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Paul’s favorite expression for the concept of the spiritual position of believers is that they are “in Christ.”. Thus, for Paul, Jesus is the perfect image of God primarily because God, in all of his fullness, dwells in Christ (Colossians 1.19; 2.9), which does not make Christ God. 4. Jesus Being “Lord” Does not Make Him God.
Mar 2, 2020 · March 2, 2020. I have been trying to explain the unusually important statement about Christ in Paul’s “Christ Poem” in Phil. 2:6-10. It’s an extremely high Christology. Christ is a divine being before coming into the world; and at his exaltation he was made *equal* with God. Wow. Just 20 years earlier Jesus was a virtually unknown ...
By proclaiming Jesus as Kyrios, Paul is proclaiming that he is not only the King of. David’s line, promised a throne forever, but is also the King of Glory portrayed in Psalm 24. 52 1 Cor 15:24-25 53 1 Cor 15:26. Thus, Jesus as Kyrios is both man and God. He dies as a man, rises as a glorified human, and is.
May 29, 2017 · Fifth, Paul espouses a Lordship Christology. The Apostle Paul is unique as a NT author in that he repeatedly and exclusively calls the Father “God” and Jesus “Lord.”. In fact, “Jesus is ...
- Kermit Zarley
- Jesus Is Yahweh
- Jesus Receives Prayer
- Jesus Receives Hymns
- Jesus Is Pre-Existent
- Jesus Is Creator
- Other Indications
- When Did Paul Think Jesus Was God?
- What Does This Mean?
Perhaps one of the clearest indications that Paul thought Jesus was Yahweh comes from the fact that he used Monotheistic Old Testament passages which uniquely referred to Yahweh and applied them to the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 10:13 cf. Joel 2:32; 1 Cor. 1:31 cf. Jer. 9:24; 1 Cor. 2:16 cf. Isa. 40:13; 1 Cor. 10:26 cf. Ps. 24:1; 2 Cor. 10:17 cf. Je...
The early Christians prayed to Jesus for his return and for blessing and were even described as those who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus, which likely indicate that such prayer was a regular part of their devotional practices (1 Cor. 1:2; 16:22; 2 Cor. 12:8; Rom. 10:13). 1 Corinthians 1:2 and Romans 10:13even draw upon an Old Testament passag...
They also composed hymns describing Jesus as pre-existent and active in the themes of creation, redemption, and end-time salvation (Phil. 2:6-11). Only God was the Creator, and for Jesus to share in that action indicates that He could be uniquely viewed as sharing in God’s identity or being God Himself. Likewise, the fact that Paul thought of Jesus...
As briefly mentioned, Paul did have a conception of Jesus being pre-existent (cf. Rom. 8:3; 1 Cor. 8:6; 10:4; 15:47; 2 Cor. 8:9; Gal. 4:4). This would be totally consistent with the idea of Jesus being incarnated as a human. 1. Romans 8:3, “For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness...
Paul also described Jesus as Creator, “Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.” (1 Cor. 8:6). Isaiah 44:24 says, “Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, “I, the LORD, am the maker of...
There are also a number of other strong indications that the early Christians, such as Paul, viewed Jesus as God. First, these early Christians composed creedal statements in which Jesus was their object (Rom. 1:3-4; 10:9-10). Second, they described their worship services as gathering in the Lord’s name (1 Cor. 5:4). Third, they baptized new conver...
An important question arises once we consider the fact that Paul thought of Jesus as God. When did this belief in Jesus as God first emerge? Perhaps the earliest examples that we see of this belief in Jesus as God comes from Philippians 2:5-11which is likely a pre-Pauline hymn. Philippians was written around A.D. 60. Since the hymn pre-dates the wr...
It is interesting to note that even in the earliest Christian writings that we have, Jesus is already receiving a type of devotion that was without precedent in the Judaism of the time period. This early devotion to Jesus was radically and explosively sudden. Some scholars have argued that essentially there never was a time when Jesus was not worsh...
Apr 10, 2013 · I have read, pondered, researched, taught, and written about the writings of Paul for forty years, but until recently there was one key aspect of his theology that I could never quite get my mind around. I had the hardest time understanding how, exactly, he viewed Christ. Some aspects of Paul’s Christological teaching have been clear to me ...
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May 28, 2006 · In a proper portrayal, his christology should be seen in the context of his religious life, within which a passionate devotion to Christ is central. One cannot read passages such as Phil. 3:7–11, for example, without sensing the depth of religious feeling towards Christ that seems to have characterized Paul’s Christian life.
