Dive into the profound mission of Jesus, exploring His role as Messiah, teacher, and savior, on WWJD.com. Discover the essence of His teachings and His lasting legacy. The Threefold Mission of Jesus Explained Explore the profound Threefold Mission of Jesus—prophet, priest, and king—and uncove...
1:2 is best understood as the culmination of what had been God's plan all along. This plan of the Son's relation to hu- mankind was a plan formed before creation began, touching on everything about them, including their origin, history, and destiny (Miller 1988: 6). In other words,...
prophet, and king, have come to symbolize the threefold mission and office of Christ Jesus and his Church. This threefold office is commonly called by its Latin name (in plural form),munera. However, amunusis not merely
that there is no verbal parallel that is at all close, and that therefore the evangelist must not be quoting from what he had already reported, but giving the substance of a threefold class of observations found from one end of the Gospel to the other, and in words that he had heard th...
human : it seemed to them blasphemous to say that a human mother had given birth to God: hence they maintained that she had only borne the man whom the Son of God selected as his temple; and that in Christ there were two natures, united indeed so far as the adoration of his ...
and was promulgated, after its Founder's death, for the acceptance of the whole world, by certain chosen men among His followers. According to the accepted chronology, these began their mission on the day of Pentecost, A.D. 29, which day is regarded, accordingly, as the birthday of the ...
From the outset, Christianity has had to contend with those who misinterpreted the person and mission of Jesus. Both the New Testament and the early confessions of the church referred and replied to such misinterpretations. As the Christian movement gained adherents from the non-Jewish world, it...
A Christian society was bound to reflect upon the personhood of Christ. The material reality of hishuman bodyhad to be affirmed against those who thought itderogatoryto a divine Saviour. It took longer to perceive that his complete humanity must be as firmly proclaimed. Although Tertullian taught...
Abgar legend, in early Christian times, a popular myth that Jesus had an exchange of letters with King Abgar V Ukkama of Osroene, whose capital was Edessa, a Mesopotamian city on the northern fringe of the Syrian plateau. According to the legend, the kin