Messiah: The One I Am
Zechariah 14:9 And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
The messianic age is almost upon us! A figure shrouded in mystery and obscured by egnimatic questions, Messiah is, never the less, well established in His identity!
The doctrine of the trinity is a tradition of men, close to what the scripture teaches, but shaded so that He is almost unrecognizable to those who have known Him the longest as a people. The internal integrity which is the One Being of God cannot be separated into "personalities", or described so that the Father "is not" the Son, who "is not" the Spirit. These words used to attempt an explanation of the nature of God, draw on our perceptions of our physical reality, putting the same physical limits on Him that we have, but which He does not.
Clearly, those who teach the trinity doctrine understand who Jesus is. They know He is God in the flesh, but lose sight of the fact that God is a singular being, indivisible.. Yet if one tries to use such words as "modes" or "manifestations" for the way God has presented Himself, then one is labeled a heretic. It is logically impossible to have three all powerful minds, intelligences, or rulers. Having no boundaries (with total overlap) make all three the same One.
The incarnation was a new thing the Lord did:
Jeremiah 31:22How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man
God became a human being. He stepped into the limits of our four dimensions to become a human interface between us and the divine, a visible mediator that we could understand, could identify with. "There is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ." Jesus is the visible God. His body of flesh shares our DNA!
God created man in HIS image! Before the incarnation, his physical form like a man was called "the angel of the Lord". He also called His future body "my Righteous Right Hand." Your hand does nothing unless you tell it to, thus Jesus said, "I can do nothing except what my Father tells me." The prophesy of His birth in Isaiah says He will be called the "Everlasting Father". Jesus told Phillip that"he who has seen me, has seen the Father." In Jesus "dwells all the fullness of the Godhead, in bodily form." The only time His body and soul were separated, was at His death.
God created man in HIS image! Before the incarnation, his physical form like a man was called "the angel of the Lord". He also called His future body "my Righteous Right Hand." Your hand does nothing unless you tell it to, thus Jesus said, "I can do nothing except what my Father tells me." The prophesy of His birth in Isaiah says He will be called the "Everlasting Father". Jesus told Phillip that"he who has seen me, has seen the Father." In Jesus "dwells all the fullness of the Godhead, in bodily form." The only time His body and soul were separated, was at His death.
God has only one body, as we do, but HIS is the Only Begotten Son (conceived
and birthed as the Son of man). He told us, "Unless you believe that I Am He, ye shall die in your sins."
and birthed as the Son of man). He told us, "Unless you believe that I Am He, ye shall die in your sins."
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