Matthew 28:19 The Great Commission

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THE GREAT COMMISSION GIVEN:

"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:"

The word NAME in Matthew 28:19 is SINGULAR (meaning ONE) and that the words FATHER, SON and HOLY GHOST are TITLES.

Jesus is the name of the Father (John 5:43),
John 5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

Jesus is the name of the Son (Matthew 1:21)
Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Jesus is the name of the Holy Ghost (John 14:26)
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.


Let's find out what His followers "SAID" in order to obey (fulfill) Jesus' Great Commission of Matthew 28:19...

THE GREAT COMMISSION IN ACTION:

Acts 2:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the NAME of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."

Acts 8:16 "(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the NAME of the Lord Jesus)."

Acts 19:5 "When they heard this, they were baptized in the NAME of the Lord Jesus."

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Addressing the OP, you're 100% correct on the Name of God. JESUS/YESHUA.
and yes, the GREAT COMMISSION, which the apostle Peter also said , that is rainging true even unto this very day. Acts 2:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 2:39 "For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
and the Lord is calling today, right NOW. it great when one can be apart of the original cammand.

PICJAG.
 
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THE GREAT COMMISSION GIVEN:

"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:"

The word NAME in Matthew 28:19 is SINGULAR (meaning ONE) and that the words FATHER, SON and HOLY GHOST are TITLES.

Jesus is the name of the Father (John 5:43),
John 5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

Jesus is the name of the Son (Matthew 1:21)
Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Jesus is the name of the Holy Ghost (John 14:26)
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.


Let's find out what His followers "SAID" in order to obey (fulfill) Jesus' Great Commission of Matthew 28:19...

THE GREAT COMMISSION IN ACTION:

Acts 2:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the NAME of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."

Acts 8:16 "(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the NAME of the Lord Jesus)."

Acts 19:5 "When they heard this, they were baptized in the NAME of the Lord Jesus."

Thank you,
God bless!

The phrase "in the name" is a figure of speech and means essentially, "by this authority". There are old black and white movies where a law enforcement officer would yell at those they were chasing, and say: "Stop, in the name of the law". The law has no name, it is simply saying, stop by the authority I have under the law, or stop according to my legal authority.
 
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The phrase "in the name" is a figure of speech and means essentially, "by this authority". There are old black and white movies where a law enforcement officer would yell at those they were chasing, and say: "Stop, in the name of the law". The law has no name, it is simply saying, stop by the authority I have under the law, or stop according to my legal authority.

Please provide scripture of anyone being baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Note Matthew 28:19 is NOT an actual baptism taking place.

Now having said that, I do also agree a baptism is NOT ONLY in Jesus name, but by His Authority as well. But make no mistake about it, ALL baptisms were having the NAME of Jesus pronounced over them. why? ...

Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
[2] God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
[3] Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
[4] Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
[5] For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
[6] Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

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Please provide scripture of anyone being baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Note Matthew 28:19 is NOT an actual baptism taking place.

Now having said that, I do also agree a baptism is NOT ONLY in Jesus name, but by His Authority as well. But make no mistake about it, ALL baptisms were having the NAME of Jesus pronounced over them. why? ...

Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
[2] God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
[3] Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
[4] Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
[5] For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
[6] Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

God bless!

I see that you've replied to my post, but I don't see that you've addressed what I posted. The content of your post seems to be addressed to someone else. Not sure why.
 

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Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
[2] God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
[3] Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
[4] Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
[5] For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
[6] Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

God bless!

Note that Paul points out that it is baptism "into Jesus Christ" rather than baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. To claim it is not just the name, but his authority is to completely miss the point of the phrase. Without the authority, the name is meaningless, and pointless to utter as one is already lost without Christ's authority.
 

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Addressing the OP, you're 100% correct on the Name of God. JESUS/YESHUA.
and yes, the GREAT COMMISSION, which the apostle Peter also said , that is rainging true even unto this very day. Acts 2:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 2:39 "For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
and the Lord is calling today, right NOW. it great when one can be apart of the original cammand.

PICJAG.

Yes Amen!
 
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The phrase "in the name" is a figure of speech and means essentially, "by this authority". There are old black and white movies where a law enforcement officer would yell at those they were chasing, and say: "Stop, in the name of the law". The law has no name, it is simply saying, stop by the authority I have under the law, or stop according to my legal authority.

"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Matt 18:20
The "in my name" part is more than a statement designating authority. Two or three believers in Christ gathered together for the purpose of discussing a football they just watched on the boobtube are NOT "in His name". When they really are so gathered, then Jesus is also right there with them. The name and being in the name as used frequently in the scriptures is more than a "figure of speech"...


Being "in the name" is much more than simply saying "in the name of Jesus" when we are praying. People say that there is power in the name and there is but the key is to be "IN" the name. At a neighborhood bar room people may regularly say the word, "Jesus" with their mouths but never are "IN" the name.

When a person is in the name completely isn't it that he has the mind of Christ? Do all of us have the mind of Christ all of the time? If we did, we certainly wouldn't sin at all, would we?

I believe that a person can be in the name without saying the name or even without knowing the name in his carnal mind. A number of people in the OT [at least, in a measure], I believe were in the name before any prophet knew what that name was in order to be able to speak it with his mouth.

Wasn't Elijah in the name when he was confronting the 400 prophets of Baal?

Wasn't David 'a man after God's own heart' and the 'apple of God's eye', also in the name or in His name, when God was inspiring him to write many of the psalms attributed to him in the Bible?

Neither Elijah nor David knew that the name of the savior was to be "Jesus" or "Yeshua" or any other spoken name, which man has applied to the Savior in the flesh, unless it was Immanuel the Messiah.

Yet, were not both of them, and others, in the name or in His name long before the time of John the Baptist?

The following verse gives us more about this, does it not?

"For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another)" Rom 2:14-15

Were those not also in some measure "in the name" when they did the right things without having heard the spoke word, "Jesus"?

Paul also says something here on this subject:

"For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you." Acts 17:23

Isn't it also possible that among those Athenians, one or more who knew of that altar to the unknown God were also in His name before Paul talked to them that day?

If they were in the name, didn't they get there without having any written Bible?

If a 10 year old child living in mainland China has always had a tender heart toward people and his Creator and has learned to give his all to everyone with whom he comes into contact, who is to say that that child isn't in the name, simply he has seen nor heard of the Bible?

If that child has come into touch with God's Spirit without knowing anything about what the written Bible says, isn't it into the name that the Spirit would lead him?

If the child did need more in order to continue growing, would not God's Spirit be able to direct him to a person and/or to direct a person to him even as Philip was sent to the Ethiopian Eunuch?
 
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The word NAME in Matthew 28:19 is SINGULAR (meaning ONE) and that the words FATHER, SON and HOLY GHOST are TITLES.
Jesus is the name of the Father
Jesus is the name of the Son
Jesus is the name of the Holy Ghost
This is a *great* way to start off as a brand new contributor. Well for your information JESUS IS THE NAME OF THE SON ONLY. Neither the Father nor the Holy Spirit are called "Jesus".

So are you here to sow seeds of spiritual confusion, or are you simply ignorant?
 

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This is a *great* way to start off as a brand new contributor. Well for your information JESUS IS THE NAME OF THE SON ONLY. Neither the Father nor the Holy Spirit are called "Jesus".

So are you here to sow seeds of spiritual confusion, or are you simply ignorant?


Isaiah 9:6 foretold, "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his NAME shall be called Wonderful, counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."

Deuteronomy 6:4 clearly tells us ... "Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD:" Therefore, compare the following references:

The Lord God is the Creator. Isaiah 42:5.
The Lord Jesus is the Creator. John 1:3-10.

The Lord God said, "I am He." Isaiah 43:10.
The Lord Jesus said, "I am He." John 8:24.

The Lord God is the only Saviour. Isaiah 43:10-11.
The Lord Jesus is the Saviour. Titus 1:4.

The Lord God shall reign forever. Psalms. 146:10.
The Lord Jesus reign forever. Luke 1:33.

The Lord God is the King of Israel. Isaiah 43:15.
The Lord Jesus is the King of Israel. Matt. 27:37.

The Lord God is the First and the Last. Isaiah 44:6.
The Lord Jesus is the First and the Last. Revelation 1:8.


How can Both the Father and the Son be the First and the Last?...

Jesus himself addressed this very question...


Luke 20:41 And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son? [42] And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, [43] Till I make thine enemies thy footstool. [44] David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?

Mark 12:35 And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David? [36] For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. [37] David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.

Revelation 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

Jesus, when talking with the Jews said...

John 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
[27] They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.



Now, as per the OP states...

Jesus is the name of the Father
John 5:43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

Jesus is the name of the Son
Matthew 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Jesus is the name of the Holy Ghost
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.


I have supplied direct SCRIPTURES that specifically state ...

Jesus is the name of the Father
Jesus is the name of the Son
Jesus is the name of the Holy Ghost



Thank you,
God bless!
 
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How can Both the Father and the Son be the First and the Last?...
Because they are both God. Now kindly turn to Revelation 1 and understand this truth.

The only one who is Jesus -- now the Lord Jesus Christ -- is the Son of God, who is also God the Son. If all this is beyond your grasp, then so is it beyond anyone else's. This is the Mystery of God and Christ. We are to simply and humbly believe what God has said. Not try to reason out God with our limited minds.
 
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Because they are both God. Now kindly turn to Revelation 1 and understand this truth.

The only one who is Jesus -- now the Lord Jesus Christ -- is the Son of God, who is also God the Son. If all this is beyond your grasp, then so is it beyond anyone else's. This is the Mystery of God and Christ. We are to simply and humbly believe what God has said. Not try to reason out God with our limited minds.


You may wish to do a word search for "God the Son" (which you so willfully throw out there) - you would discover the following...

Let's start with something that is actually written in the Word of God.

"God the Father"
12 verses found

Yep that is in there, now to your assertion ..

"God the Son"
0 verses found

Sorry, it's just not in there.


"God the Holy Ghost"
0 verses found


"God the Holy Spirit"
0 verses found


This word search further supports my OP. You may wish to do as you please, but I'm putting my life on what is written within the pages of the Word of God.

God bless!
 
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Yes Amen!

Paul also distinguishes between the father and the son, and applies the title of "God" to the father, and "Christ" to the son. Note also that Paul points out the function of each; the father is "OF WHOM" all things exist. He is the origin of all things, whereas Christ is "BY WHOM" all things come into existence. Christ affirms this fact by pointing out that "Apart from me, you can do nothing".


1 Corinthians 8:6 "6But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one LORD Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him."


The Father can only exist in, with, and through Christ, but the father can only exist as the origin and source of Christ. The father is infinite potential, or as the name "YHVH" suggests "I will be". This infinite potentiality can only be manifest in, with, and through Christ who is revealed as "I AM". It's the difference between becoming and being. Christ is the personification of God's will. This doesn't make the father a separate person. The person of God is found exclusively in, with, and through Christ. This is not a denial of the Trinity, just that articulation of it (e.g. "god in three persons)

So while the origin of existence is found in, with, and through Christ, this doesn't make Christ the father. Christ is manifest while the father is infinite potential. However, Christ does return to this infinite potential, and we who are in him do as well.

The Father becomes, while Christ is.
The Father's infinite potential is manifest in, with, and through Christ.
The Father is manifest in, with, and through Christ, and
Christ is not the Father.
They are one in spirit, but not a spirit because a spirit is something, and God is not any thing because "all things are created"

Potentiality can only exist through manifestation, but what is manifest is not potential, and the father is not Christ. God transcends existence while Christ is the mediator or medium between transendence and the created world. Trancendence can only be approached in, with, and through the immanence of Christ.

This doesn't make Christ the Father anymore than immanence is transcendence, or the source can be conflated with the means. So while they are one, they can be easily distinguished.
 

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We are to simply and humbly believe what God has said. Not try to reason out God with our limited minds

This is my body take and eat.

This cup is the new covenant in my blood

My flesh is true food and my blood true drink

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood will never die

Does this shock you?

Where else are we to go? HE has the words of eternal life.

Peace be with you!

Christ IS risen!
Alleluia!
 

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You may wish to do a word search for "God the Son" (which you so willfully throw out there)
When you read "And the Word was God" you can also read it as "And God was the Word". Since the Son of God is also the Word of God, you can read "the Son of God" as "God the Son", since the Bible says that Christ is God.
These are spiritual things discerned with the spirit and by the Spirit. Read Hebrews 1.
 

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This is my body take and eat.

This cup is the new covenant in my blood

My flesh is true food and my blood true drink

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood will never die

Does this shock you?

Where else are we to go? HE has the words of eternal life.

Peace be with you!

Christ IS risen!
Alleluia!

It's interesting that most Christians view the resurrection as a physical resurrection of Jesus' body rather than noticing that those who have Christ's words are the one's who have eternal life. It is Christ's spirit alive in the flesh of Christ's body, the many-membered body, which is the church where Christ truly lives today.

It should also be noted that when the texts mention 'eternal life' they aren't referring to physical or biological life. We know this because the word for life isn't the Greek word "bios", but "zoe" which has nothing to do with physical biological life at all.

So we don't have to literally consume a cadaver or drink human blood as some might assume. He's pointing out that Christ's spirit lives in our flesh bodies just as much as he lived in his own 2000 years ago, or as Paul puts it, "in him we live and move and have our being"
 
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So we don't have to literally consume a cadaver or drink human blood as some might assume.

The Eucharist is no 'cadaver'. It is the risen Christ giving Himself to HiS bride and she to HIM.
The two made one flesh, one Spirit..

You to! Are welcome to come to the wedding feast of the Lamb of God!

Peace!
 

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The Eucharist is no 'cadaver'. It is the risen Christ giving Himself to HiS bride and she to HIM.
The two made one flesh, one Spirit..

You to! Are welcome to come to the wedding feast of the Lamb of God!

Peace!

The Eucharist is a scam. The proof is in the texts themselves which Catholics refuse to address. I'll post the fact that the authors are using the figure Metaphor with proof of that fact, but the usual response will be to ignore these grammatical facts, and instead present their version of the fallacy of an Appeal to Authority.

"This is my body" (touto esti to soma mou). This is no more literal than to say "The good seed are the children of the kingdom." or The field is the world". He is speaking figuratively.

He is using the figure Metaphor; or Representation. Which is a declaration that one thing is (or represents) another; or, Comparison by Representation. From the Greek-metaphora, a transference, or carrying over or across. From (meta), beyond or over, and (Pherein), to carry. The Metaphor declares that one thing IS the other.

The Metaphor is not so true to fact as the Simile, but is much truer to feeling. The two nouns themselves must both be mentioned, and are always to be taken in their absolutely literal sense, or else no one can tell what they mean. The figure lies wholly in the verb, and not in either of the two nouns: and it is a remarkable fact that, when a pronoun is used instead of one of the nouns (as it is here), and the two nouns are of different genders, the pronoun is always made to agree in gender with that noun to which the meaning is carried across, and not with the noun from which it is carried, and to which it properly belongs. This at once shows us that a figure is being employed; when a pronoun, which ought, according to the laws of language, to agree in gender with its own noun, is changed, and made to agree with the noun which, by Metaphor, represents it.

In our example, the pronoun, "this" (touto), is neuter, and is thus made to agree with "body" (swma), which is neuter, and not with bread (aptos, artos), which is masculine. This is always the case in Metaphors. Here are a few other examples to illustrate.
In Zech. 5:8, "This is wickedness." Here, "this" (fem.) does not agree with "ephah" (to which it refers), which is neuter, but with "wickedness, " which is feminine.
In Zech. 5:3, "This is the curse." "This" (fem.) agrees with "curse", which is feminine, and not with "flying roll", which is neuter, (to which it refers).
In Matt.13:38, "The good seed are the children of the kingdom." Here, "these" (masc.) agrees with "children of the kingdom" (masc.), and not with seed, which is neuter.
What this is showing is that in a Metaphor, the two nouns (or pronoun and noun) are always literal, and that the figure lies only in the verb.

"This is (i.e., represents) my body," is an undoubted Metaphor. "He took the cup...saying...this is my blood." Here we have a pair of metaphors. In the former one, "this" refers to "bread", and it is claimed that "is" means changed into the "body" of Christ. In the latter, "this" refers to "the cup", but it is not claimed that the cup is changed into "blood". The difference of treatment which the same figure meets with in these two verses is proof that the former is wrong.
In 1Cor. 11:25 we read "this cup is the new covenant." How does this "cup" become transubstantiated into a "covenant"?

Additionally, the verb, (eimi), I am, or the infinitive of it, to be, means to be in the sense of signifying, amounting to. e.g. Mt.9:13, 'But go ye and learn what that means"
Mt.12:7, "But if ye had known what this means".
Acts. 10:7, "Now, while Peter doubted in himself what this vision should mean"
On the other hand, if an actual change is meant, then there must be a verb which plainly and actually says so; for the verb "to be" never has or conveys any idea of such a change.

The usual verb to express such a change is (ginomai), which means to be or become. Mk.9:39, 'There was(i.e. became) a great calm,"
Lk.4:3, "Command this stone that it be made (i.e. changed into) bread."
John 16:20, "Your sorrow shall be turned into joy." This was a real transubstantiation.
If Jesus had meant that the bread had become His body, that is the verb He would have necessarily used. The fact that He did not use it, but instead used the simple verb (eimi), i.e., "is" proves conclusively that no change was meant, and that only representation was intended.
From all this it is clear that the words, "This is my body" means "This (bread) represents my body."
 
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In 1Cor. 11:25 we read "this cup is the new covenant." How does this "cup" become transubstantiated into a "covenant"?

It is a marital covenant. Participation in the Eucharist is to enter into that union of the Groom and His bride.

God promised to wed Israel, and HE did! We are welcomed into that union!

The wedding feast is Now!
Peace!
 

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When you read "And the Word was God" you can also read it as "And God was the Word". Since the Son of God is also the Word of God, you can read "the Son of God" as "God the Son", since the Bible says that Christ is God.
These are spiritual things discerned with the spirit and by the Spirit. Read Hebrews 1.

Well let's see what spirit you are from...

Bible search results "God the Son" = 0 verses found

0 verses found + you can read "the Son of God" as "God the Son" = Enoch111 Added to the Word of God.


Sorry, but "God the Son" is NOT in God's Word. Your trying to pound square pegs into round holes, and your math does NOT add up.

God bless!