In this episode, we welcome back Dr. Matthew Emadi to discuss John 14.28, wherein Jesus Christ states: “for The Father is Greater than I”. Do Christians get Christ right? LDS prophets and apostles, as well as laymen and apologists have used this verse to defend the LDS Jesus as a lesser god than their (and Jesus’) Heavenly Parents are. How have Christians understood this passage, how have they understood it – and do Christians truly avoid this verse, as written, because of our theology? Matt takes us through this and helps us understand how Bible-believing Christians should approach this passage and demonstrates that we do not avoid this verse in our understanding of who and what Jesus is. Check out: Salt Lake School of Theology Other resources by Dr. Emadi: The Royal Priest: Psalm 110 in Biblical Theology (hear interview about this book here) What is a Church? (hear interview about this book here) “What Do Mormons Believe About God?” (TGC) LDS resources:For a basic LDS Christology, see the Gospel Principles manual, chapter 3: Jesus Christ, Our Chosen Leader and Savior. (Notice the complete lack of a distinct divine nature, at all. Indeed, in the seminary manual for 2 Peter 1 emphasizes: “Each of us has a divine nature”.) For comparison on several passages, see Understanding Paul by LDS scholar Richard Lloyd Anderson; as well as The Articles of Faith by Elder James Talmage and the A New Witness for the Articles of Faith by Elder Bruce R. McConkie. One prominent example of LDS usage of John 14.28 is found in “The Only True God and Jesus Christ Whom He Hath Sent” by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland. (Also hear responses here, here and here) Other resources: “No Longer Accretions. The Problem of Roman Catholicism in Dialogue with Gavin Ortlund”; Same Words, Different Worlds: Do Roman Catholics and Evangelicals Believe the Same Gospel?; A Christian’s Pocket Guide to the Papacy; A Christian’s Pocket Guide to Mary: Mother of God?; Engaging Thomas Aquinas: An Evangelical Approach (also see here) by Leonardo De Chirico “An Earnest Plea to Roman Catholics”; “The Failure of Eastern Orthodoxy”; “Cyril Lucaris: Calvinist Patriarch/Orthodox Saint”; “Filioque: How Eastern Orthodoxy Anathematizes the Church Fathers” (Ancient Paths TV; also see here, here, here, and here) Confessions; The City of God by Augustine (also on John 14.28 here) The Courage to Be Protestant by David F. Wells The Cross of Christ by John Stott Knowing God by J.I. Packer John Calvin’s Letter to Cardinal Sadoleto (1539) When it comes to whether church father Irenaeus appeals to “tradition” in a way that subordinates Scripture to the Church, see here – as well as read what scholar J.N.D. Kelly states on the matter: “Did Irenaeus subordinate Scripture to unwritten tradition? The inference has been commonly drawn, but it issues from a somewhat misleading antithesis. Its plausibility depends on such considerations as (a) that, in controversy with the Gnostics, traditions rather than Scripture seemed to be his final court of appeal, and (b) that he apparently relied upon tradition to establish the true exegesis of Scripture. But a careful analysis of his [Against Heresies] reveals that, while the Gnostics’ appeal to their supposed secret tradition forced him to stress the superiority of the Church’s public tradition, his real defence of orthodoxy was founded on Scripture. Indeed, tradition itself, on his view, was confirmed by Scripture, which was ‘the foundation and pillar of our faith”. Secondly, Irenaeus admittedly suggested that a firm grasp of ‘the canon of the truth’ received at baptism would prevent a man from distorting the sense of Scripture. But this ‘canon’, so far from being something distinct from Scripture, was simply a condensation of the message contained in it. Being by its very nature normative in form, it provided a man with a handy clue to Scripture, whose very ramifications played into the hands of heretics. The whole point of his teaching was, in fact, that Scripture and the Church’s unwritten tradition are identical in content, both being vehicles of the revelation. If the tradition conveyed in the ‘canon’ is a more trustworthy guide, this is not because it comprises truths other than those revealed in Scripture, but because the true tenor of the apostolic message is there unambiguously set out.” (Early Christian Doctrines, pp. 38-39) Christianity and Liberalism; The Person of Jesus by J. Gresham Machen Justification Reconsidered: A Pauline Theme by Stephen Westerholm Cracking the New Perspective on Paul by Robert Cara We Become What We Worship; The Temple and the Church’s Mission by G.K. Beale
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