Declaring All the Counsel of God

English 🇵🇭 Tagalog ⟵ Previous Next ⟶ The Deity of Christ in Early Church Proclamation (Acts) THE DEITY OF CHRIST — LECTURE 16 Introduction: The First Preaching of the Gospel After the resurrection and ascension of Christ, the apostles began preaching. This is recorded in the book of Acts. These are not later developments These are the earliest proclamations of the church Therefore, a critical question: What did the apostles preach about Jesus from the very beginning? Did they present Him as: merely a man? a prophet? a created being? Or something more?   The answer is clear: They proclaimed Christ with divine authority, identity, and titles belonging to God THESIS: The Deity of Christ Was Part of the Original Gospel Message I. Acts 2 — Peter’s Sermon at Pentecost Acts 2:36 “God hath made that same Jesus… both Lord and Christ.”   A. “Lord” (Κύριος — Kyrio...