Originally posted by divegeester
Rubbish.
If you ever stop your blithering long enough to cast a cursory glance over the descriptions of God in the OT, count up how many times he is described as being [b]ONE and then get back to me.[/b]
I made no statement to deny God is not ONE. And neither did Christ when He proclaimed
I and my Father are ONE. Peter is not saying God is not One when he equates lying to
the Holy Spirit as the same as Lying to God.
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit
and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? While it remained, was it
not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you
conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”
(Acts 5:3-4 NKJV)
I understand clearly that the Old Testament speaks of God as One, but we must also
reconcile His Oneness with they fact that He also speaks of Himself in a plural way
in the first chapter of Genesis.
Then God said, “Let
Us make man in
Our image, according to
Our likeness; let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the
cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and
female He created them.
(Genesis 1:26-27 NKJV)
Then there is the following clue from Isaiah where God is referred to as Holy, Holy, Holy:
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted
up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. 2 Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one cried to another and said:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
The whole earth is full of His glory!”
(Isaiah 6:1-2 NKJV)
The prophet Isaiah writes many things referring to the Messiah to come that seem to be
fulfilled by the one we call the Christ. Even Christ himself claims a passage that He reads aloud in the synagogue from the book of Isaiah is being fulfilled.
(Luke 4:16-21)
Then if Christ is the child in the following prophecy he is to be called Mighty God.
...In Galilee of the Gentiles.
The people who walked in darkness
Have seen a great light;
Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death,
Upon them a light has shined...
For unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a Son is given;
And the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of His government and peace
There will be no end,
Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom,
To order it and establish it with judgment and justice
From that time forward, even forever.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
(Isaiah 9:1-2, 6-7 NKJV)
When you also compare the many statement made in the New Testament it could very well
indicate God is a complex ONE.
RJ HINDS mission here
22 Mar '12 05:581 edit
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