Quotes About Christ

El punto de separación entre el antiguo y el nuevo diatheke es la muerte de Cristo. El fin del viejo pacto y el principio del nuevo radica en la muerte, o tal vez sería más correcto decir en la ascensión de Cristo

El autor muestra ahora que la humillación de Cristo era necesaria para su glorificación. Nosotros le vemos coronado de gloria y honor, a causa de sus sufrimientos y muerte.

This life is first hid with Christ, because it is a disembodied life; at the last day it will become manifest through union with the eschatological body.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. (Eph. 2:10)

What would success look like if the church were to be comprised of true followers of Christ?

Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

How easy it is to hate oneself! True grace is to forget. Yet if pride could die in us, the supreme grace would be to love oneself in all simplicity—as one would love any one of those who themselves have suffered and loved in Christ.

Thus while the ground of justification is the death of Christ, the means by which justification becomes efficacious to the individual is faith.29 Justification is a gift bestowed to be received by faith (Rom. 3:24, 25). Faith means acceptance of this work of God in Christ, complete reliance upon it, and an utter abandonment of one's own works as the grounds of justification

By fulfilling the promise given to Abraham, Christ has ended the age of the Law and inaugurated the age of Christ, which means freedom from bondage and the end of the Law for the believer. However, it is clear that inasmuch as Paul always regards the Law as holy and just and good, he never thinks of the Law as being abolished. It remains the expression of the will of God.

The teachings of the Kingdom of God in the Synoptic Gospels, eternal life in John, justification and the life in Christ in Paul, the heavenly High Priest in Hebrews, and the Lamb who is a Lion and a conquering Son of Man in the Revelation are diverse ways of describing various aspects and depths of meaning embodied in the one great redemptive event — the person and work of Jesus Christ.

It is a work … outside of us in which God so deals in Christ with the sin of the world, that it shall no longer be a barrier between himself and men … reconciliation, in the New Testament sense, is not something which is being done; it is something which is done.35

is far more likely that the law of Christ is the law of love that Jesus said embodied the totality of the Old Testament Law (Mt. 22:40).18

The Pauline statement that in Christ the old has passed away and the new has come is an eschatological statement. "The new aeon, which has dawned with Christ, brings a new creation, the creation of a new man.

The renewal of the new person6 does not designate gradual renewal of the character, but that the new humanity, already existing in Christ, is progressively actualized in the Christian church.

The eschatological glory is inseparably related to the sufferings of Christ (1:11).

from God. He endured the penal consequences of our sins.17 Peter's main concern is practical. The effect of the atoning death of Christ is "that we might die to sin and live to righteousness" (2:24). The word for "die" (apoginomai) is different from the usual Pauline word and in this context means to be done with, not to partake of. Peter is not so much concerned with the removal of guilt as with the change in the life of these erstwhile pagans.

The heart of the Pauline proclamation is the Lordship of Christ (2 Cor. 4:5).

A second guideline may be found from the implicit comparison between Christ and Adam.48 The heart of the Adamic temptation was to grasp for equality with God (Gen. 3:5: "You will be like God"). Adam attempted to seize equality with God; Christ did not. By contrast, Christ chose the way of self-emptying rather than self-aggrandizement. For these two reasons the second rendition is to be preferred.49

The church is but the result of the coming of God's Kingdom into the world by the mission of Jesus Christ.

In such instances a person serves not only as a representative but is acting in the stead of the other. In such passages as 2 Corinthians 5:15, "He died for all," and Galatians 3:13 where it is said that Christ became a curse on our behalf, the idea of substitution is demanded and "only violence to the context can get rid of it.

Fullness" (pl?r?ma) has two different meanings. Some take it to mean that the church completes Christ — fills him up. However, it is easier to take it to mean that the church as the body of Christ is filled with his life and power,54 which are to work through Christ in the world. The church is a "partaker of all that He owns and is for the purpose of continuing his work."55

The main significance of Christ's death is to be found in its objective character as a propitiatory, substitutionary sacrifice, the benefits of which are to be received by faith as a gracious gift; but the subjective influence of his death in arousing the response of love in the hearts of men and women can be neither denied nor ignored. There is both an objective and a subjective significance in Christ's death. Redemptive Another

It is not at all clear that Paul conceived of baptism as the Christian equivalent of circumcision.65 The "circumcision of Christ" (Col. 2:11) is easiest to understand as the circumcision of the heart that Christ performs.66 This is an altogether spiritual event, one "made without hands," and is synonymous with dying to sin. Circumcision then stands in contrast to baptism, not in correlation with it.67

While Vincent Taylor has not adequately recognized all that is involved in the death of Christ, he has expressed himself effectively when he says, "The idea that no act of requital is due to a holy God, or is needed by men, is a modern notion which it would be a libel to attribute to the ancient world; and to say that Jesus cannot have spoken of his death in this way is to modernize his figure and his thought."33