The Sword & The Trowel TS&TT: The 1689 Confession: Christ the Mediator (Part 2)
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Feb 26, 2026 A deep dive into Christology, exploring why the person of Christ is crucial and often misunderstood. They trace ancient heresies and show how those errors appear today. Listeners hear careful discussion of the Son’s eternal relation to the Father, the incarnation, the hypostatic union, and why Christ alone can mediate between God and humanity.
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You Can Know The Incarnation Without Fully Understanding It
- Christology is apprehensible though not fully comprehensible, because the incarnation is revealed by special revelation rather than natural reason.
- Tom Ascol emphasizes we can know true things about the Trinity and incarnation from Scripture and creeds without claiming exhaustive understanding.
Trinitarian Order Shows Origin Not Subordination
- The ordering Father, Son, Spirit reflects relations of origin (begetting and procession) not ontological inferiority.
- Graham Gunden warns eternal functional subordination risks denying eternal generation and creates theological problems about wills and simplicity.
Guard Church Songs Because Theology Spreads Through Music
- Guard congregational theology by supervising what people sing, because songs shape belief quickly.
- Graham Gunden cites Arian hymn-singing history where congregational songs spread Arianism before leaders corrected it.
