The ThornCrown Network

A Baptist study on the Westminster Larger Catechism, Questions 41-42, held at the Old Paths Christian Church on 13 January 2020. Topics include Christology and the Trinity; ancient creeds and councils; Nestorianism and other ancient heresies; Greek philosophy, essentialism, realism, metaphysics and existence; sacred namers and cults; biblical apologetics and argumentation; and more!!

Q. 41. Why was our Mediator called Jesus?

A. Our Mediator was called Jesus, because he saveth his people from their sins.w

(w) Matt 1:21

Q. 42. Why was our Mediator called Christ?

A. Our Mediator was called Christ, because he was anointed with the Holy Ghost above measure;x and so set apart, and fully furnished with all authority and ability,y to execute the offices of prophet,z priest,a and king of his church,b in the estate both of his humiliation and exaltation.

(x) Matt 3:16; Acts 10:37-38; John 3:34; Ps 45:7
(y) John 6:27; Matt 28:18-20; Rom 1:3-4
(z) Acts 3:21-22; Luke 4:18,21; Heb 1:1-2; Deut 18:18
(a) Heb 5:5-7; Heb 4:14-15
(b) Ps 2:6; Luke 1:32-34; John 18:37; Matt 21:5; Isa 9:6-7; Phil 2:8-11

+https://www.chapellibrary.org/book/lbcw/the-london-baptist-confession-of-faith-of-1689-with-preface-baptist-catechism-and-appendix-on-baptism

+https://reformedbrotherhood.com/trb-113-nestorianism/

“Human nature, therefore, although endowed with intelligence and will, may be, and in fact is, in the person of Christ impersonal. That it is so is the plain doctrine of Scripture, for the Son of God, a divine person, assumed a perfect human nature, and, nevertheless, remains one person.” (Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology, https://www.ccel.org/ccel/hodge/theology2.html)

+Bruce Shelley, Church History in Plain Language, Fourth Edition Zondervan Academic, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GCG55EM/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_awdb_t1_x_V8cfEbQNFNPY7

+J.N.D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines: Revised Edition, https://www.amazon.com/dp/006064334X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_YBnNEbZ1WRQ8W

Roger Olson, The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/372001517

+The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology: A Comparison Between Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptist and Paedobaptist Federalism [Revised Edition] by Pascal Denault, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23827777

+Gordon H. Clark, “Atheism,” http://www.trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=50

+Gordon H. Clark, The Trinity, http://www.trinitylectures.org/trinity-the-p-78.html; and The Incarnation, http://www.trinitylectures.org/incarnation-the-p-92.html