It reads "for in him dwells all the fullness....."
It does not say--- He is the bodily fullness of God.
God is spirit-- WE are His body. He dwells IN us. And this is what the verse states also, no?
“It does not say--- He is the bodily fullness of God.”
it says
bodily actually . Meaning Jesus is the manifest person of God. God
is a spirit you’re correct . And what’s also correct is this God who is a spirit eas manifest in the flesh and blood of a man who’s name is Jesus Christ the Lord , savior and creator of all things
“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:
God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels,
preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”
1 Timothy 3:16 KJV
The real question is did Jesus exist before he became flesh ? Was it Jesus saying this before he was born from heaven through prophets ?
In other words is this the same being speaking before he was born in Bethlehem on earth or isn’t it ?
“ Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may
know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.
…. therefore
ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God. Yea, before the day was
I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.”
Isaiah 43:8-14
whos speaking is it Jesus but just before he has come to earth ? In a different form before the son was born ?
“
The LORD is in his holy temple, The LORD's throne is in heaven:
His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.”
Psalm 11:4
Is tbat Jesus before he was made flesh and his name was manifest to all people ?
Is this Jesus the Lord speaking about what he would do before hand ?
“I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. ….
The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar;
he shall prevail against his enemies. And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.”
Isaiah 42:8, 13
It’s just a matter of who the word made flesh was beforhand to understand what I’m saying
“In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1 KJV
then later we needed a perfect man tomonterceed and save us and here wasn’t one so God became a man setting aside his heavenly glory in order to be the perfect man and save us making himself ( God ) known because he is spirit but we are flesh and blood so he became one of us and taught us so we could know him and have an intercessor ….
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.”
John 1:1, 3, 10 KJV
jesus is God the creator , he became flesh and took upon himself the role of a man in order to be our high priest and intercessor and save those who accept him
“Wherefore
he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”
Hebrews 7:25 KJV
And yes we are the temple of God because
the spirit of Gods son lives in us
which is the spirit of God
“And because ye are sons,
God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.”
Galatians 4:6 KJV
God became flesh in order to save us always part of his plan then he was glorified with his former glory having became our high priest forever
Jesus is God in the flesh so we can know him rather than hidden away in heaven so no one ever could know him the true God
“And we know that
the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are
in him that is true, even
in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.”
1 John 5:20 KJV
without Jesus Nono e could ever know the true God because he is the fulness of God manifest in the flesh. That’s what I believe anyways God is one Jesus is when he was born in the flesh and became our savior but he’s the same
Being who created all things he also later came and saved it with his blood which requires him to be born in the body of a man
“Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed
the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.”
Acts 20:28
i believe Jesus is God manifest in the flesh the fulness of God
bodily in one person that’s why they baptize in his name