Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Christ Above All in Hebrew
Although the book of Hebrew remains unknown, it is appropriate teaching for our time where our faith needs to be larger and stronger in view of new heretical attacks such as the Jesus Seminar towards the historicity of Jesus. The letter to the Hebrews; whom some of them had abandoned their faith because they no longer recognised Christ deity and equality with God, begins in 1: 1-3 by asserting the greatest single fact of the Christian revelation; God has spoken to man through his word in the bible and through his son, Jesus, In Christ God has closed the greatest communication gap of all time, that which exists between a holy God and sinful mankind. According to Raymond Brown in his book "Christ Above All" Jesus is God's prophetic voice, God's Son, God's appointed heir, God's creative agent, God's personifed glory, God's perfect revelation, God;s cosmic sustainer and God unique sacrifice.
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Hi TK,
ReplyDeleteI believe “faith” is so crystal crucial for every Christian who is following Jesus Christ because, as we all biblically know, without faith, it is nothing in God’s sight and we cannot please God no matter how much we can do and how far we can go in our Christian life. The faith that is required is not a kind of a dead stick which is easily consumed by just a mild flame of a fire, but it is a faith that is constantly and austerely growing deeper and deeper in the Lord.
Uh huh, it is true that Jesus came to the earth to fulfill the Old Testament prophecies. Biblically and truly speaking, He was sent by the Father with a mission here on earth. He reveals the Father as what we can see in John 14:7-9. He is the only perfect sacrifice who died once and for all (Hebrews 10:10).
But can it be served as the reason why Jesus did not state His divinity overtly? Could you tell me more about this? I am also curious about your statement, “In Christ God has closed the greatest communication gap of all time...” Is there any relation to His divinity?
Hi TK,
ReplyDeleteI believe you have not yet shown the reason why Jesus did not overtly state his divinity. Yes, we all know that Jesus is the Son of God, God's prophetic voice, God's Son, God's appointed heir, God's creative agent, God's personifed glory, God's perfect revelation, God's cosmic sustainer and God unique sacrifice. We also know that Jesus is God, the Second person in the Godhead. Thing is, the Jews at that time did not know that. They only believed that Yahweh was God and alone God. If Jesus was really divine, why did not he overtly claim His divinity? Was it fear? Or was it that He was not divine at all and that's why He could not overtly claim divinity? If that's the case, wouldn't that mean that He might not be God? In another sense, wouldn't it be that His not overtly claiming mean that Jesus might be just a normal human being? I think proving this questions wrong would be to show the reason why Jesus did not overtly claim divinity eventhough He WAS the Son of God.