it is The Son of Man which came down from heaven and is in heaven
John 3:13
No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, [that is,] the Son of Man who is in heaven.
Can you explain why He doesn't say 'Son of God' here? Seems like your view needs Him to...?
Also here:
Acts 7:55-56
But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, "Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"
Thanks .I can try.
We know corruption. . what the eyes see, flesh and blood, could never enter heaven.
God did not come to earth prior to the birth of His mother Mary. Born of woman as the son of man Not the Son of God who has no beginning. which is the unseen power that worked from within Jesus. The work or power of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus had no power. He did not perform the will of his flesh that he inherited from his mother.
Jesus is an created being "flesh and blood".. . (God Is Spirit) Flesh and blood returns to the dust to show it was under the wrath of God .
And when he left (2 Corinthians 5:16) he informed us that although some did know Him by what the eyes see, the temporal . The one time propmised demonstration of the father and the son working as one . . was over. A person can look for anticipating another demonstration .But only one work with the father not seen and the Son of man seen was propmised .
2 Corinthians 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.
Mankind cannot know God by walking by sight . When He works in and with us He must give us His understanding.
The Spirit of Christ the Holy Spirit came in visons or a theophany like Melchezedek (our High priest continually without beginning or end.(Hebrew 7) But never as the Son of man had he appeared in corrupted flesh and blood prior to be born of woman.
It was a must to fulfil the flesh and blood prophecies (Isaiah 53) requiring corrupted flesh for the one time demonstration of the lamb who had been slain from the foundation . A theophany could not do what the letter of the law "death" could not do give life. Strength of the Father poured out on powerless flesh of the Son of man
Romans 8:2-4 King James Version (KJV) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Just as the Father pours out his Spirit on our flesh in the same way he poured it out on the one time demonstration to the world .
Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
This was to show us the things of the flesh do not profit and what does profit is a new born again spirit life. The new bodies are coming.
One thing I have been looking at is the use of the words "Son of God" singular and "sons of God" plural
Jesus is called "Son of God," the first born of God from above with many brothers and sisters . While followers of Jesus are called, "sons of God"
The term "son of God" is used in the Bible as another way of referring to humans with special relationships with God. In Exodus the nation of Israel are called sons of God. Believers are called sons of God in 1st. John 3.
Son of man speak of the corrupted flesh of men. Flesh and blood what the eye is signified as sinful .It was needed to fulfil the prophecy. The Son of of God not seen was propmised he would come as the Son of man. For a one time demonstration .
God never became a man but his Spirit continues to work in mankind.