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To: JohnnyM

Funny how you demand that we answer your questions but you won't answer how if Jesus is God and God is invisible, then who saw Jesus?

Or if Jesus was God, then was God really dead for three days and three nights?

Or since God is not man...and Jesus is a man...how can Jesus be God the Son?


73 posted on 03/22/2006 11:48:22 AM PST by Eagle Eye (There ought to be a law against excess legislation.)
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To: Eagle Eye

"Funny how you demand that we answer your questions but you won't answer how if Jesus is God and God is invisible, then who saw Jesus?

Or if Jesus was God, then was God really dead for three days and three nights?

Or since God is not man...and Jesus is a man...how can Jesus be God the Son?"

With a little Bible Study you could answer these questions for yourself.


75 posted on 03/22/2006 11:57:35 AM PST by tenn2005 (Birth is merely an event; it is the path walked that becomes one's life.)
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To: Eagle Eye

They can't explain it. Catholics will usually end the debate by saying "its a mystery". Prots will act like they understand it. lol.


76 posted on 03/22/2006 12:04:40 PM PST by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: Eagle Eye
"Funny how you demand that we answer your questions but you won't answer how if Jesus is God and God is invisible, then who saw Jesus?"

The short answer is:
Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

John 14
8 Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us."
9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God. When we look at Jesus Christ, we are looking at God. Jesus Christ is the physical, visible manifestation of the Godhead. He is God in the Flesh. No one has seen God the Father, but they have seen God the Son. That is who was in the Garden with Adam and Eve. That is who supped with Abraham. That is who Isaiah saw sitting on the throne.

For those who believe in the Trinity and the deity of Christ, these passages of Scripture make total sense and need no fancy interpretations.

Or if Jesus was God, then was God really dead for three days and three nights?

Jesus died in the flesh on calvary's Cross. He died a physical death and I would even say for those 3 hours or so that He was on the Cross, that He was separated from His Father. His Spirit did not die on the Cross, His Divine self or nature did not die on the Cross, but his physical, fleshly body did. Remember in John where He told the pharisees that He would raise the temple in three days. A dead person cannot raise themself, but a Divine being sure can.

Or since God is not man...and Jesus is a man...how can Jesus be God the Son?

God the Father is not a man, by God the Son is. Jesus is fully God and fully man.

JM
80 posted on 03/22/2006 12:15:42 PM PST by JohnnyM
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To: Eagle Eye
do you believe God is Omnipotent? Can he do as he will? Or are you one of those who limits God, and tries to put him in a box? If your God has to be contained within human physics, then we certainly do not worship the same God.
122 posted on 03/22/2006 1:41:54 PM PST by whispering out loud (the bible is either 100% true, or in it's very nature it is 100% a lie)
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