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The Trinity by J-me (Part III) 11/24/2008 7:46:22 AM
The Son Just as God, who created man in his own image, gave man a body, so also God has chosen to reveal himself through his body.
This side of God is first revealed in the Holy Bible as "The face of the waters," in Genesis 1:2. I John 5:7 reveals this personality of God as the "Word."
• John 1:1-5, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."
• John 1:9-14 continues, "That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world wa made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."
• John 17-18 continues, "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him."
It is evident that the second personality of the Godhead, the Word, becomes flesh and is embodied in the person Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It is in the face of Jesus that God reaches out to sinful man. It is only through Jesus Christ that man can have fulfillment and communion with God.
• Colosians 2:6-9, "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily."
II Corinthians 4:3-6 confirms, "But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."
All that can be known or understood of God must be seen in the face of Jesus Christ, in whom dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily!
