THE WORD BECAME FLESH - The mystery of the God-Man
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ is True God and True man all at the same time. This is a great mystery for our finite minds to grasp. And as with other Biblically revealed mysteries, we may not be able to grasp it by reasoning or science or logic or experience. But that doesn't make such a mystery any less true. We need to "understand" it by faith. We need to take the attitude, "Lord, this doesn't make any sense to me..it is a seeming contradiction...there is nothing in this world to compare this with....nevertheless, if You say that this is true in Your Word, and I know that You would not lie to me, then I accept it as being true, even though I don't understand it." {8} For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
Always remember that God is a Genius of Infinite Magnitude. He does things on an "every day" basis in the universe that are incomprehensible to us in quality, quantity and complexity. Even with the most advanced logic, science, higher mathematics or supercomputers, we can only grasp a microscopic amount of what He knows about the world in which we live, and He knows it and coordinates it and governs it simultaneously and perfectly according to His own will and plans. We also can know very little about spiritual truths...things which are not describable or observeable by scientific means. It is true that each of us has a conscience, which allows us to sense the diffrence between good and evil, right and wrong, justice, reward, punishment. We have vague feelings and aspirations about eternity, although that concept is not demonstrated in our brief lives. In fact, some philosophers have suggested that since we have all these non-materialistic notions, their presence in our thinking proves that God must exist..a God who has these qualities has passed them along to us...since inanimate objects demonstrate no traces of such concepts. Rom 1:18-20 (KJV)
God wants to somehow bring all these truths down to our level and explain them, if we are to understand them properly...and some are so different from our earthly experience He must REVEAL them to us. It is up to us to accept these revelations as truth even though we cannot understand them. Therein lies the necessity of using FAITH to "understand" that which can not be understood with the logical mind. Now faith is the substance of things hoped
for,
And so it is with the Dual Nature of Christ...Jesus Christ has every attribute that God has... Eternal Self-Existence, Omnipotence(all powerful), Omnipresence(present at all places at once), Immutablilty(does not change), Omniscience(All knowledge of all things)...and many many more. {1} Long ago God spoke in many different
ways
{2} But now in these days he has spoken
to us through his Son
{3} God's Son shines out with God's glory,
As True God, Jesus can say, If you have seen me,
In the beginning was the Word,
I and my Father are one.
But as true man, He is able to do everything we do and experience all temptations we face, the same as any man..it is also this dual nature of the God/Man that makes Him the perfect sacrifice for our sins, and the perfect intercessor for us with the Father. This fact is one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. It says that God became human: the Divine, all powerful, omni-present God took on a human body so that He could teach and touch and heal and reclaim His lost creation by His own death on the cross. While being totally human, He nevertheless showed that He had the Divine presence inside Himself. He broke the laws of physics, weather, chemistry, botany, fishery, miraculously healed the unhealable, was able to read peoples thoughts, predicted the future with 100% accuracy, forgave sins (which only God can do), lived a perfect and sinless life, arose from the dead, ascended bodily into Heaven, then came back to earth with a glorified body and walked through walls, ate food, opened the scriptures to his followers. For we have not an high priest which cannot
be touched
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt
among us,
But now ye seek to kill me,
Ye men of Israel, hear these words;
Behold, a virgin shall be with child,
May the Holy Spirit, the God of all Truth, teach you and reveal these truths to your heart, by faith. In Christ......brother bob...............<>< ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --Good News Tract Gladly Forwarded to you
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