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Hi Fellows,
I guess I should add a little of what I have learned from the Scriptures so you can cut me up in little pieces too,
First, --- I believe 'My Testimony' is Scriptural:
My simple faith is easy to explain --- I believe in the three in heaven, God the Father --- the Word --- and the Holy Spirit, John 1:1, and 1 John 5:7. --- The Word/Christ and the Holy Spirit came to earth and were housed in the physical body of Jesus (the only One who could be seen by men). --- Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God on earth, --- and after His death on the cross as our Savior, and His resurrection, --- God exalted Him to the position in heaven of High Priest (after the order of Melchizedek). --- The Word/Christ returned to their positions at the right hand of God. --- The Holy Spirit remains on earth to give believers New Life, while we are still in our old bodies.
--- The Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit are Three, --- but they are NOT a trinity, they are ONE in harmony and purpose. --- The Father is the designer and Architect and He created all things, pertaining to our world, through the Word (Logos, the creative power of God) John, 1:3. --- The Word, who was God (Theos) John 1:1, and the Holy Spirit, always did the Father's will.
The Word and Christ were together in the OT, which I can show you later, and then both came from heaven, with the Holy Spirit to indwell the Body of Jesus, the 'body' that God had prepared for that purpose. --- Hebrews 10:
5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:
"Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me.
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come— In the volume of the book it is written of Me—
To do Your will, O God.’"
This is written in Isaiah 48:
16 "Come near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
From the time that it was, I was there. And now the Lord God and His Spirit Have sent Me."
--- This was the Word speaking, because it says in John 1:14, that "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us."
The Word came and took up residence in the body that was created for Him.
Placid
I guess I should add a little of what I have learned from the Scriptures so you can cut me up in little pieces too,
First, --- I believe 'My Testimony' is Scriptural:
My simple faith is easy to explain --- I believe in the three in heaven, God the Father --- the Word --- and the Holy Spirit, John 1:1, and 1 John 5:7. --- The Word/Christ and the Holy Spirit came to earth and were housed in the physical body of Jesus (the only One who could be seen by men). --- Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God on earth, --- and after His death on the cross as our Savior, and His resurrection, --- God exalted Him to the position in heaven of High Priest (after the order of Melchizedek). --- The Word/Christ returned to their positions at the right hand of God. --- The Holy Spirit remains on earth to give believers New Life, while we are still in our old bodies.
--- The Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit are Three, --- but they are NOT a trinity, they are ONE in harmony and purpose. --- The Father is the designer and Architect and He created all things, pertaining to our world, through the Word (Logos, the creative power of God) John, 1:3. --- The Word, who was God (Theos) John 1:1, and the Holy Spirit, always did the Father's will.
The Word and Christ were together in the OT, which I can show you later, and then both came from heaven, with the Holy Spirit to indwell the Body of Jesus, the 'body' that God had prepared for that purpose. --- Hebrews 10:
5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:
"Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me.
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come— In the volume of the book it is written of Me—
To do Your will, O God.’"
This is written in Isaiah 48:
16 "Come near to Me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;
From the time that it was, I was there. And now the Lord God and His Spirit Have sent Me."
--- This was the Word speaking, because it says in John 1:14, that "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us."
The Word came and took up residence in the body that was created for Him.
Placid
You use the word "created" in regards to Jesus,as does Quasar.
Jesus is not created,nor did he come to inhabit a created body.
He became flesh.
It you have a problem with the trinity,then join the club,because it is beyond our brains as you and quasar have proven.
You both think you have to mentally corral all the dynamics of a truth.
We belive it because it is,not because we understand it.
Did you know man is a trinity?
Spirit,soul,and body. We are 3 but 1.....all at the same time.
And Jesus became a priest before his earthly ministry.
John,a levite,transferred the priesthood to Jesus,at baptism.The priesthood ITSELF CHANGED.
Jesus ministered,died,and rose again as a priest. His priesthood was not of aaron/ levitical. It was judaic/ David/ melchasidic.
Jesus BECAME MAN. The God man.
Not God in a created body. That is what we are.