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Bible Note: Hi Pastor Glenn, You wrote: ...... ........ .......The scriptures that you give show the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ........ When you say "deity" of the Lord Jesus Christ do you mean Jesus is a mighty spirit being that has been given all authority in the universe and was maker of both the angels in heaven and material universe eons of time ago? Well certainly, I totally agree. But if you mean that our Lord Jesus is the God that Jesus told Satan at Mat. 4:10 you must render sacred service that I will have to agree with Jesus and not you. Yes, the deity of Christ must be relative, otherwise the ransome sacrifice is nulified, Jesus really is not God's "only-begotten son", and each time Jesus called his Father "God" was meaningless. Can you imagine the Father ever saying, "My God" in reference to his son? I can't and don't think any reasonable person would. Yet Jesus does numerous times. Thus Rev. 3:14 tells us that after His resurection the "Beginning of the creation of God", means Jesus was the beginning, the very first creation of his Father eons of time ago. ........Rev 3 14 "And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans[6] write, "These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: We see this as referring to Jesus, after His ressurection, as the firstborn of a new spiritual order of beings. He is the second Adam in the sence that all that have faith in Him can become part of God's family......... ........Col 1 15He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. Can't you see why He must be God? Not merely "a god"? All scripture pointed to Him to save all that accept Him throughout time......... Col. 1:15 simply says that "He (Jesus) is the image (not God himself) of the invisible God, the firstborn (first not second born son of God) (angels are sons on God but not his firstborn) and verst 16 For by Him (Jesus) all things were created (the Father created all the other sons in heaven and material universe by using Jesus, he was his "masterworker") and verse 17 tells us that Jesus was the firstborn from the dead (he was the first to be resurrected to heaven having died a human). Certainly Jesus being a human proved faithful and made the ransome sacrifice valid. If he had failed then God would have had to made other arrangements for mankind. But if he had been Almighty God himself then where is the love of offering himself on behalf of mankind. No he offered his beloved "son" as a ransom for "all". ........Abraham saw Him. Job saw Him. Jacob wrestled with Him. The mercy seat in the Ark of the covenant represented Him. No one can stand in for God like that. He must "be" God......... Pastor Glenn, please explain this verse then. John 1:18, "No man has seen God at any time; the only-begotten god who is in the bosom [position] with the Father is the one that has explained him." You say mere man as actually seen God Almighty? And who is the "only-begotten god" ? Truthfinder |