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Featured The Nature of Christ

Discussion in 'Other Christian Denominations' started by JonC, Dec 23, 2018.

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  1. Jesus is part God and part man (God / man)

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  2. Jesus is God as if he is not man, man as if he is not God (God + man)

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  3. Jesus is no less God than God, no more man than man (God-man)

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  1. Yeshua1

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    Begotten is eternally being generated, so there is no first cause, as Jesus has existed as long as the Father has!
     
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    I agree. If God never became man then God would never have experienced human suffering. Had Jesus not been God he would not have had the authority that was given Him.
     
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    The Logos proceeding forth from God the father, but never was a time he did not exist!
     
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    The term only begotten in the Greek would refer to eternal existence, basically however God the Father has existed His word/Son would also be!
     
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    Jesus is fully God and man, but he could not experience what he suffered if just was God natured, a shad to have His humanity for that!
     
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    I am not saying that itys either he was as man, or as God, was always as both fully, its just that the nature of man allowed him to suffer and bleed, while the nature of God allowed Him to do miracles and such!
     
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    That having no first cause is not the problem. That "begotten" is a cause is the problem. The Son is not caused in any way. He is the sole cause (John 1:3) and has not anything causing Him to be the Son. Biblically the term "begotten" is only use to refer to His resurrection from the dead Psalms 2:7, Acts 13:33.
     
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    Jesus is God the Son Incarnated , and he has always been generated from/by the Father!
     
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    What is generated is not what God is. And what ever is generated is done by the Son ( John 1:3).
     
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    The Son proceeds from the Father, and the Spirit from Both Father and the Son!
     
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    The incarnation and ascension.
     
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    Other (missing option in the poll).

    Clearly Jesus is God the Word become man (the last Adam in fact, which is a prototype).

    How much or where in his body is he God or just human or how omniscient / omnipotent / omnipresent he is IMHO is not specified in scripture. If it were important or any of our business then the scriptures would say.

    The nehushtan effect is what I call such pursuits (like finding a piece of the cross or Noah's ark, or even placing a date on the calendar for the birth of Christ). They are either worshiped, traditionalized, secularized, equated with God or even salvation.... voodoo or superstition...

    God gave us the Law of Moses in part to wean us from these things. But the more things change the more they stay the same.
     
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    John 14:26 / John 15:26 proving the Father is not the Son or the Spirit, the Son is not the Father or the Spirit, and the Spirit is not the Father or the Son.
     
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    Perhaps another thing missing is a definition of "nature".
     
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