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For Catholics, the Word of God is not a "dead letter" but is incarnate and living. Christ must through the Holy Spirit open minds to understand the Scriptures. [7] Verbum Domini (English: The Word of the Lord) is a post-synodal apostolic exhortation issued by Pope Benedict XVI which deals with how the Catholic church should approach the Bible. [8]
God did not stop being God and become man. Christ was not half-God and half-human. The two natures did not mix into a new third kind of nature. Although independent, they acted in complete accord; when one nature acted, so did the other. The natures did not commingle, merge, infuse each other, or replace each other. One was not converted into ...
Through the atoning work of Jesus Christ alone, apart from individual works, and that Christ is the only mediator between God and man. [1] [2] It holds that salvation cannot be obtained without Christ. [1] [3] This is in opposition to Catholic doctrine which Mary, mother of Jesus is also mediator between God and humanity . [4]
The living tradition of the whole Church must be taken into account along with the harmony which exists between elements of the faith. It is the task of exegetes to work according to these rules toward a better understanding and explanation of the meaning of Sacred Scripture, so that through preparatory study the judgment of the Church may mature.
In Calvin's view humans are not capable of understanding God in his own right, and can only begin to know God through Christ. [12] In Institutes of the Christian Religion (II.xv) Calvin was critical of those who know Christ "in name only", e.g. those who simply teach that Christ is the Redeemer without understanding or teaching how he redeems.
In Islam, Jesus (Isa) is considered to be a messenger of God and the Messiah who was sent to guide the Descendants of Israel (Bani Isra'il) with a new scripture, the Gospel . [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The Quran mentions Jesus by name 25 times—more often than Muhammad [ 26 ] —and emphasises that Jesus was a mortal human who, like all other prophets, had ...
In the 4th century, Athanasius of Alexandria taught that God became Man that man might become God. [7] Essentially, man does not become divine, but in Christ can partake of divine nature. This Church's version of salvation restores the likeness of God in man. [8] One such theme is release from mortality caused by desires of the world. [9]
The paradox and the absurd are ultimately related to the Christian relationship with Christ, the God-Man. That God became a single individual and wants to be in a relationship with single individuals, not to the masses, was Kierkegaard's main conflict with the nineteenth-century church. The single individual can make and keep a resolution.