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To: Zuriel
The Father is the Word. This can be proven by what the Son of God said several times, in the book of John, that the words were not his, but his Father’s. Christ declared the Father to be in him, and he in the Father. Literally.

The WORD (logos) "was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." Jesus, the Son of God, IS God in the flesh. Our God is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - three, yet ONE God.

Glad you're home safe. Have a nice night and a pleasant Sunday.

89 posted on 08/12/2017 8:40:12 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: boatbums; HarleyD

The Word that became flesh is full of grace and truth. Those divine attributes came from the Father that dwells in the Son. In the book of John, Jesus Christ repeatedly credits the Father as the source of all things divine, and that he is in the Father, and the Father is in him. The apostles understood that, although not fully until being filled with the Holy Ghost. Who, like Jesus Christ, never used the phrase “God the Son”, but always “the Son of God”. The scriptures also don’t use the man made hybrid term “the God-man” (even many oneness apostolics are guilty of using that poor, abbreviated, description of the Son of God).

Paul told the Athenians, “for in him we live, and move, and have our being....”. Acts 17:28. Which is why I commonly ask trinitarian folks the thought provoking question: where is the Father NOT at?

The scriptures declare that the Son inherited all things from God. So there was either a time that the Son did not exist, or at least, had no divine attributes. But the Father did not have to die or go into retirement for the Son to receive those attributes. The Father is Spirit, and the Son is flesh.

The flesh that God put on was work clothes, complete with a mind and soul: the absolute ultimate in artificial intelligence. And our mind and souls are artificial intelligence, for we did not evolve from simple elements. As Paul, in agreement with certain Greek poets, also said to the Athenians, “For we are also his offspring” (Acts 17:28 again).

If you believe that the flesh was divine, separate and distinct from God the Father, then you are in the same camp as the followers of the RCC, and have to give Mary credit for making more of God (which is not possible).


93 posted on 08/13/2017 7:57:33 AM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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