Jesus: God in Flesh?

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Church2u2

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1st Timothy 2:5 For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave Himself a ransom for all ,to be testified in due time,
 

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i don't think the question of whether Christ is God in the flesh or not is 'unimportant'. . .





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especially if we think we have a better plan. LOL
 
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it's about the Pure Love, which can only come forth from our Creator, Master, Rabbi, Holy King...
 
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Unfortunately not everyone here thinks Jesus is divine. Obviously you and I do but you would be quite surprised on the amount of people here who dont believe that.
Who do they think he is?
 
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I know the Lord's timing is perfect(fullness of times), but I may have not waited 4,000 years after the promise of the seed to finally send the seed to redeem man's sin.
I suspect he was redeeming man's sin all the time. But he also needed a historical context to demonstrate what he was doing.
 

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I think everyone on this site believes Jesus is Christ. The disagreement comes from determining if Jesus is God in flesh or if Jesus is the Son of God.

Jesus, whether he be God in flesh or whether he be the Son of God, knew that God had forgiven people of their sins.
Because of what was written in Isaiah about Christ, which in Isaiah 9 Christ is referred to as the everlasting Father, The Almighty God, then anyone... that comes claiming to be The Christ is saying they are God.

So it was a matter of believing the prophecy about The Father sending His Son, which means God The Son, a Person in The Godhead, and not just another flesh man like us. It's when one says The Christ that certain specific supernatural qualities are hard-attached to the label meaning God with us like His Name 'Immanuel' given in Isaiah.
 
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I agree that Jesus is God in flesh, but the Bible does refer to him as the Son of God, which suggests to some that Jesus is a different person than God. I can see their argument.

The problem I have with God and Jesus being two different people is that I walk with God, and God alone. I don’t worship two beings. I don’t pray to two beings. My relationship is with one being – our Father in heaven.
God is one God in three persons. I pray to Father, Son and Spirit. My relationship is with the three in one.
 
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You and I believe that Jesus is God in flesh. Others view him as the Son of God. I was trying to, on the one hand, suggest that people who disagree on this issue can still be friends, while on the other hand, submit evidence that Jesus really is God in flesh.
I would agree our friendship is with Christ first then with each other. You don’t necessary have to like someone in order to love them .although it is much easier to draw closer when the Spouse is on the same page.

Son of God is one reference while the Son of man another different from the first.

Although he has always existed as a form of God in respect to the Son of God our high priest continually without beginning and end .As the Son of man ,typified as sinful flesh, God did not except worship. He would direct the attention from that which was seen to the unseen by saying only God is good. We continue to walk by faith and not by sight after the flesh. The same division exists today.

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings. John 10:18

When the demonstration of the finished work in respect to the lamb of God who was slain for our sin from the foundation of the world (the first six days when he was working) The outward demonstration of pouring our His Spirit life is over. No more outward demonstrations of the work of eternal Spirit is to be expected .

To make sure men do not look to the temporal flesh as the kind of life that he can put on or take off as easily as us changing our socks. He clearly gives us a warning not to look for another one time demonstration .It would mean double jeopardy, once was enough. To crucify him over and over to public shame as if it does not speaks volumes.

2Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet “now henceforth” know we him no more.
 
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It's actually the very point John was making in 1 John 2. And it was the very point the scribes and Pharisees sought to kill Jesus for, because there He was in the flesh so they figured it impossible for Him to be God.
Yes, they refused to believe he did come in the flesh, just as some would say Emanuel still is in the flesh. Its God with us not God is one of us.

The one time demonstration is over for over two thousand years