{"id":1176,"date":"2025-03-31T14:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T19:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sensingt\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2025-04-26T21:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T02:53:51","slug":"apostles-creed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/sensingt\/2025\/03\/apostles-creed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Apostles&#8217; Creed  (part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>And in Jesus Christ, God\u2019s only Son, our Lord. \/\/ Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, \/\/ Born of the Virgin Mary.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Eccl 11:1\u201311. Is there anything new under the sun? Is there anything where we might say, \u201cLook! This is new?\u201d God in the flesh.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAnd\u201d I believe in Jesus Christ \u2026\n<ul>\n<li>God the Father and Jesus the Son are not one and the same but forever distinct from one another. The unity is not a fusion\/blending.<\/li>\n<li>Yet, God the Father and Jesus the Son are not independent of one another. \u201cGod is eternally the Father of the Son, and the Crucified is eternally the Son of the Father. They can never be separated; when they are not acknowledged together, neither is worshiped or glorified at all.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Father sends the obedient Son and the Son freely goes by his own initiative. And in so doing reveals God, not someone different, but someone more fully revealed.\n<ul>\n<li>But not completely. For example, God\u2019s holiness is not a theme developed in speaking of Jesus. Illustration: \u201cOn a visit to the theater, we are all familiar with the way in which, in any drama, things known about a key character in acts 1 and 2 can be transfigured by things that only come to light in act 3. The change in our perception may be and often is radical and once we have experienced it, we can never back and see acts 1 and 2 in the same way again.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> And if you stumble into the play at act 3, with no prior knowledge of the play, \u201cWe would almost certainly become one of those annoying people who whisper their questions (loudly) to the person sitting next to them through the remainder of the performance. \u2026 [We are] \u201cuninformed and malformed if we do not know our Old Testament well.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Jesus Christ\n<ul>\n<li>A story, a name, a title. Jesus\u2014everything is centered in a particular time and place. And Jesus is given titles: \u201cChrist\u201d, \u201conly Son,\u201d \u201cour Lord.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The Christ Event: 2 Tim 2:8 \u201cRemember Jesus Christ \u2026\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>The Master Story of Phil 2:6\u201311. \u201cBecause he was in the form of God, he humbled himself.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201c[Jesus] is Emmanuel, God in the highest, God with us and for us, God become like us and one of us, but without sin.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rich avenues of exploration include the \u201cI Am\u201d statements in John that are rooted in God\u2019s name YHWH.\u00a0 \u201cLord\u201d as it connects to \u201cAdonai\u201d \u201cYHWH\u201d and \u201cKyrios.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jesus as prophet, priest, and king. Lord. \u201cI Am.\u201d And various titles. Especially here, \u201cChrist\u201d \u2014 Messiah, the anointed one. See Acts 2:36 and Col 1:18ff.<\/li>\n<li>Atonement\u2014Exchange Formula. See 2 Cor 5:21, 8:9; Heb 9:13\u201314.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>God alone is the creator of all things (John 1 &amp; Heb 1).<\/li>\n<li>God alone has authority over all things (Phil 2).<\/li>\n<li>God alone is worshiped (Matt 28).<\/li>\n<li>Therefore, \u201call deity (Col 2:9).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Nicene Creed\u2019s purpose was to expound upon the nature of the Son due to contextual controversies.<\/li>\n<li>What is the Holy Spirit\u2019s role in the story of God?\n<ul>\n<li>Gen 1:1\u20132 The Spirit hovers over creation.<\/li>\n<li>Ps 104:30 \u201cWhen you send forth our spirit, they are created.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Gen 2:7 God breathes spirit into the clay, and it becomes a living being.<\/li>\n<li>Isa. 32:15 God\u2019s Spirit is poured out over all flesh connected to the restoration of Israel. See also Isa 11:2; 51:11; 61:1; 63:10\u201311; and Joel 2:28). The Holy Spirit brings about restoration and connected to the holiness of God and the holiness required of God\u2019s people.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSo when the Spirit broods over the womb of Mary, we see a picture of God\u2019s creative work happening all over again.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn5\" name=\"_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Referencing Origin\u2019s imagery of an iron rod placed in fire, Ben Myers states, \u201cJesus is truly human: nothing but iron. He is truly divine: nothing but fire. Jesus is so permeated by the divine presence that every part of his humanity is filled with divine energy. He is born of a woman: he is conceived by God\u2019s Spirit. He is human: he is divine. He is iron: he is fire.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn6\" name=\"_ftnref6\">[6]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And the story continues with Elizabeth (Lk 1:41). And in us Rom 8:11. And it is the same Spirit (Acts 1:12; 2:1\u20134) where we find the conception of the Church.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Virgin Mary\n<ul>\n<li>The Creed is not designed to answer questions about biology but to give witness to a mystery. (See Matt. 1:20, Lk. 1:35).<\/li>\n<li>How many turning point stories can you name that hinged on the birth of a child? The child carried the very promise of God. Especially women who, it is miraculous that they conceived.\n<ul>\n<li>Sara<\/li>\n<li>Rachel<\/li>\n<li>Samson\u2019s mother (Judg. 13)<\/li>\n<li>Hannah<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth<\/li>\n<li>Mary<\/li>\n<li>Isa 54:1\u20133, 13<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Paternity\u2014our paternity is like his paternity\n<ul>\n<li>Born of God (John 1:11\u201312).<\/li>\n<li>Born from above (John 3).<\/li>\n<li>Rom. 1:3\u20134 \u201cconcerning [God\u2019s] Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and designated Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness and by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Harned, <em>Creed and Personal Identity<\/em>, 49. See Appendix A.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Hart, <em>Confessing and Believing, <\/em>71.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> Hart, <em>Confessing and Believing, <\/em>71.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" name=\"_ftn4\">[4]<\/a> Harned, <em>Creed and Personal Identity<\/em>, 51.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref5\" name=\"_ftn5\">[5]<\/a> Myers, <em>The Apostles\u2019 Creed, <\/em>44.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref6\" name=\"_ftn6\">[6]<\/a> Myers, <em>The Apostles\u2019 Creed, <\/em>44\u201345.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And in Jesus Christ, God\u2019s only Son, our Lord. \/\/ Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, \/\/ Born of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-teaching","comments-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Apostles&#039; 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