Quote Originally Posted by Pass That Shit
JY,
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The biggest misconception about God is that he is three "persons". This is NOT sound doctrine. God is ONE.

I hear some preachers on here saying that Jesus is God, but not the Father.
If Jesus is God, but not the Father, then you are saying that there is more than one God. This is not true, cause God is ONE.

The most important teaching that most people fail to understand is that Jesus is both son of man and Son of God.
If you understand what this means, you can understand God.
The Son of God is God himself. God is a Spirit. The Lord is that Spirit. There is ONE Lord. Jesus is LORD.

The Son of God has no beginning of days or end of life. He has no decent. No father or mother. He abideth a high priest continually.
We know that Jesus (son of man) was born through Mary his mother, and Joseph was his father.

According to the bible, only the Father is to be worshipped. Didn't believers fall down and worship Jesus?

Jesus says that where two or three are gathered together in his name that he is there in the midst of them.
How can Jesus be present with them if he isn't the Holy Spirit?

Jesus says that if you see him, you see the Father. You don't see qualities, you see an image. Jesus is the image of the invisible God.
I can go with most of what you say, only the language bothers me. Christ was the manifestation of God's spirit; I get that. The fullness of deity dwelt within Him bodily; I get that. The son of man, son of God, I get that too. Only, the son of God was just that, the "son" of God. Can you separate "Christ" from Jesus; yes! He did it, and so can we. Can you separate God from Christ; yes. He did it, so can we. Jesus never exalted himself, but always sought to glorify the father. I imagine that when people worshiped him, they worshiped the Father within...not the image of the man!

Tell me, are you what you look like? Is your appearance you, or are you something else? Our bodies are images, PTS but they are not who we are. We are much more than our shells. We are defined by our characters, qualities, and spirit.

When I die, I pray God I'm not remembered by what I look like, lol. I pray I will be remembered by my contributions, my character, my inner qualities, and by the spirit I walked in. This is where God is in us, and we in God. All and in all through his spirit.

Jesus is Lord, or [Master] but he is not God himself; Christ was the essence of God, but only by the indwelling of God's spirit. Jesus was a Vessel, but not the father himself, only a full representation of the father "inwardly".

God's spirit is God's Word; Christ carried His Word to the cross. God raised Jesus from the Grave and several days later, he ascended to sit at the right hand of the father.

That's the beauty of salvation. A son of man exalted to such a level is not a thing to overlook. If he were infact God, our faith is in vain (IMO) Jesus conquered his human attributes through God's spirit, and we are to follow in his footsteps. He did not leave us comfortless, he is recieving us to himslef daily.

The Bible is fairly clear about who christ was, and about his relationship with the Father.

God is the source, all things radiate from God. God's spirit is God's essence, and Christ was the manifestation of God's essence. All of which share a common bond . . .


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