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John 17:24 also refers to the Father loving Jesus "before the foundation of the world". [2] Ephesians 1:4–5, [3] 2 Corinthians 8:9, Galatians 4:4 and Colossians 1:15–17 show that Paul knew the pre-existence of Christ. [4] The pre-existence of Christ is affirmed at the Beginning of the Nicene Creed. [5]
The Healing of the Paralytic – one of the oldest known depictions of Jesus, [18] from the Syrian city of Dura Europos, dating from about 235. Initially Jesus was represented indirectly by pictogram symbols such as the ichthys (fish), the peacock, or an anchor (the Labarum or Chi-Rho was a later development).
With the world's annual celebration of his birth mere weeks away, it turns out one of the most revered figures who ever walked the Earth likely didn't look like the pictures of him.
There is one indivisible God with no distinction of persons in God's eternal essence, and; Jesus Christ is the manifestation, human personification, or incarnation of the one God. [51] They contend, based on Colossians 2:9, that the concept of God's personhood is reserved for the immanent and incarnate presence of Jesus only. [52]
The mainstream scholarly consensus, developed in the three quests for the historical Jesus, holds that there was a historical Jesus of Nazareth who lived in 1st-century-AD Roman Judea, [2] [3] [4] but his baptism and crucifixion are the only facts of his life about which a broad consensus exists.
Monophysitism (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ f ɪ s aɪ t ɪ z əm / mə-NOF-ih-seye-tih-zəm [1]) or monophysism (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ f ɪ z ɪ z əm / mə-NOF-ih-zih-zəm; from Greek μόνος monos, "solitary" [2] and φύσις physis, "nature") is a Christological doctrine that states that there was only one nature—the divine—in the person of Jesus Christ, who was the incarnated Word. [3]
These symbols derive from the Bible; for example from the tongues of fire [27] that symbolized the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and from Jesus' description of his followers as the light of the world; [28] or God is a consuming fire found in Hebrews 12. [29] Compare Jewish symbolism.
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