The Incarnation of God.

The Father says of the son "thy throne o God is forever and ever"

I did not see a reply to my question of your faith/affiliation

Are you Pentecostal oneness?

Something else?

How do you identify him or what objection do you have to the trinitarian view?

The term "Jesus' God" is a product of his beliefs

What organization do you align with?

Any links to those concepts you are preacing?

I don’t think Jesus is pleased with Christians killing one another (literally or figuratively), nor do I believe killing non-Christians (literally or figuratively) is compatible with his teaching that his followers are to love our enemies. I’m an Anabaptist.

The avatar I selected is a sketch of a famous incident involving a Dutch Anabaptist named Dirk Willems.

Briefly, Willems was imprisoned for his faith. (The issue was infant baptism.) He managed to escape from prison and was pursued by a guard. The guard fell through thin ice while crossing a pond and was drowning. Willems heard his cries for help and turned back to rescue him. Willems was arrested, returned to prison, tortured, and burned to death at the stake. His story is included in Martyrs Mirror.

For persons interested in his story who don’t have access to the source, I’ve included a link to an article about Willems on wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Willems

The Incarnation was necessary to enable mortality to be present in Christ in addition to His Divinity. He was born of a woman to become the first to rise from the dead. Christ suffered physically and mentally just as any human being would suffer when subjected to scourging and crucifixion. If God had been incarnate in a being of such strength that He did not suffer then that would be the same as His never being incarnate at all. But never allow faith to be suffocated by all the theories which abound, for the simple truth is that God became man in Jesus who suffered, died on the cross and then rose again from the dead that sins might be forgiven, so that we in turn might defeat death and become a part of the essence that is God. In simple terms God became man that man might become synonymous with God. The work that God wants from us is to believe in Him and in the one He sent and to obey His teaching, as outlined by Christ in the Gospels.

Given your hostile attitude toward me in general, and your attempt to brand me a JW in particular, I didn’t see any good reason to respond to your question.

I read a comment from someone else in this thread speaking about giving a person the benefit of the doubt. It caused me to change my mind about responding to you. First impressions aren’t always correct.



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Yes.

I don’t think Jesus is pleased with Christians killing one another (literally or figuratively), nor do I believe killing non-Christians (literally or figuratively) is compatible with his teaching that his followers are to love our enemies. I’m an Anabaptist.

The Incarnation was necessary to enable mortality to be present in Christ in addition to His Divinity. He was born of a woman to become the first to rise from the dead. Christ suffered physically and mentally just as any human being would suffer when subjected to scourging and crucifixion. If God had been incarnate in a being of such strength that He did not suffer then that would be the same as His never being incarnate at all. But never allow faith to be suffocated by all the theories which abound, for the simple truth is that God became man in Jesus who suffered, died on the cross and then rose again from the dead that sins might be forgiven, so that we in turn might defeat death and become a part of the essence that is God. In simple terms God became man that man might become synonymous with God. The work that God wants from us is to believe in Him and in the one He sent and to obey His teaching, as outlined by Christ in the Gospels.

Only the "Jewish" people are Abrahams natural descendants.
But we are adopted into the family so that we can inherit the promise of Abraham. Paul tells us the natural branches were cut off and we were grafted in.

"You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either" (Romans 11:19,20,21)

Interesting take, I havent heard this one before.

Mr. Derek;

Do you believe in the Holy Trinity?

I, like one or two others, am concerned when you say:

and become a part of the essence that is God

Are you suggesting that we will NOT be individual beings, but, rather, be somehow infused into God and disappear as a being?

this was written due to the resurrection

Acts 13:33
God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

He was begotten after the resurrection.

In the beginning was The Word, The Word was God and the Word was with God.

The Incarnation was necessary to enable mortality to be present in Christ in addition to His Divinity. He was born of a woman to become the first to rise from the dead. Christ suffered physically and mentally just as any human being would suffer when subjected to scourging and crucifixion. If God had been incarnate in a being of such strength that He did not suffer then that would be the same as His never being incarnate at all. But never allow faith to be suffocated by all the theories which abound, for the simple truth is that God became man in Jesus who suffered, died on the cross and then rose again from the dead that sins might be forgiven, so that we in turn might defeat death and become a part of the essence that is God. In simple terms God became man that man might become synonymous with God. The work that God wants from us is to believe in Him and in the one He sent and to obey His teaching, as outlined by Christ in the Gospels.