Not even God ...
Apr 15, 2017 5:39:02 GMT
Post by Colossians on Apr 15, 2017 5:39:02 GMT
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NOT EVEN GOD ...
We are traditionally told that God is answerable to no-one: indeed there is no point being God if you’ve got to report to someone else.
And so we rightly declare God sovereign: He is the potter and we the clay, and He can do as He wishes with that clay.
But there is a problem, and that is that God has Himself declared that there must be two or three witnesses for any word to be established: He being the Word is of necessity under the same verification test as those at Deut 19:15: not even God may be judge in His own matter.
And so it is all well and good to say that the Word became flesh and gave His life for the many, but where are the two or three witnesses to such, and in particular, the two or three witnesses of the same rank as the Word? (For if concerning humans the witnesses had to be human, then concerning the Word the witnesses must needs be God.)
And so we understand by such philosophy that God must comprise (at least) three persons: the Word, and (at least) two witnesses.
Such latter are of course (at least) the Father and the Spirit.
If two witnesses are sufficient, why “or three”?
Witness no. 3 is an extension of Him who is the Word, she being the woman of Christ. That is, she stands as witness no. 3 when she understands her position in Christ, and she is hidden in the Father otherwise. (See then our work: “The 4 persons in God”.)
“I and my Father are one” John 10:30
In the last few verses of the bible we find the following:
“And the Spirit and the bride say, Come … He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly” Rev 22:17,20.
Given that the testifying here of “these things” by [the Spirit, the bride and the Son] is manifestly sufficient and therefore of necessity equivalent to the (abovementioned and also-sufficient) establishing of the Word by [the Spirit, the bride and the Father], the Son and the Father are of necessity one.
Given that the final witnessing here is not by [the Spirit, the bride and the Father] but [the Spirit, the bride and the Son] and therefore that which witnesses not primarily to the Son but to the Father, the Father is of necessity greater than the Son.
“And when all things shall be subdued unto [the Son], then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all” 1 Cor 15:28.
In closing …
Who’s counting?
We are.
“the [W]oman is the glory of the [M]an” 1 Cor 11:7.
Amen.
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NOT EVEN GOD ...
We are traditionally told that God is answerable to no-one: indeed there is no point being God if you’ve got to report to someone else.
And so we rightly declare God sovereign: He is the potter and we the clay, and He can do as He wishes with that clay.
But there is a problem, and that is that God has Himself declared that there must be two or three witnesses for any word to be established: He being the Word is of necessity under the same verification test as those at Deut 19:15: not even God may be judge in His own matter.
And so it is all well and good to say that the Word became flesh and gave His life for the many, but where are the two or three witnesses to such, and in particular, the two or three witnesses of the same rank as the Word? (For if concerning humans the witnesses had to be human, then concerning the Word the witnesses must needs be God.)
And so we understand by such philosophy that God must comprise (at least) three persons: the Word, and (at least) two witnesses.
Such latter are of course (at least) the Father and the Spirit.
If two witnesses are sufficient, why “or three”?
Witness no. 3 is an extension of Him who is the Word, she being the woman of Christ. That is, she stands as witness no. 3 when she understands her position in Christ, and she is hidden in the Father otherwise. (See then our work: “The 4 persons in God”.)
“I and my Father are one” John 10:30
In the last few verses of the bible we find the following:
“And the Spirit and the bride say, Come … He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly” Rev 22:17,20.
Given that the testifying here of “these things” by [the Spirit, the bride and the Son] is manifestly sufficient and therefore of necessity equivalent to the (abovementioned and also-sufficient) establishing of the Word by [the Spirit, the bride and the Father], the Son and the Father are of necessity one.
Given that the final witnessing here is not by [the Spirit, the bride and the Father] but [the Spirit, the bride and the Son] and therefore that which witnesses not primarily to the Son but to the Father, the Father is of necessity greater than the Son.
“And when all things shall be subdued unto [the Son], then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all” 1 Cor 15:28.
In closing …
Who’s counting?
We are.
“the [W]oman is the glory of the [M]an” 1 Cor 11:7.
Amen.