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The reasoning of our faith.Case # 8
28 Feb 2006

 

John.5:17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

This Terminology by Jesus was not misleading in its meaning. The Jews that stood before the master understood this statement exactly the way proclaimed by all mighty God in his humanity. Jesus did not say, “God is my other part, piece or person” No! Jesus Know what he said, and the Jews received it the way Jesus said it. The Greek behind the word “equal” in this verse is {isos} and is translated in this particular verse “the same as something” Therefore this claim as son is due to the perspective implying the visible  self-manifestation of God, in other worlds the {I and my father are one} verse in John. 10:30. Note that the Greek translates “hupostasis” as person, giving us the oneness term “Hypostatic Union” defining divinity and humanity and its unification of the two natures in one man Jesus. In reference to this, the word person is best understood as “essence of being or the substance of a thing". We must be very careful about how we emphasize the importance behind our teaching of the Christocentric system of theology. The dogmatic view of Catholicism and its trinity has been Catholicized into the heart and minds of the homo sapiens by force and has turned the dual nature of Jesus into a ditheistic belief that separate and make Jesus into, two distinct gods or persons. Even if you try to make the three persons one Deity, their are indeed three persons no matter how you try to make them inseparable and note that the attribute of Simplicity in the theotes {Godhead} is now permanently divided because of this misusage of the plural {Hypostases} persons being used to define the one God truth, opposed to the Singular {Hypostasis} person being used to express the numerical oneness that Jesus used himself to define his personal relationship gleaned from Scripture. Hebrews.1:3 states “the son is the express image of God’s person {Hypostasis}, not persons {Hypostases} in the Godhead. Eternally unchanging is the Immutable quality that only God has and if this is so, the incarnation of Christ Jesus’ embodiment of the full Spirit of God is then inseparable at best. God Did not stop being God when he took on humanity to save humanity, through the person of Jesus for humanity. We need a Saviour that is more then a mere sinless man possessed by God as if the master steped into a man. We need to know that God became a man to bleed die and redeem us. 

 

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The Reasoning Of Our Faith  Case #8

Elder Lloyd T. Lockett