Prior Book | Prior Chapter | Prior Verse | Next Verse | Next Chapter | Next Book | Viewing NASB and Amplified 2015 | |
NASB | John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 1:18 No one has seen God [His essence, His divine nature] at any time; the [One and] only begotten God [that is, the unique Son] who is in the intimate presence of the Father, He has explained Him [and interpreted and revealed the awesome wonder of the Father]. [Prov 8:30] |
Subject: John 1:18 "only begotten God". |
Bible Note: Hi Tim, I don't feel that Jehovah Witnesses are a cult. Matter of fact, I feel they are the only true religion on earth today. You see my friend, you believe, Jesus is Jehovah and I have shown you scriptures from "The Bible" and you totally disregrad them. Jesus called God "the only true God" John 17:3. Never did he refer to God as a deity of plural persons. No where in the Bible do you see anyone elso called, "Almighty", except Jehovah. Neither Jesus not the holy spirit is ever called that, for Jehovah alone is supereme. At Genesis 17:1 he declares: "I am God Almighty." And Exodus 18:11 says, "Jehovah is greater than all the other gods. When God sent Jesus to earth as the ransom, he made Jesus to be what would satisfy justice, not an incarnation, not a god-man, but a perfect man, "lower than the angels." heb 2:9, compare Ps 8:5,6. How could any part of an almighty Godhead, Father, Son, Holy Spitit, ever be lower than angels? The Bible calls Jesus the "only begotten Son" of God. John 1:14, 3:16,18; 1 John 4:9. Trinitarians say that since God is eternal, so the Son of God is eternal. But how can a person be a Son and at the same time be as old as his Father? Jesus never claimed to be God. Everything he said about himself indicates that he did not consider himself equal to God in anyway, not in power, not in knowledge, not in age. In every period of his existence, whether in heaven or on earth, his speech and conduct reflect subordination to God. God is always the Superior, Jesus the lesser one who was created by God. At John 20:17, "Jesus said to Mary Magdalene, "I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. RS, Catholic Edition, At 2 Cor. 1:3 the apostle Paul comfirms this relationship. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." Since Jesus had a God, his Father, he could not at the same time be that God. Paul also stated at 1Cor. 8:6, JB. "For us there is one God, the Father and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ. Mark 10:18, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone." So Jesus is saying that no one is as good as God is, not even Jesus himself. I have come down from heaven to do, not my will, but the will of HIM that sent me. John 6:38. What I teach is not mine, but belongs to HIM that sent me. John 7:16. Is not the sender superior to the one sent? When Jesus was baptized, God's voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved. Matt. 3:16,17. Was God saying that he was his own son, that he approved himself, that he sent himself? God is superior for he anointed Jesus, giving him authority that he did not previously have. Mat. 20:23. A mother of two disciples asked that her sons sit one at the right and one at the left of Jesus when he came into his Kingdom. Jesus answered, "YOU will indeed drink my cup, but this sitting down at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father." Had Jesus been Almighty God, those positions would haave been his to give. But Jesus could not give them, for they were God's to give, and Jesus was not God. At Hebrews 5:8, we read that Jesus "learned obedience from the things he suffered." God did not have to learn anything. But Jesus did, he didn't know everything God knew. And he had to learn, obedience. God never has to obey anyone. The difference between what God knows and what Christ knows also existed when Jesus was resurrected to heaven to be with God. Note the first words of the last book of the Bible. "The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him." Rev 1:1 RS, Catholic Edition. If Jesus himself were part of a Godhead, would he have to be given a revelation by another part of the Godhead, GOD? Of course he would have known all about it, GOD knew. But Jesus did not know for he was not God. I refer everyone on the board to, http://www.watchtower.org/ |