**Just wondering; you state that the Word is not flesh. How do you reconcile that with John 1:14, which states, depending on the version, that the Word was made flesh, or the Word became flesh, or the Word became human, or the Word came in the flesh?**
The Word of God is the testimony of God; anything about God, be it his power, wisdom, love, etc. It wasn’t enough to speak through the fathers and prophets. So, he chose to speak face to face. And to do so, he had to have his own body. This body couldn’t just be a shell with no human mind and soul. No, God wasn’t going to cut any corners; this would be a man in every aspect, even able to die.
That is why the flesh is not God. God cannot die.
There is still the question; how do you reconcile your statement that the Word is not flesh with what is written in Holy Scripture, that the Word became flesh?
**There is still the question; how do you reconcile your statement that the Word is not flesh with what is written in Holy Scripture, that the Word became flesh?**
How do you reconcile your wanting God to literally be flesh, when Jesus Christ and his aposltes declare God to be a Spirit and invisible? (John 1:18, 5:37, Col.1:15, 1Tim. 1:17, Heb. 11:27, 1John 4:12)
After his teaching on the ‘bread of life’, Jesus Christ declared that it wasn’t literally the flesh that gives life, but the Spirit:
“It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63
Your words don’t come from your flesh, but from your mind, and are inseparable from your very being. Your mind is in a fleshly body, designed by God, and is the method you use to express yourself. Your body is not your mind.
Jesus Christ is the express image of the invisible God. God is invisible. The scriptures are complete when teaching doctrine. When Jesus Christ said that God is a Spirit, he was giving as basic of a description as he could to the person he was talking to.
He claimed that all of his words of testamony were not his, but the Father’s. He claimed the Father was in him doing the works. I don’t know how clearer he could be to enquiring minds.
(I’d have answered sooner, but Sat. morn the wife and I were greeted, when turning on the PC, to a welcome to Winndoze 10. We didn’t ask for it, but there it was. So we delayed taking any action, and enjoyed the nice weekend, and asked friends what to do. We decided to just learn to use the new OS. Still kinda ticked off that it was loaded without our permission.)