The entire problem of people trying to understand the Christ / man problem is derived from not having an understanding of who the us represented in genesis really is. This was precisely why the HS had me start at the beginning as I was learning about God.
The beings that we are came directly from God. Our spirit was once part of God so effectively we are spiritual inhabitants existing within created temples. This is why it was written "ye are gods" because in a smaller manner we are gods whose living essence came out from the Father. This was the only way that God could form their image.
Now all people have to figure out is how Christ can be God's Son while still trying to rationalize the teaching of men that hold a belief that the Son and the Father are still essentially one being.
If one believes that Christ was fully God then why would Christ himself say;
John 14:
1Let not your heart be troubled:
ye believe in God, believe also in me.
10...the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself:
but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
If Christ is in essence the Father then all the words he spoke about himself in reference to his Father would be lies. Christ and the Father are two individual beings just as each of us are individual beings.
John 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
John 5:30
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because
I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
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And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
Acts 2:38 How
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
The Authority of the Son
John 5:16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. 17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” 18 For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath,
but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
Most people never grasp the significance of the above verse but in ancient Jewish society a mans first born son would hold the same power as his father does which is why the Jews were hating on Christ simply because "he claimed to be God's Son"... not because they thought he was implying that he himself was the Father.
Everyone should really pay attention to this parable as it is reality.
The Parable of the Wicked Tenants
Matt 21:
33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
34And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
35And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
36Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
37But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
38But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
39And they caught him, and cast
him out of the vineyard, and slew
him.
So when did Christ become the Fathers Son?
