ROUGHLY EDITED COPY CUENet AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION DOGMATICS 2 LESSON 31 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. *** >> Dr. Scaer, I appreciate your comments about the difference between the terms Lord and God. Let me ask you about another common designation for Jesus in the New Testament, Son of Man. Does Son of Man have any particular significance? >> DR. DAVID SCAER: Eric, thanks for calling that to my attention. We just about skipped that one. And perhaps it might be the most important designation for Jesus because it's Jesus' own self designation. You never find that phrase or title in the mouth of anybody else except Jesus. The one exception is in the book of acts where Steven as he's been martyred says, "I see the Son of Man standing at the right hand of power." It's a very frequent term in all four gospels. And it's been a puzzle to scholars. Perhaps the best explanation of the phrase Son of Man is it's a cryptic reference to Jesus as God. Some people have used the phrase the Son of Man as a reference to his humanity because of the word man in there. Because there are two cases which are -- which can help us understand the phrase Son of Man. When Jesus is in ***Ciceri Philippi, he asks his disciples "Who do men say the Son of Man is?" They give him a number of responses. Then he asks particularly, "Who do you think the Son of Man is?" And Peter provides the answer: You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. And then it's also used in the trial of Jesus in a reverse way. It's not Jesus who asks the question but the high priest. "Tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God." And Jesus answers "You have said so and you will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of power." Now, scholars have tried to take the phrase Son of Man and put it into various categories. One reference to the Son of Man seems to suggest that when Jesus uses the phrase, that he is thinking of his deity and the things which he gave up during the period of humiliation. For example, he says, "The birds have their nests and the flocks have their holes. But the Son of Man has no place to lay down." This can hardly be a reference to his humanity. Because there are any number of thousands and thousands of people who are homeless. Refugees, pilgrims who wander on the earth. What is significant about that phrase the Son of Man has no place to put down his head is that if this is a reference to the Son of God, then the phrase has meaning. It's also used when Jesus thinks about what he will be in the future. It's used as a reference to coming judgement. You will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven. The Son of Man will gather the -- all people before him to carry out judgement. And it's also used in an official way to describe the work that Jesus is doing on earth. For example, in the phrase -- in the phrase in which Jesus speaks about giving his life as a ransom for many, he refers to himself as the Son of Man. "The Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many." We should be very careful with this particular phrase. Since the phrase is only found in the mouth of Jesus and always carries the connotation that the God is suffering in humanity for our sakes, we should be very careful that we never address Jesus by that particular phrase in a prayer. I thank you very much for asking that important question. ROUGHLY EDITED COPY CUENet AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION DOGMATICS 2 LESSON 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. ***