Dear Ronald:
I will make a few comments in your email.....
Ray,
I have read your paper on the trinity and I have a few scriptures that come to mind when I tell people I believe Jesus Christ was the father in the flesh, and the Holy Ghost. Please entertain me for a moment, I know you are busy. Scriptures:
John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
John 5:37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
John 6:46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
Ray, we see hear that no man and I mean no man has seen the shape or heard God the Father. So when Moses saw God's Glory and his back parts, are John and Jesus Christ Contradicting Genesis? There are more scriptures of God talking and, those hearing and seeing, so what are we to make of these scriptures that seem to contradict one another? One more scripture:
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Did the Holy Ghost purchase us with his own blood, or was it Jesus Christ?
COMMENT: No, no contradictions. Moses didn't see God the Father, he saw and spoke with Jehovah Who IS JESUS CHRIST. By the way, that happened in Deuteronomy, however, not Genesis. And No, Jesus was not THE FATHER IN THE FLESH. Jesus was JEHOVAH in the flesh.
COMMENT: Jesus said that a spirit has not flesh and bone (Luke 24:39), but you think that may spirit HAS BLOOD? It is the blood of JESUS that purchases our redemption and salvation (Heb.9:14-15).
God be with you,
Ray
Ray I know some or most like to give you scriptures that are typical defenses, but after reading some of your papers, I started to READ if you know what I mean. Your papers are teaching papers that are truly eye opening. I mean you can read something for years, but when you explain it and show the hermeneutics behind it, it's like reading it fro the first time, and it sticks. So that being said, I took what Jesus Christ, John and Paul stated and came to the conclusion that Jesus Christ is ALL in ALL, and if one wants to call it the trinity, then Amen. Please shed some light on the scriptures I quoted and what you believe the writer’s were trying to teach all of us. Thanks!
Ronald