Elijah here: I posted this on another site. See if it helps any ones understanding here?? :fadein:
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QUOTE (GoodNewsDoc @ Dec 24 2004, 06:22 PM)
And why is it wrong to see that God is the 'Father' of Jesus Christ, and that Jesus
Christ is the Son of the Father ?
What's wrong with that ???
How is that devilish or satanic as you suppose ???
gnd
And why is it wrong to see that God is the 'Father' of Jesus Christ, and that Jesus
Christ is the Son of the Father ?
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Elijah here:
There is nothing wrong with this statement if it is understood as the Word of God taught it! The Word was With God and the Word was God! And the WORD was made Flesh! John 1.
As you are well aware of, this is what The DOCTRINE OF CHRIST WARNED ABOUT in John 2:9-11!
You say later on: "I guess what troubles me most,... is the possibility of calling something 'God' that is not God." (You sound like you know more than God does with that remark! If so, where does that originate from?? See Gen. 4:7)
Me again: The ten commandments that Christ wrote, would even condemn Christ Himself if He were not God, in the first four commandments one see's where WORSHIP can only belongs to GOD! Not angels, not created ones, nor Christ if He WAS & IS not God! Rev. 14:6-7's Everlasting Gospel alone has the universe 'seeing' the worshiping of Christ!
Or do you as with Jehovah Witnesses strike the WORD WORSHIP from your belief as they do from their bibles? If so, then you too need the WARNING from John's other inspired Words of Rev.'s last few verses of adding to or removing from...! Very Dangerous, and FATAL when the 'sin is finished'! James 1:15.
Christ forgave sins! Christ healed the BLIND! (BOTH WAYS!!) Christ RAISED THE DEAD! (BOTH WAYS!!) Only GOD/MAN could do this!! The devil in Matt. 4 requested Christ to fall down and worship him, what was Christ' reply, and where was it written?? It was meant for whom?? Again John had the same testing in his penned book of Rev. 22:8-9 when he fell down at the feet of the angel, as it appears in being awestruck? Anyhow, the message from the angel was a warning not to do so!
He said to John:
".. See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethern the prophets, [and of them that keep the sayings of this book: WORSHIP GOD]." But not Christ, huh? [CHRIST IS GOD/IN/THE/FLESH!!] Where again does one find the WORSHIP GOD COMMANDMENT? Right back to the Royal Universal Everlasting Covenant That Christ Himself wrote in the ten Commandments of Stone! Heb. 13:20's ETERNAL COVENANT! Christ IS GOD ETERNAL!
Stephen while being stoned to death in Acts 7 was 'filled with the Holy Ghost' and said: "THIS IS HE, THAT WAS [IN] THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS].." David stated in Christs Word, by the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost...
"Give ear, O Shephard of Israel, [THOU THAT LEADIEST JOSEPH LIKE A FLOCK; *THOU THAT DWELLEST BETWEEN THE CHERUBIMS, SHINE FORTH."
It is interesting how any could miss this when reading Prov. 8? See verse 5? "O ye simple, understand wisdom: and ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart." ???
Then comes prophetic wisdom of the future of 1000 years & the life of Christ the SON OF GOD!! Even as a child playing and maturing!
Yet, some even try to project this as teaching that Christ had a beginning as the Son of God before he came to earth and actually was born!, or at least in eternity somewhere!!
Notice verse 23 for the Godhead's PLAN IN ETERNITY... "I WAS SET UP FROM EVERLASTING, FROM THE BEGINNING, OR EVER THE EARTH WAS."
"BY HIM WERE [ALL THINGS CREATED, THAT WERE CREATED: THAT ARE IN THE HEAVEN, AND THAT ARE IN THE EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, *WHETHER THEY BE THRONES, OR DOMINIONS, OR PRINCIPALITIES, OR POWERS: *ALL THINGS WERE CREATED FOR HIM AND BY HIM: AND HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS: AND BY HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST. ... AND IT PLEASED THE FATHER THAT IN HIM SHOULD ALL THE *FULLNESS DWELL." Colossians 1:15-19 in part. And this is BEFORE and AFTER Christ became God/Man!
THIS Above [IS THE EVERLASTING DOCTRINE OF CHRIST!] 2 John 1:9
The God/Head in their plan not only Prophesied the plan in Proverbs, but told that they would DECLARE THE DECREE!! "I WILL DECLARE THE DECREE: the Lord hath said unto me, [THOU ART MY SON]; [*THIS DAY] [HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE]." Psalms 2:7
Then the day came! When did God become the Son of God in actual conception? Most know.
But in Heb. 1:5 it states the time as past/tense setting. Verse 5's last part of the verse it says:
"... THOU ART MY SON, THIS DAY HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE?." There is a question mark there! Read 1-5 for it to be removed!!!
---Elijah
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What's wrong with that ???
How is that devilish or satanic as you suppose ???gnd