2007-05-03 22:06:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus is God' Son, not God. John 10:36
2007-05-03 22:28:28 · answer #1 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because the Christian church, for lack of a better term, bastardized the idea of who and what God really is. First off, God is not schizophrenic. The Christian ideal of the Trinity is that God is one being with three voices in his head. God is two beings, God the Father and God the Son. The Holy Spirit is NOT a third being. The Holy Spirit is nothing more than the essence of God. It is the means by which we communicate with God and by which we can identify other Children of God. Thus why you never read a scripture that ends with, "...thus sayeth the Holy Spirit.". If you look in the Old Testament, in Genesis, and you have a Bible with a Strong's (it is a dictionary, of sorts, where each word of the Bible is taken back to its original language and the original meaning is given for it) you'll see that every instance of the word "God", when translated back to its original language of Hebrew/Chaldeean is "elohiym". "Elohiym" is PLURAL, meaning GODS. Not God with three voices, GODS. Jesus is God's son, separate from him. But, they are of like-thinking. The relationship between God the Father and God the Son is like that between, say, you and your best friend. You might get to know someone so well that you think alike, and if someone asks you, "Hey, how do you think your friend would feel about this?" you can answer without fear of being wrong because you are so close. But, this isn't to say that you and your friend are one person with two personalities. I hope I've helped explain this somewhat. I wish I had more time and space to write, because I'd explain it more in-depth, but this is a start, anyways. Good luck on your search for knowledge and God bless!
2007-05-04 05:50:23 · answer #2 · answered by Cyndiana 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The hypostatic union is the term used to describe how God the Son, Jesus Christ, took on a human nature, yet remained fully God at the same time. Jesus always had been God (John 8:58; 10:30), but at the incarnation Jesus took on human flesh - He became a human being (John 1:14). The addition of the human nature to the divine nature is Jesus, the God-man. This is the hypostatic union, Jesus Christ, one Person, fully God and fully man.
Jesus' two natures, human and divine, are inseparable. Jesus will forever be the God-man, fully God and fully human, two distinct natures in one Person. Jesus' humanity and divinity are not mixed, but are united without loss of separate identity. Jesus sometimes operated with the limitations of humanity (John 4:6; 19:28) and other times in the power of His deity (John 11:43; Matthew 14:18-21). In both, Jesus' actions were from His one Person. Jesus had two natures, but only one person or personality.
The doctrine of the hypostatic union is an attempt to explain how Jesus could be both God and man at the same time. It is ultimately, though, a doctrine that we are incapable of fully understanding. It is impossible for us to fully understand how God works. We, as finite human beings, should not expect to be able to comprehend an infinite God. Jesus is God’s Son in that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:35). But that does not mean Jesus did not exist before He was conceived. Jesus always has existed (John 8:58; 10:30). When Jesus was conceived, He became a human being in addition to being God (John 1:1,14).
Jesus is both God and man. Jesus has always been God, but He did not become a human being until He was conceived in Mary. Jesus became a human being so that He could identify with us in our struggles (Hebrews 2:17) and, more importantly, so that He could die on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins (Philippians 2:5-11). In summary, the hypostatic union teaches that Jesus is both fully human and fully divine, that there is no mixture or dilution of either nature, and that He is one united Person, forever.
Recommended Resource: The Moody Handbook of Theology by Paul Enns.
2007-05-04 09:10:34 · answer #3 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is the son of man because he was a descendant of Adam, and because he is the last Adam.
He is not God the Almighty, but he is God's son. He is God's son -- just like Adam was said to be God son!
(Luke 3:38 [son] of E?nosh, [son] of Seth, [son] of Adam, [son] of God.)
When he was baptized, he became the spirit anointed Son of God. These were God's own words appointing him to be this.
Because he had a pre-human existence and because he was God's firstborn, an only begotten god -- for this reason he is a god.
John 1:18 18 No man has seen God at any time; the only-begotten god who is in the bosom [position] with the Father is the one that has explained him. (NW) (ASV, footnote)
Isaiah 9:6 tells us that he is a "mighty god" and that he is the "eternal father." He is an eternal father because the ransom works through him adopting his believers -- that is how they get the benefit of his blood.
See links: http://bythebible.page.tl/
Trinity: Athanasian Creed, John 1:1
Jesus Christ, His pre-human Existence
The Ransom
http://bythebible.page.tl/Jesus-Christ.htm
http://bythebible.page.tl/Jesus-h--Prehuman-Existence.htm
http://bythebible.page.tl/Trinity_Athanasian-Creed.htm
http://bythebible.page.tl/Trinity_John-1-d-1.htm
http://bythebible.page.tl/Ransom.htm
2007-05-04 05:24:31 · answer #4 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dear My Bike,
In Christianity God has three "faces" the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.
As for Jesus case, there lays the whole glory of Christianity...that God himself took a human shape to save humanity from sins.
I think we need a cup of coffee and read once more tha New Testament.
2007-05-04 05:20:36 · answer #5 · answered by Coffee Maker 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think that most people have heard of the virgin birth. So I won't spend much time there. Basically a part of God came out of heaven and rested in a woman named Mary. She delievered a son by normal means whose Father is God in heaven.
So do you see the connection now?
2007-05-04 05:22:18 · answer #6 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if we could explain god than it would not be god. god and the supernatural do not fit into our understanding. you either believe or you don't simple as that. we can not explain how light is both a particle and a wave and we have never seen it just the affects of it yet we still believe in and accept it.
2007-05-04 05:34:27 · answer #7 · answered by samuel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was The Son (of God) of man (of flesh and blood)
2007-05-04 05:24:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For that you must know what is called trinity. Get help from your strong Christian friends . You can't get your answer from people who don't know Jesus. Or else ask Jesus for help he will answer you if you are a true seeker for the answer of this question.
2007-05-04 05:22:43 · answer #9 · answered by B_I 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He was the representative of God - an incarnation. He belonged to mankind. He is God who sent him to us.
2007-05-04 05:21:22 · answer #10 · answered by indranath 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋