Invitation to the NC (Buss) n. 54

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54. That in Christ Man is God:

From three places in the Formula Concordia?;

From Paul (Rom. xiv 11 and Coloss. ii 9);

From John (first Epistle v 20, 21);

and from the words of the Lord:

1. That God was the Word, and the Word became flesh;

2. That all things of the Father are His;

3. That all who are of the Father come to Him;

4. That as the Father bath life in Himself, so has the Son ("Life in Himself" is God);

5. That the Father and He are one;

6. That He is in the Father, and the Father in Him;

7. That he who seeth Him, seeth the Father;

8. That He is God of heaven and earth;

9. That He governs the universe (from the Creed);

10. That He is called "Jehovah, the Redeemer";

11. That He is called "Jehovah, our Righteousness";

12. That it is said that Jehovah would come into the world;

13. In the Apocalypse (chap. i) it is said, that He is "the First and the Last";

14. In a word, that He is God the Father who is invisible, in a Human which is visible before minds. Inasmuch as there is thus one God in the Church, the Church is the Church; etc., etc. From the Athanasian Creed: that God and Man in Christ is one Person, like soul and body. Also that the Human Nature was taken up into God.


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