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THEOLOGY OF PAUL M.M.NINAN ___________________________________________________________ Joh 17:20-23 “ … that all may be one, as You are in Me, Father, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And I have given them the glory which You have given Me, that they may be one, as We are One: I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected in one; and that the world may know that You sent Me and loved them, even as You loved Me. “ Now consider the Pauline Christology statement: 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 preeminent. 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. We can see now why Paul states that Jesus is the image of the invisible unknowable God making Jesus the knowable God. In him all the fullness of Godhead dwells. Col 2:9 For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead corporeally. The concept of the Hebrew mystic hierarchy of existence and creation also explains why Jesus is the only mediator between God and Man. (1Ti 2:5) For God is one, also there is one Mediator of God and of men, the Man Christ Jesus, Paul says, "There is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ." In this passage Jesus has the status of a human being who functions as a mediator between human beings and God. There is an implication of Christ's subordination to God. It also makes it clear why Jesus is the only way. Subordination Christology "God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" 18
THEOLOGY OF PAUL M.M.NINAN ___________________________________________________________ We cannot identify Jesus with God in the absolute sense since God cannot be defined or seen or heard or understood, whereas Jesus can be. Thus Jesus is presented as the Lord – Kyrios. In the same way Jesus identifies himself with yhwh – the conscious “I am”. The only way Jesus can be explained is by the words • “Christ belongs to God” • “God is the head of Christ” (1 Corinthians 3.23; 11.3). • “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (Rom 15:6; 2 Cor 1:3; 2 Cor 11:31; Eph 1:3), • “the God of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Eph 1:17), or • "God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Col 1:3). God the Father of Christ implies that Christ has his origin in God, so that metaphorically he is indeed the “offspring” of God. • God the Father “is the blessed and only Sovereign” (1 Timothy 6.15). • In the end Jesus “delivers up the kingdom to the God and Father,... then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him” (1 Corinthians 15.24, 28). These can only understood only in terms of Adam Christology terms. origin identical with God. Christ is independent of God and in the Jesus is God’s Son in the sense that He is God made manifest in human form (John 1:1, 14). Jesus is God's Son in that He was conceived in Mary by the Holy Spirit. Luke 1:35 “The angel answered, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.’” Mat 26:63-66 And the high priest said to him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God." Jesus said to him, "You have said so. But I tell you, hereafter you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven." Then the high priest tore his robes, and said, "He has uttered blasphemy. Why do we still need witnesses? You have now heard his blasphemy. What is your judgment?" They answered, "He deserves death." 19
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