I do not recall you addressing John 16:23-28. Which post was that? Maybe I had missed it somehow. Or better yet repeat it again in your next reply. Thanks.
I vaguely recall you addressing John 1:18 & John 6:46, but indirectly as referring me to another scripture thus dismissing it without explaining those verses in according to maintaining your belief in rightly dividing the word of truth of your belief to me.
I believe God is omnipresence for why Jesus said God is Spirit.
Not sure I am following you here. I believe Jesus is God the Son for Peter to say that and Jesus did not disagree nor clarified his statement nor the high priest for why His additional statement at being at the right hand of power as God was blasphemous also, ( although the charge is false ) for why He was crucified
I do thank you for sharing, ad since we prophesy in part ad know in part is why each of us are to rely on the Lord to minister to us in pruning us or correcting us in the knowledge of Him so we may be more fruitful as our love may abound more & more.
Ephesians 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
In explaining 2 Corinthians 5:19, may He help me share my belief. I believe we will be in Heaven when we will see God the Father as well as God the Son for why we would not need the Son to ask for us, as we can ask the Father directly in Heaven per John 16:23-28.
1 Corinthians 6:17
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.... 19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
So that is the effect of reconciliation so that when we actually receive our redemption as partakers of the firstfruits of the resurrection, at the pre great tribulation rapture event when the Bridegroom comes for the abiding bride of Christ, we will be with the Lord forever in Heaven as one with God in such a way that we will see God the Father as well as God the Son, the Bridegroom in Heaven in that Godhood as
Butch5 has referred to or as I referred to as the Godhead or being with the One God in Heaven.
We are married to the Bridegroom as one with the Lord, and thus one with the Father so that when we are in Heaven, we will see God the Father & God the Son; thus see the 2 of the 3 Witnesses within the One God. I am not sure if we will see the Holy Spirit but seeing how He had manifested to be seen as alighting on Jesus like a dove, it may be possible, but we shall know, God be willing, when we get there.
Those who are not partakers of the firstfruits but are Christ's at His coming, be the left behind saints, former believers, or new believers after the rapture event, are vessels unto dishonor but still in His House ( 2 Timothy 2:20-21 ) as the least in the kingdom of Heaven ( Matthew 5:19 ) for not departing from iniquity as dwelling on earth in serving the King of kings in that kingdom of heaven when the City of God comes down where God shall dwell with men.
I am not sure if they will be able to see God the Father until afterwards when the devil, his angels, death, hell & those not found written in the Book of Life are cast into the lake of fire. It is after that Jesus gives the kingdom back to the Father thus sin and death will never separate them from God the Father, nor God the Son, nor God the Holy Spirit, hence God, ever again.
Kind of brings a whole new meaning for "God is with us".
It seems blasphemous. Certainly, if I said that to the Jews in the early church days, I would have been stoned. But Jesus did say this when questioning Him saying He is God.
John 10:30
I and my Father are one. 31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man,
makest thyself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? 35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; 36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? 37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. 39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
Then there is that saying we will do greater works than Jesus even though He is doing the work that only God can do.
John 14:11
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. 12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
John 14:
1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
I have not seen any of His disciples do "greater works than He did" and so I believe He is referring to when we are Home with the Father & the Son in Heaven as firstfruits.
Unless the Lord use someone to correct me on this belief, it looks like we will be one with God where it will be impossible to sin against Him to never be separated from Him again & we will be forever with the Lord as One.
I can imagine getting a hug from the Father and not just from the Son in Heaven.
Anyway, hopefully, the Lord helped me to explain my belief as it is now. I am open to correction, but that is the truth in scripture as I see & apply it today, thanks to Jesus.