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1 | Is the UPC a Christian Church? | Matt 24:11 | Makarios | 142976 | ||
Greetings Jcsav, You ask: "If the Father was not made flesh. Then Jesus could not have fully been God. If he need the Father and the Holy Ghost to Be God. And If he Didn't then why can't I call God by His Name "Jesus"? If I understand your syntax correctly, you ask: 'How can Jesus be God when neither the Father nor the Spirit were made flesh?' I hope that I am correct in interpreting your Question, and I will proceed on that basis. The Father never became fully man like Jesus did. In fact, the Father sent the Son (Jesus) to be made flesh (John 3:16-17; Daniel 7:13-14). Only Jesus became fully man, and was fully man and fully God at the same time (Colossians 2:9). Hebrews 2:14-15 gives us the reason that Jesus had to become a man. To deny that Jesus was not God because He became a man is to put oneself outside the pale of orthodoxy (see 1 John 4:2,3) and into heresy. There are innumerable passages in the New Testament that confirm Christ's full humanity, but scripture also is clear that Jesus never surrendered any aspect of His deity when He became fully man. In no way was Jesus "less than" God because of the Incarnation. Also, Jesus was the ONLY Person of the Godhead that experienced full humanity. God the Father was not required to become fully man and neither did the Holy Spirit have to become fully man for Jesus to become fully man, as He did. Nowhere in scripture does it say that God the Father and God the Holy Spirit were ever required to become, or ever became, fully human Themselves. And scripture does not say that Jesus was not fully God while He walked on earth in human form. I pray that this helps, Makarios |
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2 | Is the UPC a Christian Church? | Matt 24:11 | jcsav | 143047 | ||
You stated the Jesus was the Only Person of the Godhead that experienced full humanity.Do that mean that the others have experience humanity to some degree? And if the son is not the Godhead, along, then why do the Scriptures say that In Him dwellth all the fullness of the Godhead, bodily? Do you see bodily meaning something other than the Physical body of Christ? | ||||||