pt 2, The Ante-Nicene Mysteries and New Testament Sources

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Andrew Millers lecture at the 2008 SANE Symposium titled The Ante-Nicene Mysteries and their New Testament Sources

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  • Thus, Gregory mentions descent in to the spirit prison & how souls were rescued out of

    it: For Christ opens "the prison, and didst release the condemned". Realm travel: "Paradise, yea, heaven itself may be trodden by man; and the creation". Washings & anointings: "Thou didst sprinkle us with clean water, & cleanse us from our filthiness". Thus, a lot of elements of early Christian mysteries from Ante-Nicene times were past down to Nicene & Post times. Gregory, On the Baptism of Christ, 5:

  • Gregory of Nyssa, A.D. 330-386, mentions several temple types: Washing, anointing, apron covering, robes, & how Christ had opened the prison, & did release the condemned so that they would be able to enter into paradise. Or the harrowing of hell, the descent & ascent of the harrowed into paradise. Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, 5:519-520, & 524. Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic Treatises, reprint June 1972, WM. B. Eerdmans). Baptism was a ritualistic type of Christ's descent into hell & resurrection.

  • Part 1 Gregory of Nyssa, 4th cent.: In the mysteries there's "the clean & fair apparel; teaching us the figurative illustration that verily in the Baptism of Jesus all we, putting off our sins like some poor & patched garment, are clothed in the holy & most fair garment of regeneration." He also wrote about removing the fig leave apron & putting on a garment: "Thou didst strip off the fig-tree leaves, an unseemly covering, & put upon us a costly garment". Continued:

  • Do you believe also what the Nicene Creed fathers also taught that: Christ became a Man so Man could become gods? "God became man so that man might become a god." (St. Athanasius, De Incarnatione or On the Incarnation 54:3, PG 25:192B).

  • This is a nice presentation.

  • Then do you believe with the Nicene Creed that God and Christ are one or with the Bible that they are separate?

  • My knowledge of who God is doesn't come from the Nicene creed. It comes from God's very own word, the Bible.

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