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Tuesday, June 17, 2014





1 Timothy 3:16. 
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. 

This is referring to Jesus, and it says that "God was manifest in the flesh". So this means that Jesus is God who was manifest in the flesh. 

John 1:1 & 14 says the same thing: 

•John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God". 

•John 1:14, "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". 

Some key things I want to point out is that it doesn't just say that the Word was with God, but that the Word was God. Not a second person of a Trinity or pre-existing or eternal Son, which are all unbiblical, but God Himself. And it says that the Word, which was God, was made flesh, and dwelt among us as the only begotten of the Father. Only begotten of the Father means the Son. This means that God was made flesh and dwelt among us as the Son. The Son is God in human form. 

The term "Word" here is actually "logos" in the Greek. Trinitarian scholars claim that logos refers to an eternal Son that pre-existed. But it says that the Word was God. There's two Greek words that refer to the word of God, there's "logos" and there's "rhema". Logos refers to the word of God as a whole, the entirety of God's word. And rhema refers to a specific word of God that applies to a specific situation. So logos refers to the word of God as a whole, it's an expression of the heart, mind, plan, and purpose of God as a whole. When the Word, which was God, was made flesh, this was God becoming a living example of His word, and fulfilling His redemptive plan for mankind by giving His body as a sacrifice for sin. 

Colossians 1:15 says that the Son is the "image of the invisible God". And Hebrews 1:3 says that the Son is the "express image of His person". This means that the physical body of the Son is the physical bodily image and expression of the invisible God. 

To break it down more, the word "express" is like an impression. And "image" refers to the physical body of the Son. And "person" means the person of God, His being. So "express image" means a physical impression that's made, like a mark pressed into clay, or symbol pressed into wax. It means that the physical body of the Son is a physical impression or reflection of the Spirit of God. 

That's why in John 14:9, Jesus says when you see Him, you see the Father. Because when you see Jesus, you see the physical bodily image and expression of the invisible God. When you see Jesus, you see the Father. And notice in Hebrews 1:3 that it said "person", as in one person, not "persons", as in more than one. God did not divide Himself up into three persons. There is no Trinity with God. God is one single individual and undivided God with no plurality of persons. 

Colossians 2:9, says, "For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily". Godhead refers to everything that God is, all the titles, offices, works, roles, and manifetations of God, His entire being. And bodily refers to the physical bodily form of the Son. This means that all the fulness of God was passed on into that physical body that God took upon Himself as the Son. Jesus is the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but not as distinct persons, they are all one in the same person. 

So Father, Son, and Holy Spirit aren't two or three persons, they're just different titles, offices, works, roles, and manifetations of the same person, God, and His name is Jesus. 

Isaiah 9:6, says, "For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace". This says that the Son is also the Mighty God and the Everlasting Father. So the Bible teaches us that the Son and God the Father are one in the same person. 

In Zechariah 12:10, God says, "And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn". 

God says it was Him who was pierced, who was crucified. God in the Old Testament is telling us that He's Jesus. 

Also, in Zechariah 13:6, it says, "And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends". So even though the saints will be given whole new bodies, Jesus Himself chooses to keep the wounds in His body to show the love and the sacrifice He made for us. 

In John 8:58, Jesus says, "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM". Some argue against this as Jesus claiming to be God, the "I Am", or "YHWH", of the Old Testament when He said, "I Am". But just before that, He said, "before Abraham was", meaning He existed before Abraham. Another thing is, He didn't say, "He was", meaning that He just simply existed before Abraham, He said, "I Am", meaning in the present tense, but applying it to the past, meaning "YHWH". Jesus was in fact telling them that He's YHWH, that He's God. That's why the Jews got mad and tried to stone Him. 

And in Revelation 1:8, Jesus says, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty". So Jesus plainly says that He's God. 

In Matthew 1:21, it says, "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins". Also, in Hebrews 1:3, it says Jesus inherited His name. This means that the Father's name is Jesus, or Yeshuah. So God passed on everything to the Son, including His name, and revealed Himself and His name to us through Him. 

The Hebrew name of Jesus is Yeshuah, which is short for "Yehoshuah", which means, "God the Saviour". Jesus is who His name says He is. Jesus is God the Savior. That's why in Titus 1:3 & 4, "God our Savior" and "Lord Jesus Christ our Savior", are used as interchangable terms. They are one in the same person. 


I have shown in scripture and established that it is a biblical fact that God is Jesus (Zechariah 12:10) and Jesus is God (Revelation 1:8), that Jesus and God are one in the same (Isaiah 9:6). Jesus is God who was manifest in the flesh as the Son (1 Timothy 3:16 and John 1:1 & 14). Below, I will explain the relation between the Father and the Son as being the same person as well as I can according to the revelation, insight, and understanding I have so far. But basically, the Father and the Son are two diffetrent roles and postions that God had fulfilled. Two roles, one person --- one God. 

"God the Father" is a biblical term, but not "God the Son", that is unbiblical and foriegn to the terminology of the Bible. The biblical way to put it is "Son of God". Because "Son" refers to that role and position of Jesus as a man. So calling Him "God the Son" is taking the roles and postions of Jesus as Father and Son and mixing them together. It's a confusion of roles, positions, and terminology. The Bible always makes a distinction between Fatherhood and Sonship, but teaches us that they're the same person, Jesus. It's one God fulfilling two different roles and positions. 

Father and Son are roles that God had fulfilled. And Holy Spirit is simply referring to His Spirit. In Isaiah 43:11, God says that He's the Lord, and beside Him there is no Savior. God took all of the prophecies in the Old Testament about the Son and the Messiah, and stepped right into them, and became the Son and the Messiah Himself. 

It's like an actor playing multiple roles in a movie, and playing the father and the son of the father both. This can be done by man using camera tricks and filming each scene seperately, then puting them together. It might seem like two different people, but in reality, it's the same person. The same is with God fulfilling the roles of Father and Son. It might seem like two different people, but in reality, it's the same person. 

God was able to do that because He was both Spirit and flesh at the same time. Jesus was both God and man, both Father and Son, at the same time. He was God according to His divinity, His Spirit. And He was man according to His humanity, His flesh. It was Spirit and flesh coming together, and bridging the gap between God and man, to bring us all together unto Himself through Christ. 

But God's Spirit is not confined to just that physical body. God's Spirit is everywhere, and fills all the earth and all of heaven. So God was in Christ, and in all the earth, and in all of heaven, all at the same time. So God was able to function as the Father in Spirit and function as the Son in bodily form by His Spirit at the same time. Just like He's able to fill His people with His Spirit and be everywhere on earth and in heaven, and in His physical body in heaven, all at the same time. 

In Ephesians 4:4, it says there's "one Spirit". This is referring to a divine Spirit, and tells us how many Spirits there are in the Godhead, and it says there's only one. So Spirit of God, Spirit of the Lord, Spirit of Christ, Holy Spirit, and the Spirit, are all just different titles and references of the same Spirit. They are all the same Spirit, the same person, which is God. So the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of Christ (or Spirit of Jesus), and the Holy Spirit, are not three different Spirits or persons. They are the same Spirit and the same person. That's why in Roman's 8:9, "Spirit of God" and "Spirit of Christ", are also used as interchangable terms. 

Now let's look at the account of the birth of Jesus in Matthew 1:20. It says that "that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost". So this wasn't an eternal Son in the womb of Mary, and it wasn't an angel, this was God's Spirit entering into the womb of Mary and becoming human, becoming a man -- the Son of God. 

Revelation 4:2, says, "And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne". In heaven, we won't see two or three thrones or two or three persons. We'll only see one throne with one person sitting in the throne, Jesus, who is God all in all. 


"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". 

   --- Isaiah 43:10 & 11. 

God wants us to know and believe and understand who He is. 
He is Jesus. He is God our Savior.
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