WAA Podcast Episode 58: Fundamental Belief 4: The Son (46:58)



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 Welcome to another podcast episode of “What’s an Adventist?”

Who was Jesus? Was he fully man or fully God? Or both? These are some of the questions Christians have struggled with when it comes to the nature of Jesus Christ. Early Adventists were no exception. Many of the church’s most prominent founders such as James White and Joseph Bates, while accepting that Jesus was divine, did not accept that Jesus was equal to God. Only after several spirited debates and painstaking Bible study did they come to acknowledge and accept that in Christ was “life original and underived.”

Fundamental belief number four of the Seventh day Adventist church states, “God the eternal Son became incarnate in Jesus Christ. Through Him all things were created, the character of God is revealed, the salvation of humanity is accomplished, and the world is judged. Forever truly God, He became also truly man, Jesus the Christ. He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived and experienced temptation as a human being, but perfectly exemplified the righteousness and love of God. By His miracles He manifested God's power and was attested as God's promised Messiah. He suffered and died voluntarily on the cross for our sins and in our place, was raised from the dead, and ascended to minister in the heavenly sanctuary in our behalf. He will come again in glory for the final deliverance of His people and the restoration of all things. (John 1:1-3, 14; Col. 1:15-19; John 10:30; 14:9; Rom. 6:23; 2 Cor. 5:17-19; John 5:22; Luke 1:35; Phil. 2:5-11; Heb. 2:9-18; 1 Cor. 15:3, 4; Heb. 8:1, 2; John 14:1-3.)”

This week Jesse Sias and Abraham Miranda continue WAA’s series on the fundamental beliefs of the Seventh day Adventist Church with a commentary on Fundamental Belief 4: The Son. Jesse gives a brief historical account of the this idea in Adventist history while Abraham takes a few moments to remind us of why a Biblical understanding of God the Son is so vital to the Christian faith.

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