What are the differences between God and Jesus Christ?

[TrueBeliever37]

While debating or even simply discussing or preaching, about our ONLY TRUE GOD and Jesus Christ, submissions always seem to highlight vast differences between the two while declaring that the two are EXACTLY ALIKE…

The term, ‘Image of God’ is used frequently to declare that Jesus Christ is God while denying that ‘Image of God’ as pertaining to mankind does not make mankind God.

It may also strike a cord with anyone if linguistic integrity that an image of something cannot be the thing it images… yet advocates of the ‘Jesus is image of God and is therefore God’ do not agree with this truth!

You know I am speaking of Trinitarians so let me say this also: Many occasions Jesus Christ is said to be EQUAL TO GOD by Trinitarians.

Can I ask how something can he EQUAL to something else and bd that something else at the same time (or even possibly be that other something anyway… this relates to the same as ‘Jesus is image of God and is God’ outlined above!)

Penultimately as an opener: How does Jesus Christ, as God, decide when he wants to be MAN and NOT GOD!?

Ultimately, If Jesus IS God, why does he get to he GRANTED the rulership over creation at the end of time … when in fact, as God, he would ALREADY BY RULER over the GREATER KINGDOM OF HEAVEN…. (Remember that Creation is only a room in the VAST MANSION that is Heaven:

• “In my Father’s house there are many room. I go to prepare [one of these rooms] for you (the Elect)!”

Please try to stick to answering the questions **mod edit**.

To me there is a big difference in being made in the image of God, and actually being the image of God. Mankind was made in the image of God. While the Messiah actually was the image of the invisible God.

God is a Spirit, and as such is invisible to us. Once he took on a body, that body could be seen. That body was his image.

The Father is the eternal Spirit. The Son is the fleshly body the Father took on, and sacrificed for the world. The Father (God) was the one dwelling in that body. The body itself was flesh so that it could die and shed blood for our sins.

 

[muhammad_isa]

God is a Spirit, and as such is invisible to us. Once he took on a body, that body could be seen. That body was his image

Hmm .. I thought that G-d has put His spirit into every human being. Therefore, suggesting G-d is a spirit is surely too simplistic?

The Father is the eternal Spirit..

The Father is G-d. He is eternal and is the source of all spirits.

The Son is the fleshly body the Father took on, and sacrificed for the world. The Father (God) was the one dwelling in that body.

Illogical. A human being cannot be finite and have infinite attributes.

 

[Soapy]

To me there is a big difference in being made in the image of God, and actually being the image of God. Mankind was made in the image of God. While the Messiah actually was the image of the invisible God.

God is a Spirit, and as such is invisible to us. Once he took on a body, that body could be seen. That body was his image.

The Father is the eternal Spirit. The Son is the fleshly body the Father took on, and sacrificed for the world. The Father (God) was the one dwelling in that body. The body itself was flesh so that it could die and shed blood for our sins.

Are you sure you have your belief right?

First you say your god took on flesh …

but then next you say that flesh was Jesus…

but it was the Father….

But it was God that was dwelling in the body…

So there were two persons… confused in state and in mind!

THIS IS YOUR GOD?

 

[Soapy]

The problem here are on two levels.

1) You haven't explained either 1 Thes 5:23 where it specifically says:
May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

3 parts, one person.

2) The true components of a computer:

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So, to call it "lies" sounds more like a dogmatic "this is what I believe no matter what scriptures says".

What about the GPU…?

Do you know much about computers?

5 parts of a basic computer

• A motherboard.
• A Central Processing Unit (CPU)
• A Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), also known as a video card.
• Random Access Memory (RAM), also known as volatile memory.
• Storage: Solid State Drive (SSD) or Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

And do not forget the SPIRIT of the computer:

• The Computer Program

So, like a human, a computer is:

1. One part hardware (Body) and
2. one part ‘Software’ (Spirit)

Man makes creates a being in his own image!

But that image is flawed (The ‘wounded beast’ of the Book of Revelation!)

 

[Kenny]

What about the GPU…?

Do you know much about computers?

5 parts of a basic computer

• A motherboard.
• A Central Processing Unit (CPU)
• A Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), also known as a video card.
• Random Access Memory (RAM), also known as volatile memory.
• Storage: Solid State Drive (SSD) or Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

And do not forget the SPIRIT of the computer:

• The Computer Program

So, like a human, a computer is:

1. One part hardware (Body) and
2. one part ‘Software’ (Spirit)

Man makes creates a being in his own image!

But that image is flawed (The ‘wounded beast’ of the Book of Revelation!)

LOL... i believe I had said in times past, every analogy eventually fall apart.

That is why I simply say that God made man in His image and in His likeness. No analogy because man is made up of a spirit and a soul and a body. 3 parts, one being... just like Elohiym.