a clear path to divine glorification. It is how “the human nature of Christ was assumed into essential union with the divine Person of the Word of God and has no other personal center than that of God the Son.” Divinity is perfection in Jesus; He is God in the human flesh.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/inthefieldaudioblog/message
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