#168 What are the Earliest Creeds in Christian History? With Gary Habermas

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Alisa Childers

Christianity, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 28 August 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This is the episode I’ve wanted to record since starting my podcast in 2017! When we talk about “historic Christianity,” what do we mean? Was early Christianity so theologically diverse that we can’t know what the earliest Christians believed? Historian and New Testament scholar Dr. Gary Habermas joins me to talk about the earliest Christian creeds that predate the New Testament by decades. We discuss the gospel as understood in the first century, as well as the deity of Jesus’ being affirmed by the earliest followers of Christ.

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0:00.0	Bachim sites this, but it's not his.
0:02.8	He got it from somebody else.
0:04.8	And the statement is this and it's incredible.
0:08.4	It is probably one of the most show stopping quotations
0:12.4	that anybody could make about the New Testament.
0:14.5	Here's the sentence, the earliest Christology
0:18.0	is the highest Christology.
0:21.3	The earliest Christology is the highest Christology.
0:25.7	And you want to say, oh, no way, no way.
0:28.6	Have you read John?
0:29.7	Have you read to Joe Hennon Prologue
0:31.7	in the first 18 verse or a Jesus called God twice?
0:34.5	I don't think so.
0:35.4	That's the highest one.
0:36.8	Well, Oscar Coleman and others say, yeah,
0:40.0	calling Jesus God probably is not the highest claim
0:44.7	in the New Testament for deity.
0:46.3	Calling him Lord is.
0:48.6	And Lord Coleman argued is the main one
0:52.7	because the translation of the Greek
0:57.0	is when you go back and look at the text that they cite
1:01.8	in the Old Testament, it's Jehovah.
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