Sean Archer L.

Abareles
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TASK 2 - RESEARCH
1. Jesus is the ultimate revelation of the Father.
In the Old Testament, God was described as invisible. He cannot be seen, nor cannot be reached out
to. He was a benevolent, distant, and almighty God who merely acted behind the scenes. He would carry
out His actions silently, sometimes assigning people as His messenger, to become prophets and spread
His words. This divine nature, although mysterious, was rightfully just; it made sure that His believers
had strong faith and that believing in Him does not mean seeing Him. After a long period of silence from
God to humanity, one day He finally decided to provide a son, through whom he spoke his messages,
and bestowed upon Him the might and divinity He carries. Through the miracle of Incarnation, God
became Man through His son. This son was none other than Jesus Christ. He was the son of God, born of
the Blessed Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit. Though despite that, he was considered as God
in the flesh, having the same nature as Him; He was both Man and God, with nothing in between. He
was the physical manifestation of God.

With this, God was able to lend Himself to us humans. He was able to become one of us, to share
our life, to experience our sufferings, and to help those in need. Through Jesus Christ, He was human,
like us, and would grow tired, experience emotions, and even die. Jesus would act out the wishes of God
as a person, as one of us in this Earth. The ultimate action was for Him to die on the cross, this act was
to save us from our sins. As a religious leader, when he was alive, Jesus would say to His followers that
whoever believed in him will never die, and that whoever sees Him has already seen the Father.
Through Jesus, we were able to know God in a more intimate and personal way. We know Jesus and
God are the same, and through that we know that Jesus is the ultimate revelation of the Father; because
it is through Him we see the will and actions of God.

2. Jesus is true God and true Man.

Jesus Christ is a person. However, Jesus is Christ is also God. Then what is He, really? This is one of
the age-old dilemmas known to Christianity and is a great mystery; whether Jesus is truly God, or truly
Man. Jesus is both God and Man, and no aspect is less prominent than the other; both are full and
complete. This means that He is both fully God and fully Man. However, this mere fact is enough to
produce whole beliefs based on such misunderstandings. Such misunderstandings are called
Monophysitism, Nestorianism, and Arianism. There is one idea, however, which accepts that Jesus is
fully Man and fully Divine. This is known as the Calzedonian Christology.

Jesus Christ is fully Man simply because He was born on this Earth. When he was born, he was like
any other person; he could feel physical pain, he would grow tired and thirsty. He would also develop
emotion, such as sympathy and love. Though this does not mean that Jesus became any less divine; He
did not lose any of His divinity He had through God. Rather, He still had divine capabilities but was
entrusted with the responsibility of humanity. If Jesus were to lose some of His divinity, then He would
no longer be fully God. Jesus is fully God as it is said so in the Bible. He is not someone who acts like
God, who is merely a messenger of God, or is merely a believer of God. Rather, Jesus himself exclaims in
various events in the Bible that He Himself is God. He would tell his followers that whoever sees Him,
has already seen the Father himself. This is what makes him fully God.
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3. Jesus’ teaching on the following topics based on the Scriptures.

a. Jesus is always with us.
i. Isaiah 41:10 "Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I
will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right
hand."
ii. Zephaniah 3:17 "The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save;
he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult
over you with loud singing."
iii. Deuteronomy 31:6 "Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of
them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or
forsake you."
iv. John 1:14 “And the Word became flesh and took up residence among us, and
we saw his glory, glory as of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and
truth.”
v. Joshua 1:9 "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be
frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever
you go."
b. He obeys the Father’s will.
i. John 12:49 “For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself
who sent Me has given Me commandment, what to say, and what to speak”
ii. Hebrews 10:7 “Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come . . . to do thy will, O God’”
iii. John 16:28 "I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am
leaving the world again and going to the Father."
iv. John 10:30 "I and the Father are one."
v. John 8:49 “Jesus answered, ‘I do not have a demon; but I honor My Father, and
you dishonor Me.’”
c. Jesus’ lessons on moral actions.
i. 1 Corinthians 10:8 ”Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-
three thousand fell in one day.”
ii. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 “For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but
in sanctification.”
iii. Colossians 3”5 “Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead
to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to
idolatry.”
iv. 2 Corinthians 12:21 “I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate
me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned in the
past and not repented of the impurity, immorality and sensuality which they
have practiced.”
v. 1 Corinthians 5:11 “But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-
called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a
reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler--not even to eat with such a one.”
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d. Jesus’ teachings on the dignity of man.

i. 1 Corinthians 12:23 “and those members of the body which we deem less
honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable
members become much more presentable,”
ii. Titus 2:7 “in all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with
purity in doctrine, dignified,”
iii. Job 40:10 "Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity, And clothe yourself with
honor and majesty.”
iv. Proverbs 31:25 “Strength and dignity are her clothing, And she smiles at the
future.”
v. Ecclesiastes 10:6 “folly is set in many exalted places while rich men sit in
humble places.”