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[The Christian Apologetics]: The System of Christian Truth (06)
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PAUL JANG
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2012-02-29 18:56:41, hit : 3,764 |
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C. CHRISTOLOGY (기독론)
(1) The only way they could be brought together again would be if God should bring about salvation for man and therewith reunion with God. Christ came to bring man back to God.
(2) To do this he was and had to be truly God. For that reason the church has emphasized the fact that Christ was a divine, not a human, person.
(3) It was the second person of the ontological Trinity who was, in respect of his essence, fully equal with the Father, who therefore existed from all eternity with the Father, who in the incarnation assumed a human nature.
(4) It is very important for us to understand the personality of Christ:
1) It does not mean that he became a human person.
2) It does not mean that he became a divine-human person.
3) It does not mean that the divine and human natures were intermingled.
4) Christ was and remained, even when he was in the manger in Bethlehem, a divine person, but this divine person took to itself in close union with its divine nature a human nature.
5) This means that the divine and human nature in Christ are so related ad to be unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly and inseparably related.
(5) It will be noted at this point that this view of the incarnation is in full accord with the doctrine of God and man as above set forth.
(6) In addition to this brief statement about the person of Christ a word must be said about his offices.
◉ Christ is true prophet, priest, and king. (Westminster Shorter Catechism)
① \\"How does Christ execute the office of a Prophet?\\"
The answer is: \\"Christ executeth the office a Prophet, n revealing to us by His Word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.\\"
② \\"How does Christ execute the office of a Priest?\\"
The answer is: Christ executeth the office of a Priest in his once offering up himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and reconcile us to God, and making continual intercession for us.\\"
③ \\"How does Christ execute the office of a King?\\"
The answer is: Christ executeth the office of a King, in subduing us to himself, in ruling and defending us, and in restraining and conquering all of his and our enemies.\\"
(7) The \\"Christ\\" of non-Christian thought is a projection of the would-be autonomous man. This \\"Christ\\" may even be said to be \\"wholly other\\" as the God of non-Christian thought is sometimes said to be \\"wholly other.\\"
(8) Since this Christ is projected into the heights he is said to have \\"become flesh,\\" to have humiliated himself, even unto death. But this humiliation unto death is interest of man's exaltation. And so it is asserted that \\"in Christ\\" all men are saved.
(9) According to Barth the whole God, the wholly other God, dies with man and then lifts man, mankind, out of death with himself.
(10) On this essentially monistic scheme man remains his own prophet, priest and king. The work of Christ , both in the state of his humiliation and in the state of his exaltation is the work of man himself.
(11) Roman Catholic view of Christ is, as may be expected, a cross between this non-Christian and the Christian view. It deteriorate the state and the work of Christ in quality.
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Introduction
Theology 