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Thursday 14 September 2017

The Truth of Jesus and His Apostles

Unless we ascribe to Jesus, Lord Jesus, that He is a man, The Son of Man, and believe it, we will die in our sins. (See John 8.) The Apostle Paul: "yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live." (1 Corinthians 8:6) Surely Paul, as evidenced in this sentence and others like it, believed God is one on His own and it is the Father who is God. Surely Paul, as seen in this sentence, believed that Jesus is on a par with God and is called the Lord but is not God. Surely Paul believed that God is the creator and Jesus is the creator but in a slightly different way to God, hence a difference in prepositions 'from', 'through' in 'from whom all things came' and 'through whom all things came'. The same use of difference of prepositions in relation to creation is seen elsewhere in the apostolic writings to distinguish God and Lord. So prepositions regarding creations distinguished but also title distinguished God and Lord. The Father is God. Jesus is Lord. This is consistent in apostolic writings. Jesus is made flesh forever, always a man, even now that He is resurrected, so God the Father's power is His life-source and we can live by imitating His faith and His apostles' faith.