If people think Jesus is God Himself they lose the meaning of many verses including that great verse in Hebrews 1:3 that says the Son is the express image of God. If the Son is God then He is simply and vainly an image of Himself which makes that verse and the belief the verse expresses simply meaningless.
It is all in line with prevailing philosphies among the Greeks when the scriptures of John and the epistle to Hebrews were written, such as Plato's theory of forms ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms ) - we see the Moon and sometimes it is larger than other times but the Moon itself is neither changing in size nor changing much in distance away but rather a projected image of the Moon through the lens of the atmosphere is what really changes in size - so there is the physical Moon (its substance or 'physis') but also the 'form' which that 'physis' produces and the form is 'in' the physis. This kind of thinking must have prevailed in new testament scripture times because it is evident in how scripture writers described the relationship between Father and Son and also in later writings like Tertulian's. Yet it is the Holy Spirit really behind it all.
I think misunderatanding is often caused by wanting to interpret certain verses to fit with favoured dogmas rather than the other way around - there might be 1000 verses saying Jesus Son of God clearly then one or three that are opache but could be interpreted to suggest what demoniatuonal church dogma says but this is enough, fools think, to outweigh the 1000.
Why the fuss about all this? The fuss is because a person will die in their sins unless they realise properly who Jesus is and believe it and follow Him by holding to His sayings (John 8).
We all need setting free and taking it to heart that the Messiah actually did die for you and I encourages us that the God of Jesus must be able and willing to help.
You need to believe The Son of Man was alive and well before even Abraham was born. This is how you can also believe He will be alive and well forever so He can make you a child of God forever and intercede and bring you grace and truth to keep you that way. "I am He that lives and was dead and see I am alive forever," He says.
It is all in line with prevailing philosphies among the Greeks when the scriptures of John and the epistle to Hebrews were written, such as Plato's theory of forms ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms ) - we see the Moon and sometimes it is larger than other times but the Moon itself is neither changing in size nor changing much in distance away but rather a projected image of the Moon through the lens of the atmosphere is what really changes in size - so there is the physical Moon (its substance or 'physis') but also the 'form' which that 'physis' produces and the form is 'in' the physis. This kind of thinking must have prevailed in new testament scripture times because it is evident in how scripture writers described the relationship between Father and Son and also in later writings like Tertulian's. Yet it is the Holy Spirit really behind it all.
I think misunderatanding is often caused by wanting to interpret certain verses to fit with favoured dogmas rather than the other way around - there might be 1000 verses saying Jesus Son of God clearly then one or three that are opache but could be interpreted to suggest what demoniatuonal church dogma says but this is enough, fools think, to outweigh the 1000.
Why the fuss about all this? The fuss is because a person will die in their sins unless they realise properly who Jesus is and believe it and follow Him by holding to His sayings (John 8).
We all need setting free and taking it to heart that the Messiah actually did die for you and I encourages us that the God of Jesus must be able and willing to help.
You need to believe The Son of Man was alive and well before even Abraham was born. This is how you can also believe He will be alive and well forever so He can make you a child of God forever and intercede and bring you grace and truth to keep you that way. "I am He that lives and was dead and see I am alive forever," He says.
