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NASB | John 4:24 "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 4:24 "God is spirit [the Source of life, yet invisible to mankind], and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." |
Subject: Jesus has two nature but yet he is one. |
Bible Note: I relate to my dead mother as a woman - she isn't anymore - I truly believe she is a spirit now. I'm getting very confused - things aren't getting more clear. It seems like your questions are almost unreasonable? I re-read - "Hodge writes this in reference to His human qualification: "1. He must be a man. The Apostle assigns as the reason why Christ assumed our nature and not the nature of angels, that He came to redeem us. (Hebrews 2. 14–16). It was necessary that He should be made under the law which we had broken; that He should fulfil all righteousness; that He should suffer and die; that He should be able to sympathize in all the infirmities of his people, and that He should be united to them in a common nature. He who sanctifies (purifies from sin both as guilt and as pollution) and those who are sanctified are and must be of one nature. Therefore as the children were partakers of flesh and blood, He also took part of the same. (Hebrews 2. 11–14.)" "These qualifications for the office of mediator between God and man are all declared in the Scriptures to be essential; they all met in Christ; and they all were demanded by the nature of the work which He came to perform." "As it was necessary that Christ should be both God and man in two distinct natures and one person, in order to effect our redemption, it follows that his mediatorial work, which includes all He did and is still doing for the salvation of men, is the work not of his human to the exclusion of his divine nature, nor of the latter to the exclusion of the former. It is the work of the the anthropos, of the God-man." So - Hodge used a lot of nice phrases and states things he believes - that don't mean anything to me. Because someone is a believer, a conservative, a teacher - doesn't mean I have to agree or believe or even understand what they are saying. I do believe Jesus/Christ was a man and that He had to be to get through to us - and to be able to feel and voice our situations. That's like saying - I was an assembly line worker - and so I understand their position and I can now talk to management for them. I am no longer an assembly line worker (actually, never was). You say - And again - The main challenge is this: Can you provide a scriptural basis to show Christ ceased being a man?" No - but I'm not seeing scriptural proof that He's still a human (walking around on this earth as a man - no, I don't see it???) I think this is like beating a dead horse into the ground, as the old saying goes. I'm researching, I have knowledgeable, Biblical experts, trying to help me with this also. If they come back with an answer that is clear - for a simpleton like myself - then maybe this will make some sense. Right now it seems to get muddier and muddier and it's not getting clear. Still, His servant... |