The Father and The Son
I. The Son (Christ) Was Created
by, and Was With The Father Before
Creation:
Col. 1:15,17,18 - "firstborn of every creature" (first thing
or being created); "And he is before all things" (Being the first of
creation, Christ preceded all of creation.); "who is the beginning,"
(God had no beginning, therefore Christ being the first of creation, is
Himself the beginning of all things.)
Rev. 3:14 - "the beginning of the creation of God." (Jesus confessed
with his own mouth that he was and is the beginning, or firstborn of all
creation.)
Jn. 17:5,24 - "the glory which I had with thee before the world
was" (Jesus praying to the Father); "for thou lovedst me before the
foundation of the world." (The Father had Jesus to love before creation,
because He was with Him then. - Jn. 1:1)
Eph. 3;9 & Heb. 1:2 - "who (God) created all things by Jesus
Christ:" - "By whom (Christ) also he (God) made the worlds;" (Both
scriptures clearly reveal that God created all things by and through his
Son.)
I Cor. 8:6 - "one God, the Father, of whom are all things,...and
one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things," (God brought forth
Christ to creation, and as the preceding scriptures show, Christ created all
things that exist. - Jn. 1:3; Col. 1:16)
II. The Father Has a Body of His Own, And is a Separate Person
From
The Son:
Exd. 33:20,23 - "Thou canst not see my face...and thou shalt see my back
parts:" (God proclaimed to Moses that He had both a face and back parts,
which things are part of a body.)
Jn. 5:37 - "And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne
witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his
shape." (Jesus plainly said that His Father has a bodily shape - The word
"shape" comes from the Greek word "Eidos," which is defined as "the external
or outward appearance, form figure, shape"
Jn. 6:46 - "Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of
God, he hath seen the Father." (Jesus said that He has seen the Father,
though at this time He is invisible to men.)
Jn. 18:10 - "their angels do always behold the face of my Father which
is in heaven." (Again, Jesus said that His Father has a face to see.)
Jn. 4:24; Heb. 1:7,14 - "God is a Spirit" - "Who maketh his angels
spirits...Are they not all ministering spirits,...?" ("God is a Spirit"
simply means that God is a spiritual Being; even as angels are referred to
as spirits, and we know that angels have bodies. So God is a spiritual being
with a spiritual body, but a body nonetheless.)
III. Jesus Is The Only Begotten of The Father, and Therefore
Is Also
God, or Deity:
Heb. 1:3 - "the brightness of His glory," (The term "brightness" comes
from the Greek word "apaugasma," and is defined as "a reflected
brightness.") "and the express image of His person..." (The term "express
image" comes from the Greek word "Charakter" which means a "marked
likeness", or "precise reproduction.") So Christ, being the "only begotten
of the Father, meaning that He alone has come forth from the Father's body;
can be nothing but diety, or God. And He could not be a reflected
brightness, a marked likeness, or a precise reproduction of the Father,
unless He and the Father both have bodies.)
Gen. 1:26; Jn. 1:1 - "Let us make man in our image," (Man is made in the
image of God. Therefore God had to be speaking to Someone else Who was also
God; that Someone being the Son, through Whom He made all things, as
previously set forth by the Scriptures.); "and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God." (The Son was with the Father in the beginning, and in
fact is the beginning; and He is also God, being begotten purely of the
substance of the Father.)
Heb. 1:8,9 - "But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever
and ever:" (The Father Himself addressed the Son as God.); "therefore God,
even thy God, hath anointed thee..." (God also let the Son know that He
(Father) is His (Son) God, and that it was He Who anointed Him. This clearly
demonstrates two Persons, both of Whom are God.)
Jn. 9:5; Jn. 14:9; Rev. 3:14 - "I am the light of the world." (Jesus,
being the reflected brightness of the Father, was the light of the Father
while He was here.) "...he that hath seen me hath seen the Father;" (The
Apostle Paul said, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me:" - Gal. 2:20 - This certainly doesn't mean that
Paul was Jesus, but it does mean that anyone seeing Paul may just as well
have seen Jesus; and thus is our calling: to manifest the reality of Christ
to the world; or to be His witnesses.) "These things saith the Amen, the
faithful and true witness" (Seeing that Jesus is a precise reproduction of
the Father, He is the perfect representation, or witness of the Father. He
is like the Father in all things, and thus is the Amen, or "so be it" of
God.)
IV. The Father Is Greater Than The Son:
Jn. 14:28 - "for my Father is greater than I." (Jesus plainly stated
that He has a Father, and that His Father is greater than Him.)
Mk. 13:32 - "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the
angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." (Jesus made it
clear that His Father knows more than He does.)
I Cor. 15:24,27,28 - "Then cometh the end, when he (Christ) shall have
delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put
down all rule and all authority and power...For he (The Father) hath put all
things under his (Christ) feet. But when he saith all things are put under
him, it is manifest that he (The Father) is excepted, which did put all
things under him...And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall
the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that
God may be all in all." (God has given Jesus "all power in heaven and in
earth" [Mat. 28:18], but after the thousand year reign Jesus will return all
that God has given Him, back to God; and Jesus will also be in submission to
the Father, Who will be over all in the new earth.)
Heb. 1:9; Jn. 20:17 - "therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed
thee..." (Again, the Father told the Son that He is His God, and that it was
He Who anointed the Son "with the oil of gladness..." The Father has to be
greater than the Son in order to anoint Him, and to be His God.); "I ascend
unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." (Jesus refers
to His Father as His God.)
Heb. 5:7 - "when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong
crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was
heard in that he feared;" (Jesus fears the Father because He knows that the
Father holds all power and is worthy of all fear.)
V. The Greatness of God's Love:
Jn. 16:28 - "I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world:
again, I leave the world, and go to the Father." (Jesus said plainly that He
came from God to come into this world.)
Jn. 3:16 - "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
Son," (God sent His Son Who had been with Him since before creation, to
suffer and die for us, that we might have hope of eternal life through Him.
Everyone knows that it is harder for us to see our children suffer, than it
is for us to suffer ourselves. That is why the Apostle Paul stated so
powerfully: "For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure
for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth His love
toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" [Rom.
5:7,8] ).
VI. The Holy Ghost, The Oneness of The Father and The Son, and of The Body
of Christ:
Rom. 8:2,10 - "the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus...the
Spirit is life" (The holy Ghost is referred to as life, meaning that it is
the life of God.)
Jn. 5:26 - "For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to
the Son to have life in himself;" (The life, or Spirit which is in God, is
also the life which is in the Son, because the Son was begotten (born)
directly from the Father's body.)
I Jn. 4:16; Rom. 5:5 - "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love
dwelleth in God, and God in him." (The nature of God is His love.); "because
the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost..." (The holy
Ghost is the love of God, meaning the holy Ghost is the divine
nature.)
Jn. 17:22,23 - "And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them;...
(Rom. 6:4 says that Jesus was raised from the dead "by the glory of the
Father;" and I Pet. 3:18 says that He was "quickened (raised from the dead)
by the Spirit." Therefore the Spirit is the "glory" that Jesus has received
from the Father and given to us. - Acts 2:33); ...that they may be one, even
as we are one." (The Father and the Son each have their own body, but they
share the same life substance, and the same divine nature; so they are one
in heart, mind, and feeling.); ..."I in them, and thou in me, that they may
be made perfect in one;" (Christ is in us the same way that the Father is in
Him - through the holy Ghost. This is how we are made one, even as He and
the Father are one - in Spirit, mind, and nature.)
Acts 4:32 - "And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart
and of one soul:" (The early believers were one with one another in heart
and soul, because they were joined together through the divine nature of
God, which is His Spirit.)
I Cor. 1:10 - "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no
divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same
mind and in the same judgment." (The Apostle Paul instructed believers to be
one in the way we think, understand, and speak the things of God; because
the Spirit teaches us the truth about God [Jn. 14:26; I Jn. 2:27], and "God
is not the author of confusion," but rather of unity.)
Rom. 12:15 - "Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that
weep." (If we are following after the Spirit of God we will feel the things
that one another feels, because we are joined together by the same divine
nature and life that indwells the Father and the Son.)
VII. The Holy Ghost is Not a Third Person:
Jn. 14:26 - "...which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my
name," (The holy Ghost has been sent in Jesus' name, meaning in His stead.
That is how the scripture says that "the Lord is that Spirit" [II Cor.
3:17]. That is why the Spirit can be referred to by a personal pronoun, such
as "he," "whom," and so on).
Jn. 14:17 - "...Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive,
because it seeth him not," (Jesus referred to the Spirit as "he.")
Jn. 14:18 - "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you."
(Jesus referred to the Spirit as "I." He [Jesus] comes unto us when we receive the
Comforter, which is the holy Ghost.)
Jn.14:23 - "If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will
love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." (Jesus
also referred to the Spirit as "we." Jesus and the Father take up their
abode with someone when that someone receives the holy Ghost, because when
someone receives the Spirit they share the same life, nature, mind, feeling,
etc. with the Father and with the Son, and with everyone else who has and is
led by that same Spirit.)
James 2:26 - "For as the body without the spirit is dead," (God's Spirit
is not a person any more than our spirit is a person. We are a person by
being body, soul, and spirit (I Thess. 5:23); and we are made in the image
of God, so it is the same way with God, as well as with His Son.)
VIII. Summary:
The Son of God was begotten, or born of God before anything else ever
existed, and the Father created all things through His Son. Because the Son is
the only one ever directly begotten of the Father's body, He is made purely of
the divine substance of the Father, making Him also deity, or God; but the
Father is still greater than Him in authority, power, knowledge, and everything
else. The Father has a body of His own, even as the Son has a body of his own,
so they are two separate Persons. They are one with one another by means of sharing the same divine life and nature,
which things are the Spirit. This means they think, understand, and feel alike in all things. We are
called and commanded to be one with one another in the same way that the Father
and the Son are one with one another. We all have separate bodies, even as do
the Father and The Son; but by means of us having the same holy Spirit of God,
we should think, feel, understand, and speak alike, in all things that pertain
to God; because the Spirit is the mind and nature of God, and only teaches us
truth in and about the love of God, which is His nature. And it is that love
that compelled God to send His only begotten Son to this world, to suffer and
die for you and I, that we might have this glorious opportunity to be reconciled
to Him; and to be in fellowship (oneness) with He and the Son.
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