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God means Placer
Gina:
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So think of it this way, God is a title and it has a meaning. But don’t look it up, because you would go nuts, if you try to look up the ethnology of the word God on Google or whatever. It’s a difficult word, they really have trouble trying to you know, some trace it back to sand script.
There’s the god of the Norsemen and the gott of the Germanic tribes. But as far as they can determine ethnologically, it means the Placer. The One who places everything. The beginning of everything that moves or He’s the Placer or Poser or the Arbiter of all things.
It’s a title. We say even the pagans use God as a title or theos or elohim or el. They used all of these different language words for their gods, it a title. That’s why Paul said, “as there are gods many, and lords many…” (1 Cor 8:5) in the world and they knew what he was talking about. He said, “for us there is but one God…” And since Christ came to tell us who He is, we know who it is, it’s the Father! Out of whom, out of/ek ex, whom is all things.
Jesus Christ is a thing. He is the Son of God, the very image of Him. Well if He is something, where did He come from? Out of GOD! Where did everything else come from? Through Christ! Jesus is Jehovah. Jehovah what? Jehovah/Elohim! Who is His Father? His Father, is the Father, Elohim! Fair enough.
They are one God, because you can’t have two different perfections. There is only one perfection. When you reach ultimate perfection, that’s God. There is only one such ultimate perfection. If you are a part of that perfection, you are God. That’s what God is, perfect. Christ is perfect, the express absolute total assumption of His Father That makes Him God. It isn’t something He acquired, on His own. But I do believe He did a lot. And His Father gave Him those powers, when He was able to handle them. We are to be given power, when we prove that we can handle it.
Gina:
When we come to the NT then we read about God. Jesus Christ said, they ask Him what is the greatest commandment, He said “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind” (Matt 22:37). The Greek says, you shall love the Kurios your Theos with all your heart and so on.
Kurios/Theos… who was He talking about? The Father. He’s quoting the OT, that comes out of Deuteronomy, where Jehovah Himself says, “You shall love the Lord your God” (Deu 6:5). Not Kurios/Theos, but Jehovah/Elohim.
Well who are we to worship with all our heart? Jehovah/Elohim or Kurios/Theos of the NT, who we know is the Father. But Jehovah/Elohim (where it’s quoted from the OT), is Jesus Christ. Who is it talking about? It’s always talking about BOTH. ALWAYS!
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lurquer:
Very nice finds, Gina.
I wonder if you're thinking what I'm thinking? (On 'Solving the mystery of God')
Gina:
I don't know. Please PM me and tell me what you're thinking.
Kat:
Hi Gina,
It seems that it is hard to understand exactly how there is 1 'God' and we have what seems to be the 2 individuals in the Godhead. One God, that's the conundrum.
Eph 4:6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in you all,
The Father is by which all things come, even the Son. So I've wondered how is the Son the same God? I think it is because when the Son came forth He never separated from the Father, there is a constant and direct connection there. That is how I am thinking They are One... maybe thinking of the Son as a new or additional aspect that the Father brought forth of Himself?
1Cor 8:6 yet to us is one God, the Father, of whom are the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are the all things, and we through Him;
It just seems to me that the Son was brought forth as a 'part' of the Father, that was put over everything concerning this creation. The Son was/is in charge of or God of this whole creation, but not a separate God.
Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
v. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.
v. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
One God, the Father and the only part of that God that we know is the Son from the OT, who then became Jesus Christ.
Also there being only 1 God, then the way that people become sons and daughters of God when we are "joined" with that same One God by His Spirit.
1Cor 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Gal 4:6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!"
Eph 4:16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
Gal 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
v. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Anyway something to think about.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
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