1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;
2 this one was in the beginning with God;
3 all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.
14 And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.
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12 Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,
13 who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate [us] into the reign of the Son of His love,
14 in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,
15 who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,
16 because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,
17 and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.
18 And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all [things] -- himself -- first,
19 because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,
Well we see you cannot answer a simple question of yes or no, so we will. it's the same one person. Jesus is the ordinal First of himself in flesh meaning he's also the ordinal Last. scripture, Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is
one LORD:" notice "ONE" LORD. one here means the
H259 אֶחָד 'echad (ech-awd') adj.
1. (properly) united, i.e. one.
2. (as an ordinal) first.
[a numeral from H258]
KJV: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together.
Root(s): H258
see that second definition. this is the answer to the person who is in Isaiah 44:24 as as the Last Adam, (1 Corinthians 15:45), is the same person in John 1:3. when you went to Isaiah 44:6 "Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am
the first, and I am
the last; and beside me there is no God." you just put the scriptural noose around your neck. for the FIRST is "
WITH" the Last, which is the same one person, as in John 1:1. listen, WATCH THE "
WITH". Isaiah 41:4 "Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning?
I the LORD,
the first, and
with the last;
I am he." see the "WITH" here in the verse. it's the same word in John 1:1 and you believe that the WORD was "WITH" God correct... wrong, the WORD is God as John 1:1c states. lets prove it out. God said in Isaiah 41:4, that he the LORD the First is "
WITH" the Last ....
I AM he. seem like two separate person do it not? well no, listen to what "WITH" really means, Isaiah 48:12 "Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called;
I am he;
I am the first, I
also am
the last." did you hear that? the first is ALSO, ALSO, ALSO, the last meaning he, the "I" is the same one person who is the First that is "WITH" the last. so your assessment is in ERROR
now if you can't believe that, the bible scriptures which do not lie. then can you believe the Lord Jesus? and remember he cannot lie either. lets hear from his own lip, God himself, "HOW MANY PERSON(S) was at the beginning when he MADE man. listen, Matthew 19:4 "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that
he which
made them at the beginning made them male and female,". BINGO, the Lord Jesus who cannot lie Identified only one Person who made the man male and female at the beginning. he said "he" and he is a single PERSON designation. so do you believe the Lord Jesus who cannot LIE.
see how clear the bible tells us that God is a HE, and not them. Deuteronomy 6:4 reveals God's plurality as ONE PERSON, and that one person "SHARED" himself in flesh. and the GREEK Word for that is G243 allos which tell us how God did it, look it up, I suggest you used the Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words it gives the best definition of G243 allos, the "ANOTHER". .
so all the scriptures testify of ONE PERSON "SHARED", or diversified in flesh.... simply put, he the Lord Jesus is the "ANOTHER" of himself in flesh. for he is the ordinal First who was alone and by himself when he CREATED, and MADE all things, in cluding MAN. and he is the ordinal Last who REDEEMED and SAVE all things that he made, including MAN.
God's plurality is in KNOWING that he JESUS is the ordinal First/Father and LORD, and he JESUS is the ordinal Last/Son and Lord. oh how simple that was. ONE PERSON SHARED IN FLESH.
so no, God is not three persons but one person "shared" in flesh.
PICJAG.