This summer, many of you will be either handing your child off to a VBS or you’ll be attending a Bible Study for the first time. My suggestion is to make sure that you know what type of Christology you are getting involved in and what you may be allowing your kid to be influenced by from an adult.
Christianity, under orthodox conditions, is high Christology, which means that we believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, Savior, and Sovereign as Prophet, Priest, and King. Individuals with low Christology have a completely different interpretation of the Scriptures as well as have a different belief about Jesus, usually believing that Jesus had great sayings, teachings, etc., but missing the real perspective that the Bible outlines. Of course, low Christology also does not take the Bible as seriously as someone with High Christology, which is why I want to make sure you, as a Bible believing individual, know you may be engaging in conversations with someone who doesn’t share your beliefs and may not understand your perspective due to their own perspectives. It would be like having an apples to oranges conversation thinking that you’re having and apples to apples conversation and wondering why you find yourself in a confrontation or disagreement. There are “churches” and “pastors” out there who have very low Christology; know and discern the difference between orthodox and unorthodox teaching.
We are all given free-will to come to conclusions about Jesus, but in the end, you as a believer need to know what you believe and why. There are plenty of people who will try to redefine who Jesus is due to their own interpretations or beliefs, but you need to know where to go in the Bible and outside of the Bible to back yourself up, while also knowing what the real issue is at the heart of the disagreement so that you keep your peace and are prepared.
I’ve included the verses regarding “Son of Man” for your reference below in the Bible References, you can type that term into Biblegateway.com at your leisure. Please also review the depth of the Bible’s manuscripts (Coptic, Greek, Latin, Syriac) to grasp the breadth of the textual criticism available for your study; the Bible wasn’t haphazard, and collation of the text was more than just a group of men deciding what was inspired to include and what to supposedly “hide” from the public (apocrypha, pseudepigrapha). As I state in the video, Christianity is not a lazy, do as you will faith; you have to study and you have to take this seriously as your faith matters and you have to be able to defend it seriously and with regard to whom you may be speaking with.
Lastly, intellectual, archeological, scientific, factual, historical, moral truths will never lead someone to Christ Jesus and/or belief in the Text of The Bible; The Spirit of God does that. Your sole purpose is to pray for the heart and soul’s opening to The Holy Spirit and His breaking down pride and self-will to redefine or push away the truth of The Text and the reality of Jesus. Prayer is your most effective and powerful weapon against the tools of your and everyone’s soul enemy. Use it wisely and pray effectively, just as it says in Jude 1:22 - Have mercy on those who doubt; save other by snatching them from the fire…
God bless you all, let me know if you have any questions.
The Wry Pastor
Bible References:
Hebrews 9:1-28
Matthew 16:18
Matthew 18:17
Matthew 27:51 and John 1:14
Job 38:17
Isaiah 38:10
Leviticus 17:11 (…it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul)
Leviticus 18
John 8:58 (I AM) —> reference Exodus 3:14 (I AM)
John 10:30 (If Jesus wasn’t saying He was God, why did the Jews want to stone him?)
John 10:33 (…being a man, make yourself God)
Luke 5:20-21 (…who can forgive sins but God alone - Jesus performed the harder miracle)
John 7:25-31
Matthew 12:50
Matthew 18:10-11 (…see the face of My Father who is in Heaven; see Strong’s for reference on “My” and “Father”)
Son of Man —> when you are told Jesus never said He was God, this is the phrase you reference
Matthew 8:20
Matthew 9:6
Matthew 16:13 (Jesus says directly He is the Son of Man”
Matthew 25:31
Matthew 26:24 (…woe to the man whom the Son of Man is betrayed)
Matthew 26:64 (…It is as you have said…”)
Remember: Matthew will have this phrase “Son of Man” many times like in Ezekiel as Matthew is written to show that Jesus was the Messiah prophesied by the patriarch’s and was in-fact incarnate deity and fully human as outlined in Isaiah and described in Philippians 2:5-11 (Hypostatic Union)
Mark 8:31 (The Son of Man must suffer many things)
Mark 8:38
Mark 9:9 (tell no one what you have seen until the Son of Man rises from the dead)
Strong’s Concordance References:
#4637 - tabernacle/dwelling/dwell (John 1:14)
#1577 - church (Matthew 16:18
#86 - hell (Hades, death - the Gates of Death will not prevail against the church - Job 38:10/Isaiah 38:10 as a Hebrew idiom for death)
#3962 - Father (Matthew 12:50)
#1473 - My Father (Matthew 18:10-11)
Correction: I misspoke, there is a potential incestuous relationships that happened between Canaan and Noah’s wife, but I was referring to Lot and his 2 daughters after they escaped from Sodom from Genesis 19:30-38.
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