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How is He the Son of God and yet God?
It's not as complicated as some people think it is. God is able to send His Spirit forth. As the Spirit moved upon the deep in Genesis 1. What happened with the incarnation is that God simply made Himself a body. (A body hast thou prepared for me Heb. 10:5) and then sent His holy Spirit to inhabit it in the womb. God is able to send His Spirit to any number of places at once.
The body which was created by birth was Fathered by the holy Spirit in the womb. This makes this body the Son of God. (Luke 1:35) By the holy Spirit inhabiting this body in the womb and being born, the Spirit takes on the nature of the Son of God. There is an important reason for this. The reason God wanted to be His own Son is that once He sends the Spirit into us; proving that we are the children of God through that same Spirit. (gal. 4:6) If the Spirit had never been manifest in the flesh as the Son of God; then He would not give us the right to be the children of God. (John 1:12)
Furthermore, in order for Him to save the children of Adam. He had to be born into Adam's bloodline. He must be one of us to save us. Whoever is born of Adam is born with a sinful heart. Adam and Eve were the original human sinners. Because the rule that God ordained in the beginning was that everything bears seed after it's own kind. And the sins are passed down through the father. (Ex. 20:5) As it says He visits the iniquities of the fathers to the third and fourth generation. So, Jesus needed a Father that had no sin. Or else His heart would not be pure. The “immaculate heart” as the Catholics say. There was only one who was worthy to be His Father. That is God who has no sin. (1 John 3:9) He absolutely had to be born the Son of God. He cannot be anything else and still be called the “spotless” Lamb of God; the atonement for sins. (Mark 10:18)
Jesus came as the second Adam to remake us in His own image through rebirth. (1 Cor. 15:45-49) That is so that we can be made according to His good heart instead of Adam's sinful heart. Jesus Christ is who God was talking to in Genesis. “Let us make man in our image” (Gen. 1:26) God foreordained that Jesus would come to remake man in His own image from the beginning and before the foundation of the world as it says in first Peter 1:20. God was speaking to Himself through the ages in foreknowledge.
Jesus is actually doubly the Son of God. First by being born of a virgin. (Luke 1:35) And secondly He is the Son of God again through the resurrection. (Col. 1:18) He was made first a corruptible body that He may die on our behalf, but when He was raised He was raised as an incorruptible body. (1 Cor. 15:45-49) Thus conquering death and being named the first begotten of the dead. (Rev. 1:5) The first fruits of the resurrection. (1 Cor. 15:20) Without His body no other bodies will be resurrected in the end. “Together with my dead will they rise.” (Isa. 26:19)
Why do some scriptures seem as if He was always the Son?
God was always also the Son of God by foreordaination and predestination. But there was a time when He actually became in the world what He was already in foreknowledge. As John 1:1 says the Word(the predestined Logos/Word/idea of the Son of God) was with God(in foreknowledge) and was God.(He is God. This means that God intended beforehand to be manifest in the flesh.) This is also what John 17:5 is talking about. Many people believe that John 17:5 proves that Jesus Christ existed separate from the Father but with the Father from before the world was. For those who take this position, they must consider this question. What is the glory He had with the Father before the world was? John 17:5 “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.”
Many of them would probably say; that He was speaking of the ascension where He would again be with His Father in the glory He had before He came to earth. That sounds good, but is that what the Bible says? In Luke 24:26 Jesus connects the suffering on the cross with the glory He would enter into. So, it is apparent that Jesus enters into this glory by way of the cross. So, I believe that the glory mentioned in John 17:5 is the glory He would receive through His work on the cross. Luke 24:26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? How does He have it before the world was then? By predestination. In 1 Peter 1:19-20 it is made very clear that He was foreordained from before the foundation of the world to suffer these things for us. So, in John 17:5, He was just about to receive that glory that was waiting with the Father for Him from before the foundation of the world.
1 Peter 1:19-20 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
Just as there was a time when He became the Son of God which He always was by foreknowledge, there was also time when He became the Anointed One(The Christ) that He always was by foreknowledge. This was when the holy Spirit descended upon Him at the baptism, as is written of in Acts 10:38.
The day spring from on High in the flesh Luke 1:78
Jesus was literally a fountain of measureless Spirit in the flesh. It was given to Him without measure. (John 3:34)
Why did God become a man?
He did so for our sakes. God had already known that He needed to save mankind. Therefore ahead of His own manifestation; He promised certain power to mankind. These powers were promised and preserved for the coming of the Anointed One who was ordained by God in order to fulfill all things. Nothing without Him is fulfilled. So, God promised these powers unto man knowing that He would come in the form of man and take these powers back to Himself. Why go through all the trouble? For our sakes. It is not as if God fears death, hell, satan, sin, the world, the flesh etc. All these enemies are the enemies of Adam not to be feared by God. So, God in infinite wisdom ordained that He, Himself would take our enemies to be His own enemies and defeat those enemies for our sakes. Thus, God needed to become the Son of man.
Why does Jesus sit on the right hand of God; if He is God?
In becoming a man He truly defeated all our enemies. Now, He sits where? On the right hand of God; still in form the Son of man so that in the form of the Son of man; all enemies will be subdued unto mankind through Him and put under His (human) feet. He would do so through the power that was promised unto Him in the prophecies of the scriptures. Ultimately It was a mission of reconciliation. He came to reconcile all things unto Himself. When His mission is complete, then and only then will the Son of man at the head of all His brethren(those born anew in His likeness) deliver the kingdom(restored and healed) up to the Father. Then the Father will be all and in all.
Why do the epistles emphasize the Father and then the Son so much?
It is my belief that they do this because the human manifestation of God (the Son of God) is so important. The human manifestation of God is literally our (humanities) Salvation. In fact the name Jesus in Hebrew means Salvation. Jesus called Himself the resurrection and the Life. It is through His passion; His death burial and resurrection that we have any hope. Not only us, but those who came before are also not saved without Him. Their “Salvation” (Yeshua) as well. As the Spirit of Jesus spoke by Isaiah saying “together with MY dead body will they arise”. We have no resurrection without the rising of the body of Christ who is the first-begotten from the dead forever.
In the early days of the church there were false doctrines as there are now. The early church had to be very clear on the humanity of Jesus; not just the Divinity of Jesus. Now, we have to stress the divinity of Jesus more (while not ignoring His humanity either).
It's not as complicated as some people think it is. God is able to send His Spirit forth. As the Spirit moved upon the deep in Genesis 1. What happened with the incarnation is that God simply made Himself a body. (A body hast thou prepared for me Heb. 10:5) and then sent His holy Spirit to inhabit it in the womb. God is able to send His Spirit to any number of places at once.
The body which was created by birth was Fathered by the holy Spirit in the womb. This makes this body the Son of God. (Luke 1:35) By the holy Spirit inhabiting this body in the womb and being born, the Spirit takes on the nature of the Son of God. There is an important reason for this. The reason God wanted to be His own Son is that once He sends the Spirit into us; proving that we are the children of God through that same Spirit. (gal. 4:6) If the Spirit had never been manifest in the flesh as the Son of God; then He would not give us the right to be the children of God. (John 1:12)
Furthermore, in order for Him to save the children of Adam. He had to be born into Adam's bloodline. He must be one of us to save us. Whoever is born of Adam is born with a sinful heart. Adam and Eve were the original human sinners. Because the rule that God ordained in the beginning was that everything bears seed after it's own kind. And the sins are passed down through the father. (Ex. 20:5) As it says He visits the iniquities of the fathers to the third and fourth generation. So, Jesus needed a Father that had no sin. Or else His heart would not be pure. The “immaculate heart” as the Catholics say. There was only one who was worthy to be His Father. That is God who has no sin. (1 John 3:9) He absolutely had to be born the Son of God. He cannot be anything else and still be called the “spotless” Lamb of God; the atonement for sins. (Mark 10:18)
Jesus came as the second Adam to remake us in His own image through rebirth. (1 Cor. 15:45-49) That is so that we can be made according to His good heart instead of Adam's sinful heart. Jesus Christ is who God was talking to in Genesis. “Let us make man in our image” (Gen. 1:26) God foreordained that Jesus would come to remake man in His own image from the beginning and before the foundation of the world as it says in first Peter 1:20. God was speaking to Himself through the ages in foreknowledge.
Jesus is actually doubly the Son of God. First by being born of a virgin. (Luke 1:35) And secondly He is the Son of God again through the resurrection. (Col. 1:18) He was made first a corruptible body that He may die on our behalf, but when He was raised He was raised as an incorruptible body. (1 Cor. 15:45-49) Thus conquering death and being named the first begotten of the dead. (Rev. 1:5) The first fruits of the resurrection. (1 Cor. 15:20) Without His body no other bodies will be resurrected in the end. “Together with my dead will they rise.” (Isa. 26:19)
Why do some scriptures seem as if He was always the Son?
God was always also the Son of God by foreordaination and predestination. But there was a time when He actually became in the world what He was already in foreknowledge. As John 1:1 says the Word(the predestined Logos/Word/idea of the Son of God) was with God(in foreknowledge) and was God.(He is God. This means that God intended beforehand to be manifest in the flesh.) This is also what John 17:5 is talking about. Many people believe that John 17:5 proves that Jesus Christ existed separate from the Father but with the Father from before the world was. For those who take this position, they must consider this question. What is the glory He had with the Father before the world was? John 17:5 “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.”
Many of them would probably say; that He was speaking of the ascension where He would again be with His Father in the glory He had before He came to earth. That sounds good, but is that what the Bible says? In Luke 24:26 Jesus connects the suffering on the cross with the glory He would enter into. So, it is apparent that Jesus enters into this glory by way of the cross. So, I believe that the glory mentioned in John 17:5 is the glory He would receive through His work on the cross. Luke 24:26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? How does He have it before the world was then? By predestination. In 1 Peter 1:19-20 it is made very clear that He was foreordained from before the foundation of the world to suffer these things for us. So, in John 17:5, He was just about to receive that glory that was waiting with the Father for Him from before the foundation of the world.
1 Peter 1:19-20 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
Just as there was a time when He became the Son of God which He always was by foreknowledge, there was also time when He became the Anointed One(The Christ) that He always was by foreknowledge. This was when the holy Spirit descended upon Him at the baptism, as is written of in Acts 10:38.
The day spring from on High in the flesh Luke 1:78
Jesus was literally a fountain of measureless Spirit in the flesh. It was given to Him without measure. (John 3:34)
Why did God become a man?
He did so for our sakes. God had already known that He needed to save mankind. Therefore ahead of His own manifestation; He promised certain power to mankind. These powers were promised and preserved for the coming of the Anointed One who was ordained by God in order to fulfill all things. Nothing without Him is fulfilled. So, God promised these powers unto man knowing that He would come in the form of man and take these powers back to Himself. Why go through all the trouble? For our sakes. It is not as if God fears death, hell, satan, sin, the world, the flesh etc. All these enemies are the enemies of Adam not to be feared by God. So, God in infinite wisdom ordained that He, Himself would take our enemies to be His own enemies and defeat those enemies for our sakes. Thus, God needed to become the Son of man.
Why does Jesus sit on the right hand of God; if He is God?
In becoming a man He truly defeated all our enemies. Now, He sits where? On the right hand of God; still in form the Son of man so that in the form of the Son of man; all enemies will be subdued unto mankind through Him and put under His (human) feet. He would do so through the power that was promised unto Him in the prophecies of the scriptures. Ultimately It was a mission of reconciliation. He came to reconcile all things unto Himself. When His mission is complete, then and only then will the Son of man at the head of all His brethren(those born anew in His likeness) deliver the kingdom(restored and healed) up to the Father. Then the Father will be all and in all.
Why do the epistles emphasize the Father and then the Son so much?
It is my belief that they do this because the human manifestation of God (the Son of God) is so important. The human manifestation of God is literally our (humanities) Salvation. In fact the name Jesus in Hebrew means Salvation. Jesus called Himself the resurrection and the Life. It is through His passion; His death burial and resurrection that we have any hope. Not only us, but those who came before are also not saved without Him. Their “Salvation” (Yeshua) as well. As the Spirit of Jesus spoke by Isaiah saying “together with MY dead body will they arise”. We have no resurrection without the rising of the body of Christ who is the first-begotten from the dead forever.
In the early days of the church there were false doctrines as there are now. The early church had to be very clear on the humanity of Jesus; not just the Divinity of Jesus. Now, we have to stress the divinity of Jesus more (while not ignoring His humanity either).