ROUGHLY EDITED COPY CUENet AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION DOGMATICS 2 LESSON 8 Captioning Provided By: Caption First, Inc. 10 E. 22nd Street Suite 304 Lombard, IL 60148 800-825-5234 *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. *** >> I would like to take us in a slightly different direction, if I may. Broadly speaking, Christology has to do with what people have believed about Jesus for nearly 2,000 years. That's a long time. And as we know, some of what was said about Christ was incorrect. Even heretical. Are there any problems about the person and work of Christ which have persistently come to the surface over this vast period of time? Which inaccuracies have been repeated? >> DR. DAVID SCAER: Perhaps the most difficult issue to face Christology has been the question of whether Jesus lived. And if he lived, was he born of a virgin. And was he resurrected from the dead? We can get back to those questions at a later time. But to put your question into broad categories, there's been a tendency either to look upon Jesus as simply human or chiefly human or chiefly divine. In our time, the real problem is that Jesus is seen only as a human being. This goes back to the apostolic period itself. It goes back to the lifetime of Jesus himself. Because after Jesus had preached and did his miracles and all of the signs were that he was something special, some of the people who opposed him ridiculed him by saying, "Isn't he really the son of Joseph? That would mean he really wasn't the Son of God." And that question has come up time and time again. On the other side of the spectrum, there's the problem to see Jesus only in spiritual terms. In the ancient church there was a heresy called Gnosticism. Gnosticism was the belief that the Son of God did not really become a man. And so that problem also surfaces. As long as the world lasts, the church and Christianity are going to find themselves between these two different poles. And there is no way that we will be able to escape this. F *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. ***