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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] |
Subject: Is Jesus was another of God's tests? |
Bible Note: Exodus_20, We believe in one God, that manifests as three eternally distinct persons. This is what we call the Trinity. Is this easy to understand? No. However, God did give us an example using the man and wife: Gen 1 26 And God saith, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth." 27 And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them. Notice "Us" and "Our" in verse 26, but "He" and "Him" in the very next verse (27). Gen 2 23 and the man saith, "This [is] the [proper] step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!" for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken; 24 therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh. (Young's Literal Translation) So just as a man and his wife are "one" flesh (but two persons), the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are "one" God (but three persons, the Trinity). Philippians 2 5 For, let this mind be in you that [is] also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, thought [it] not robbery to be equal to God, (YLT) So Jesus speaks of more than one person because they are more than one person, but one God. I hope this helps. |