1. …. AND IN JESUS CHRIST,
HIS ONLY SON, OUR LORD

2.  "for he will save his people from their
sins" (Mt 1:21)
JESUS  "there is no other name under heaven
given among men by which we must
Meaning : be saved" (Acts 4:12).
“GOD SAVES”

3.  Jesus fulfilled the messianic hope of
Israel in his threefold office of
CHRIST priest, prophet and king
 The one who anointed is the Father,
Meaning : the one who was anointed is the Son,
and he was anointed with the Spirit
“Anointed One” who is the anointing.
 Jesus is the Christ, for "God anointed
Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit
“Messiah” (Hbr)
and with power" (Acts 10:38)

4. THE MESSIAH

5.  The title "Son of God" signifies the
SON OF unique and eternal relationship of
Jesus Christ to God his Father: he is
GOD the only Son of the Father (Jn 1:14, 18;
3:16, 18); he is God himself (Jn 1:1)
 The Baptism and the Transfiguration
of Christ, the voice of the Father
designates Jesus as his "beloved Son“
 “Truly this man was the Son of God”
 Centurion

6.  Indicates divine sovereignty. "No one
can say 'Jesus is Lord' except by the
LORD Holy Spirit'" (1 Cor 12:3)
 By attributing to Jesus the divine title
Kyrios (Grk) "Lord", we believe that from the
power,
beginning that the
Adonai (Hebr) honor and glory due to God
the Father are due also to Jesus,
because "he was in the form of God“
= YHWH (Phil 2:2)
 “My Lord and my God”  Thomas

7. THE SON OF GOD BECAME MAN
1. WHY DID THE WORD
BECOME BLESH?
2. TRUE GOD AND TRUE
MAN

8. WHY DID THE WORD BECOME FLESH?
1. In order to save us by 3. Our model of holiness
reconciling us with "Love one another as I have loved
God you.”
"loved us and sent his Son to be
the expiation for our sins” 4. Partakers of the
divine nature
2. That we might know "For the Son of God became man
God’s love so that we might become God."
"For God so loved the world that
he gave his only Son, that
whoever believes in him should
not perish but have eternal
life."

10. CHRISTOLOGICAL HERESIES
A BRIEF LOOK AT THE EARLY ECUMENICAL COUNCILS
OF THE CHURCH THAT UPHELD THE ORTHODOXY OF
THE CATHOLIC FAITH

11. ADOPTIONISM
 Belief that Jesus was born
merely human and that he
became divine later in his
life.
 Paul of Samosata
professed that Jesus was
Son of God by adoption.

12. ADOPTIONISM
 First Council of Nicaea,
325 A.D
 Church professed that
Jesus is Son of God by
nature and not by
adoption.

13. ARIANISM
 Arius of Alexandria Christ
had been given every honor
but divinity.
 Belief that Jesus was “from
another (or like)
substance” than that of the
Father.

14. ARIANISM
 First Council of Nicaea,
325 A.D
 Church professed the
doctrine of the hypostatic
union.
 Christ's nature was wholly
divine and wholly human.

15. APOLLINARIANISM
 Belief that Jesus had
a human body and lower
soul but a divine mind.
 Apollinaris further taught
that the souls of men were
propagated by other souls,
as well as their bodies.

16. APOLLINARIANISM
 First Council of
Constantinople, 381 A.D
 Church professed that the
eternal Son also assumed
a rational, human soul
which is endowed with
true human knowledge.
 Scripture says He
“increased in wisdom and
in stature, and in favor
with God and man”.

17. MACEDONIANS
 Belief that Holy Spirit was
a creation of the Son, and a
servant of the Father and
Son.

18. MACEDONIANS
 First Council of
Constantinople, 381 A.D
 Church professed “The
Holy Spirit, the Lord, the
Giver of Life, Who
proceeds from the
Father, Who with the
Father and the Son is
equally worshipped and
glorified, Who has
spoken through the
Prophets.”

19. NESTORIANISM
 Belief that Christ exists as
two persons, the man
Jesus and the divine Son
of God, rather than as two
natures of one divine
person.
 Nestorius professed that
Mary was not
“Theotokos” but only
“Christotokos”.

20. NESTORIANISM
 Council of Ephesus, 431
A.D
 “The Word, uniting to
himself in his person the
flesh animated by a
rational soul, became
man.” – St. Cyril of
Alexandria
 Mary is “Theotokos”
meaning “God-bearer.”

21. DOCETISM
 Belief that Jesus only
seemed to have a physical
body and to physically die.
 But in reality he was
incorporeal, a pure spirit,
and hence could not
physically die.

22. DOCETISM
 “There is only one
physician, who is both
flesh and spirit, born and
unborn, both from Mary
and from God, true life in
death, first able to suffer
and then unable to –
Jesus Christ our Lord”.
– St. Ignatius of Antioch

23. MONOPHYSITISM
 Belief that Christ has only
one nature (divine) and
that the human nature
ceased to exist when
Christ became man.

24. MONOPHYSITISM
 First Council of Chalcedon,
451 A.D
 Church holds that Christ
has two natures, one divine
and one human.