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James Dunn, in his book Christology in the Making, [9] examines the development of this doctrine in early Christianity, noting that it is "beyond dispute" [10] that in John 1:1–18, "the Word is pre-existent, and Christ is the pre-existent Word incarnate," [10] but going on to explore possible sources for the concepts expressed there, such as ...
God resting after creation – Christ depicted as the creator of the world prior to his incarnation as Jesus [1], Byzantine mosaic in Monreale, Sicily.. Pre-existence, premortal existence, beforelife, or life before birth, is the belief that each individual human soul existed before mortal conception, and at some point before birth enters or is placed into the body.
Agnostic scholar Bart D. Ehrman claims that evidence that early Christians believed in reincarnation is scant. [99] Christian theologian Norman Geisler claims that there is no evidence of reincarnation in the Bible. According to him, the text in John 9:2–3 reflects the rabbinic belief in prenatal sins, according to which a fetus could commit ...
While all Christians believed that Jesus was indeed the Unigenite Son of God, [6] "the divinity of Christ was a theologically charged topic for the Early Church." [ 7 ] Debate on this subject occurred during the first four centuries of Christianity, involving Jewish Christians , Gnostics , followers of Arius of Alexandria, and adherents of Pope ...
Some early Christians, influenced by neoplatonism, identified the neoplatonic One, or God, with Yahweh. The most influential of these would be Origen, the pupil of Ammonius Saccas; and the sixth-century author known as Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, whose works were translated by John Scotus in the ninth century for the West.
Headlines about Syria belie its diversity. The U.S. government estimates that 74 percent of the population is Sunni Muslim, but Syria’s Christian population was one of the largest in the Middle ...
Christianity in the ante-Nicene period continued the practice of female Christian headcovering (from the age of puberty onward), with early Christian apologist Tertullian referencing 1 Corinthians 11:2–10 and stating "So, too, did the Corinthians themselves understand [Paul]. In fact, at this day the Corinthians do veil their virgins.
McCreary: For me the interesting thing was, because we were asking these similar questions, though the answers seemed really different -- like, Hindus believe in reincarnation and Christians ...