Why ask of my understanding, as if it's a matter of personal opinion.
1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ...
Who is any different than his own words? Liars are in the habit of lying; truth tellers speak truly.
1:14 And the Word 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. ...
What truthful word is *not* made flesh (made into a tangible form)? The regular world explains these things. The substance of everything intentionally created begins in the spirit, with a thought, word, promise, idea, vision, goal. If I say but not do, then my word is not truth. God's word is truth, because it is who He is and He is what He says.
1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
God is who He is. How to see that... how to see *Him*, even though He is an invisible spirit that does not change.
A: express the embodiment of everything He is, through a visible human being. Just as God describes Himself, is the essence of who He is - *I AM WHO I AM*. It's the simple of simple meanings. No games. No lies. No guile. Open, honest, sincere. WYSIWYG. Put a man like that on earth and its axiomatic that people won't recognize God's pure, loving truthful nature, because who ever sees that?! In a man? Yet there he is anyway, even if no one can believe what they are seeing. Must be scam, a joke, or some terribly crafty and devious fellow. Or worse... a blasphemer.
The religious experts in the NT were more intellectually honest than modern preachers, because they understood the nature of blasphemy. The trouble was, the were falsely accusing Jesus of claiming to be God. False accusers, that is who they were. Jesus was hit with their snippy little Gotcha! games on a regular basis.
Imagine having some CNN reporter shove a microphone in your face at every turn, eager to trap you in your words. And if that didn't work, he could go back to the studio and have the people there work their magic for the next news segment, then run it 24/7 for the next week or month. Whatever it takes.
Jesus' mere existence exposed and upended the established order. President Trump is a living parable, front and center for all to see and behold the "impossible". The Establishment is desperate to be rid of him because he makes them look like the useless, corrupt, lying, dysfunctional creatures that they are. Some in Christian religious circles are already rubbing their chins because of his association with Paula White. Dining with sinners, he is!
This is serious stuff but pretty funny actually. Boils down to who will be able to laugh and say, "Ooops, boy did I get it wrong," and then wholly and humbly submit to the superior mind of the Master who is all about the beauty and fullness in simplicity. He hath laid everything out in open all along, for anyone willing to observe. Another pun there... God being so keen on observance and all.
The more anyone looks, the more there is to see, like looking at a physical object with the naked eye, and then with a magnifying glass, and then a microscope. All the same substance. All the same truth. An apple does not become an orange when it is looked at upon closer inspection, but that's what the doctrines try to claim. Then when the lies are exposed because the esoteric doesn't match the exoteric - as it should - the teachers pipe up with, "It's a mystery of God you have to take on faith!" Okaay...
Anyway,
I do not write to those who have it all worked out already according to football scores and odds and established wisdom, but for those whose minds are still open to the "impossible".
Paradigm shift. The truth is going to destroy people with the brightness of its coming, because it will be so blindingly obvious. Death by dumb puns, like a president named Trump, whose international hotel logo is a capital T coming up from the foundation of the earth.
Truth is stranger than fiction. The world of weird (Divine orchestration) has been announcing itself throughout this generation but who's really been taking notice? There's a grand irony of the men of Galilee gazing up into the heavens, listening to what two men in white had to say, only to miss the message!
In the beginning was the Word...
What about Revelation 1:17-18?
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
There is a differences between understanding and personal opinion. When Philip in Acts 8:30 said "Do you understand what you are reading?", he wasn't asking for opinion.
A real world example of that very thing, and how little we know about what we can see and feel, much less about the unseen mysterious of the Almighty.
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