This will be part II OF MY SERIES ON GOD IS ONE! In part one, I established by scripture God is ONE. There were not a plurality of gods in the Old Testament in spite of man-made doctrine. Over time man became confused. Brought on by
Colossians 2:8-9 KJV_”Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” Nothing spoken in the Word of God is merely coincidental, nor does it contradict itself! Thus it merits proper exegesis to avoid harm. That’s why Paul admonished Timothy to “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (I Tim 2:15 KJV).
Unfortunately, man and his “philosophy and vain deceit”
The point of the philosophical theory of the
By 381 A.D. the creeds and councils of Nicene and Constantinople by the Roman Catholics officially established The Theology of The Trinity! Man took the simplicity of God manifesting himself to humanity through Jesus Christ. Then fabricated it by turning the godhead into supposedly something that man’s finite wisdom couldn’t comprehend! That’s why I love 1 Timothy 3:16. Again, Paul lets young Timothy know the beauty and simplicity of God.
“And WITHOUT CONTROVERSY great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”
Paul answers the weak feeble minds about the mystery of God. God planned redemption for mankind. He decided to robe himself in flesh, and reveal himself to mankind through Jesus Christ. From that moment on- All the FULNESS of the GODHEAD would dwell in Jesus!
To understand New Testament Theology, you must understand Old Testament Theology. Deuteronomy 6:4 Declares “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD”. To this day, God’s chosen people still literally have this command over their door post. To remind them There is only One God!
God would temporarily manifest himself through out the Old Testament in divers manners, meaning in temporary manifestations. (Hebrews 1:1) Yet, his plan of redemption was to manifest himself to the world as a man in order to purchase the payment for OUR SINS! Acts 20:28 tells us “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.”
God purchased the church with HIS BLOOD! This verse would boggle the mind. Unless we saw the true identity of Jesus Christ. God manifest in the flesh. The bible declared through prophecy HE WAS COMING! Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” Matthew 1:21-23 “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.”
Don’t allow the vain deceits of man to beguile your thinking beyond the simplicity of this passage. Emmanuel -God with us! In case we missed it in Isaiah 7:14, he follows up with Isaiah 9:6. “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
The bible is emphatic with identifying the simplicity of God revealing himself to man through Jesus Christ. A
God Bless, JDS
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