I believe that "ice", "water", and "steam" does not lead to an understanding that there are three "H2Os"...It's ALL H2O. Likewise, the Three separate and distinct Persons of the Godhead should not lead us to conclude there is more than one God. "The Lord our God is ONE Lord" and "...and These Three Are One."
What are your thoughts on "Let US make man in OUR own image"?
thanks for the reply. second, you're correct in the "water", "Ice", and "Steam" scenario just don't work. I thank you for asking good questions. for the time of arguing is over, it's time to as the Lord Jesus said, "come let us reason together". and this we will do.
now to address the, "
Let US make man in OUR own image"? the very first thing to understand, and to know is that God is an Echad of himself that was to come. other words God is the ordinal "First", and he is the ordinal "Last" of his ownself, (per Isaiah 63:5). knowing this, as the ordinal "First" he is CREATOR, and MAKER of all things, and he is alone and by himself. it is
HE, (one persaon), who made Man male and female. supportive scripture from God own lips. 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," THAT SHOULD END ALL ARGUMENTS, FOR THE LORD JESUS DON'T LIE. IF THE LORD JESUS SAY GOD IS A HE WHO MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE, THEN WE NEED TO GO NO FUTHER. FOR JESUS DON'T LIE. the "
he" here is ONE person God, which Mark 10:6 confirm as God. so right there Jesus who cannot lie declare that God is a "he", (one Person). if one cannot believe the Lord Jesus who then can you believe. but Genesis 1:27 the very next verse states that God is a "
he" one person ALSO. Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in
his own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created
he them." Bingo, God is a "
he" one person. but why did God say in verse 26, "US", and "OUR?". because he is coming later in flesh, in a body as the ordinal "Last", or Last Adam of himself. supportive scripture, Romans 5:14 "Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression,
who is the figure of him that was to come." the word "figure" is the IMAGE, or the fashion, that God came in... which is in the likeness of MAN, hence the term "Last" Adam. and the term Adam can be treanslated as "ANOTHER", of one's self. so God is the "First", and he is The "Last". supportive scripture, Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is
one LORD:" the word "ONE" here is the Hebrew word,
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
notice definition #2. the ordinal "First". and he Jesus is "LORD" and Father, because he's the CREATOR, and MAKER of all Things, pers Isaiah 44:24 and John 1:3.
as for his coming in flesh and blood, which allowed him to shed blood for our redemption, scripture, 1 Corinthians 15:45 "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul;
the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.". the Last Adam, Jesus is in the "FIGURE", or in his own IMAGE, that came as a Adam/Man. and in this body of flesh he is REDEEMER, and SAVIOUR of the World. by coming in flesh he is called the offspring of David, or the diversity of God which means "ANOTHER" of himself, GOD, in flesh. for the term "Offspring", as in Revelation 22:16 means "diversity". it is the Greek word,
G1085 γένος genos (ǰe'-nos) n.
kin.
{abstract or
concrete, literal or figurative, individual or collective}
[from G1096]
KJV: born, country(-man),
diversity, generation, kind(-red), nation, offspring, stock
Root(s): G1096
there is the word, "diversity", this is the IMAGE/FIGURE that was to come, or the LAST Adam. and as KIN, or as
KINSMAN REDEEMER, he took part in our humanity, and not a partaker in it.
so JESUS is "LORD" CREATOR, and MAKER of ALL THINGS, Alone, and By Himself, OT, the ordinal "FIRST". and JESUS is "Lord" REDEEMER and SAVIOUR of the World, DIVERSIFIED or is the G243 Allos, "ANOTHER" of himself in Flesh, the ordinal "Last", NT.
so there you have it, Jesus is himself, the "ANOTHER" or the EQUAL share of himself in flesh as Phil 2:6 & 7 states. this is he who was to Come, Roman 5:14b the very IMAGE of God himself in flesh.
if you have any questions please ask.
PICJAG.
