The belief of the apostolic church about Jesus is well summarized in Peter said that Jesus is the Christ, the Son the living God "(Matt. 16:16), and the simple declaration of faith mentioned by Paul:" Therefore I tell you that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can call Jesus Lord, but by the Holy Spirit "(1 Cor. 12: 3).
Lord Jesus [Gr κυριος Kurios , equivalent here to Heb. Yahweh.
Early Christians believed that Jesus was God in the most exalted sense of the word, and made this belief the cornerstone of their faith ("And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. "Mat. 16:18).
not "flesh and blood" could reveal or explain this truth must be accepted by faith ( Mat. 16: 17).
This certainly implied in the early church about the divine-human nature of Christ (which implied a belief in a triune God) was based on the explicit teaching Jesus and the apostles.
However, not many years passed since Christ had ascended into heaven, where "savage wolves" began to ravage the flock, and within the church itself up men speaking "perverse things" and dragged disciples after them (Acts . 20: 29-30).
In this period we find two groups:
1) Of Jewish origin, emphasizing the humanity of Jesus at the expense of his divinity.
2) Originally grego, emphasized the divinity of Jesus at the expense of his humanity.
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