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DictatorCzar
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I didn’t see any answers for this in Catholic.com or other websites. I’m very confused what this is so supposed to mean. It looks like a contradiction but I don’t know.
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That’s probably because this verse does not downplay Jesus’ divinity in the slightest.
“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know”
(In case others wonder what you were talking about).
“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know”
(In case others wonder what you were talking about).
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Stephen_says
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You can’t take individual verses and read them alone. You have to see them in context of the whole scriptures. Also realize that this is very early in the Apostles preaching, and they may not have yet knew how to exactly phrase the fact that Jesus was the incarnate word. If you keep reading that chapter though you can see that they understood he is holy, and the messiah, and the Lord, sooo…
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Hodos
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No, because that isn’t the end of the sermon. Read vs. 36.I didn’t see any answers for this in Catholic.com or other websites. I’m very confused what this is so supposed to mean. It looks like a contradiction but I don’t know.
Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ—this Jesus whom you crucified.”
The term Lord is a loaded term here. It is used as a substitute for the tetragrammaton when reciting scripture. Peter is affirming the divinity of Christ here and elsewhere in Acts (Peter’s sermon in Chapter 10 does the same).
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Exactly what I was going to suggest !Read vs. 36
@DictatorCzar, cherry-picking verses and isolating them from their context rarely, if ever, is a good idea.
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Todd_Easton
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Few in the audience would have denied that Jesus was a man who worked miracles and that he was put to death. Beginning there, Peter makes increasingly-incredible revelations, namely, that Jesus was raised from the dead, that Jesus is the Messiah, and the most incredible revelation of all that Jesus is the Lord. If he had started out his speech proclaiming the divinity of Jesus, he would have immediately lost his audience. With Peter’s speech arranged the way it was, even if they didn’t accept that Jesus is Lord, they might accept that he is the Messiah or at least that he was raised from the dead.
Also if this is because if the verse’s reference to Jesus as a man and of God “working through him”, then this is getting it wrong too.
Jesus is fully God and fully man. He is not 50% God and 50% man. He is 100% God, 100% man. This verse affirms Jesus in his humanity but nowhere does it downplay his divinity.
Jesus is fully God and fully man. He is not 50% God and 50% man. He is 100% God, 100% man. This verse affirms Jesus in his humanity but nowhere does it downplay his divinity.
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Diaconia
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Unless you are authoring a Chick tract. They love proof-texting, taking things out of context, and general eisegesis in their comic books.Exactly what I was going to suggest !
@DictatorCzar, cherry-picking verses and isolating them from their context rarely, if ever, is a good idea.
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