In Matthew 16 v15 Jesus asked the question to his disciples,' Who do you say I am?' a very important question.John Newton wrote 'What think you of Christ? is the test.To try both your state and your schem. You cannot be right in the rest, unless you think rightly of Him',The cults see Him not as God,Islam see Hin as a prophet.Christians see Him as God,as did all the disciples.Matthew 16 v16/ John20 v28.In the early church the question arose as to whom Christ was, the Christian emperor felt it was going to cause divison within the church,so he summoned the First General Council of the Church at Nicaea.There was two veiws as to whom Christ was,one was the Arian point of veiw that He was only a man,and the Trinitarian point of veiw ,that Christ was truly God and truly human, His humanity was sinless (Hebrews 4 v15) There was a vote taken it was decided by 218 votes to two,in favour of the trinitarian point of veiw. The word of God clearly teaches the divinity of Christ and we must hold fast to that truth.
'In Him,the human and divine embrace,
A sacred union , full of power and grace.
No mere man,yet flesh and blood He bore,
A Son of God,for ever and evermore'.
In Matthew 16 v
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