The beginning the gennesis of Jesus Christ is clarified in Matthew 1:18
It is still not clear what is all about.
All I know is God and Jesus are Spiritual being.
The beginning the gennesis of Jesus Christ is clarified in Matthew 1:18
That means to change us to be more like Jesus Christ, Christ is Spirit. We are the body of ChristHe changed back to Spiritual Body, it seems.
Yes they are meshak, God is Spirit and so is Christ :thumb:It is still not clear what is all about.
All I know is God and Jesus are Spiritual being.
This is better than denying the deity of Jesus, but your idea of "three deities" is incorrect. God is one single and only deity, yet manifested in three persons (personas), interrelated in time to specific purposes.
God is one (monotheism), but interacts with us as a Trinity, from our human perspective.
It is still not clear what is all about.
All I know is God and Jesus are Spiritual being.
Yes they are meshak, God is Spirit and so is Christ :thumb:
By Luke 2:39-52, He started demonstrating He already knew fully.
It is clear that Jesus had a beginning for Matthew 1:18 speaks of it.
the word "birth" in this verse is the Greek word "gennesis" which means beginning.
Before his beginning Jesus Christ did not exist in any form whatsoever.
However, as we see in Romans 4:17, God calls those things which be not as though they were.
What is being said there? In our case, when God spoke in Genesis 3:15 to the serpent, the devil, God's prophecy of the coming seed who would bruise the head of the serpent was a foregone conclusion.
God planned and foreknew of Jesus Christ's victory over Satan and sin and death was as good as done.
Thus in the foreknowledge of God, it could be said that Jesus existed and had already accomplished God's purpose for him. Keeping the phrase in Romans 4:17 in mind, for all practical purposes, since God already knew His future son, Jesus' birth life, ministry were already a reality. After all, who is going to tell God that His foreknowledge is wrong, that He is wrong?
Since Jesus was part of God's plan in the beginning, it could be said that Jesus existed in the foreknowledge of God. God could and did create the heavens and earth with His son in mind, hence the reference God created all things by or for Christ.
I believe marhig's explanation makes perfect sense.
thanks.
Maybe you could explain what Jesus was growing in?
SpoilerLuke 2:39-52
39 And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.
44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
45 And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.
46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
48 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
50 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.
51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
I too must be about my Father's business.
My Father's business is summed up in I Timothy 2:4
That all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.
Well, being about my Father's business does not make me God, it makes me a servant or employee of God.
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40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
If he was fully God, then how is it that the grace of God was upon him?
If he was God, grace would be emanating from him, for God is the source of grace, it is not something some other God put upon him.
You probably think, what difference does that make? Well, either scripture is accurately telling us what God authored perfectly or it is not.
47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
When children are taught scripture from an early age it astounds people who see the maturity and selflessness that those children live as they believe the truth of scripture.
I have experience a little of that.
Having a desire to please God at an early age, I actually went door to door witnessing by myself at the age of about 7. It was for only about 5 or 6 houses, but I wanted to please God and let others know what God had been teaching me from the scriptures. After all scripture is how God teaches us the truth
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
If Jesus was God, how was it that he would increase in wisdom?
Is God not already all wise?
For that matter, who is the God that Jesus was increasing in favor with?
Obviously not himself.
Why don't you people actually read scripture and use your mind to think?
Why not? Because you have not been taught to think.
You simply accept what you have been taught without question
Acts 17:11
Learn to be noble and ask questions and seek answers
That's your choice.
Good luck with that.
Praise God Jesus did not grow up becoming like you or I.
He knew He was God at a very tender age. He wouldn't reveal Himself to the religious leaders of Israel as God because HE KNEW they had made up their mind that He was not the kind of Messiah they wanted, however, He dare reveal Himself to a Samaritan woman (imagine that) at a well (John 4:3-42). She and all who believed Him at the well received His blessing and Israel to whom He came rejected Him outright.
He, in the Luke narrative, shows WISDOM BEYOND that of the teachers in the Temple who spent all their lives burning their eyelashes studying the Torah and when THEIR MESSIAH came, and revealed Himself with SIGNS and WONDERS - which was their right to ask for them, Israel rejected Him. Imagine that. No wonder we have the mess we have.
He rose from the dead as His new, glorified, spiritual body, which we will all be at the general resurrection of the dead. A spiritual body is not spirit, but is flesh and bone, just as His body was after He rose from the dead. He ascended as His new body, and sits on His throne now in heaven, at the right hand of the Father.. . . Jesus was a man but is Spirit now.
Well yes, of course.
John 8
58 Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, before Abraham was even born, I AM!” 59 At that point they picked up stones to throw at him. But Jesus was hidden from them and left the Temple.
This is why Jesus was crucified because he claimed to be God. He would not have claimed it, if He did not know it.