Both Genesis and the Gospel of John begin with creation accounts.
Genesis 1:1 says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
John 1:1-3 says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made."
How are we to understand this? Was there two creators? Is the bible in error? The bible correctly translated does not error or contradict. What this is in fact is one of the strongest assertions that God and Jesus are One. They are the same person, not two distinct persons.
John 1:18 "No one has seen God at anytime." This can only mean God in His spirit form, for in the old testament we see Abram encountering the presence of God (Gen 12:7 and Gen 17:1), but in a form that did not represent God in His fullness. We also see God in the form of man through Jesus Christ, but Paul speaks of Christ as one "who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see." (1 Timothy 6:16) Christ is now seated with God in the heavens, sitting at His right hand, in this form or spiritual essence no man can look upon Him. When God brings Himself (condescends is the term) to our level if you will, we can look upon Him and not perish. Only because we are not looking upon Him in His spiritual fullness. Christ in the essence of God, an extension of God, a bodily image of God (Colossians 1:15), Christ is in reality God.
John and Moses were both right. God and The Word created the heavens and the earth, They are one in the same.
Grace, MB
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I like that idea...God, put his spirit in the human body and called it Jesus, so that he could come and teach us and show us by example how to live and we could look at him...(Is that what you mean?) But wait a minute...why would the God body Jesus, pray to the father...Great, now I'm lost...Ok I deal better with three people idea....Mind is exploding right now....
Lori
Lori, can you imagine a God who cannot even be looked upon with dying? Could He not be anything He wants? Could He not do anything He wants? Why couldn't He take a part of Himself and create a companion, a Son? It would be like He was praying to Himself, but again that is our human minds understanding of that. Then again, we talk to ourselves all the time, don't we?
TRUE...I guess we do...and your right...he can do what ever he wants...ok...mind is exploding again....
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