This document discusses whether Jesus' divinity died on the cross. It explains that Jesus has two natures, human and divine, hypostatically united in one person. While his human nature suffered and died on the cross, his divine nature could not die as God is immortal. The document outlines church teachings on the Hypostatic Union and the communication of idioms to explain that while Jesus' human nature experienced death, as the divine person he is God who died for our sins according to scripture. It argues the official Catholic position is that through his human nature Christ suffered and died, but not his divinity.
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Humanity and Divinity of Christ Essays
Joshua Norman
THEO_201_D16_201330
Short Essay #2
Short Essay on the Humanity and Divinity of Jesus Christ
Approaches to Christology, Gospels, Fulfillment of Prophecy, Jewish province, Groups & Factions of Judaism, Temptation of Jesus, elements of Discipleship, 12 Apostles in Last supper, Parables, Beatitudes, Heresy of Divinity of Jesus, Christological councils, Titles of Jesus.
This is a study of Jesus being the circumciser. It is very unusual concept often ignored, but important to understand. It is made clear in these studies what it means.
Bible Alive Jesus Christ 001: "“The Method of Biblical Christology”BibleAlive
Discover what Christology is and its relevance. Learn to properly distinguish between the Jesus of Faith and the Jesus of history. Become cautious of the pitfalls of rationalism as seen in biblical skepticism and religious fundamentalism. In this class we critique the “Quests for the Historical Jesus.” Learn about the “Old Quest” and why it failed, and also explore “the New Quest” and “the Third Quest.” See the Theological History of Jesus and learn that the Gospels are not biographies but rather inspired witnesses to the “events and teachings of Jesus insofar as they have meaning for the Church.” Most importantly, learn the right orientation for confronting the mystery of Jesus Christ.
Bible Alive Jesus Christ 003: "The Starting Point for Christology"BibleAlive
We explore the facts which are “rock bottom” which lead us beyond history into Christology proper, since they raise the meaning and significance of the “Jesus event”: 1) Jesus’ death on the cross and 2) the Easter kerygma. Learn about the origins of the Four Gospels. See the extra-biblical documents that record the execution of Jesus. Learn the pre-Pauline formula of 1 Corinthians 15:3b-5 and its ramifications. Read the “empty-tomb” narratives and discover their meaning.
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Humanity and Divinity of Christ Essays
Joshua Norman
THEO_201_D16_201330
Short Essay #2
Short Essay on the Humanity and Divinity of Jesus Christ
Who Is Jesus Christ for Us Today?
To say that Jesus Christ is the truth of the Christian story calls for further examination. It is one thing to assert that the New Testament describes Jesus as the Oppressed One who came to liberate the poor and the weak (Chap. 4); but it is quite another to ask, Who is Jesus Christ for us today? If twentieth-century Christians are to speak the truth for their sociohistorical situation, they cannot merely repeat the story of what Jesus did and said in Palestine, as if it were selfinterpreting for us today. Truth is more than the retelling of the biblical story. Truth is the divine happening that invades our contemporary situation, revealing the meaning of the past for the present so that we
are made new creatures for the future. It is therefore our commitment to the divine truth, as witnessed to in the biblical story, that requires us to investigate the connection between Jesus' words and deeds in firstcentury Palestine and our existence today. This is the crux of the christological issue that no Christian theology can avoid.
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Discussion Board #1:
Topic: Introduction, the Trinity, One God and Divine Revelation, World Religions
What is the Holy Trinity? Christian churchgoers hear the words of Christ proclaimed: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age." (Matthew 28:29-20) Scripture refers regularly to God as Father (Mt. 5:58)., as Son (Heb. 1:1-3), and Spirit (Rom. 5:50). Yet Scripture also tells us that God is One: (Deut. 6:4). In these passages, God is telling us about Who He is. We will learn over the semester what Catholic tradition, and other Christians, have believed about the mystery of the Trinity--and its implications for our life of faith and life in society.
One thing that tells us about the difference of the Christian God, is that He upholds a world that has a history. Time moves forward in a line, headed for a final consummation where He comes again, raises the dead, and ushers in an eternal kingdom. We'll look into key Christian themes such as original sin and our redemption in Christ, and the Biblical evidence for the Trinity, over the next few weeks. Here, I want to distinguish the Christian One God clearly from other religious portraits. This will help us in studying what it means for One God to also be Three.
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Discussion Board #2:
Topic: Monotheism; the Jewish Bible; Divine Fatherhood, Word, Wisdom, and Spirit
What strikes me most about Judaism is that it claims to be God acting in history. This religion is specifically not local, and it is very particular. The Lord God chooses a man, to leave his home and beget a nation, which will be the witness of the Lord's ways to the rest of humanity. The Lord God reveals Himself to humanity, and calls out a chosen people as His bride and witness. The idea is that all of humanity can know who He is. He is His Word that He reveals to Moses on Mount Sinai. This is a religion of Divine self-disclosure.
Also, the Scriptures show that the One God acts and is manifest in ways that seem like distinct persons. God watches Israel like a Father and is husband to Israel as a bride (but He does NOT have a 'consort goddess,' He is the One God). He makes Israel a family through a series of covenants by which the two bind themselves to each other irrevocably. In the words of my colleague Scott Hahn, the Lord gives Israel kinship by covenant.
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In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
1. DID JESUS‟ GODHEAD DIE ON THE CROSS?
By: Atty. Miguel L. Abas
CFD National President
Not few Christians believed and taught that Christ’s Godhead died on the cross.
This belief may be attributed to their failure to grasp fully the doctrine on “Hypostatic
Union.”
So what is “Hypostatic Union”? By Hypostatic Union, we mean the union of divine and
human natures in the second person of the Holy Trinity, our Lord Jesus Christ. As such,
Jesus possesses two natures, human and divine. He is both God and man. These two
natures are joined but not mixed in one divine person of Christ. The fundamental
teaching of the Church on the subject is clear. “The Latin Fathers, principally under the
influence of Tertullian, came to a clear Trinitarian and Christological terminology as
follows:
„Videmus duplicem statum (=naturam), non confusum, sed conjunctum in una
persona, Deum et hominem Jesum‟, which means, “We hold a double state
(nature), not mixed with one another but joined in the one person, the God and
man Jesus (Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, by Dr. Ludwig Ott, p. 144).
Jesus redeemed us through his sacrifice on the cross as Divine Person, not only
as man, but His Divinity, as well. But while His Divinity concomitantly joined in the
sacrifice as the essence for the mystery of salvation, the same was not subjected to
death. The reason is simple. According to St. Paul, “That thou keep the
commandment unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Blessed
and only Mighty, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; WHO ONLY HATH
IMMORTALITY (emphasis supplied), and inhabiteth light inaccessible…” (1 Tim.
4: 14-16). So there is a nature in Christ which is immortal and that is His Divinity.
Further, the Church teaching in regard to these two natures in Christ, is stated
more clearly when it said, “It follows from the essence of the Hypostatic Union, that
while on the one hand things pertaining to both the Divine and the human nature can be
attributed to the person of Christ, on the other hand, things specifically belonging to one
nature (as man) cannot be predicated to the other nature (as God). The rule is not valid
if there be reduplication. By reduplication the concrete term is limited to one
nature. Thus, it is false to say that „Christ has suffered as God.‟ (Fundamentals
of Catholic Dogma, by Dr. Ludwig Ott, p. 159).
Finally, “the 3rd General Council of Ephesus (year 431) confirmed the Twelve
Anathematism of St. Cyril of Alexandria… They were later recognized by Popes and
Councils as the expression of theChurch doctrine of Faith. The main content is the
following:
a) xxx
b) xxx
c) The human and Divine activities predicated of Christ… may not be divided between
two persons or hypostases, the man-Christ and the God-Logos, but must be attributed
to the one Christ, the Logos become Flesh. It is the Divine Logos, who suffered in
the FLESH, was crucified, died, and rose again” (Fundamentals of Catholic
Dogma, by Dr. Ludwig Ott, p. 142).
To this, St. Peter has confirmed the above truth when he said, “Because Christ also died
once for our sins: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the
flesh, but enlivened in the spirit” (1 Peter 3:18).
So, the official teaching of the Catholic Church is, that Christ through His flesh
(human nature), suffered and died on the cross, not his Divinity. Thus as quoted above,
if it is false and erroneous to say that Christ has suffered as God, more so, would it
be false and erroneous to say thatChrist has died as God.
2. “Justification that God died in the context of Incarnation”
This is a very controversial topic, even great theologians of the church stumbled when
confronted with the question did God die on the cross? To further our understanding of
this issue it is necessary to define the terms that we used in order to avoid
misconceptions and confusions during our in depth discussion whether God died on
the cross. The most important terms that we have to define is Person and Nature we
have to know its distinction and how they are applied in the Incarnate Word. In F. J.
Sheed’s book Theology for Beginners he defined Person and Nature in this way,
Nature is the source of operation which implies that the nature dictates what the
person can or can not do, take for example a person can walk, run, get tired, suffer and
die because it is what his nature allows him to do, however the person can not live
under water because his nature does not provide such action to the human person.
Person is the doer of the nature or in other words it is the Person who acts what the
nature can provide, being born, suffer and die is all attributed to the person, thus we
say Frank died not Frank’s human nature died, or Frank suffered not Frank in his
human nature died. Nature is incapable of dying or suffering because it is the Person
who dies and suffers, Nature can not die it only ceases to exist once the Person who
possesses the Nature died. The second terms that we must define is the two types of
change Fundamental Change and Accidental Change, Fundamental change is a
change in essence, for example if you burn a wood it is no longer a wood but ashes.
The molecular composition of the wood after it was burn is no longer the same
molecular composition before it was burned therefore there is Fundamental Change a
change in essence, while Accidental Change is change that happens only in its
physical appearance for instance to break the wood in half there is a change in
appearance, before the wood was broken in half it is about 3ft. long, after the wood
was broken in half it is no longer 3ft. long but 1.5ft. Feet long, the molecular
composition did not change it is still wood, but the appearance change which is called
Accidental Change. When the Council of Ephesus define and proclaim that Mary is
the Theotokos they appealed to the Church understanding in the three most
fundamental teachings about Christ the Incarnation, Hypostatic Union and
Communication of Idioms, through the application of these dogma of faith they were
able to justify that God who has no beginning and end, incapable of being born
through the Second Person of the Trinity has a mother. By this pre-existing knowledge
of the Church we may also apply the theological implications contained in the dogma
of Theotokos to justify that God in the context of Incarnation truly died not in the
nature but in the person. The Word before Incarnation is inviolable, the Second Person
of the Trinity before the act of Incarnation can not die and suffer because he does not
share the finite nature of man. After the Incarnation the Divine Word assumed the
nature of man which means that the Second Divine Person of the Trinity added to his
Divine nature the finite human nature thus he shared in our limitedness. The dogma
about Incarnation is the starting point of our discussion the Catechism of the Catholic
Church define Incarnations as;
The unique and altogether singular event of the Incarnation of the Son of God
does not mean that Jesus Christ is part God and part man, nor does it imply that he is
the result of a confused mixture of the divine and the human. He became truly man
while remaining truly God. Jesus Christ is true God and true man. CCC 464
3. The Catechism attested that the Word Incarnate is true God and true man
therefore it is fitting to believe that in Christ there are two natures Divine and Human
that is hypostatically united in one hypostasis or Person. The dogma of Incarnation
made the impossible, possible as explained previously. Nestorius propagate the
heretical idea that after the Incarnation there are two persons not nature in Christ, this
distorted idea lead to Nestorius denial that Mary is the Theotokos and called the
mother of God, Christotokos which give birth to Nestorian heresy and Nestorius
excommunication. Following the theology of Nestorius he did not only deny Mary as
the Mother of God but also the orthodox truth that God died on the cross, the Council
of Ephesus has this to say about the Incarnation;
For we do not say that the nature of the Word was changed and made flesh, nor
yet that it was changed into the whole man (composed) of soul and body but rather
(we say) that the Word, in an ineffable and inconceivable manner, having
hypostatically united to Himself flesh animated by a rational soul, became Man and
was called the Son of Man, not according to the will alone or by the assumption of a
person alone, and that the different natures were brought together in a real union, but
that out of both in one Christ and Son, not because the distinction of natures was
destroyed by the union, but rather because the divine nature and the human nature
formed one Lord and Christ and Son for us, through a marvelous and mystical
concurrence in unity. . . . For it was no ordinary man who was first born of the Holy
Virgin and upon whom the Word afterwards descended; but being united from the
womb itself He is said to have undergone flesh birth, claiming as His own the birth of
His own flesh. Thus [the holy Fathers] did not hesitate to speak of the holy Virgin as
the Mother of God. Ecumenical III (against the Nestorians) The Incarnation
[From the epistle II of St. Cyril of Alexandria to
Nestorius, read and approved in action I]
The Council of Ephesus affirms that the unity of the two natures of Christ takes place
in the Person of Christ which is an explicit proof that in Christ there are two source of
operation a Divine source in His Divine Nature and a Human source in His Human
Nature. To prevent another drastic error which Nestorius succumb, the Church
clarified the indissolubility and inseparability of the union of Christ’s natures in His
Divine Person, therefore we cannot divide the actions of Christ between His Divine
and Human nature, The fifth Ecumenical Council of Constantinople II excommunicate
whosoever divide the actions of Christ between His Divine and Human nature;
Can. 3. If anyone says that one [person] is the Word of God who performed miracles,
and another the Christ who suffered, or says that God the Word was with Christ when
Ile was born of a woman, or was with Him as one in another, but not that the same
[person] is our Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God, incarnate and made man, and
that both the miracles and the sufferings which He voluntarily endured in the flesh
were of the same person, let such a one be anathema. Anathemas of Council of
Constantinople
4. The Council will not hesitate to excommunicate those who will disobey the canons
and decrees of the Council. One violation of this decree is when modernist heretics
will say that when Christ died on the cross, the one who died is not a Divine Person
but his human nature. Aside from this a certain approach in Christology which is
rampant in some University and theological studies the so called Christ of faith and
Christ of history or also known as Christology from Above (high) and Christology
from below (low), this approach in Christology is contrary to the approach used by the
Church, the Christo centric approach. If the actions of Christ should not be divided
between His natures, then to where should we attribute his actions? According to Dr.
Ludwig Ott in his book Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma he states Christ's Divine
and Human characteristics and activities are to be predicated of the one Word
Incarnate. (De fide.) to simplify the explanation of this dogma it means that the
actions of Christ whether done by his Divine or Human nature is predicated or
attributed to his Divine Person, therefore since Christ is the second Person of the
Trinity, a Divine person we can boldly proclaim and profess that Mary is the Mother
of God and God died on the cross this is the two most impregnable truth that God who
is Divine through the second Person of the Trinity was Incarnated, whose Divine and
Human nature inseparably united in one hypostasis and activities of both nature is
communicated, predicated and attributed to Christ a Divine person.
After the Council of Chalcedon, some made of Christ's human nature a kind of
personal subject. Against them, the fifth ecumenical council, at Constantinople in 553,
confessed that "there is but one hypostasis [or person], which is our Lord Jesus
Christ, one of the Trinity."[93] Thus everything in Christ's human nature is to be
attributed to his divine person as its proper subject, not only his miracles but also his
sufferings and even his death: "He who was crucified in the flesh, our Lord Jesus
Christ, is true God, Lord of glory, and one of the Holy Trinity." CCC 468
This dogma of predication of idioms is termed by the Church Communicatio
Idiomatum (Communication of Idioms). The sacred Scripture make use of
Communication of Idioms in some of its passages. In Acts 20:28 it speaks of the
church being purchase by God’s blood, as we notice blood belongs to the human
nature yet it was attributed to the Divine Person, God’s blood. In 1 Cor.2:8 it speaks
that God was crucified, yet being crucified belongs to the human nature but the
scripture did not classify it as “crucified in human nature” but crucified the Lord of
Glory, in which the Lord of Glory is a title which belongs to God therefore in 1
Cor.2:8 if taken so literally by applying the meaning of the title it would mean to
crucify God.
Therefore following the teachings of the Catechism of Council of Trent by the reasons
presented above it is therefore safe to say the God died, God suffered and God was
buried.