And why do Christians now take Jesus to be an intermediate?
2007-03-29 01:19:27 · 13 answers · asked by Antares 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well the proof of this would be the later councils of Nicea where they actually had to sit down and discuss the divinity of Jesus.
If Jesus's divinity was such a widely known thing, this would have been unnecessary.
2007-03-29 01:26:15 · update #1
Because Jesus was just a radical rabbi until he was deified by Paul.
2007-03-29 01:40:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If the early Christians, you speak about are those after the resurrection, they did use Jesus as an intermediary between them self & God. Jesus told them to ask anything in prayer using His name. They healed in Jesus name, they spread the good news of Christ crucified, for His love of mankind & desire that none should perish & His ascension into heaven to sit at the right hand of God the Father. He is God's son. He is Messiah, & will come again. He is still the High Priest who goes between God & man. There is no other name in heaven to be saved by. To authenic Christians, we still pray in Jesus name, just as the early Christians did.
The first council of Nicean was formed, not to discuss Jesus Divinty but of what substance was Jesus formed, as God the Father? and to put down a canon of widely held Christian beliefs together.The also discussed when Passover would be observed. Before there were no unified beliefs in place.
2007-03-29 01:42:54 · answer #2 · answered by Faith walker 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1Ti 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Heb 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Heb 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Sounds to me like the "early Christians" - at least the ones who wrote the New Testament, did see Jesus as an intermediate between them and God.
2007-03-29 01:25:43 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
--They did:
(1 Timothy 2:4-7) “. . .. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man, Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself a corresponding ransom for all—[this is] what is to be witnessed to at its own particular times. 7 For the purpose of this witness I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth, I am not lying—a teacher of nations in the matter of faith and truth.”
--How can christians take Jesus as an mediator when in fact that is not possible in a concept of Jesus being God and himself at the same time.
--The trinity concept erases the need for a mediator.
--In ANY MEDIATORSHIP there has to be at least 2 parties involved, most of "todays" christians believe in the trinity.---This cancels a need for a mediator!
2007-03-29 01:38:01 · answer #4 · answered by THA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand, in what respect? The early Christians did many things in Jesus' name, so I suppose you could say they did use Him as an intermediate.
2007-03-29 01:25:55 · answer #5 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually we know that Jesus is mediator between us and God because the apostles told us. They also prayed, cast out demons and healed in the name of Jesus. So it would seem your contention that early Christians did not use Jesus as an intermediary might be wrong.
The council only confirmed that which was never questioned by the apostles and the early church.
2007-03-29 01:23:47 · answer #6 · answered by kaehya2003 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It'd be a bit difficult to use a dead guy who you used to hang out with as an intermediary between the human world and their god.
I mean... at least in the case of the apostles. They were his homies. It'd be a bit weird for them to play intermediaries with him that way.
I'd imagine it only started really coming into force when the romans took control of it, made a few edits and set it up as Catholicism.
2007-03-29 01:32:04 · answer #7 · answered by Nihilist Templar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is God. The whole point of his ministry is, to receive him. he is the way to salvation. To view him as a intermediate is to reduce him to just a prophet or a preacher.
2007-03-29 01:34:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they thought Jesus is God...!
2007-03-29 01:23:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because He hadn't carried out the death sacrifice yet.
He needed to take on the sins of the world first in order to be our great advocate & high priest.
2007-03-29 01:22:07 · answer #10 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋