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THEOLOGY OF PAUL M. M. NINAN CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHRISTOLOGY FALL OF MAN KENOSIS REDEMPTION TWO COVENANTS THEOSIS DOCTRINE OF THE AGES PAUL AND WOMEN CHAPTER NINE LOVE FEASTS BECOMES SYMBOLIC EUCHARIST CHAPTER TEN PNEUMATOLOGY OF PAUL
THEOLOGY OF PAUL CHAPTER ONE CHRISTOLOGY OF PAUL Pauline Christology Pauline Christology is probably the most misunderstood in the theological circles essentially because of our lack of understanding of the Pauline mind. I have discussed the essential background of Paul as an integration of the highest education in both Greek and Hebrew traditions in my book on Apostle Paul’s “Life and Mission”. Today looking at his epistles from our modern points of view we often get misled and this has led to very wrong deviant understanding of Paul’s Christology. The essential question asked in Christology is, Who is this Jesus of Nazareth? Here is an interpretation of some Evangelicals as they have reasoned out. “The Apostle Paul espouses different, yet quite complementary Christologies in his New Testament letters. Yet none of them identify Jesus as God, and some of them indicate that Jesus cannot be God. First, Paul writes of “Christ, who is the image of God” (2 Corinthians 4.4), adding that “He is the image of the invisible God” (Colossians 1.15). Some Christians have thought that Jesus being “the image of God” indicates that he is God. On the contrary, “God created man in His own image,” (Genesis 1.27), but that did not make Adam and Eve Gods. Geza Vermes rightly states, “Paul described Christ as the ‘likeness,’ or icon, of God … it cannot be taken as being anywhere close to inferring divinity.” Logically, Jesus cannot be both the image of God and God Himself, who is invisible to mortals.” http://servetustheevangelical.com/doc/What_Was_the_Paul's_Christology.pdf Sounds reasonable. But what is Paul trying to establish? The full text reads: Col 1:15-20 “He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities--all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent. For in him all the fulness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. 1
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