by carlos@thehumanjesus.org
There are around 10 major sermons scattered through the record of the early church of Acts. Yet, not a one preaches the God-man Jesus of Chalcedon, let alone God as a Trinity.
Instead, what we find throughout the whole of the NT are explicit teachings about the Son of God, a human person not some 2nd God the Son Person:
There are around 10 major sermons scattered through the record of the early church of Acts. Yet, not a one preaches the God-man Jesus of Chalcedon, let alone God as a Trinity.
Instead, what we find throughout the whole of the NT are explicit teachings about the Son of God, a human person not some 2nd God the Son Person:
- The people "praised God for sending a man [a human person] with such great authority" (Mat 9.8);
- The people knew that the Son of David had to be a man (a human person, Mat 12.23);
- The centurion realized: "Truly this man [human person] was the Son of God." Mar 15.39;
- Peter telling people that "Jesus of Nazareth, a man [a human person] attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know" (Acts 2.22);
- Paul preaches to Greeks how God has "set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness by a man [a human person] whom He appointed" (Acts 17:31);
- Paul describing how "by a man [a human person] came death, by another man has come also the resurrection of the dead." 1Cor 15:21; cp. Romans 5:12;
- And Jesus himself using the title son of man as his favorite self-designation, 80+ times throughout the Gospels. The title is simply a Hebrew idiom for a human being, I.e., a human person, and never for impersonal “human nature” or “flesh”!