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Renewing Your Mind

Early Controversies

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 16 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

As many people in the early church attempted to explain the Trinity, some entered the realm of heresy, and controversy followed. Today, R.C. Sproul explains how these controversies are beneficial to our understanding of the Godhead.

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at the Council of Nisea that gave to us the Niseen Creed.

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Arianism was condemned as a heresy.

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And the Niseen Creed has statements like this,

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that Christ was begotten, comma, not made.

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And the affirmation of the church at Nisea was that Christ is co-substantial and co-eternal with the Father. Who is to

0:35.0

Jesus? This is a question of ultimate importance

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because to get his identity wrong is to deny an essential doctrine of the Christian faith.

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And it's only the Jesus that's revealed to us in the Bible that can save us.

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Welcome to the Saturday edition of Renewing Her Mind.

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Each Saturday, we are working our way through R.C. Sproll's series, The Mystery of the Trinity.

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In the early centuries of the church, the true identity of Jesus came

1:05.6

under attack. How did Jesus relate to the Father? Was he of the same

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substance as the Father or only a similar substance.

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Don't forget that as you think about these questions,

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you can own the six-part study on the Trinity yourself,

1:21.0

and you can learn how to do that at renewing your mind.org.

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The difference between getting Jesus identity right or falling into heresy, as you'll

1:30.4

hear today, came down to one letter in the Greek alphabet.

1:34.4

Here's Dr Sprawl to explain.

1:36.4

We're going to continue now with our study of the Christian concept of the Trinity and if you recall in

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our last session at the end we looked at the prologue to the Gospel according to

1:50.9

St John and I've mentioned to you that his concept of the

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