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Given nonconformity in understanding, one comes to grasp the survivalbased
need of the early church to define a belief system, whether true or not. And this is exactly
what was done in 451 CE at the Council of Chalcedon, which declared the dogmatic
definition that has dominated Christology ever since: “One and the same Christ, Son,
Lord, onlybegotten, known in two natures, without confusion, without change, without
division, without separation.”
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Anyone who embraces the evidence of this chapter recognizes the above quote as
a statement, but not a truth. Even if the church fathers conceived the nature of Jesus to be
“without confusion,” the same cannot be...
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So Abraham was a Hebrew, in a time when the term Jew did not even exist. The
descendants of Jacob were the Twelve Tribes of the Israelites, and only Judah and his line
came to be known as Jews. Even Moses, despite popular opinion, was not a Jew. Exodus
6:1620 identifies Moses as a descendant of Levi and not of Judah, and therefore a
Levite.
He was a law giver to the Jews, certainly, but not a Jew by the definition of that
time in history. This is not to diminish who he was and...
