Post by Hope For All on Aug 14, 2007 16:12:54 GMT -5
One thing I object to about those who deny the full deity of Christ is that many separate Jesus out into a separate independent person who is not connected to God in the same manner as Wisdom, Thought, Word, Arm, hand or Light would be connected to it’s source.
They see Jesus connected to God through Prayer in the same manner as other men, but not in the inseparable manner of scriptural illustration.
Often in Isaiah The Lord makes reference to his “arm” or to his “own arm” or to his “Right Arm” or to his “hand”. These references give a picture of God’s arm extending into the world to save his people or of his hand reaching out to help us.
Is 59:1 “Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.” NIV
Is 59:15 “The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice. 16 He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene; so his own arm worked salvation for him, and his own righteousness sustained him.” NIV
Is 59: 19 “From the west, men will fear the name of the LORD, and from the rising of the sun, they will revere his glory. For he will come like a pent-up flood that the breath of the LORD drives along.” NIV
Jesus has or will fulfill all of these promises.
Picture for a moment your arm extending down into an anthill. You place food there. You pick up an ant from danger and place it safely into place.
If the ants could reason would they say- no that arm is not you? Some probably would because they would have no concept of what you look like by just seeing your arm. We are like ants.
Your arm only does what your brain tells you to do. Your arm can feel pain that nowhere else in your body feels. Your hand wants to avoid the hot stove, but your brain can tell you to leave it there and suffer.
This explains to me how and why Jesus prayed. Not because he was independent from God in the fullest sense like we are- but prayer was his connection “to the brain”.
This concept applies to Jesus being God’s Wisdom, Thought, Word, Light, hand and his right arm. One cannot separate these attributes from the person anymore than we can separate Jesus from God.
I trust that this will help some understand in another way why some of us believe that Jesus is God.
Peace,
HFA
They see Jesus connected to God through Prayer in the same manner as other men, but not in the inseparable manner of scriptural illustration.
Often in Isaiah The Lord makes reference to his “arm” or to his “own arm” or to his “Right Arm” or to his “hand”. These references give a picture of God’s arm extending into the world to save his people or of his hand reaching out to help us.
Is 59:1 “Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.” NIV
Is 59:15 “The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice. 16 He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene; so his own arm worked salvation for him, and his own righteousness sustained him.” NIV
Is 59: 19 “From the west, men will fear the name of the LORD, and from the rising of the sun, they will revere his glory. For he will come like a pent-up flood that the breath of the LORD drives along.” NIV
Jesus has or will fulfill all of these promises.
Picture for a moment your arm extending down into an anthill. You place food there. You pick up an ant from danger and place it safely into place.
If the ants could reason would they say- no that arm is not you? Some probably would because they would have no concept of what you look like by just seeing your arm. We are like ants.
Your arm only does what your brain tells you to do. Your arm can feel pain that nowhere else in your body feels. Your hand wants to avoid the hot stove, but your brain can tell you to leave it there and suffer.
This explains to me how and why Jesus prayed. Not because he was independent from God in the fullest sense like we are- but prayer was his connection “to the brain”.
This concept applies to Jesus being God’s Wisdom, Thought, Word, Light, hand and his right arm. One cannot separate these attributes from the person anymore than we can separate Jesus from God.
I trust that this will help some understand in another way why some of us believe that Jesus is God.
Peace,
HFA