Objections Overruled II, Chapter Nine: The Deity of Christ Was an Early Church Invention, by Dr. Steven Parks

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🗓️ 28 October 2023

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0:00.0	Objections overruled one in two audiobooks are produced by Lutheran Public Radio and are made possible with support from listeners like you.
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0:14.0	Look for objections overruled three in December of 2023.
0:19.0	The deity of Christ was an early church innovation.
0:24.0	Stephen R.J. Parks
0:27.0	For different reasons, it is often asserted that Jesus was not God or did not claim to be God.
0:33.0	Christians have believed that Jesus was God based on Jesus' own words from the time of his life on earth.
0:40.0	Early Christian confessions of the divinity of Jesus include second-century writings from Ignatius and Polycarp and the Council of Nicaea in 325.
0:51.0	Jesus as God incarnate has power to save.
0:55.0	Who do you say that I am, Matthew chapter 16 verse 15?
0:59.0	This was the all-important question Jesus asked his apostles as they traveled through the region of Caesarea Philippi.
1:07.0	It remains among the most important of all queries one may make today.
1:12.0	Peter's immediate response to Jesus informs the pattern for the confession of all Christians around the world.
1:18.0	You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.
1:22.0	Since this time, the acknowledgement of Jesus as the Son of God has been fundamental to the apostolic message and the Christian understanding of Jesus.
1:31.0	Historically, Christians have understood the title Son of God to mean that Jesus is God Himself.
1:38.0	Therefore, as the Nicene Creed asserted, referring to Jesus as the Son of God is the same as calling Him true God.
1:46.0	The Athanasian Creed, written approximately a century later, boldly claimed concerning this understanding of Jesus,
1:54.0	whosoever wants to be saved must, above all, hold the Catholic faith, whoever does not keep it whole and in violet will doubtless perish eternally.
2:04.0	Thus, the identity of Jesus was of utmost importance to ancient Christians and should remain so for us today.
2:12.0	Some in our day, however, have suggested that identifying Jesus as God is a grave error.
2:18.0	Many argued that Jesus was just a human being and nothing more.
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