StanJ said:
Jesus was and is God the fact that the hypostatic union cease to exist for the time that Jesus was crucified and died is the only thing that I'm talking about. When Jesus was resurrected and glorified by God he was again hypostatic Union and was indeed God.
my argument there would be that you then have a dichotomy that you cannot resolve at the "Body of Christ." See this whole "Jesus was God" thing ends up being a denial of where the Body of Christ is, right now, and note that even the term "was" is always used, at least until i get in the mix and start using the word "is," "We
is the Body of Christ, right now, and God
is the Head of Christ, right now," and one can meet Him in the Air, right now, too, unless of course one are waiting for some other
body to come and physically,
bodily "save" one, even as one simultaneously claims OSAS, and that they are saved, already.
And we have quite vivid interpretations of this phenomenon, it is not new, and the comparisons to looking to the Snake on a Pole, and later, the descendants worshipping Nehushtan in the Promised Land, must be considered with an open mind, and if they
don't apply--which, they do, to anyone whom you hear saying that they are saved in one breath, and that "things used to be better than they are now" (snakebit) in the next breath--then at least find
some application for them, because they speak right to a seeker, imo, and i could fill a page with the comparisons, but yet i never hear a sermon on this
Nehushtan worship, and cannot get so much as a single comment on it when i bring it up, for reasons that become increasingly obvious, the more one
hears.
And from there it is a simple thing to get leaders who would not abide a woman pastor to start whole-heartedly endorsing "female" interpretations of meeting Him in the Air, not recognizing that hypocrisy is being manifested there, too, so now you got like 3 things, that all witness for each other, which i'm being pointed here so let me just say that i have not suddenly become much less of a hypocrite myself or anything, ok, it is all still just vanity in another sense, and it is one's heart that God judges, not one's beliefs, but we nonetheless reap what we sow, meaning you can confess what you like, you are still going to manifest what you believe to be true, and it is you who will reap the fruit. This is a blessing, and a guide.