Of Jesus Christ, true God and man, the only Savior of the world (Second Helvetic Confession, 11e)
Prof. Ronald Cammenga provides a detailed theological exposition of the Second Helvetic Confession's eleventh chapter on Christ as true God and man, the sole Savior of the world. The article emphasizes the necessity of Christ's dual nature—fully divine and fully human—for the efficacy of His substitutionary atonement and representative work on behalf of sinners. This resource offers a Reformed confessional interpretation grounded in Scripture that affirms Christ's true suffering and its soteriological significance.
We believe, moreover, that our Lord Jesus Christ truly suffered and died for us in the flesh, as Peter says (I Peter 4:1). We abhor the most impious madness of the Jacobites and all the Turks who execrate the suffering of the Lord. At the same time we do not deny that the Lord of glory was crucified for us, according to Paul's words (I Corinthians 2:8). In this eleventh chapter of the Second Helvetic Confession, Heinrich Bullinger is dealing with the heart of the gospel. For that reason, this...
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