Christology

August 5, 2014, Pastor Rice, Advanced Systematic Theology PhD Work, Part 04 Christology,

At times, when you are up to your neck in alligators, you forget that your purpose was to drain the swamp. My Systematic Theology for the 21st Century effort has gotten side tracked in critiquing Dr. Chafer’s work from Dallas Theological Seminary. It has been critical to the understanding of where a practical Systematic Theology must go, but we must get back on track. Below is an preliminary draft of a Christology Volume. For brevity it is presented here without the block quotes from Dr. Cambron’s excellent work. The work may be previewed and commented on at www.theology.gsbaptistchurch.com

Christology Introduction

The most central theme of a thorough Systematic Theology is the doctrine of Christ. In segregating systems of the key ‘ologies’¹ of the whole revelation of God for a thorough analysis, it is Christology which interfaces with every other system. It is indeed central. It may rank in third place, behind Bibliology, and Theology Proper, in order of coverage but it is prima-facia the principle and central doctrine of God’s whole revelation. Bibliology sets the foundation for all Bible doctrine, and Theology Proper presides as a grand overview of all Bible theology, but Christology is the central key to all theology and all doctrine. Whatever is to be gleaned from a discourse on Pneumatology, the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, and certainly all Anthropology, Hamartiology, Soteriology, studying the doctrine of man, sin, and salvation, must find its root in a discourse on the redeemer of mankind, the Christ. Ecclesiology and Eschatology, the doctrine of His Church and the doctrine of last things, yea, even ones Angelology, the study of His angels, springs with rapture from the study of the person of the Christ. It is, therefore, needful to dwell here, on the person of the Christ.

A Systematic Theology must first have as its foundation a true Bible Doctrine. Analysis would then systematically, 1) show the inter-doctrine interfaces and relationships, turning the doctrine into a theology in every sense of the word, 2) expose the areas where the doctrine has met its fiercest opposition, as man has attempted to oppose and chip away at the truth of all Bible doctrine, and 3) analyze what other works of systematic theology have done with the Bible doctrine. These three purposes are not generally the focus of a Bible Doctrines book, and in a world where every true Bible doctrine is under constant attack, this type of systematic theology needs be well developed. Herein a solid Biblical Doctrine must form the basis and starting point for a systematic theology.

There is no truer, or more thorough, published, Baptist, and Biblical doctrine than that of Dr. Mark G. Cambron.² His teachings on Christology at Tennessee Temple Bible School thoroughly lay the foundation for this systematic theology. His book, Bible Doctrines³ will, with the permission of the Cambron Institute⁴, be given in block quotes throughout this effort. The book is readily available through http://www.thecambroninstitute.org , and it forms the foundational basis for this Systematic Theology.⁵

The names and Titles of Christ

The Bible names and titles of Christ give tremendous insight into who the Christ is. Dr. Cambron considered these Bible names the most important introduction to his Christology studies. He gives considerable examination to these twenty one names⁶: Jesus., Christ, Messiah, Lord, Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus, The Lord Jesus Christ, I AM, The Son of God, The Son of Man, The Son of Abraham, The Son of David, The son of the Highest, Second Man, Last Adam, The Word, Emmanuel, Saviour, Rabbi, Rabboni, and Master. Believing in the verbal inspiration of the Holy Scriptures and believing that every single word is directly chosen by God, it is necessary to preserve and defend this list extracted from Scripture and presented by Dr. Cambron. Below, in a block quote of his book, is his extensive analysis of each of these names and titles of Christ : [block quote of Dr. Cambron’s Bible Doctrines page 60-69}

Little more needs to be said in explaining this list of titles and names of Christ, however a of mans despise and alteration of this list is a crucial task for a systematic theology. A thorough evaluation of 357 gross errors being incorporated into all modernist English Bibles, and now finding root in all modern Bible translations of every language, can be found in this authors book “The 357 Magnum Errors of the Modernist’s Critical Texts”⁷ It is characteristic of these Bible correctors, that they leave 127 of these listed names completely out of their modernist bibles.

The Westcott and Hort critical Greek text relies extensively on the Alexandrian manuscripts, Vaticanus (B) and Sinaiticus (Aleph) and all modernist, protestant, ecumenical bibles from all of the Bible societies, rely exclusively on the Westcott and Hort critical Greek text as annotated in the Nestles Greek Text⁸. In concert these modernist attackers, calling themselves textual critics, and feigning to repair God’s botched up preservation of Scripture, have stripped the name Jesus out of the Holy Bible 47 times⁹, they have stripped the name “Christ” out of the Holy Bible 37 times¹⁰, they have stripped the name “Lord” out of the Holy Bible 40 times¹¹, twice they had the audacity to stripped the whole compound name, “Lord Jesus Christ”, out of the Holy Bible (Col 1:2 & 1Thes 1:1); and once they eliminated the name “Son of man” from their “corrected bibles” (Matt 25:13).

The attack on God’s Words by ecumenical textual critics is brought to a most striking focus in the examination of these 127 listed atrocities. If in examination of your Bible you find one of these gross departures from the received text, you can be certain that ecumenical textual critics, modernists for certain, have had their hand in its translation process. These lists may be edited into most Bible search engines and a comparison can me made between your Bible and the Greek Received Text or the King James Bible Text. Since it causes such an awakening to the ecumenical textual critics tactics, those elimination lists of their corrupted bibles are repeated here in the main body of this work:

The name “Jesus” has been stripped from the Holy Bible in modernist versions in these 47 verses: Matt 4:12, 4:18, 4:23, 8:29, 12:25, 13:36, 13:51, 14:14, 14:22, 14:25, 14:27, 15:16, 16:20, 17:20, Mark 5:19, 6:34, 7:27, 8:1, 8:17, 11:14, 11:15, 12:41, 14:22a, Luke 7:22, 9:43, 9:60, 10:21, 10:41,42, 13:2, 24:36a, 24:36b, John 3:2, 5:17, 6:14, 13:3, Acts 3:26, 9:29, 19:10, Rom 15:8, 16:18, 1Cor 5:5, 16:22, 2Cor 5:18, Gal 6:15, Col 1:28, 2Tim 4:22, 1Pet 5:14.

The name “Christ” has been stripped from the Holy Bible in modernist versions in these 37 verses: Matt 23:8, Luke 4:41, John 4:42, 6:69, Acts 15:11, 16:31, 19:4, 20:21, Rom 1:16, 14:10, 16:20, 1Cor 5:4, 9:1, 9:18, 16:22, 16:23, 2Cor 11:31, Gal 3:17, 4:7, 6:15, Phil 4:13, 1Thes 2:19, 3:11, 3:13, 2Thes 1:8, 1:12, 1Tim 2:7, 2Tim 2:19, 4:22, Heb 3:1, 1John 1:7, 4:3, 2John 1:9b, Rev 1:9a, 1:9b, 12:17, 22:21

The name “Lord” has been stripped from the Holy Bible in modernist versions in these 40 verses: Matt 28:6, Mark 11:10, Luke 7:31, 9:57, 9:59, 13:25, 22:31, 23:42, Acts 7:37, 22:16, 1Cor 11:29, 15:47, 2Cor 4:10, Gal 6:17, 1Tim 1:1, 5:21, 2Tim 4:1, Titus 1:4, Heb 10:30, Rev 16:5a

Twice they had the audacity to stripped the whole compound name, “Lord Jesus Christ”, out of the Holy Bible: Col 1:2, 1Thes 1:1.

Once they eliminated the name “Son of man” from their “corrected bibles”: Matt 25:13.

An explanation of the reasoning of the ecumenical textual critic and a through documentation of all 357 gross errors is available in this authors 2006 book.¹²

The Incarnation of Christ

On the Incarnation of Christ, the basic doctrine is again best examined from Dr. Cambron’s Doctrine Book given in the block quote below:[block quote of Dr. Cambron’s Bible Doctrines page 69-81

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