Christian Huff

What's weird is, because now we're going in, this is about the apostles, the creeds, and then the scripture.

It's essentially the history of the church from the ancient documents up to AD 337.

So that's this particular lecture.

Al, do you know, we grew up in a denomination that was, I think that we would have probably said, at least the way I grew up hearing this, we were non-creedal.

Since then, I've come to really appreciate a lot of the creeds when you understand them in their proper order.

The creeds were written essentially to preserve some of the doctrine of the church, but it's just like simple ways of just understanding how to teach this and move it on.

What I found to be so interesting about this lecture, and I listened to it, and it's so funny.

because I've been on another, I've been on this same exact discussion before I even listened to it for probably the last week.

you know, we had the girl on the podcast recently.

I don't know if it'll air before this one or not.

Um,

Melissa... Doherty.

Yeah.

She had talked about coming out of the New Age movement and the New Thought movement, which a lot of people in the church I go to have come out of that.

And one of the things that she has said was kind of like... I'm kind of paraphrasing, but one of the dividing lines between what she would call like a...

a version of Christianity that's not actually Christianity, that's just borrowing from the language, and real Christianity, kind of that dividing line, was this idea that Christ came in the flesh.

And I was really appreciative of Dr. Calvert's emphasis on showing how that one thing seemed to be the dividing line, even in the early church, like all the heresies that really kind of entered in that were most of those heresies that were addressed.

In some form or fashion, they had something to do with, did Christ actually have a body?

And was there a physical resurrection?

And I thought, man, that's an interesting question.