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Jun 6, 2023 · The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is God (John 1:1, 14), and we know that God is omniscient. So it seems strange that Jesus would say that He did not know when He would return. The key to understanding Jesus’ seeming lack of knowledge in this matter lies in the nature of the Incarnation. When the Son of God became a man, He remained fully ...
- What is The Kenosis
The term kenosis refers to the doctrine of Christ’s...
- Incarnation
Incarnation is a term used by theologians to indicate that...
- What is The Kenosis
- Stephen Wellum
- The person or active subject of the incarnation is the eternal Son. John 1:14 is clear: “The Word became flesh.” In other words, it was the Son from eternity who became incarnate, not the divine nature.
- As the eternal Son, the second person of the triune Godhead, he is the full image and expression of the Father and is thus fully God. Along with the Father and Spirit, the Son fully and equally shares the divine nature.
- As God the Son, he has always existed in an eternally ordered relation to the Father and Spirit, which now is gloriously displayed in the incarnation.
- The incarnation is an act of addition, not subtraction. In the incarnation, the eternal Son who has always possessed the divine nature has not changed or set aside his deity.
- God Reveals Himself as The Lord
- General and Special Revelation
- Media of Revelation
- Conclusion
God’s personal name is Lord, which translates the mysterious name I AM which God revealed to Moses in Ex. 3:14–16. His lordship connotes particularly his control, authority, and presence in relation to the world he has made (see John Frame, The Doctrine of God, pp. 21–240, and The Doctrine of the Word of God, pp. 3–14, 47–68). Everything he does re...
Theologians make various distinctions among types of revelation. The most common is between general and special revelation. General revelation is revelation of God given to everybody. It is the kind of revelation described in Romans 1. It tells us that God exists, what kind of God he is, and his moral standards. In revealing God’s standards, it sho...
Another way to distinguish between types of revelation is to distinguish the different ways in which revelation comes to us, the media of revelation. There are basically three types of media: events, words, and persons. These three categories correspond roughly to our earlier distinction between control, authority, and presence. But both these thre...
If we are to know God, it is important for us to seek knowledge in God’s own way. Many have tried to gain knowledge of God through their unaided reason, or through some kind of subjective intuition. But the God of the Bible has told us not only who he is but also how we should seek knowledge of him. That knowledge comes as we attend to his created ...
Oct 26, 2023 · The Incarnation is a concept that lies at the very heart of the Christian faith. It refers to the belief that the eternal Son of God, Jesus Christ, willingly took on human nature and became fully God and fully human at the same time. This theological mystery is encapsulated in the opening verses of the Gospel of John: "In the beginning was the ...
The word “incarnation” means “the act of being made flesh.”. It comes from the Latin here in John 1:14. In John 1:1-3 we learned that Jesus is God, the divine Creator of the universe. Simply put, the incarnation means that the eternal God took on human flesh and became a man. Let’s take a look at another passage on the incarnation.
Dec 25, 2013 · Here are five biblical truths of the incarnation. 1. The Incarnation Was Not the Divine Son’s Beginning. The virgin conception and birth in Bethlehem does not mark the beginning of the Son of God. Rather, it marks the eternal Son entering physically into our world and becoming one of us. John Murray writes, “The doctrine of the incarnation ...
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Definition. Incarnation is the term that refers to the supernatural act of the triune God, whereby the eternal, divine Son, from the Father, by the agency of the Spirit, took into union with himself a complete human nature apart from sin. As a result, the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, now and forevermore exists as one person in two natures, our ...
