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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] |
Bible Question:
What i have seen that the Lord our God, says of Himself. i wondered why when you share this it is so often refused or called false? It relates to what Jesus and the scribe discussed in Mark 12.28 to 34 What i saw in the Jewish scriptures. Isa.40 18 And to whom do you compare God, and what likeness do you arrange for Him? (He asks all of us?) Isa.40 25 Now, to whom will you compare Me that I should be equal? says the Holy One.(He asks who may be equal to Him? As well as each and every one of these verses uses a singular, when He speaks of Himself? He asks each one of us again, a question?) Isa.46 5 To whom shall you liken Me and make Me equal and compare Me that we may be alike?(3nd time He asks us this?) Isa.46 9 Remember the first things of old, that I am God and there is no other. I am God and there is none like Me.. (Ok, so He tells us, to remember what He told us from the start, His same desire to make what He says of Himself known to all? As well as there is no other, that He is God and there is none like Me?) He answers these questions many times in His word, over and over. So what am i, are we to do with these things? Change them to fit our belief, or accept them? That has been a question ive asked myself alot lately, after seeing what He says of Himself. im not real sure what to do what was given, but i think i must accept what He says? T or F? |
Bible Answer: Wings, It seems to me that your question is concerning the trinity. There is indeed a oneness in God that is so deep it is difficulty to explain. However, there are two ways you can overstate this oneness. 1.) You can overstate this oneness by denying the diety of Christ and the Holy Spirit. Scripture affirms the diety of these. So whatever Scripture is saying in these verses affirming their diety, it can not be used to contradict that or we have mishandled those passages. 2.) We can overstate God's oneness by denying the distinctions between the three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This would be akin to saying that Jesus is God but there is no distinction at all between Christ and the Father. Scripture does teach a distinction. Now within that bounds it is very fair to say that we can not begin to grasp the intense way in which they are united. Christ does affirm that anybody who sees Him has seen the Father. And Paul affirms that the Spirit is the Lord and again he calls it the Spirit of Christ. Their unity is deep beyond our ability to explain. But we must not let our inability to explain cause us to ignore either scriptures testimony of Christ's diety or its testimony of their distinctness. How should we feel about this? First, we affirm what scripture affirms whether we can explain it or not. Second, we ought to see a certain appropriatness to our inability to explain "what" God is. He is beyond our understanding. It is ours to know what He has revealed, not to explore the depths of his composition. In Christ, Beja |