The Person of Christ
This 451 AD definition affirms that Jesus is fully God and fully man in one person without confusion.
What is the Chalcedonian Definition?
This heresy claimed Jesus only appeared human but did not have a real body.
What is Docetism?
In biblical theology, this doctrine literally means “to cover,” referring to how sin is dealt with before God.
What is Atonement?
This doctrine refers to the bodily rising of Jesus from the dead, accomplished by both the Father and the Son, and central to the Christian faith.
What is the Resurrection?
This doctrine refers to Christ’s bodily return to heaven.
What is the Ascension?
This essential event bypassed the "Adamic nature" and allowed Jesus to exist without inherited sin.
What is the Virgin Birth?
This group taught that Jesus was a created being, thereby denying His full divinity.
What is the Arians?
This aspect of Christ’s obedience refers to His perfectly law-keeping life, credited to believers as righteousness.
What is Active Obedience?
According to doctrine, Christ’s bodily resurrection secures this benefit for believers, confirming that they are declared righteous before God.
What is Justification?
This is the length of time Christ remained on earth after His resurrection before ascending to heaven.
What are 40 days?
This term refers to the doctrine that Jesus could not sin because He is fully God.
What is Impeccability?
This heresy claimed Jesus had a human body but not a human mind, denying His full humanity.
What is Apollinarianism?
This doctrine teaches that Jesus willingly suffered and died, taking the exact penalty for sin in the place of sinners, famously illustrated by Barabbas.
What is Penal Substitution?
This phrase describes Jesus’ resurrected body as real and physical, yet glorified, able to eat food and pass through closed doors without decay.
What is a Spiritual Body?
This term describes Christ’s present position at the right hand of the Father, where He rules with authority and intercedes for believers.
What is the Session?
This specific title for Jesus declares His divine identity as being both co-eternal and co-equal with God the Father.
What is the Son of God?
This false view claimed Jesus was two separate persons rather than one unified person.
What is Nestorianism?
This work of the atonement addresses humanity’s separation from God by restoring fellowship through Christ’s death.
What is Reconciliation?
This term describes Christ as the first to rise from the dead, guaranteeing the future bodily resurrection of all believers.
What are the Firstfruits?
This theological framework describes the two major phases of Christ’s work: His Humiliation from Incarnation to Burial, and His Exaltation from Resurrection to Eternal Reign.
What are the States of Christ?
This title for Jesus comes from the Greek word chrio and literally means the "Anointed One" or Messiah.
What is Christos?
This view claimed Jesus’ human nature was absorbed into His divine nature to create one "mixed" nature.
What is Monophysitism?
This term describes the appeasement of God’s righteous wrath through Christ’s sacrificial death on the cross.
What is Propitiation?
This event refers to Christ’s proclamation to the “spirits in prison” and His victory over death by taking the keys of Hell and Death.
What is the Descent to Hades?
Mentioned in the Apostles’ Creed and debated from 1 Peter 3:19, this doctrine discusses Christ preaching to the “spirits in prison.”