Post by ResLight on Sept 25, 2013 19:01:15 GMT -5
One asks, if Jesus is not a person of the only true God, then why do you have to know both to have eternal life? -- John 17:3
The only way to know God in order to have eternal life, is through Jesus. Jesus came to declare and reveal his His God as the only true God. No one can come to the only true God (John 17:3), except through Jesus. -- Matthew 11:27; Luke 10:22; John 1:18; 14:6,7.
The only true God is the source; Jesus is the instrument. -- 1 Corinthians 8:6.
It was the man, Christ Jesus, who “gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.” (Ephesians 5:2) It was the man, Christ Jesus, who “offered himself without blemish to God.” (Hebrews 9:14) It was the man Christ Jesus, who “suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh.” -- 2 Peter 3:18.
Jesus, while he was in the days of his flesh (Hebrews 5:7), had the full crown of glory a little lower than the angels (Hebrews 2:9); he was sinless — never having fallen short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15; 1 Peter 2:22; 1 John 3:5) Through his obedience to his God even to death (Philippians 2:8), Jesus condemned sin the flesh (Romans 8:3), and by his sacrifice of his humanity, made the way for God to remain just, while yet justifying the sinner. — Romans 3:26.
On the other hand, if Jesus had been, while in the days of his flesh, fully God and fully man, as claimed by the hypostatic union dogma, Jesus would not have condemned in the flesh, but would rather have justified sin the flesh, for his obedience would be attributed to his having been not only man, but also God Almighty. In other words, it would have proven that for Adam to have obeyed God Almighty, Adam would have needed to have been God Almighty, but that sense he was not, sin would have been justified in the flesh rather than condemned. In reality, however, Jesus was, while in the days of his flesh, a sinless man, just as was Adam before Adam sinned, but unlike Adam, Jesus remained faithful in even though he suffered in the likeness of sinful flesh, as though he had been a bondservant of sin (Philippians 2:7,8), that he could bring us to God. -- 1 Peter 3:18; see also Ephesians 2:18.
Through [Jesus], then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name. -- Hebrews 13:15.
The only way to know God in order to have eternal life, is through Jesus. Jesus came to declare and reveal his His God as the only true God. No one can come to the only true God (John 17:3), except through Jesus. -- Matthew 11:27; Luke 10:22; John 1:18; 14:6,7.
The only true God is the source; Jesus is the instrument. -- 1 Corinthians 8:6.
It was the man, Christ Jesus, who “gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.” (Ephesians 5:2) It was the man, Christ Jesus, who “offered himself without blemish to God.” (Hebrews 9:14) It was the man Christ Jesus, who “suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh.” -- 2 Peter 3:18.
Jesus, while he was in the days of his flesh (Hebrews 5:7), had the full crown of glory a little lower than the angels (Hebrews 2:9); he was sinless — never having fallen short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15; 1 Peter 2:22; 1 John 3:5) Through his obedience to his God even to death (Philippians 2:8), Jesus condemned sin the flesh (Romans 8:3), and by his sacrifice of his humanity, made the way for God to remain just, while yet justifying the sinner. — Romans 3:26.
On the other hand, if Jesus had been, while in the days of his flesh, fully God and fully man, as claimed by the hypostatic union dogma, Jesus would not have condemned in the flesh, but would rather have justified sin the flesh, for his obedience would be attributed to his having been not only man, but also God Almighty. In other words, it would have proven that for Adam to have obeyed God Almighty, Adam would have needed to have been God Almighty, but that sense he was not, sin would have been justified in the flesh rather than condemned. In reality, however, Jesus was, while in the days of his flesh, a sinless man, just as was Adam before Adam sinned, but unlike Adam, Jesus remained faithful in even though he suffered in the likeness of sinful flesh, as though he had been a bondservant of sin (Philippians 2:7,8), that he could bring us to God. -- 1 Peter 3:18; see also Ephesians 2:18.
Through [Jesus], then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name. -- Hebrews 13:15.
