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NASB | John 3:11 "Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 3:11 "I assure you and most solemnly say to you, we speak only of what we [absolutely] know and testify about what we have [actually] seen [as eyewitnesses]; and [still] you [reject our evidence and] do not accept our testimony. |
Subject: Who is the son of man which is in heaven |
Bible Note: Thanks for the input, Ray, but I wouldn't capitalize "one" in this case. Since I used "one" to replace the phrase "human being," it shouldn't be capitalized. Jesus is the only human being who was an eyewitness of heaven. (It's a fairly small point, but I think that is carrying capitalization a little too far.) Jesus' divinity -- as God the Son -- is eternal. While His humanity is not eternal, having begun at the incarnation, it is nevertheless everlasting from that time forward. I think I follow what you're saying in that "God is not a son of man," and that Jesus "was not a human being in heaven." No, "God the Son" was not a human being before He first came to the earth. However, He is certainly a "son of man" now. "Son of Man" was Jesus' favorite Old Testament Messianic term for Himself. Christ will be a human being forever -- in a resurrected body as the "first-born" human being from the dead. God the Son is now, and always will be going forward, a human being in heaven. He will always be fully God and fully man. In Christ's love, Brent |