Soapy
Son of his Father: The Heir and Prince
Er, hello… the verse DOES NOT SAY that God was manifest in the flesh. Even a courtesy glance at the Greek text would show you that. Why didn’t you check - Oh, you didn’t want to because it would show you were wrong! But look here:“I and my Father are one” (John 10:30) means that whatever pertains to Jesus, all His acts and doings, are identical with the Will of the Father. Jesus and God also share the same Holy Spirit, so in that sense they are one and the same. Jesus also shares some (but not all) the Attributes of God so in that sense they are one and the same. The verse below says that God was manifest in the flesh; it does not say that God became flesh. God cannot become flesh because God is everlastingly hidden from the eyes of men. No one has ever seen God (John 1:18, 1 John 4:12). Many people saw Jesus so that means that Jesus was not God
1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Jesus was a Servant of God and that is why Jesus said to the Jews:
John 10:25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
John 10:37-38 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
- “This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,” (1 John 4:2)
- “…Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest.” (Hebrews 3:1)
Is God an apostle? Whom is God apostatising for?
You are saying that it wasn’t Jesus Christ BUT GOD who came in the flesh?
But the Greek says ‘Hos’ which is “who, which, what, that”. There is no link to ‘GOD coming anywhere’. In fact, there is absolutely no text anywhere in scriptures where ‘GOD’ comes to mankind or into his creation.
I see you try to make some careful claims but fail none the less. The Father is in Jesus BY HIS SPIRIT OF TRUTH. Jesus fully expresses the truth that comes from the Father and therefore the two are in union with each other:
If I do all that my Father shows me to do and I say all that my Father teaches me to say, am I my Father?
If a king sends an ambassador to his people in a far place and that ambassador expresses exactly what he is told to express to the people, is the ambassador the king?
As a point in question: How do you feel when the truth is shown you and you have to purposely be deceitful with a response? Doesn’t it worry you that you are discrediting the very God you would claim to be worshipping? Remember, I did state that you should consider deeply before you replied.
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