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NASB | John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 1:1 In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. [Gen 1:1; Is 9:6] |
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Bible Note: Hi Mary01: If you're interested, here's my response to Sir Pent's inquiry: Eph 4:6: “One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” This is what I believe. This one God and Father is Jehovah as spoken of at Psalm 83:18: “That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.” Luke 22:42 "Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me (Jesus); yet not My will, but Yours be done." Jesus said at Matt 7: 21: “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” He certainly set the example in putting his own will aside to do that of his Father. But this verse proves that Jesus had his own will as all of God’s intelligent creatures do, and it was his choice to do God’s will rather than his own. This verse does not support a trinity, but rather refutes it. John 1:1 is a matter of translation, but the one that agrees with the context while not violating the original Greek conveys the godlike or divine nature of the Word, Jesus Christ. (I can provide objective support for such translation if desired.) John 1:18; 5:37; 6:46; 1 John 4:12 all harmonize with Exodus 33:20: “For there shall no man see me, and live.” Obviously, John did not believe, nor did he expect his readers to believe that Jesus was God since they were still alive after seeing him. John 10:30 "I (Jesus) and the Father are one." Paul used this same expression at 1 Cor 3:8 in connection with Apollos and his ministries: “Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one.” This did not mean the same person, but unity or oneness in purpose. At John 17:21, 22, Jesus prayed regarding his followers: “That they may all be one,” and he added, “that they may be one even as we are one.” He used the same Greek word (hen) for “one” in all these instances. 2 Cor 5:18 "Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation". I believe this wholeheartedly, but fail to see any relevance to trinity doctrine. Quite the contrary, of necessity it supports the truth that Jesus cannot be God and at the same time the “mediator between God and man.” (1 Tim 2:5) As to why lying to the holy spirit is equated to lying to God as inferred from Acts 5:3,4 and 1 Cor 2:10,11, this is because it is the same. The correct identification of the holy spirit must fit all the scriptures that refer to that spirit. With this viewpoint, it is logical to conclude that the holy spirit is the active force of God. It is not a person but is a powerful force that God causes to emanate from himself to accomplish his holy will. (Ps. 104:30; 2 Pet. 1:21; Acts 4:31) To resist or oppose its influence is tantamount to sinning against the One from whom it issues. Jesus said: “Every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.” (Matt 12:31,32) This can only be the case if Jesus is not God. I cited Psalm 83:18 above that calls Jehovah “the most high.” At Luke 1:32, the angel Gabriel declares to Mary: “He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David.” Jesus is the son of “the Highest.” Thus he himself confesses: “My Father is greater than I.” (John 14:28) As the earliest Christians understood of their lord and savior Christ Jesus, he is the beloved, only-begotten, first created son of the only true God (John 17:3)through whom he created everything else. He has always been and will continue to be subject to his Father after he has completely accomplished his Father’s will of reaffirming God’s universal sovereignty by means of the Messianic Kingdom. “And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.” (1Cor 15:24-28) |