Taking the Trinitarian Christ out of Christmas

Author - Umn ministry

December 15, 2021

A recent poll shows nearly half of Americans believe a Christological heresy.jesus be a fence.

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Who is Jesus? Few questions could be more relevant at Christmas.jesus background.

Yet a new Lifeway Research study reports a statistic that has the potential to deflate the Christmas spirit. Only 41 percent of Americans believe the “Son of God existed before Jesus was born in Bethlehem.” That means 59 percent either do not believe or are unsure whether they believe that the Son of God existed prior to the Nativity.

இந்த ஆண்டு போதகர்கள் தங்கள் கிறிஸ்துமஸ் பிரசங்கங்களைத் தயாரிக்கும்போது, அவர்கள் இந்த உண்மையை மனதில் வைக்க விரும்பலாம். ஞாயிற்றுக்கிழமை காலை வாசல் வழியாகச் செல்லும் பலர்-சிலர் கிறிஸ்தவர்கள், சிலர் திரித்துவத்தைப் பற்றிய தவறான புரிதலைக் கடைப்பிடிக்கின்றனர்.

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As pastors prepare their Christmas sermons this year, they might want to keep this fact in mind. Many who will walk through their doors on Sunday morning—some Christians, some not—hold to a heretical understanding of the Trinity. They’ll listen to the sermons and sing the songs, but their view of God is not orthodox. To be blunt, their view of God is not Christian.

We are not the first to struggle with retaining a biblical view of the Trinity.

In the fourth century, a group within the church known as Arians also said there was a time when the Son was not. The popularity of this belief so threatened to rupture the unity of the church that our fathers gathered at Nicaea and Constantinople.

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With the authority of the church universal, they declared, “We believe … in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten from the Father before all time, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten not created, of the same essence as the Father, through Whom all things came into being.”

Everything hinges on that one word begotten. It distinguishes the Son from the Father—at the risk of stating the obvious, a son is a son because he is begotten by a father. However, that word begotten also guarantees the Son is equal with his Father. Unlike human begetting, this Son was eternally ... jesus birthday.

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