jgredline said:
D46 said:
I think the bottom line for me is that there will be but one God in Heaven, and Jesus is His name.
Hi D46
Can you elaborate a little more on this?
Blessings,
Javier
Not sure what you may be looking for but according to Isaiah 42:8...
Isaiah 42:8 (KJV) I am the LORD: that is my name: and
my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Isaiah 44:6 (KJV) Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts;
I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
Isaiah 45:18 (KJV) For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited:
I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Isaiah 46:9 (KJV) Remember the former things of old: for
I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
Taking all these OT scriptures into consideration, we can see from the New Testament Scriptures sited previously, that Jesus is indeed God manifested in the flesh. Jesus, God and man fused, not confused; Deity and humanity miraculously mingled together.
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily". As man, he got hungry; as God, he multiplied the loaves and fishes-as God he arose and calmed the seas; as man he prayed but, as God, he answered prayer. As man, he died and as God he arose from the dead. It is evident that Jesus was raised from the dead by the "Spirit". the same Holy Ghost (Spirit) which shall one day raise us from the dead is the same power which brought Christ forth from the grave. But, if you look further in the Scriptures, you can see where God was said to have raised Jesus from the dead. Colossians 2:12 says...
Colossians 2:12 (KJV) Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of
God, who hath raised him from the dead.
So far we now have Scriptural evidence of Jesus being raised by the "Spirit" and by God. but, if you go a bit further you can see that Jesus plainly proclaims he would raise
himself from the dead.
John 2:19 (KJV) Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days
I will raise it up.
John 10:17-18 (KJV) Therefore doth my Father love me, because
I lay down my life, that
I might take it again. 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.
To me, these verses which have Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Ghost all raising Jesus from the dead harmonize greatly in the glowing fact that there is but
one God, the eternal Spirit, who in the fullness of time, was "manifested in the flesh, jestified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory." (I Timothy 3:16)
If you take the Scriptures sited from Isaiah and former ones quoted, mingle those with Revelation 1:8 and 11, there can only be but one God as there cannot be two first and two lasts. Neither, says God, will he share his glory with another. The verdict is in and I guess I have been found guilty of believing that Jesus Christ, my Saviour, is indeed God himself.
