Introductory slides from my lesson on the person of Christ, which is lesson 4 in the Foundations of Faith class.

2. WHY DOES THIS MATTER?
1. If you toy with the person of Christ, you run
the risk of idolatry - worshipping a God in
your image.
2. If you toy with the person of Christ, you run
the risk of toying with the work of Christ.
(more on that in the course of the lesson)

3. THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES

4. THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
A. "The true Scriptures speak of God's Son, the
Word, as "a god". He is a 'mighty God' but not the
Almighty God who is Jehovah" (The Truth Shall Make
You Free, p47)
B. "In other words, he was the first and direct creation
of Jehovah God" (The Kingdom is At Hand, 46-47,
49)

5. THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
C. "The Bible shows that there is only one
God...greater than His Son...and that the Son, as the
Firstborn, Only-begotten, and 'the creation by God',
had a beginning. That the Father is greater and older
than the Son is reasonable, easy to understand and
is what the Bible teaches" (From Paradise Lost to
Paradise Regained, 164)

6. THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
D. "Thus Jesus had an existence in heaven before
coming to the earth. But was it as one of the persons
in an almighty, eternal triune Godhead? NO, for the
Bible plainly states that in his prehuman existence,
Jesus was a created spirit being just as angels were
spirit beings created by God. Neither the angels nor
Jesus had existed before their creation" (Should You
Believe in the Trinity?)

7. THE MORMONS

8. THE MORMONS
A. Elohim is literally the Father of the spirit of
Jesus Christ and also of the body in which
Jesus Christ performed His mission in the
flesh..." (First Presidency and Council of the
Twelve, 1916, "God the Father," compiled by
Gordon Allred, p. 150)

9. THE MORMONS
B. Jesus was the product of a physical relationship
between the Father and the then-Virgin Mary - not
the product of the Holy Spirit: "When the Virgin Mary
conceived the child Jesus, the Father had begotten
him in his own likeness. He was not begotten by the
Holy Ghost. And who was the Father?...

10. THE MORMONS
…He is the first of the human family; and when he
took a tabernacle [body], it was begotten by his
Father in heaven, after the same manner as the
tabernacles of Cain, Abel and the rest of the sons
and daughters of Adam and Eve...Jesus, our elder
brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same
character that was in the Garden of Eden, and who is
our Father in Heaven (Journal of Discourses, 1:50-
51)

11. ISLAM

12. ISLAM
A. Jesus is one of the many prophets of Allah:
Surah 4:171: O People of the Scripture, do not
commit excess in your religion or say about Allah
except the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, the son of
Mary, was but a messenger of Allah and His word
which He directed to Mary and a soul [created at a
command] from Him. So believe in Allah and His
messengers…

13. ISLAM
… And do not say, "Three"; desist - it is better for you.
Indeed, Allah is but one God. Exalted is He above
having a son. To Him belongs whatever is in the
heavens and whatever is on the earth. And sufficient
is Allah as Disposer of affairs.

14. ISLAM
A. Jesus is one of the many prophets of Allah:
 Surah 43:59: Jesus was not but a servant upon
whom We bestowed favor, and We made him an
example for the Children of Israel.

15. ISLAM
B. Jesus Christ did not atone for anyone's sins - he didn't
die, fullstop:
Surah 4:157: And [for] their saying, "Indeed, we have killed
the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah
." And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but
[another] was made to resemble him to them. And indeed,
those who differ over it are in doubt about it. They have no
knowledge of it except the following of assumption. And they
did not kill him, for certain.

16. APOLLINARIANISM
 Jesus had a human
body but not a human
mind or spirit
 His mind and spirit were
from the divine nature of
the Son of God

17. EUTCHYIANISM
 Jesus did not have two
natures in one person -
which we'll come to next
week
 No, Jesus had a super-
nature - a little human and
a lot of divine

18. NESTORIANISM
 Jesus was not one
person with two
natures
 Jesus' two natures
were so separate that
you can say two
personalities were at
work

19. WHERE WE’RE HEADED….
 Introduction
 Jesus…in His Own Words
 The Humanity of Christ
 The Deity of Christ
 Christ the Saviour
 The Return of Christ and Concluding Thoughts