THE
PHENOMENON OF CHRISTOLOGY
The first phenomenon of Christology is to
forsake racial prejudice and avoid gender social convention sway, to embrace
justice, truth, righteousness, and pursue equality, and produce the fruits of
spirit. (By Rev.
Katherine Liu Bruce2015)
What
is the phenomenon of Christology? Why people draw themselves toward its precepts?
Have you ever wondered about it and discover the unique of Christology? The
textual content of this book will unveil the Jesus’ controversial social
convention, ritual and experiment, which has developed the phenomenon of
Christology and characteristic of being Christianity in this new era.
The first phenomenon of Christology is to forsake racial prejudice and avoid gender social convention
sway, to embrace justice, truth, righteousness, and pursue equality, and
produce the fruits of spirit. According to Jewish traditional ritual, Jews do not
associate with Samaritans. “The Samaritans
were descendants of colonists whom the Assyrian kings planted in Palestine
after the fall of the Northern Kingdom in 721 B.C. They were despised by the
Jews because of their mixed Gentile blood and their different worship which
centered at Mountain Gerizim.” [1] In Jesus’ era, Jews viewed Samaritans as
ceremonially unclean, quasi-Gentiles. To share a cup with a Samaritan would
make a Jew unclean. Jews regarded Samaritans as an inferior people and
conversations between unmarried men and women were socially inappropriate. In
New Testament John 4:7-26, Jesus demonstrated a social convention which contradicted
with Jewish ritual. Instead of isolated Samaritan woman, he asked her, “Will
you give me a drink?”(v.7). When she questioned about who He is? Jesus
disclosed himself as coming Messiah (called Christ) He said, “If you knew
the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked
him and he would have given you living water.” (v.10)…everyone who
drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give
him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring
of water, welling up to eternal life.” (v.13). Samaritan woman believed in
coming Messiah (called Christ) is coming, yet, she wasn’t aware that Jesus is
he. Ultimately, Jesus affirmed, “I who speak to you am he.”(v.26) and Samaritan
woman restored the spiritual eyesight to worship the Lord in spirit and truth.
In these passages implicit the reason why
people attract to Christology in this era? For it is controversial with
tradition Jewish ritual, yet, it develops a precise manner of Christianity. In
another words, it defies the Christianity precisely. The first phenomenon and
unique of Christology is to forsake the racial prejudice and avoid gender
social convention sway. Learn to embrace justice, truth, righteousness, and
pursue equality, and produce the fruits of spirit.
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