by Elder Lloyd T. Lockett

The Apostolic Note

The Reasoning Of Our Faith  Case #7

  Scripture in it’s sum provides us with enough support to prove that the Jews and today's oneness train of thought is based on the reasoning of God’s own self-concept, that He is one God and therefore all that is attributed to Him is of  absolute necessity in reference to the fullness of the Godhead in its totality  in Jesus and not in a Co-equal  partnership of divine power in any realm of thinking, especially from the Judaic-Christian world and Oneness reality that only see God as a monotheistic Deity. We can see the Dual Nature at work all through the book of John.

In John.2:19-22 Jesus made a powerful statement of raising himself  from the dead in 3 days.

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. ²⁰ Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?? ²¹ But he spake of the temple of his body. ²² When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

The wonderful epistle of Paul, Romans.6:4 reveal the Father as raising King Jesus.

⁴ Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

This is the all surpassing question, did two persons raise Jesus from the dead? Certainly not! This was due to the power of One God. It is impossible to know the Father without first knowing the son. Why? Because sonship is God’s way of using humanity to give man a way of experiencing God. God can now be known in His immanence through the person of Jesus and then and only then can the transcendence of the Father be know in His fullness, through His manifestation and title of the son of redemption. The role of God can be understood in that order and not the other way around, because sonship is a relational manifestation of identifying humanity's finiteness to the infinite reality of incomprehensible Godism. The Hypostatic Union is the Sovereign prerogative of God revealed to man. So than, man in his limitations in power, presence and knowledge can experience God in His dual nature and by doing so we can then understand  the reality of our hope by faith in Jesus the son. This outpouring of the kenotic self  revealing by way of becoming humanity to save humanity through humanity is what is needed to develope the relationship of lost man to the Father.  The Jews wonted Jesus dead because of his claim to be God. In the book of John.5:17  and this is John’s  witness to that fact ,”¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.¹⁸ Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

Note that Jesus said it the way they understood it  , “making himself equal with God”. because He Is God! It’s time to remove the lie and see Jesus for the sum of his Godness, he is all of God. The Hypostatic Union is the Sovereign prerogative of God revealed to man.