If one can get their head around the trinity and how exactly it is suppose to work. I guess one can argue that we are talking about monotheism.
Personally I do not buy the trinity and think Jesus or his followers saw him as the son of God, exactly as he also say in the bible. It doesn't mean that we are not talking about just one God, as Jesus never claimed, as far as I know, to be greater than or equal to that of God.
“the son of God”...
I rant and rage over the meaning of this term. I cannot believe that virtually the whole of Christendom cannot understand that it does not pertain to a procreated being... that God does not Procreate... he only Creates... hence his humanised title of ‘
Father’, which means:
- He who CREATES
- He who BRINGS FORTH
- He who is The Head
God CREATED the heavenly host of spiritual beings, messengers, workers... we call them ‘Angels’ (which is just the Greekish: ‘Angelos’) We should bare this in mind always and not think that ‘Angel’ is specific to the host alone: anyone sent by God to do good works is, in effect, an ‘Angelos’.
God, the Father (not ’God the Father’), used the Angelos’s during the creation of the world. You will read that this sounds heretical because it is claimed that God created the world and all in it by himself. Well, this IS TRUE. He DID. But remember that the ‘angels’ (I’ll use this version for simplicity) are effectively ‘Tools’ (immensely powerful and hugely intelligent) hence no matter how they appear to humanity, they MUST NOT BE BOWED DOWN TO!!! Hence, no reference is made as to their part in creation less anyone should seek to exalt them... which, strangely (and what we believe!!!) was the cause of the LEADING ANGEL, who came to be given the warning title of SATAN, thought to claim for himself: He desired worship from Man (first, from Adam, thence from all humanity!). Notice that it was SOLELY the INERT BODY of Adam that was created... it was not a LIVING SOUL. It was not until GOD put THE BREATH OF LIFE into the body that Adam became a LIVING SOUL. Creating a BODY is not a hard thing (for a Spiritual Being) - it is the ENLIVENING of that body that matters. Hence you see later that the set of rebellious angels ‘CREATED BODIES FOR THEMSELVES’ and put THEMSELVES as enlivening spirits into them, thus creating living humanised beings that were greater in certain ways than God made, powers more than God set for true humans. God later destroyed them
by body and released the angel
spirits to darkness and spiritual death after judgement at the end of time.
So, now you see what is meant by, ‘Let us make man in our image’... it means God was talking with the ANGELS. He conversed with then that, after creating the basic universe and non-Godly-spiritual creatures, that they should create a God-Spirit-based being WITH INTELLIGENCE AND POWER LIKE UNTO THEM. These creatures, mankind, were to be manage the world, manage the other creatures, to be SENTIENT above them (as we see we are!) BUT KEEP BEARING IN MIND that ultimately it is the IMAGE OF GOD that we conform to... AND that we are also ‘SERVANTS’ of God... which the Angels are, also! So do not seek to claim I am claiming we are ‘of the angels’ but merely stating that we have, like them, power and authority and intelligence greater than base animals.
And so, God put the Spirit of life into the body of the first man, Adam. Adam is ‘Image of God’. He is a ruler, Judge, Father of all who comes after him, he ‘husbands’ the animals, and manages his environment by the power of God’s Holy Spirit. He does exactly as God tells him, asks him, demands of him, shows him... he is the PERFECT physical earthly IMAGE of HIS CREATOR, his Father: God... he is, ‘SON OF GOD’ (Luke 3:38).
We read that this same Adam was deceived by ... Satan ... and stepped away from following what God told him to do (and what NOT TO DO!!) This is Sin, and unforgivable sin. Thus Adam became NOLONGER. a full follower of the Father, he became no longer: ‘Son of God’.
Jump forward... God desired salvation from Adam’s sin by the death of ANOTHER ADAM... that is to say, another human being MADE IN THE SAME MANNER AS THE FIRST ADAM.
No angels are directly involved here because the BODY of this ‘Last Adam’ is the Egg of the Virgin girl, Mary. The egg, discharged on a monthly basis in a woman, is the base BODY of a baby... but it is INERT (remember???) In human PROCREATION it is the SPERM from a man that ENLIVENS the egg to start the foetal process. Spiritually, the SIN is in the Sperm, so impregnating by a man could not produce a sinless and Holy child as all of humanity is in sin. Thus, God ENLIVENED the egg in Mary by means of his Holy Spirit... ‘The Power of the almighty (Holy Spirit!!) will overshadow you AND THEREFORE the child to be born to you will be HOLY and called, THE SON OF GOD’...
Please, can you see this... Jesus is made in the same manner as the first Adam... hence Jesus is also the LAST ADAM... no other ADAM will be created.
So here we have a second go at a pure, holy, and sinless MAN. This one, God said:
- “Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.“ Isaiah 42:1
In case you don’t know it, the word, ‘Servant’ in Hebrew, also means ‘SON’!!!
So Jesus is NOT GOD but THE SON OF GOD: he will (and does) EXACTLY what God taught him and showed him to do... he is THE ONLY HUMAN BEING to do so eternally and therefore is THE ONLY SON OF GOD... the Son in place of the first Son, Adam!
And see that this theme of ‘The First Son sins’ and another is ‘brought up to REPLACE HIM’ is repeated as testament in scriptures:
- Cain sinned, Seth was brought up in position as ‘Most Beloved of the Father (‘Firstborn’)
- Ishmael sinned, Isaac was made firstborn
- Esau sinned, Jacob was made firstborn
- ... Joseph
- ... David
- ... Solomon
- ADAM, JESUS
This revelation of the ‘firstborn’ (most beloved of the Father) must not be seen as being in any way a diminishing of Jesus’ accomplishment. Those that came before are prophesying the future. Scriptures validates itself and so these examples stand as testament when naysayers try to destroy the word of God. One verse or so may be changed and modified here and there but check diligently and you will qualify from elsewhere the truth. For instance, Jesus NEVER claimed to be God. He stated emphatically:
- ‘I did not call myself God’
- ‘I said only that I was the Son of God’
- ‘My Father taught me what to say and do’
- ‘I can ONLY do what I see my Father doing’
- ‘Of the day and hour only the Father knows, not even the SON!’
- ‘My Father is greater than I’
- ‘I am going to MY GOD...’ (notice he did not say he was ‘going BACK to his Father’)
- (Elsewhere by the Apostles: ‘The time that the Father has set aside for himself’
These are but a few that shows that Jesus was not God and always put GOD, his Father, FIRST... Can ‘God’ put himself SECOND to anyone?
And for those who wrongfully claim that Jesus had two personalities... I feel sorry that you say this! You are frivolously claiming that the greatest man on earth is... schizophrenic!!!
