#4 Christology - Virgin Birth

Founda ons in Chris an Doctrine #4 CHRISTOLOGY - VIRGIN BIRTH PREVIOUS HOMEWORK 1. Read Luke 1:46-55 (the Song of Mary), adoring God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit for the miracle of the Virgin Birth and of the Incarna on. 2. Read Colossians 1-2 and consider its input regarding Christology. What do you think was the heresy against which Paul was wri ng? IMPLICATIONS OF THE VIRGIN BIRTH (VIRGINAL CONCEPTION) See handout, “Tracing the Virgin Birth.” 1. Jesus’ genuine (unfallen) humanity 2. Jesus’ Deity 3. Miraculous concep on (Lk 1:37) 4. No sin nature (Lk 1:35; cf. Ps 51:5) 5. Last Adam (Rom 5: 1 Cor 15). In the third century, Irenaeus argued that because Adam “had his substance from un lled and as yet virgin soil,” so did “He who is the Word, recapitula ng Adam in Himself, rightly receive a birth, enabling Him to gather up Adam [into Himself], from Mary, who was as yet a virgin.”1 KEY ISSUES 1. Preexistence (Crea on) 2. OT (Angel of YHWH, Messianic promises) 3. Hyposta c Union (Fully God, Fully Man) 4. Divinity (ALL Divine A ributes, Omnipresence, Omniscience while on earth, Subordina on, etc.) 5. Humanity (Genuine, unfallen humanity, Incarna on, nature of the Kenosis, Virgin Birth, perpetual humanity) 6. Nature of Jesus’ separa on from His Father (Ps 22; Mt 27:46; Mk 15:34) HOMEWORK 1. Read Colossians 1-2 and consider its input regarding Christology. What do you think was the heresy against which Paul was wri ng? Jonathan Warren P. (Pagán), “Jesus’ Virgin Birth,” in Lexham Survey of Theology, ed. Mark Ward et al. (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2018). 1 ti ti ti ti ti ti ti tt ti ti ti ti ti ti 1