понедельник, 26 декабря 2011 г.

NATURE OF JESUS ​​CHRIST


ПРИРОДА ИИСУСА ХРИСТА П3.109. Vlad Bas (vladbas???. com) writes: "Welcome, I am of course izvenyayus, but I do not remember what I told you zabduzhdaetes. If you have understood from my letters, I izvenyayus. Maybe I was not quite right put it, that you are not quite so learn how to say this about the Holy Scriptures, forgive me for it. It's not my thing, the Bible teaches us to watch myself and not for others. I do not mind something that people call Jesus Christ, God, Jesus himself said Thomas "My Lord and my God" John 20:28. While Jesus Christ himself in the main calls himself the Son of Man (Mt. 9:6, Lk. 9:58, Lk. 5:24, Matt . 10:23 and many other places. Pilate speaks of Jesus Christ: "Behold the Man" (John 19:5). The apostle Paul wrote 1 Timothy: "For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ, who gave himself a ransom for all ... "(1 Tim. 2:5-7), but of God himself Chap. 6:16:" One who has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen and can not see. He was an honor and eternal dominion, Amen. "Moses says in Deuteronomy 18:15-19. Who does he mean? Now, that God speaks of Himself Exodus 20:1-3? Finally the words of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of John: "Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions ..." and in verse 28 the Lord Jesus Christ himself gives to all reply: "You have heard that I told you: "I go away and come to you." If you loved me, you would rejoice that I said: "I'm going to the Father", for Father is greater than me. "Sincerely, Vlad!"
Dear Brother Vlad! Yes, you did not say that I'm wrong. These were my words. I'll take them back. And maybe I'm too sharply responded to your offer to send me proof of the Bible. And in this I apologize. The main thing is that we want to know the truth as it is revealed in the Word of God.
The nature of Jesus Christ - the question is not simple. First and foremost, it is complicated by the fact that Jesus Hristes presented in Scripture as a man, or the Son of man, and as the Original and born, and as the one true God, and as I Am, and even as the angel of the Lord. I do not remember the exact numbers, but someone counted over a hundred titles, names and descriptions of Jesus Christ in the Bible. From all this, scholars and ordinary readers add up their own idea about this unique God-man. For centuries, were heated debates between the two extreme views. And there are still followers of Arius, which is still in the early centuries hristanstva was to defend the view of Jesus Christ as a man, even a superman or born before the angels, but not as equal to God and to God. Today, most known in Russia, the followers of this trend - Jehovah's Witnesses (popularly referred to as Jehovah's Witnesses) and Tolstoyans (followers of the teachings of the writer Leo Tolstoy, who created their own religion). But this - pseudo-movement. It is called so those who do not recognize the divinity of Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, hristansky world more loyal to those who fall into the other extreme, taking away all the human Jesus Christ.
Only in eternity can we fully know the nature of the Godhead. Today we use Scripture as the sole measure of truth. In this case we can not neglect any single text, no matter how he showed us the "not fit" into the general picture. When we choose all of the Bible texts that speak of Jesus Christ, we have formed the following picture (I will not bring all these texts, because a lot of them):
- Jesus Christ existed eternally with God, and has its origin in the same way as it does not have God the Father. He was the Creator - the executor of God's plans for the creation, the Word of the mouth of God, whom all creation was done;
- God - One, but is represented in the plural. This one plurality of God we do not understand, because we do not know anything like it in the living world, and all are known to have to compare. Because today you can find many strange and neudobovrazumitelnyh descriptions of God and the Trinity (the concept of the Trinity in the Bible there, because I'm very careful with this term). But this common multiplicity allows us to call God is not only God the Father, God the Son, and that is Jesus Christ and even God the Holy Spirit. But I would not go further than that in the nature of God, because we are told "not to philosophize beyond what is written" (1 Corinthians 4:6). What is important - "One" does NOT mean "one";
- Probably, that the Lord chose this form of representation of himself to the people in order to oppose the truth of the living God delusion existed worship many gods. But it is not necessary that God was lonely asbsolyutno only because people have come up with mnogzhestvo gods. Moreover, it may be Satan, and has inspired people to "multiply" the gods precisely because it represented the true God in the plural;
- The Son of God was born into this world like everyone else, through the conception of the Virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit. In this case, even for a moment he did not abandon His divinity, or else He would cease to be the Son of God, but to His Divine added a complete human nature. Thus, "in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" (Col 2:9), that is, in its entirety in him united and wholly-deity, and absolute person;
- Throughout His earthly ministry, Jesus never used His divine power, but all relied on the strength of His Father, to leave us an example, accessible role models, as well as to the human form of the whole law of God, which person has violated;
- Even on earth, in human nature, Jesus Christ claimed that He is God the Father and that He is the one with the Father, what caused hatred among the Pharisees, who accused him of blasphemy. He accepted worship and honor which belong to God. He forgave sins, he has a right to do only God;
- Completing His earthly ministry, Jesus Christ died on the cross for the sins of all mankind, the innocent for the guilty, his death having made atonement for fallen humanity. Died on the cross and man and God, Jesus Christ, died the second death, the death of the wicked, unrepentant sinners;
- But as Life-giver, having life in Himself, Christ could not remain in the grave, but God raised him on the third day after his crucifixion;
- After His resurrection, Jesus Christ kept His human nature, but also enjoyed and divine abilities both on the ground, also in the ascension into heaven, to His Father;
- At the present time commits a High Priest Jesus Christ ministry in the heavenly sanctuary, as a true mediator between God and man, and himself as the true sacrifice for the sins of mankind. At this time, at the trial of the house of God, determines who is calling themselves true children Bozhmi, in fact, was such, and may be veskreshen in the first resurrection to eternal life. Thus, the righteous themselves will never appear before the court, but their case will be considered only through an advocate and defender of Jesus Christ;
- Jesus Christ will come the second time in the same form as he ascended from the earth. At His coming He will raise the faithful and take them to heaven for the Millennial Kingdom, during which the faithful will participate in the trial of the wicked and the fallen angels above;
- After thousands of years of trial, Christ along with all the redeemed and the new city of Jerusalem will descend from heaven to earth. At this time, the second resurrection will occur
- Sunday to condemn the wicked and eternal punishment. At this point you acknowledge Jesus Christ, King of Tsarei and Lord of lords, and every knee will bow before him, including Satan, who acknowledges his defeat. The earth will be cleansed by fire, which destroys all evil, Satan, impenitent sinners, and all the consequences of sin;
- Then comes the everlasting kingdom of Jesus Christ. Then the center of the universe - the throne of God and Son - will be on the ground. And there will be nothing more that would be like a sin, but traces of the crucifixion on his hands and feet of the Savior, who will remain an eternal testimony of redemption.
All these are the principles of Jesus Christ, His nature and activities have a specific justification in the Scriptures. I personally found it to yourself and imagine all of you, as a full teaching of Scripture on the nature and ministry of the Son of God. Over time, I complete the list of principles relevant references to scripture. But this will require additional time.
The Lord wants us to have a balanced view of all the teachings of the Bible.Investigating any matter, we must find ABSOLUTELY ALL texts that somehow illuminate the object under study, and then from all the "pieces of the mosaic" made up the whole picture, and at the same time that we do not have "spare parts".
So in a nutshell the above generalization: There are "two sides" of Jesus Christ.Living on earth, he always turned to face us - the human side. But he has yet another side - the Divine, which is at an all time His earthly ministry remained in the shadows. But overall, he - perfect God and perfect man.
God bless you, dear brother, Vlad, and all of our readers that we correctly understand the nature of Jesus Christ, for therein lies our salvation: "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, whom thou hast sent Jesus Christ" (John 17:3).

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