Doctrine of Christ 1: The Person of Christ

The Word or Logos is the exact expression of God's nature. The more we know about Christ the more we will know God, the more we see of the Son, the more we will see of the Father.

A) Jesus is the clearest revelation we have about God.
B) In order to understand and appreciate the work of salvation we must understand the person of the Redeemer He sent

1. His Deity
2. His Humanity
3. The Hypostatic Union: two natures in one Person

II- Heretical Movements

1. Subordinationists: only the Father is God, the Logos is a creation (Arrianism)
2. Monarchianism: (mono + arche) two heresies under this

A) Dynamic Monarchianism
B) Modalistic Monarchanism

I- The Nicene & Constantinople Creeds

APPENDIX: Heresies regarding the Person of Christ

1.Deists and Adoptionists: Deny that Jesus was fully divine.
2.Monarchians, Patripassinists, and Modalists: These heresies stress the oneness of God by denying the other 2 persons of the Trinity as "Persons" in the Godhead.
3 Arianists: They believed Jesus was the Son of God but that He was a created being and therefore not equal with God.
4.Polytheism: Regards the Holy Trinity as 3 separate gods.
5.Nestorianism: Believed Mary was only the mother of Jesus the (man)
6.Manichaeans: Denied the Holy Trinity and the divinity of Christ.
7.Monophysitism: Denied Jesus had a true human nature and acknowledged only Jesus' divine nature
8.Monotheletism: Believed that Jesus is two persons but with one divine will.
9.Pelagianism: The belief that humans can obtain salvation outside of Christ solely through their own efforts.
10.Gnosticism: Belief that salvation can be achieved through a "secret knowledge".