The Doctrine Of The Incarnation Analysis

The Doctrine of the Incarnation is at the centre of biblical Christianity. The Book of John reads, “I and the Father are one” as Jesus says to detail his relationship with God. Furthermore, John 14:11 goes on to reiterate this when he declares “Believe me when i say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.” This brings forth the idea that Jesus and God are shown in the bible to be one- equal and of the same substance. In his work, Homoousios With The Father, Heron discusses the truth behind the Doctrine of the Incarnation and the idea brought forth at the Council of Nicaea, that God and Christ are “homoousios”- or one in the same-, with reference to Aruis, who believed that it was important to relegate the Doctrine to logically paradoxical
The question of how a theologian would respond to Arius’ accusations of the mythology behind the doctrine give a clear impression that the doctrine itself does not provide any evidence for mythology; it is only when attempting to disprove the doctrine that one is led to the idea of mythology influencing
With God as his father and Mary as his mother, Arius could not see Christ as fully God. Therefore, he is practicing idolatry, in that, by still worshipping Jesus, he is looking to a false God for guidance and redemption. Heron puts forward that, “The same Arius who professed such concern to safeguard the infinite transcendence of the One Father proposed nevertheless to worship a creature alongside God!” It could, however, be argued that, by God allowing another to be worshipped but him, that the first of the ten commandments is, in fact, being broken. The words of God are this: “I am the Lord your God… You shall have no other gods before me.” The words of Exodus clearly speak for themselves, however Heron evidently has a problem with the idea that Arius could not believe that Christ was His Father incarnate, yet still worships him