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To: EricOKC; All-American Medic
Ah yes - I see now. A veiled, allegorical reference translates into an explicit statement of "I am God".

Well, you could put it in the "whosoever has the ears to hear let them hear" category. Or you could read this:.

In Philippians 2:6, Paul tells us that Christ Jesus "[w]ho, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped."

Also significant are passages which apply the title "the First and the Last" to Jesus. This is one of the Old Testament titles of Yahweh: "Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, Yahweh of armies: 'I am the First and I am the Last; besides me there is no god" (Is. 44:6; cf. 41:4, 48:12).

This title is directly applied to Jesus three times in the book of Revelation: "When I saw him [Christ], I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand upon me, saying, 'Fear not, I am the First and the Last'" (Rev. 1:17). "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: 'The words of the First and the Last, who died and came to life'" (Rev. 2:8). "Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense, to repay every one for what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end" (Rev. 22:12-13).

How could I have not seen that? How have the Catholic Church and all the biblical scholars throughout the years missed that? Thank you sir, for enlightening all of us!

It's basic Catholic theology. The above was cut and pasted from http://www.catholic.com/answers/tracts/_divinty.htm.

507 posted on 11/30/2001 8:04:42 AM PST by Tribune7
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