FOOD FOR THOUGHT when you speak of Jesus Christ Christology The author mentions a Son of God, as a virtuous man filled with a Holy pre-existent spirit and adopted as the Son. In the 2nd century, adoptionism (the view that Jesus Christ was only a mortal man) was one of two competing doctrines about Jesus true nature, the other being that he pre-existed as a divine spirit (Logos); Christs identity with the Logos (Jn 1:1) was affirmed in 325 at the First Council of Nicaea. Bogdan G. Bucur, however, notes how widely accepted the Shepherd of Hermas was among orthodox Christians, yet was never criticized for apparently exhibiting an adoptionistic Christology. He suggests that the passage in question should be understood as Jesus making his dwelling within those who submit to his spirit, so that the adoption that takes place is not of Jesus but of his followers. It has been pointed out that It refers to the Son of God (a much older Egyptian and Babylonian and Persian deist concept) but never uses the word Christ, Jesus, nor Christian. This, at least a hundred and fifty years after the... Christ child. https://youtube/watch?v=fX7Q_wCo5uY tektonics.org/copycat/serapis.php en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shepherd_of_Hermas en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Shepherd en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriophoros
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