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Bible Question:
Aixen7z4... In your post you said... Jesus is God. His Father is God. The Holy Spirit is God. But they are three separate beings. How would you then explain the foundational belief of the Israelites that set them apart from the rest of the nations in that they worshipped one God known as the One True God, Jehovah, Yahweh, etc. The very first thing that God had Moses tell the people was: "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! See Deut. 6:4 This is a foundational doctrine that Christians also believe and also sets us apart from other religions with the excepton of Islam which is also monotheistic...we serve one God not three. Another user gave some analogies in an attempt to explain the plurality of God, but a better one would be a man or a woman since we are made in the image of God. We are body, soul and spirit. A man can be a son, a husband, a father, etc. He functions differently as each, but is still the same person. I would suggest a word study on Spirit. Also, take special note of John 14:17-19. When promising the Spirit of Truth, he clearly states it is him. vs 18 "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Because of the lateness of the hour, this is all I will say for now. As some like to say... Speaking the truth in love, Bows44 |
Bible Answer: God is three in one. “You believe that there is one God, you do well” (James 2:19). But even as we speak, “there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one” (1 John 5:7). It is true that we were made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). However, “This only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions” (Ecclesiastes 7:29). We have invented many schemes, various devices, beaucoup de détours, muchas perversiones. It may be that we are sincere in trying to understand. But I wonder why it is so difficult. The analogies are neither necessary nor appropriate. The same verse which said we are in God’s image says that we are male and female (Genesis 1:27). And God said a man and his wife shall be one flesh (Genesis 2:24). I wonder if we find that hard to understand or to accept, that two people can be one. It may be that the concept of oneness is hard to understand or to accept. But the word says, “He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit“ (1 Corinthians 6:17). It seems to be the plan of God, then, that not only the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, but we ourselves should be joined into that oneness. It is not that we will be God, but we will be one with God. He has made us one in Jesus (Romans 12). “For as we have many members in one body, … so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another“. And in the end, it will all come together. “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 (1 Corinthians 15:28). A man and a woman are one. The church with all its members is one. The three persons of the Godhead are one. Tow people do not make two families. Many believers do not make many churches. And three people do not imply three Gods. There is one God. They are one. |