As we continue on our journey with church history using the book, The Church History ABCs, we are looking today at Hippolytus. I have never heard of this man unless he has another name. We will find out more on him as I look at the article.
First of all, he lived in Rome around the year 200 A.D. and wrote many books. One of his books was called, 'The Refutation of All Heresies'. A heresy is defined as a false teaching. Throughout all the years since the beginning of the church, the church has always had to deal with heretics or false teachers. Athanatius dealt with Arius on the issue of the deity of Christ. But Hippolytus dealt with the issue of the humanity of Christ. People have always struggled with the incarnation, which is God taking on human form. People have either gone one way or the other. They can understand Jesus being a human being, but they can't comprehend His being God at the same time. But some people had no problem with understanding that Jesus was God, but they struggled with the concept of his being human. People don't understand that Jesus was both God and man at the same time. It is a hard concept to grasp, but God can help us understand and accept it.
In the 1840's, a statue was found of Hippolytus, and on it was a list of all the books he wrote.
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