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... teaching , because it solved for them what they felt to be a critical religious problem - how sinful man might come into harmony with the perfect God . Now the great purpose of the author of the fourth Gospel was to recommend the ...
... teaching , because it solved for them what they felt to be a critical religious problem - how sinful man might come into harmony with the perfect God . Now the great purpose of the author of the fourth Gospel was to recommend the ...
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... teaching about Jesus , and saw that there was a steady progress of thought which began by regarding Je- sus as truly human , simply a man , and ended by regarding him as the Logos , in some sense divine , and little less than God ...
... teaching about Jesus , and saw that there was a steady progress of thought which began by regarding Je- sus as truly human , simply a man , and ended by regarding him as the Logos , in some sense divine , and little less than God ...
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... teaching of the New Testament , far toward the doctrine of the Deity of Christ , as we shall now see by looking briefly at what four of the most prominent of them wrote . Justin Martyr had been a Greek philosopher before his conversion ...
... teaching of the New Testament , far toward the doctrine of the Deity of Christ , as we shall now see by looking briefly at what four of the most prominent of them wrote . Justin Martyr had been a Greek philosopher before his conversion ...
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... teaching proved very attractive to large numbers . He sought to preserve the unity of God , and at the same time to make the mystery of the Trinity more easy to comprehend , by teaching that the one God manifested himself in three ...
... teaching proved very attractive to large numbers . He sought to preserve the unity of God , and at the same time to make the mystery of the Trinity more easy to comprehend , by teaching that the one God manifested himself in three ...
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... teaching that Christ had never had a be- ginning any more than God himself , that he had always been the Son of God , " eternally begotten " by him , and that he was of the same essential being or nature with the Father.2 Now there was ...
... teaching that Christ had never had a be- ginning any more than God himself , that he had always been the Son of God , " eternally begotten " by him , and that he was of the same essential being or nature with the Father.2 Now there was ...
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Page 472 - I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible ; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made...
Page 475 - God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the substance of his mother, born in the world...
Page 119 - ... they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, (of whom the world was not worthy,) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens, and caves of the earth.
Page 472 - We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.
Page 473 - Faith is this : that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one ; the glory equal, the- majesty coeternal.
Page 472 - Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mary and became man and was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate and suffered and was buried...
Page 474 - So the Father is God, the Son is God : and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods : but one God.
Page 475 - For the right faith is, that we believe and confess, That our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man...
Page 474 - So there is one Father, not three Fathers ; one Son, not three Sons ; one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts...
Page 392 - We covenant with our Lord, and one with another. We bind ourselves, in the presence of God, to walk together in all his ways, according as he is pleased to reveal himself to us in his blessed word of truth...