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"In Him all things consist" or "band together like electromagnetism makes things feel solid"

Alfred Persson

Catholic Orthodox Free Will Reformed Baptist
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In the Infinite Person of the Only Begotten Son of the Father Yahweh's thought is "verbalized", The Word of God gives it concrete expression banding all things together similar to the way electromagnetism glues atoms together to form "solids"

Jewish Rabbis like Paul the Apostle understood this in the days of Christ"

"The Holy One, blessed be He, is the place of His Universe, but His Universe is not His place" (Gen. R. LXVIII. 9). He encompasses space but space does not encompass Him."-(A Cohen, Everyman's Talmud, p. 8).

“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built! (1 Ki. 8:27 NKJ)

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
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All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. (Jn. 1:1-3 NKJ)

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
17 And He is before all things, and
in Him all things consist (4921 συνέστηκεν)”. (Col. 1:15-17 NKJ)

4921 συνιστάω (συνίστημι) sunistao {soon-is-tah'-o} or (strengthened) συνιστανω sunistano {soon-is-tan'-o} or sunistemi {soon-is'-tay-mee}

Meaning: 1) to place together, to set in the same place,to bring or band together 1a) to stand with (or near) 2) to set one with another."-Strong's Concordance

Compare "are held together, RPTE"; "everything coheres, MIT"; "put together, Friberg"; "of all things owing their existence to Christ, Danker".


for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said,`For we are also His offspring.’ (Acts 17:28 NKJ)


Jesus is God the Son, Second Person of the holy Trinity, and cannot be a lesser deity as some suppose. No one but God Himself can be the Glue holding everything together much like electromagnetism holds atoms together "bound by light" so they have the appearance of being solid":



For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. (Rom. 1:20 NKJ)
 
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