God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom He also made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, to the extent that He has inherited a more excellent name than they. (Hebrews 1:1-4)

The author of the Book of Hebrews starts the first part of the Book with Christ being the Son of God. I assume there were people who did not think Jesus was the Son of God at that time. I also suspect that there were people who worshiped the angels. The church confesses true beliefs whenever she is attacked by strange teachings. Some saints were given the task to refute false ideas in order to protect the purity of the church in the past. The Letter to the Galatians was also written because there was a great need of educating people for defending truths. God wants the church to become the chestnut tree.

The hypostatic union of Christ, which is the theology term for Christ’s two distinct natures in one person, is against Nestorianism, which sees Christ has two persons. The Book of Hebrews supports the hypostatic union of Christ. The ultimate sacrifice had to be Christ, not just a mere man. Christ is the Son of God and also the Son of Man. Christ did not become the Son of God when he was born as the Son of Man. The Son was begotten before the world began.

For to which of the angels did He ever say, “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You”? And again, “I will be a Father to Him And He will be a Son to Me”? (Hebrews 1:5)

The author of the Book quoted from the Psalms many times. King David was one of the Psalmists. David refers himself as a sinner and a mortal. But his prophetic writings are not about himself but Christ. I think Luther once said that the Book of Psalms is the summary of the Bible. However, people refuse to sing the Psalms during the public worship because they do not understand what the Book says.

Anselm separated Christ’s human nature from His divine nature. Therefore, Christ had to work, in other words, keep the law perfectly, to become the perfect sacrifice. It is true that Christ was the blameless Lamb of God. But we do not say that Christ had to work (keep the law) to gain righteousness either for Himself or His people. It was not an action (or no action) God required of Adam. Adam could not satisfy God because he did not have the heart of the Son. The Active Obedience of Christ (AOC) sees that Christ came only as a second Adam by misinterpreting Romans 5. Earlier I explained that Adam could not achieve anything for the church. Hebrews chapter 1 explains that Christ is not just a man, but the Son of God. It is wrong to say that Adam was made equal to Christ. While many theologians write a fiction concerning Adam in the garden of Eden, the apostles rarely mentioned Adam. If Adam could have achieved eternal life by works, he should have been mentioned much more throughout the Bible. Paul clearly tells us that Adam was from dust and Christ was from heaven (1 Corinthians 15:47).

We must remember that the right understanding of Christ leads to the right understanding of the Father. The righteousness that God has and wants from us is not about morality that the ministers and theologians teach. Righteousness is about having the mind of God and being one with Him. God’s will is in the salvation of sinful people and making them His children. The righteous Son of God did the righteous act on the cross for the elect people. It is orthodox to say that Christ’s work on the cross made us righteous or to say Christ made us righteous.

Your throne, God, is forever and ever; The scepter of Your kingdom is a scepter of justice. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of joy above Your companions. (Psalm 45:6-7)

It is not the works that makes Christ. The works are the result of being Who He is. The author of the Book of Hebrews also follows the golden rule – the person and the work of Christ. He talked about who Christ is first and His work after. One thing we must remember is that Christ becoming a man did not take away His authority as the Son. He did not need to gain righteousness just because He became a man. On the cross, Christ perfected the law by abolishing the shadows and giving us the right to become God’s children, which no human including Adam could or can do. The author of the Book needed to start with the life of Christ as a man for the CT and the AOC to be orthodox. Both doctrines negate the fact why Christ existed before the world began and why He is the second person of the Trinity because they see that Christ came only to solve the problem Adam caused. They fail to explain why the world was made for Christ and through Him.

The CT and the AOC became the core doctrines of the Protestant churches because the theologians in the 17^th century wanted to emphasize a moral living. There may be people who help the poor, go to church on Sundays, give money to the needy, etc. But if they do not hold the right understanding of God, they are lawbreakers. While holding the false doctrines, they think they keep the law. But God does not see them as they see themselves.

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the form of those things itself, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually every year, make those who approach perfect. (Hebrews 10:1)

There is a certain logic flows in the Bible. There is no doubt that the Covenant theologians accept the fact that Christ is the Son of God. However, mixing what is right and what is wrong makes them bad teachers. The devil also mixes truths and lies. We must pay attention to what they tell us at the end. Are they telling us about Truth that has freed us or trying to take us back to Egypt?