That
the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father
of glory,
may give unto you the
spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Ep.1:17
THE Revelation of Jesus Christ,
........... which God gave unto him,
........... to shew unto his servants
things which must shortly come to pass;
........... and he sent and signified
it by his angel unto his servant John: Re.1:1
That the God of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you
........... the spirit
...........
........... of
wisdom
...........
........... and
revelation
...........
........... in
the knowledge of him: Ep.1:17
Christ is defined to us in several
terms but never as dissociated from God the Father.
Philippians
2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ
Jesus:
Philippians 2:6 Who, being in the form of God,
thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
morph-ē
A.form, shape, twice in Hom.
(not in Hes.), soi
d'
epi
men
morphē
epeōn
thou hast comeliness of words, Od.11.367
alla
theos
morphēn
epesi
stephei
God adds a crown of shapeliness
to his words, Od.8.170:
freq. later, “morphas
duo
onomazein
LXX To.1.13,
outward form, opp. “eidos,
hekaterō
tō
eideos
pollai
m.”
Philol.5; “allattonta
to
hautou
eidos
eis
pollas
morphas”
Pl.R.380d;
“m.
theōn”
X.Mem.4.3.13,
cf. Ep.Phil.2.6
3. kind, sort, E. Ion 382,
1068
(lyr.),
3. A model after which any
thing is made, a pattern, stamp,
TOBIT 1:13 -
Then the Most High gave me favor and good appearance
in the sight of Shalmaneser, and I was his buyer of
provisions.
forma , 3. A
model after which any thing is made, a
pattern, stamp, last (of a
shoemaker), etc.: “utendum
plane
sermone,
ut
numo,
cui
publica
forma est,”
Quint. 1, 6, 3:
2. An outline, plan, design
(of an architect, etc.): “cum
formam videro,
quale
aedificium
futurum
sit,
scire
possum,”
4. A mould which gives form to
something:
b. The grammatical form of a
word: “utrum
in secunda
forma verbum
verbum ,
D. In eccl. Lat. as a translation of logos
Vulg. Joan. 1, 1;
id. 1 Joan. 5, 7;
id. Apoc. 19, 13.
a. Orally, by word of mouth
(opp. scripturā):
Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness
of his glory,
and the express
image of his person,
and upholding all
things by the word of his power,
when he had by
himself purged our sins,
sat down on the right
hand of the Majesty on high;
Hebrews 1:4 Being made so much
better than the angels,
as
he hath by inheritance obtained a more
excellent name than they.
Hebrews 1:5 For unto which of the angels said he
at any time,
Thou art my Son,
this day have I begotten thee?
And again, I will
be to him a Father,
and he shall be
to me a Son?
Hebrews 1:6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten
into the world,
he saith, And let
all the angels of God worship him.
Prīmōgĕnĭtus As
subst.: prīmōgĕnĭta
, ōrum, n., the right of the first-born, birthright,
Vulg. Gen. 25, 33;
Second Adam
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Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more,
being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Romans 5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now
received the atonement.
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered
into the world, and death by sin; and so death
passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Romans 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but
sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Romans 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to
Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the
similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of
him that was to come.
Romans 5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free
gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead,
much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which
is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Hebrews 1:7 And of
the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels
spirits, and his ministers a flame of
fire.
Hebrews 1:8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy
throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre
of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in
his own image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.
Genesis
1.27 et creavit Deus hominem ad imaginem suam ad imaginem Dei creavit illum masculum et feminam creavit eos
Imāgo , ĭnis, f.
cf. imitor,
I.an
imitation,
copy of a thing,
an image,
likeness (i. e. a picture, statue, mask, an
apparition
A. In gen.,
a representation,
likeness
(usu. of a person),
statue,
bust,
picture:
“
varia
pereuntium
forma
et
omni
imagine
mortium,”
Tac. H. 3, 28:
forma , 3.
A model after which any thing is made, a
pattern, stamp, last (of a
shoemaker), etc.: “utendum plane sermone, ut numo, cui publica forma est,” Quint. 1, 6, 3:
2. An outline, plan, design
(of an architect, etc.): “cum formam videro, quale aedificium futurum sit, scire possum,”
4. A mould which gives form to
something:
b. The grammatical form of a word:
“utrum in secunda forma verbum
Genesis 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man’s
blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the
image of God made he man.
Philippians
2:7 But made himself of no reputation,
and took upon him the
form of a servant,
and was made in the
likeness of men:
Philippians 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man,
he humbled himself, and
became obedient unto death,
even the death of the
cross.
Philippians 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted
him,
and given him a name
which is above every name:
God who came into
the physical realm was HIS Christ or His annointed:
The kings of the earth
stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against
the Lord, and against his Christ. Ac.4:26
And the seventh angel
sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying,
The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of
our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for
ever and ever. Re.11:15
And I heard a loud
voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation,
and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and
the power
of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is
cast down, which accused them before our God day and
night. Re.12:10
Christ may be difined
in several ways but Christ MEANS the POWER and WISDOM of
God. That is His WORD. God "thinks" and propels His
"word" with His "breath" or spirit.
But unto them which
are called, both Jews and Greeks,
Christ
the power OF
God, and
the wisdom OF
God. 2 Cor 1:24
That no flesh should glory in his
presence. 1 Cor 1:29
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God
is made unto us wisdom,
and righteousness,
and sanctification,
and redemption: 1 Cor 1:30
That, according as it is written, He that glorieth,
let him glory in the Lord. 1 Cor 1:31
And I fell at his feet
to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not:
I am thy fellowservant, and of
thy brethren that
have the testimony
of Jesus: worship God:
for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Rev 19:10
The American Restoration Movement also
held that God is a trinity in the same way that mankind,
created in His Image, is a trinity of those qualities
which make up one whole being:
"For God is rational, and Reason was first in Him; and so all things
were from
Himself.
This Reason is His own
Thought (or Consciousness) which
the Greeks call logos, by which term we also designate Word or Discourse and therefore it is now
usual with our people, owing to the mere simple
interpretation of the term,
to say that the Word was in the
beginning with God;
although it would be more suitable to regard Reason as the more ancient;
because God had not
Word from the beginning,
but He had Reason even before the beginning;
because also Word itself consists of Reason, which it thus proves
to have been the prior existence as being its own
substance....
He became also the Son of God, and was begotten when
He proceeded
forth
from Him (Tertullian from chs. 5,7).
"Again--Some will say, What does the expression
Holy Spirit mean? Well, in scripture it stands first for God the Holy Spirit, and secondly for the holy mind or spirit of a believer--for
illustration, take Peter's words to Ananias, "Why has
Satan tempted you to lie to the Holy Spirit; you have not
lied to men, but to God," (the Holy Spirit.) And the
Saviour says, How much more will your heavenly Father give
a holy spirit (as it should be
translated) to those that ask him. Again--Praying in a holy spirit. Again--Paul says
he approved himself God's servant "by knowledge, by long
sufferings, by kindness, by a holy spirit'" by a mind innocent of the love
of gain, or commerce, or sensuality. Walter Scott Early Restoration Movement
leader.
To say "God's Spirit" is to say God. As
Paul's body fought with his innermost being, God has within
Himself three natures:
Whither shall I go from
thy spirit? or whither shall I flee
from thy presence? Psalm 139:7
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my
bed in hell, behold, thou art there. Psalm 139:8
If I take
the wings
of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the
sea; Psalm 139:9
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. Psalm 139:10
God, Who is not flesh and bones and blood,
does not procreate but creates. When His invisible power is
manifested in manipulating His physical world that power is His Mind expressing
Itself. This Spirit in Hebrew does not speak of a separate person:
Ruwach (h7307) roo'-akh, roo'-akh;
from 7306 (anticipate, perceive, quick understanding);
wind; by resemblance breath, i. e. a sensible (or even
violent exhalation; figurative life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extens.
a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit .. of a rational being including
its expression and functions
Therefore, when the Psalmist could not
escape God's Spirit he could not escape God's mental presence
as it expressed
itself to him. When he could
not escape God's physical manifestation for or against hime,
he understood that it was God's right hand.
Paul recognized that the invisible or "unknown" God was the
One he preached. He did not need to be manipulated by
singing, dancing and playing musical instruments to be
aroused. He was "in the midst" of two or three recognizing
His invisible, Spirit presence:
God that made the world and all
things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in
temples made with hands; Acts 17:24
Neither is
worshipped with mens hands, as though he needed any
thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; Acts 17:25
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to
dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined
the times before appointed, and the bounds of their
habitation; Ac 17:26
That they should
seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and
find him, though he be not far from every one
of us:
Acts 17:27
When Stephen spoke to the Father he said,
"Lord Jesus." When the Spirit presence spoke to Paul and
continued to lead him, the presence identified Himself as
"Jesus whom thou persecutest."
Therefore, the Spirit is personified with
the use of personal pronouns but not because He is a Person
separated from full Deity. Rather, as my spirit
groans within me and argues with me (Roman 7, Romans 8),
God's invisible Spirit is personified because it belongs to
Him. Furthermore, this is a common way of "humanizing" even
inanimate objects:
Paul Tillich wrote:
"The Spirit is sometimes personified in the Bible, as in John
16:7-8, and this has led many to believe that it is a
person. They do so because they do not take into account
an idiom of the original Greek language. In Greek,
inanimate objects which in English would be couched in the
neuter gender, are given a masculine or feminine
gender, if
those objects are identified with any particular
individual. ' For example, a chair is described as "it" in
English, because it is neuter, being neither masculine nor
feminine. But in Greek that chair can be identified with
its owner. If it belongs to me, the chair is described as
he; if it belongs to my wife,
as she. Click Here.
Consistent with this, in Romans eight (the
key proof-text for three gods) Paul did not speak of "The
Holy Spirit" but the "Spirit of God" or the "Spirit of
Christ."
The spirit of a man knows the thoughts of the
man but the spirit is not a second "person" of the man. In
the same way, the Spirit or Mind of Christ knows the
thoughts of full Deity embodied in Jesus Christ. A holy
spirit is our having the Holy Spirit or Mind of God.
Therefore, a Holy Spirit is a personification of God's Mind.
This Holy Spirit will not ever delude us into doing
something Christ in Person would not do.
The "Spirit Father" gave Himself to become
the "Indwelled Son." He will give Himself Again in pure or
Holy Spirit form:
And I will pray the
Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you
for ever; John 14:16
Even the Spirit of
truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth
him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he
dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. John 14:17
I will not leave you
comfortless: I will come to you. John 14:18
In making promises to the apostles, Jesus
said that the Comforter will come because I have many
other things to teach you. This was through Jesus
Christ again working within His Spirit, invisible nature.
Nevertheless I tell you
the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if
I go not away, the Comforter (Christ in John 14:18) will not come unto you; but if I depart,
I will send him unto you. John 16:7
And when he is come, he will reprove
the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
John 16:8
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them
now. John 16:12
The Bible consistently shows that our
minds can control our spirit. Our mind is our power to think
and manipulate things. Our spirit is the mental disposition
of our mind:
And did not he make one?
Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one?
That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore (you) take heed
to your
spirit,
and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his
youth. Malachi 2:15
In Greek, because the spirit of the man
belonged to the man it would be called a "he." Yet, the
man's spirit was not a separate person.
Jesus guarded against contradicting
Himself by making His Spirit another
Person rather than another
Comforter. This "Spirit of
truth" will not be a ghost
or a person who has the power to speak a single word from
His own Spirit. The Spirit will not glorify a "Holy Spirit
Person." The Spirit of Truth is the Spirit which is Truth.
In human terms my "spirit" glorifies me.
My mental disposition and power of creativity which comes
from my mind gives glory to me the "person." The miraculous
power of Christ through His Spirit working through the
Apostle-Prophets doing what Jesus Christ said would be done
validated Jesus Christ as God Incarnate. He was and is what
He claimed to be. The word glorify means to honor or worship. Therefore, the
Spirit of Christ shows the worth of Jesus Christ. That is,
the Spirit worships the visible Son of God.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all
truth: for he
shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things
to come. John 16:13
........... He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. John 16:14
Jesus said that His Words were "spirit and
life" (Jn 6:63). When He spoke He "breathed" holy Spirit
upon the apostles through teaching them the Word. When the
Spirit of this truth came He would not be another person. He doesn't even have any words to speak. Therefore, the only words you are ever going
to get from the Holy Spirit will come from the Mind of Lord
Jesus Christ. The encounter of Paul shows that His name is
"Jesus" because the Spirit would "come in My name."
By analogy, if people honor human mind or
intellect and tell others about it while ignoring the
"person" and diminishing his worth, they insult the person.
To grieve the Spirit of God is to ignore the Words
of God. To grieve our spirit you ignore our words. This is
not "a mystery" better felt than told.
"For this reason, the
Holy Spirit has frequently been personified in Scripture,
identifying it with God, and so it is personified as he. "However,
if the Holy Spirit were actually a person it should be rendered as he in every place where the word is referred
to; but it is not. It is sometimes rendered in the neuter. In Romans 8:16, Paul
writes: "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit." The
neuter, itself is used, and this is in
accord with the Greek text, as any Greek scholar will
acknowledge.
"To personify inanimate objects is normal in Scripture. Wisdom is represented as a woman (Proverbs 9:1), mammon is described as a friend (Luke 16:9), sin is personified as a slave-owner (Romans 6:16), the Holy Spirit as a comforter (John 14:26), expressing the
spirit of Truth. So Micah declared: "I am full of power by
the spirit of the Lord" (Micah 3:8). The prophets were
moved by the spirit to record the Scriptures
(Nehemiah 9:20; 2 Peter 1:21), and God used the same means
to speak to Israel through His Son (Hebrews 1: 1). For the
rest of the quote Click Here.
"Personification.-- This is a figure of
speech by which inanimate beings are spoken of as animated, or endowed with life and volition; animals are endowed with
feelings akin to those of men.
"This is well suited
to an imaginary condition of mind, and therefore
frequently employed in Hebrew Scriptures. Indeed, it is
now a staple in the market of communication, and we use
it so commonly ourselves that whe have almost ceasted to
speak of it as a figure of speech." (Prof. D. R. Dungan,
Hermeneutics, p. 324, Gospel Light Publishing)
Some examples of personification are:
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. Isaiah
59:16
In the beginning was God's power of
thought. The power was with God and the power was God. It
would never do to call Mother earth a "he." Yet when we
speak of her we do not prove that mother earth is a person:
And it came to pass, as
he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the
ground clave asunder that was under them: Numbers 16:31
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up,
and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto
Korah, and all their goods. Numbers 16:32
As far as we know, the sea does not have
eyes and the power to get so fearful that it runs away. Yet,
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
Psalm 114:3
The mountains skipped like
rams,
and the little
hills like lambs. Psalm 114:4
What ailed thee, O
thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou
wast driven back? Psalm 114:5
Many of the musical passages in the Old
Testament speak of the "earth" singing or the trees singing.
The land truly rejoices and obeys God's laws when men are
destroyed and scattered away:
The whole earth is at
rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. Isaiah 14:7
Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of
Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
Isaiah 14:8
The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the
water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high. Habakkuk 3:10
The sun and moon stood
still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows
they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
Habakkuk 3:11
Take therefore no
thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof. Matthew 6:34
Making the Godhead into three separated
persons or members of the "God family" and one only
because they are made of the same God stuff
leaves Father and Son somewhere else while the Holy Spirit
as the "person" competent and fitted for the church age
rules our lives.
This diminishes Father-Son-Spirit by
denying that Lord Jesus Christ in His fleshly form or image
is full Deity's expression of itself to mankind. And Christ,
in Whom dwelled full Deity, is denied the role He prophesied
when He said that "I will come to you" as the "another"
Comforter.
An apostrophe turns from the real and
speaks of an imaginary thing.
For instance:
O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy
scabbard, rest, and be still. Jeremiah
47:6
How can it be quiet,
seeing the Lord hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the
sea shore? there hath he appointed it. Jeremiah 47:7
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are
sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy
children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her
wings, and ye would not Luke 13:34
We honor all views of the Godhead by
denying that they are three, separate Beings able to stand
"side by side and face to face to hold conferences." We
should seek a holy spirit by conforming our lives to the
revealed Word or Spirit of Christ.
To see that Holy Spirit is a
personification of God's Mind see First Corinthians, chapter
two.
Kenneth Sublett
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