Subject: The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost. |
Bible Note: Remember God is a Spirit, and the bible says no man hath seen him at any time. He is omnipresent meaning he is everywhere at once he is even in the future and the past at the same time. (Awesome thought!) So how can we interact with a spirit or see a spirit? God would have to manifest or show himself. Read Isaiah you will find scripture after scripture that there is only ONE God. There isn't any beside him, no one before him, and NO ONE AFTER him. So we conclude one God. 1 Ti. 3:16 Without controversy (or without a question of a doubt) great is the mystery of godliness, God was MANIFEST (made to see plainly) in the flesh (or the form of man) justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles(No one until Jesus ever preached to gentiles) believed on in the world, and received up into glory. (who was believed on and received up into glory? Jesus!) So we find a man, that was actually God manifested to us in the form of a human. God manifest in the flesh. Granted it's hard to comprehend how a all powerful God could limit himself in the confines of man. Yet he did. Phil. 2:6 Says Jesus being in the FORM of (an invisible spirit) God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. How because he was God in the flesh. Read Jn. 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God and the Word WAS GOD. The word being everything God is. Read on Down this word (13) And the word was made flesh (in the form of man. The invisible God was made in the form of a man) and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Begotten actually came from 3 Greeks words which mean 1)soley by oneself 2)to come into existence 3) to be like... So Jesus was the only one to ever be created who we could behold that was like God he alone is the only one like God that has come into existence or was created. God has always been. Does this mean he is seperate from God and they both are two? No, remember in Isaiah God said no one would be after him. He wouldn't allow anyone to receive his glory. However he allowed Jesus because through Jesus the manifest form of God, God is glorified. 1 Co. 4:4 says Jesus is the image of God, He. 1:3 says he is the brightness of his glory and his express image of his person. Jesus is the form of God in man. A picture if you will of God. IF you see a picture of yourself it's you but it's not all of you. Jesus was a glimpse of who God was but not the complete form of God as he was merely a man. God is so much bigger than a man so much more to him, just as there is so much more to you than a mere picture. However being in the form of God he thought it not reobbery to be equal with God. Jn. 10:30-33 Jesus said "I and my Father are one." this took the Jews back so much they picked up rocks to stone him, for blasphemy. verse 33 says that Jesus blasphemed by making himself God being in the form of man. Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his own life.... 1Jn. 3:16 "Hereby perceive we (in this we can catch a glimpse) of God (note it doesn't say Jesus) hereby perceive we the Love of God, because HE (not Jesus) laid down his own life for us... 2 Cor. 5:19 "To wit, (or to think) God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself..." Jesus was simply God. Remember God is so much bigger than we can comprehend. He can manifest himself in 10 different spots as 10 different forms and that doesn't seperate him or make more than one God. It is just how God sees to show himself to us if you will. The Holy Spirit is just that "THE" Holy Spirit. God is a Spirit, ane he alone is holy. The Holy Spirit has always been so it brings me back to Isaiah, if there were no God's beside him where would the Holy spirit have been. It was just another name for God. Names in the OT usually held a specific characteristic or meaning. If still unclear ask again or if wanting more scriptures just ask... |