Christology

The theological study of Jesus Christ—His nature, identity, and person. This category explores the biblical and doctrinal understanding of Christ as both fully divine and fully human, examines how Christian tradition has understood the Incarnation, and addresses key questions about His divine attributes, His work of redemption, and His relationship to the Father and Holy Spirit.

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Christology

Part 6 - One Person, Two Natures - And What Happens When That Is Denied

Having walked both titles through the whole New Testament, the question that remains is how they fit together in one person — and what breaks when the answer is gotten wrong. The historic confession is that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man, two natures united in one person without

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11 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Part 5 - The Son of Man in Glory - Judgment, Ransom, and Return

Everything in the second half of the Son of Man material bends toward one scene: a figure coming on the clouds, seated on a throne of glory, with the nations gathered before Him. It is the scene Jesus quoted to the high priest when He was under oath and could

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10 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Part 4 - The Son of Man Among Us - The Title Jesus Chose for Himself

Son of Man is the name Jesus used for Himself more than eighty times, and almost no one else in the New Testament uses it of Him. That asymmetry is worth sitting with. It was His chosen self-designation, and it is the one the crowds found hardest to pin

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13 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Part 3 - The Son of God - Confessed, Contested, and Sent

The second half of the Son of God material moves from declaration to reaction. A demon names Him correctly and is silenced. Peter confesses Him and is called blessed. The authorities hear the claim and reach for stones. Paul, writing to Rome and to Galatia, sets the title inside the

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8 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Part 2 - The Son of God - From the Annunciation to the Throne

The title Son of God does not originate with the New Testament. Israel is called God's son; so are angels, and so is the Davidic king, and any account of what the title means when applied to Jesus has to reckon with why His use of it got

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13 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Part 1 - Two Titles, One Person

Ask most churchgoers what the difference is between calling Jesus the Son of God and calling Him the Son of Man, and the answer comes back quickly: one refers to His divine nature, the other to His human nature. It is tidy, it is memorable, and it does not survive

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4 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
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Son of God vs Son of Man - A Series on the Two Titles of Christ

"And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." — John 1:14 (NASB 1995) Introduction Both titles Scripture gives to Jesus of Nazareth — Son of God and Son of

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2 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Part 8 - Errors About the Deity of Christ - Arianism, Islam, Modalism, and More

Every major denial of the deity of Christ in Christian history falls into one of a small number of patterns, and the patterns repeat. A movement either subordinates the Son to the status of a creature, collapses the distinction between Father and Son into a single person wearing masks, or

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7 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Part 7 - Revelation and the Deity of Christ - Worship at the Throne

Revelation is where the case reaches its conclusion, because Revelation is where we are shown what heaven actually does. Twice in this book John falls at the feet of an angel to worship, and twice the angel stops him cold: Do not do that. Worship God. Angels do not accept

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Part 6 - The Epistles and the Deity of Christ

The letters of the New Testament were written to congregations, not to theologians, and they assume the deity of Christ rather than argue for it. That is what makes them such powerful evidence. Paul does not defend the claim that Jesus is God over all; he mentions it in passing

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16 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Part 5 - The Synoptic Gospels and Acts - Jesus Claims and Receives What Belongs to God

A common objection holds that the deity of Christ is a late development, present in John but absent from the earlier Synoptic Gospels. The objection does not survive contact with the text. Matthew opens by naming Jesus Immanuel, God with us. Mark records Him forgiving sins in the second chapter,

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12 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Part 4 - The Gospel of John and the Deity of Christ

John wrote his Gospel with a stated purpose: that readers would believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and have life in His name. He opens by identifying the Word as God and closes with a disciple falling before the risen Christ and calling Him my Lord and

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18 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Part 3 - YHWH Texts Applied to Jesus - The Old Testament's Boldest Claim

There is a category of Old Testament passages more striking than messianic prophecy, and it is the one anti-Trinitarian arguments have the hardest time absorbing. In these texts, YHWH speaks about Himself — declaring that He alone is first and last, that His glory will not be shared, that His

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9 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Part 2 - Messianic Prophecy and the Deity of Christ - Seven Old Testament Texts

Long before Bethlehem, the Hebrew prophets described a coming figure in terms no Israelite could have applied to a merely human king. A child would be born who bears the name Mighty God. A ruler would come out of Bethlehem whose goings forth are from eternity. A king would be

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13 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Part 1 - The Case for the Deity of Christ - How Scripture Makes the Claim

Christianity stands or falls on a single question: who is Jesus of Nazareth? If He is a prophet, a teacher, or a moral example, then Christianity is one religion among many and its central act of worship is idolatry. If He is God in human flesh, then every other question

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8 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
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Jesus is God - A Series on the Deity of Christ

"Thomas answered and said to Him, 'My Lord and my God!'" — John 20:28 (NASB 1995) The deity of Jesus Christ — the confession that the man from Nazareth who walked the roads of Galilee was crucified under Pontius Pilate and rose from the dead on the

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4 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

The Angel of the Lord

The church acknowledges the Son's presence in the older covenant, as He was born as Jesus, fulfilling the promise to save His people from their sins when the fullness of time came (Galatians 4:4; Matthew 1:21).

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8 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
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Jesus in the Old Testament

Jesus makes numerous appearances throughout the Old Testament, but he does not appear in the same manner or by the same name as he does in the New Testament. Nevertheless, He is present in the Old Testament.

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39 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

The Second Coming

The return of Christ is not the *end of creation* but its *glorification*. The new creation is the consummation of God's original creative intent — creation restored, humanity perfected, all things renewed.

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21 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

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