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To: fabian
God serves no one?

Really?

You assume one who is superior does not serve one who is inferior, yet Jesus said this:

Luke 12:37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

Further, you know that Jesus washed his disciples feet, an act of servitude so low Peter at first refused it. This is the great mystery of God’s nature that is hiding in plain sight in the life of Christ. Do you remember what Jesus said when Philip asked him, “Show us the Father?” He said:

Joh 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

What can that mean? Both Trinitarians and non-Trinitarians agree that Jesus and the Father are not the same person. What can this mean then? I can think of nothing more reasonable that that Jesus means that the true nature of God is revealed to us in the person of Jesus, the only human ever to actually have that uncreated, eternal divine nature. (cf. John 1:1-3). And what is the nature of God we see in Jesus? The purest love, the most transcendent holiness, the ultimate power over created reality, the power to heal both body and soul and raise the dead back into life.

And what is the nature of divine love? Is it to lord it over weaker beings? Or do we have a better insight here:

1Cor 13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, [5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; [6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; [7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

No, the greatest mistake one can make about the nature of God is to miss the fact that He is love, that in being love itself, by nature he does not seek His own, that in calling us to worship him, he is calling us to emulate the servant’s heart he demonstrated for us in the person of Jesus, not to seek his own benefit, but to benefit us:

Php 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:[7] But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: [8] And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

When you have seen Jesus serving us, loving us unto death itself, you have truly seen the Father’s heart.

Peace,

SR

189 posted on 09/20/2012 2:19:12 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Springfield Reformer

I didn’t write that God serves no one...I wrote that he is not subservient...He is the pinnacle of the universe. He never said he does Jesus’s will, now did he? Of course not, Jesus was the son you guys are all confused. This godhead stuff is a bunch of mismatched gobbilty gook meant only to confuse people unwittingly.


192 posted on 09/20/2012 4:33:34 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter"you min)
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