- "Hie thee hither, far-famed
Ulysses, great glory of the Achaeans;
- Moor the ship, that thou mayest hears diviner voice."
(Odyss., xii. 184.)
She
praises thee, O mariner, and calls the
illustrious; and the courtesan tries
to win to herself the glory of the Greeks.
Leave
her to prey on the dead; a
heavenly spirit comes to thy help: pass by Pleasure,
she beguiles. "Let not a woman with flowing train cheat you
of your senses,
With her
flattering prattle
seeking your hurt." Sail past
the song; it works death.
This makes everyone SAFE so that we might "Come to
a knowledge of the Truth."
Then and now self-authoring women claim to be guided
by The Holy Spirit. However, in all of the
silence passages this DENIED that:
1Tim. 2:5 For there is
one God,
and one
mediator between God and men,
the MAN
Christ Jesus,
John may have been written very late because it
corrects many of the false teachings of the
Synagogue of Satan which included Greeks and Jews
who taught that Jesus was GOD in the flesh to deny
that the man Jesus of Nazareth could have taught and
acted by the POWER of God. Jesus always denies
that He had any power or WORDS of His won.
John 1 and other passages are used to prove that
Jesus of Nazareth existed ETERNALLY as one of there
God persons. In 1938 H. Leo Boles for the first time
in history taught that the GODHEAD meant that God
was one or FRIENDLY but existed as three
separate PERSONS each with their own "center
of consciousness" or spirits. Paul was guided
after his baptism by "Jesus of Nazareth" whom Paul
mus see and hear. When the Holy Spirit
prevented Paul from going into Bithynia he is called
the Spirit OF Jesus.
Review of The Gospel
Advocate, January 2008, page 18,
Earl D. Edwards, Director of graduate
studies at Freed-hardeman
eewwards@fhu.edu.
Earl
Edwards at LU, Clearly, for the inspired
Paul, any distortion of God's message is
serious. to preach a Jesus who is not
divine or a Holy Spirit who is not
a person or a God
who is not in three persons
is to preach "another god" who is not the
God of the Bible. Such teaching does,
indeed matter.
The Greeks and the "progressives" teaching a new
Hermeneutic such as Rubel Shelly says that John was
speaking of the Greek LOGOS or Hermes. Hermes
was the god of thieves, liars and perverts at all
Market Places. Scripture is most often the
ANTITHESIS of PAGANISM. Word or Logos is one
of the FEATURES of God by which He SPEAKS in order
to create.
John
1:1 In the BEGINNING was the Word,
THE BEGINNING IS NOT THAT OF
GENESIS BUT THE BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL OF
THE KINGDOM
Jesus
didn't create almost infinite universe.
2Pet. 3:6 Whereby the world
that then was,
being overflowed with
water, perished:
2Pet. 3:7 But the
heavens and the earth, which are now,
by the
same word are kept in store,
reserved unto fire
against the day of judgment
and
perdition of ungodly men.
THE BEGINNING IS THE FOUNDATION
PRINCIPLES: THE CORNERSTONE
princĭpĭo ,
āre, v. a. id., I
to begin to speak, to begin,
commence (post-class.): “hoc genus principiandi,”
princĭpĭum ,
beginnings, foundations,
principles, elements
arkhē hupothesthai lay
a foundation, logos the original
argument, Id.Tht.177c,
logos
X.
the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in
creation and world-government,
b. spermatikos l. generative
principle in organisms, “ho theos sp. l. tou kosmou”
c. in Neo-Platonic Philos., of regulative
and formative forces,
derived from the intelligible and operative
in the sensible universe, “
Id.Tht.177c
[177c] they will come on like an
ever-rising flood and bury in silt our
original argument—and let us, if you please,
proceed.
Theodorus
To me,
Socrates, such digressions are quite as
agreeable as the argument; for they are easier
for a man of my age to follow. However,
if you prefer, let us return to our
argument.
g746. arche, ar-khay´; from 756; (properly
abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief
(in various applications of order, time, place, or
rank): — beginning, CORNER, (at the, the)
first (estate), magistrate, power,
principality, principle, rule.
The ARCH holds up the building when you
cut a door way.
Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of
Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
and the Word
was WITH God,
Pros
refers to
that from which something comes: of origin
or descent, from, on the side of,
of effects proceeding from what cause soever:
Words are emitted
by God when He speaks
And
the SPIRIT
OF God moved [fluttered like a dove] upon
the face of the waters.
Gen. 1:3 And God SAID,
Let there be light: and there WAS light.
THE ANTITHESIS
OF: Apollōnos the god of Light,
Lucifer before,
in presence of,
and the Word
was God.
WORD or
LOGOS, except in paganism, can never be a god or
man: Word is what God SPEAKS when He conveys His
SPIRIT meaning "His mental disposition."
GOD IS LIGHT IN THE SAME SENSE
THAT HE IS WORD, GRACE, RIGHTEOUSNESS:
these are all made VISIBLE AND AUDIBLE by Jesus of
Nazareth.
GOD IS LIGHT:
1John 1:5 This then is the message which we have
heard of him, and declare unto you,
that GOD IS LIGHT,
and in him is no darkness at all.
Rev. 21:11 Having the glory of God: and her light
was like unto a stone
JESUS REFLECTED THAT LIGHT 30 YEARS AFTER HE WAS
BORN IN THE FLESH
2Cor. 4:6 For God, who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness,
hath shined
in our hearts,
to give the
light of the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face
of Jesus Christ.
John 1:2 The same [WORD]
was in the beginning with God.
John 1:3 All things were made by him; [God
through His Word]
and without
him was not any thing made that was made.
Psa. 33:6 By the WORD of
the Lord were the heavens MADE;
and all the
host of them by the BREATH [H7307 SPIRIT]
of
his MOUTH.
Psa. 33:7 He gathereth the waters of the sea
together AS an heap:
he layeth up
the depth in storehouses.
Psa. 33:8 Let all the earth fear the Lord:
let all the
inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Psa. 33:9 For he SPAKE,
and it was done;
he COMMANDED,
and it stood fast.
SPIRIT is the SPIRIT OF God meaning His Own Spirit or
mental disposition. SPIRIT produces WORDS of God's
Instruction. Jesus was the LAST One into whose MOUTH
God put His WORDS without any other god person to make
it possible
2Sam. 23:2 The SPIRIT of the Lord
spake by me,
and
his WORD was in my tongue.
2Chr. 36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of
Persia,
that the WORD
of the Lord spoken by the MOUTH of Jeremiah might be
accomplished,
the Lord
stirred up the SPIRIT of Cyrus king of Persia,
that he made a
proclamation throughout all his kingdom,
and put it
also in writing, saying,
Job 15:13 That thou turnest thy SPIRIT
against God,
and lettest
such WORDS go out of thy mouth?
Job 26:4 To whom hast thou uttered WORDS?
and whose SPIRIT
came from thee?
Prov. 1:23 Turn you at my reproof:
behold, I will
pour out my SPIRIT unto you,
I will make
known my WORDS unto you.
Prov. 17:27 He that hath knowledge spareth his
WORDS:
and a man of
understanding is of an excellent SPIRIT.
Is. 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them,
saith the Lord;
My SPIRIT
that is upon thee,
and my WORDS
which I have put in thy mouth,
shall not
depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy
seed,
nor out of the
mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord,
from
henceforth and for ever.
Jesus didn't create
almost infinite universe.
2Pet. 3:6
Whereby the world that then was,
being overflowed with
water, perished:
2Pet. 3:7 But the
heavens and the earth, which are now,
by the same word are kept in
store,
reserved
unto fire against the day of judgment
and perdition of ungodly men.
John
1:4 In him was LIFE; and the LIFE
was the LIGHT of men.
John 1:5And the light shineth in darkness; and the
darkness comprehended it not.
John 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name
was John.
John 1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear
witness of the Light,
that all men
through him might believe.
John 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to
bear witness of that Light.
Neither is God as LIGHT or
WORD a god Person.
John 1:9 That was the true Light,
which
lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
John 1:10 He was in the WORLD,
and the
world was MADE by him,
and the
world knew him not.
Made is not the first
creation which was DESTROYED BY WATER.
Jesus brought a REGENERATED State.
gignomai Come
into a NEW STATE Opposite
Eimi II. of
the real world, be, opp.
become, of persons,
to
be born
Mundo to make
clean, to clean, cleanse,
Ceremonially, according to the
Levitical law of uncleanness: “
et purificabis eos (sc. Levitas),”
Vulg. Num. 8, 6.—
Spiritually, from sin: “
ab occultis meis munda me,”
Vulg. Psa. 19, 12:
“
mundemus nos ab omni inquinamento carnis et spiritūs,”
id. 2 Cor. 7, 1
Jeremiah 2.22 For though you wash
yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your
iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord
Yahweh. .
OPPOSITE Mundus d.
Euphemistically for
the Lower World, the
infernal regions
the world as opposed to the
church; this world, the realm of sin and
death, as opposed to Christ's kingdom of
holiness and life: “non pro mundo rogo,” “
princeps hujus mundi (i. e. Satan)
John
1:11 He came unto his own, and his own
received him not.
John 1:12 But as many as received him,
to them gave
he power to become the sons of God,
even to them
that believe on his name:
God as word became the WORDS spoken by
Jesus. BAPTISM is a mark or seal that one has heard
the WORD which excludes and is marked by rhetoric,
singing, playing instruments, acting or anything
beyond SPEAK or READ.
Acts 2:41 Then they that
gladly received HIS WORD were baptized: and the
same day there were added unto them about three
thousand souls.
God sent Jesus for a small band of
LOST SPIRITS: pilgrims and sojourners in the
WORLD. The World or Kosmos is the ecumenical
and the kingdom of Satan making war against the
Kingdom of Christ.
John 1:13 Which were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the
will of man, but of God.
GOD DIDN'T BECOME VISIBLE AS
FLESH: HIS WORDS BECAME FLESH
John 1:14 And the Word
was made FLESH,
and dwelt
among us, (and we beheld his glory,
the glory as
of the ONLY BEGOTTEN of the Father,)
full of GRACE
and TRUTH.
IT IS AN INSULT TO SAY THAT GOD BECAME FLESH. God
put His WORDS into the MOUTH of Jesus and that is
defined by the parable word SPIRIT.
John 6:63 It is the SPIRIT that
quickeneth;
the FLESH
PROFITETH NOTHING
the WORDS
that I SPEAK unto you,
they are SPIRIT,
and they are LIFE.
Calvin said that God's SPEECH (or Sermo)
became flesh. The Latin is:
Verbum A Word what is spoken or
said; words,
expressions, language, discourse,
conversation,
Orally, by word of mouth
(opp. scripturā): eccl.
Lat. as a translation of logos
John 8:28 Then said Jesus
unto them,
When ye have
lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that
I am he,
and that I
do nothing of myself;
but as my FATHER
hath TAUGHT me,
I SPEAK
these things.
Jesus was not the WORD but He SPOKE the WORD and
the WORD became visible and audible.
If the MAN Jesus was GOD then John wrote
nonesense.
John 12:49 For I have not spoken of myself;
but the Father
which sent me,
HE gave me a
commandment,
what I
should SAY, and what I should S[EAL.
John 12:50 And I know that his commandment is life
everlasting:
whatsoever I
speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me,
so I speak.
John 16:25 These things have I spoken unto you in
proverbs:
but the time
cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in
proverbs,
but I shall
shew you plainly of the Father.
The WORD is that which Jesus
and everyone SPOKE to convey the Spirit or
Mind of God. You cannot behold the Word but
you can behold the Word in the FLESH.Jesus was born
of the SEED of David 30 years before He was baptized
or SANCTIFIED and sent into the World
Rom. 1:2 (Which he had
promised afore by his prophets in the holy
scriptures,)
Rom. 1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus
Christ our Lord,
which
was made of the seed of David according to the
FLESH;
Rom. 1:4 And declared to be the Son
of God with power,
according to
the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection
from the dead:
Rev. 1:5 And from Jesus Christ,
who is the
faithful witness,
and the
first begotten of the dead,
and the prince
of the kings of the earth.
Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our
sins in his own blood,
The Kingdom then came with power on the day of
Pentecost and those who were baptized had their
spirits made perfect and became brothers of Jesus
Christ Who still exists in Holy Spirit form.
Grace and most qualities are
PERSONIFIED.
The GRACES of
the pagan world were blue--eyed, blond
singer-prostitutes.
The
ANTITHESIS: God's Grace TEACHES His people to reject
the Grace of the World.
Titus 2:11 For the grace
of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared
[became visible] to all men,
Titus 2:12 TEACHING us that, denying ungodliness
and worldly lusts,
we
should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in
this present world;
John 1:15 John
bare witness of him, and cried, saying,
This was he
of whom I spake, He that cometh after me
is preferred
before me:
for he was before
me.
John 1:27
He it is, who coming after me is preferred
before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to
unloose.
WE KNOW THAT JESUS WAS BORN AFTER
JOHN but this does not prove that Jesus existed
before He was born in the flesh.
g4413. protos,
pro´-tos; contracted superlative of 4253; foremost
(in time, place, order or importance): —
before, beginning, best, chief(-est), first (of
all), former.
g4253. pro/ pro,
pro; a primary preposition; “fore”, i.e. in
front of, prior (figuratively, superior)
to: — above, ago, before, or ever. In the
comparative, it retains the same significations.
John 1:16 And of HIS
fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
His fulness of the GODHEAD means "divine nature" and
not a three-headed god. We also enjoy the
Divine Nature but we are not gods.
Jesus made the WORD audible in the same sense that
Moses mad the LAW audible.
John 1:17 For the law was
given by Moses,
but grace
and TRUTH came BY Jesus Christ.
The TRUTH is the WORD
John 17:17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy WORD IS TRUTH
(never a person]
James 1:18 Of his own will BEGAT
he us with the WORD of truth,
that we
should be a kind of firstfruits of his
creatures.
We are washed with water
INTO the Word or into the School of Christ.
No one has the right to add to or subtract that
which is the duty of elders to "Teach that which
has been taught."
JESUS OF NAZARETH DID NOT EXIST WHEN
MOSES WROTE
Deut.
18:15 The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a
PROPHET from the midst of thee,
of
thy brethren, LIKE unto me; unto
him ye shall hearken;
Acts 7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto
the children of Israel,
A PROPHET
shall the Lord your God raise up unto you
of your
brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
Jesus cannot BE Jehovah as
taught..
Leonard.Allen.POURED.OUT.The.Spirit.of.God
John 1:18 No man hath seen God at
any time:
the only
begotten SON
which is in
the bosom
[SINUS: garment, love,
protection, asylum, etc]
of the Father,
he hath DECLARED
him.
[ē-narro
to explain in detail, to
expound, INTERPRET,
MORE EXPLICITLY\:
“scribere,”
The role of Jesus was to
fulfill prophecies "CONCERNING ME." The Apostles
as eye and ear witnesses left us a memory as
SCRIBES.
2Pet. 1:19 We have
also a more
sure word of prophecy;
whereunto
ye do well that ye take heed,
as unto a
LIGHT that shineth in a dark place,
until the
day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Pet. 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy
of the scripture is of any private INTERPRETATION.
God was THE WORD or Logos: Jesus in
the FLESH spoke what God put into His mouth:
nothing more.
g1834. exegeomai,
ex-ayg-eh´-om-ahee; from 1537 and 2233; to
consider out (aloud), i.e. rehearse, unfold: —
declare, tell.
John 1:19 And this is the record of
John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from
Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
John 1:20 And he confessed, and denied not; but
confessed, I am not the Christ.
John 1:21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou
Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that
prophet? And he answered, No.
John 1:22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou?
that we may give an answer to them that sent us.
What sayest thou of thyself?
John 1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in
the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord,
as said the prophet Esaias.
Malichi
John 1:24 And they which were sent were of the
Pharisees.
John 1:25 And they asked him, and said unto him,
Why baptizest
thou then, if thou be not that CHRIST, nor Elias,
neither that prophet?
John 1:26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with
water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye
know not;
John 1:27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred
before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to
unloose.
John 1:28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond
Jordan, where John was baptizing.
John 1:29 ¶ The next day John seeth Jesus coming
unto him, and saith,
Behold the
Lamb OF God, w
hich taketh
away the sin of the world.
John 1:30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh
a man which is preferred before me: for he was
before me.
John 1:31 And I knew him not:
but that he
should be made manifest to Israel,
therefore am I
come baptizing with water.
John 1:32 And John bare record, saying,
I saw the
Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it
abode upon him.
John 1:33 And I knew him not:
but he that
sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto
me,
Upon whom thou
shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on
him,
the same is he
which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
UPPER ROOM
John 1:34 And I saw, and bare record that this is
the SON OF GOD .
John 1:35 Again the next day after John stood, and
two of his disciples;
John 1:36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked,
he saith,
Behold the Lamb of God!
John 1:37 ¶ And the two disciples heard him speak,
and they followed Jesus.
John 1:38 Then Jesus turned, and saw them following,
and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto
him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted,
Master,) where dwellest thou?
John 1:39 He saith unto them, Come and see. They
came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that
day: for it was about the tenth hour.
John 1:40 One of the two which heard John speak, and
followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
John 1:41 He first findeth his own brother Simon,
and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which
is, being interpreted, the Christ.
John 1:42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when
Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of
Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by
interpretation, A stone.
John 1:43 ¶ The day following Jesus would go forth
into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto
him, Follow me.
John 1:44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of
Andrew and Peter.
John 1:45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto
him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law,
and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the
son of Joseph.
John 1:46 And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any
good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto
him, Come and see.
John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and
saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is
no guile!
John 1:48 Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest
thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before
that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the
fig tree, I saw thee.
John 1:49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him,
Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of
Israel.
John 1:50 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because
I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree,
believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than
these.
John 1:51 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I
say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open,
and the angels of God ascending and descending upon
the Son of man.
John denied that God came in the FLESH.
Other scholars also wrote to debunk that God ws THREE
PERSONS but that God was TRIAS within Himself with no
need for a SPIRIT person other than His own Spirit.
Hermes is the ancient and
modern LOGOS
Chapter
XV.-The Sethians Support Their
Doctrines by an Allegorical Interpretation of
Scripture; Their System Really Derived from Natural
Philosophers and from the Orphic Rites; Adopt the Homeric
Cosmogony.
These are the
statements which the patrons
[Patron is: prostatai, This is a
military expression applied to those placed in
the foremost ranks of a battalion of
soldiers; but it was also employed in civil
affairs, to designate, for instance at Athens,
those who protected the metotkoi (aliens), and others
without the rights of citizenship. IIrostath"
was the Roman Patronus.]
of the Sethian
doctrines make, as far as it is possible to
declare in a few words. Their system, however, is
made up (of tenets) from natural
(philosophers), and of expressions
uttered in reference to different other subjects;
and transferring (the sense of) these to the Eternal
Logos, they explain them as we have
declared.
But they assert
likewise that Moses confirms their doctrine when
he says, "Darkness, and mist, and
tempest." These, (the Sethian) says, are the three
principles (of our system);
- or when he
states that three were born in paradise-Adam, Eve, the serpent;
- or when he
speaks of three (persons,
namely) Cain, Abel, Seth;
- and again
of three (others)-Shem, Ham, Japheth;
- or when he
mentions three patriarchs-Abraham, Isaac, Jacob;
or when he speaks
of the existence of three days before sun and moon; or when he mentions three
laws-
prohibitory, permissive,
and adjudicatory of punishment.
> Now, a prohibitory law is as follows:
"Of every tree
that is in paradise thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil thou mayest not
eat.[Gen. ii. 16, 17.]
The entire
system of their doctrine, however, is (derived)
from the ancient theologians Musaeus, and Linus, and Orpheus, [These belong to the
legendary period of Greek philosophy.
Musaeus flourished amon the
Athenians,
Amusement is for
the sake of relaxation, and relaxation must
necessarily be pleasant, for it is a way of curing
the pain due to laborious work; also entertainment ought admittedly to
be not only honorable but also pleasant, for happiness is
derived from both honor and pleasure; [20]
but we all
pronounce music to be one of the
pleasantest things, whether instrumental or instrumental and vocal
music together (at least Musaeus
says,
'Song
is man's sweetest joy,' and that is why
people with good reason introduce it at parties and entertainments,
for its exhilarating
effect), so that for this reason
also one might suppose that the younger men
ought to be educated in music
Linus among the Thebans,
and
Phoebus is singing a
dirge, after his happier strains, [350]
for Linus dead in his beauty, striking his
lyre with key of gold; but I wish to sing
a song of praise, a crown to all his toil,
on the one who
has gone to the gloom beneath the nether world,
[355] whether I am to call him son of Zeus or of
Amphitryon. For the virtue of noble toils is a
glory to the dead.
Orpheus among the Thracians.
"If I had the
voice and music of Orpheus so that I could charm
Demeter's daughter or her husband with song
and fetch you from Hades, I would have gone down to
the Underworld,
and neither
Pluto's hound nor Charon the ferryman of souls
standing at the oar would have kept me from bringing
you back to the light alive.
"But now wait
for me to arrive there when I die and
prepare a home where you may dwell with
me. [365] For I shall command my
children here to bury me in the same coffin with you and to lay
out my body next to yours.
GENESIS 1 CREATION BY OF
MATERIAL WORLD PARALLEL TO JOHN 1 CREATION OF THE
KINGDOM OF JESUS.
The
First World Destroyed by WATER
2Pet. 3:5 For this they
willingly are ignorant of, that by the WORD
OF God the heavens were of old, and
the earth standing out of the water and in
the water:
2Pet. 3:6 Whereby the world that then was,
being overflowed with water, perished:
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The
Second World Reserved for FIRE
2Pet. 3:7 But the heavens
and the earth, which are now, by the
same WORD are kept in store, reserved unto fire
against the day of judgment and perdition of
ungodly men.
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Genesis 1:1 In the
beginning GOD
created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:6 And GOD
SAID,
Said is H559 Amar: think or use
speech
Genesis 1:9 And GOD
said, Let the waters
con-grĕgo
, āvi, ātum, 1,
I.v.
a., to collect into a flock or herd,
to assemble. I. In gen., to
collect or assemble a multitude
together, to unite, join, associate.
“ in Academiā congregati,
Genesis 1:26 And GOD said,
Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness: and let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl
of the air, and over the cattle, and over
all the earth, and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:27 So GOD
created man in HIS
own image
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John 1:1 In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was GOD.
John 1:2 The same was in the beginning with
God.
However, the WORD made man in HIS image.
Adam was a HE Image is h6754
tselem shade, make visible
gignomai
, Come into a NEW state of being
ĭmāgo
a representation, likeness (usu.
of a person), statue, bust, picture:
A.
[select] In gen., an image
or likeness of a thing formed in the
mind, a conception, thought, imagination,
idea: “ |
Genesis 1:2 And
the earth was without form, [inanis]
and void;
and darkness [ignorance]
was upon the face of the deep. [Pit, hell]
And the Spirit [Breath] of God
moved [aggitated] upon the face
of the waters.
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John 1:3 All things were made
by him; [GOD] and
without GOD
was not any thing made that was made.
gignomai
, Come into a NEW state of being
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Genesis 1:3 And GOD SAID,
Let there be LIGHT:
and there was LIGHT.
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John 1:4 In him [GOD] was
life; and the life was the LIFE of men |
Genesis 1:4 And GOD saw the LIGHT, that it
was good:
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John 1:5 And the LIGHT shineth
in darkness;
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and God divided the light from the
darkness.
Tĕnē^brae
1. The darkness of night,
night, IGNORANCE
II. Trop., darkness, gloom,
obscurity of the
mind, did not Repent
Isaiah
5.[30] They will roar against
thsem in that day like the roaring of the
sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness
and distress. The light is
darkened [obtenebrabitur]
in its clouds.
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And the darkness
comprehended it not.
Skot-ios
, I. of persons, in the dark, in
secret, secret, of sense-perception,
opp. gnēsiē,
2.
[select] metaph., dark,
obscure, of dithyrambs
Skoti-a
, hē, ( skotos) A.
[select] darkness, gloom,
Micah
3.6 "Therefore night is
over you, with no vision, And it is dark
to you, that you may not divine; And the sun
will go down on the prophets, And
the day will be black over
them. “ obtenebrabitur dies lucis (al. tenebrabitur)
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lucem
or LUX In gen., the light of
the sun and other heavenly bodies: 1.
The heavenly bodies: “illae, quae fulgent luces,” Cic. Arat. 96.— A.
The sight of all men,
the public view, the public, the world:
But, Contradicting the Oppressive world.
B. Light, encouragement, help,
succor:
D. Light, illustration, elucidation:
“historia testis temporum, lux veritatis
E. That which enlightens,
the source of illumination: RATIO
(Regulative Principle] |
com-prĕhendo
apprehend; to comprehend, comprise
A. To comprehend
by the sense of sight, to perceive,
observe, To comprehend
something intellectually, to receive
into one's mind,
Katalambanō
, 3. seize with the mind,
comprehend, 4. accept,
Acts
2:41 Then they that gladly RECEIVED
his word were baptized: and the same day there
were added unto them about three thousand
souls. |
Genesis 1:5 And God called
[addressed by name] the LIGHT
Day,
and the
darkness he called Night.
And the
evening and the morning were the first day. |
John 1:7 The
same [John] came for a witness, to
bear witness of the LIGHT,
that all men through him might believe.
John 1:8 He was not that LIGHT, but
was sent to bear witness of that Light.
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| Genesis 1:6 And God SAID,
Let there be a firmament in the midst
of the waters, and let it divide the waters
from the waters. |
John 1:9 That was the true LIGHT,
which lighteth every man that cometh into the
world.
God created HIS
LIGHT or HIS WORD.
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Genesis 1:25 And God made
the beast of the earth after his kind,
and cattle after their kind, and every thing
that creepeth upon the earth
after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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John 1:10 He was in the world,
and the world was made by him, and the
world knew him not.
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Isaiah
65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and
a new earth:
and the
former shall not be remembered, nor
come into mind.
Isaiah 65:18 But be ye glad and rejoice for
ever in that which I create:
for,
behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing,
and her people a joy.
Isaiah 66:22 For as the new
heavens and the new earth, which I will
make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD,
so shall your seed and your name remain.
In Matthew 5:18
Jesus said, "Till heaven and earth pass, one
jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from
the law, till all be fulfilled" Here He said
that the law would not pass away until what?
Until two other things passed away. What
were they? First, "Till heaven and earth
pass;" and, secondly, "till all (the law)
be fulfilled." We know the law was
fulfilled in Christ
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The
Babylonian-Hebrew Old World.
kosmos
, ho, kosmō kathizein to
sit in order, no longer in
the same order, of earth,
as opp. heaven,
II.ornament, decoration,
esp. of women, Il.14.187,
Hes.Op.
76, Hdt.5.92.“ ē; gunaikeios k.” Pl.R.373c,
etc.; ornaments, A.Ag.1271;
“ hoi peri to sōma k.” Isoc.2.32:
metaph., of ornaments of speech,
such as epithets, Id.9.9
(pl.), Arist.Rh.1408a14,
Po.1457b2,
1458a33;
hadumelē k. keladeinto
sing sweet songs of praise,Pi.O.11
( 10). 13
(s.v.l.).
5.houtos ho k. this present
world, i.e. earth,
opp. heaven, Ev.Jo.13.1;
regarded as the kingdom of evil,ho arkhōn tou k. toutou ib. 12.31.
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The OLD has passed Away
and the New World began with Jesus.
kosmos
, ho, kosmō kathizein to
sit in order, no longer in
the same order,
kathizō
I. causal, make to sit down, seatoikēmatos” sit
down on a thronon, i.e.
to make him king set him upon the royal
throne
gignomai
, II folld. by a
Predicate, come into a
certain state, become, and (in
past tenses), come into a
new state of being to
be,1.
folld. by Nouns and Adjs., “ dēioisi de kharma g.” Il.6.82,
cf. 8.282;
“ sōtēr genou moi” A.Ch.2;
hence, I. abs., come
into beingopp.
einai,
or I. of persons, exist, “ ouk esth' houtos anēr, oud' essetai” Od.16.437;
et' eisithey are
still in being, 2.einai ek tinosto be
sprung from,
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Thomas Campbell and most
agreed with Tertullian who used the word TRIAS.
Tertullian
an inventor of trias c. ad 206: But, first, I
shall discuss His essential nature, and so
the nature of His birth will be
understood. We have already asserted that
God made the
world, and all which it contains,
by His Word, and Reason, and Power.
It is abundantly plain that your
philosophers, too,
regard the Logos-that is, the Word and Reason-
as the Creator of the
universe.
And we, in like manner, hold that the Word, and Reason, and Power,
by
which we have said God made all,
have SPIRIT as their
proper and essential
substratum, in which
the Word has in being
to give forth UTTERENCES,
.......and REASON abides to dispose and arrange,
......and POWER is over all
to execute.
We have been taught that
He (reason) proceeds
forth from God,
and in that PROCESSION He is GENERATED;
so that He is
the SON of God,
and is called
God from unity of
substance with God.
For God, too, is a Spirit.
Even
when the RAY is shot from the sun,
..........it is still
part of the parent mass; the sun
will still be in the
ray, because it
is a ray of the sun-
..........there is no division
of substance,
but merely an extension.
Thus Christ is
Spirit OF
Spirit,
and God OF
God, as light OF light is
kindled. [Jesus: My
WORDS are SPIRIT and LIFE
The material matrix remains entire and
unimpaired,
though you DERIVE from it any number of shoots
possessed of its qualities;
so, too,
that which has come forth out of God
is at once God and the Son of God, and the two are one. In this way
also, as He is Spirit of Spirit and
God of God,
He
[SPIRIT] is made a second in manner of
existence-in position, not in nature; and He did not
withdraw from the original
source,
but
went forth.
This
ray of God,
then, as it was always foretold in ancient
times, descending into a certain
virgin, and made FLESH in her
womb,
..........is in His
birth God and man united. |
Campbell, Thomax,
Trinity The
relationship of Word to God was the same
as the relationship of a word to a
thought.
And so this is the most common
understanding among the church fathers.
The the word is the SON of the
speaker as FATHER then there is ot problem
trying to sort out how a LITERAL son of
god could be equal with the Father or of
the same age.
1st. A WORD is a sign
or representative of a thought or an idea,
and is the idea in an audible or visible
form.
It
is the exact image of that invisible
thought
which is a perfect secret to all the
world until
it is expressed.
2d. All men
think or form ideas by means
of words or images; so that no man can think
without words or symbols
of some sort.
3d. Hence
it follows that the word and the idea which it
represents,
are co-etaneous,
or of the same age or antiquity.
.......
.It is true the word may not be uttered
or born
for years or ages after the idea exists,
........but still
the word is just as old as
the idea.
4th. The idea and the word are
nevertheless distinct from each
other, though the relation between
them is the nearest known on earth.
........An idea cannot
exist without a word,
nor a
word without an idea.
5th. He
that is acquainted with the WORD, is
acquainted with the
IDEA,
for the idea is wholly in
the word.
By putting
together the above remarks on the term
word,
we have a full view of what John
intended to communicate.
As a word is an exact IMAGE of an
IDEA,
so
is "The WORD" an exact image of the
invisible God.
As a WORD cannot
exist without an idea, nor an
idea without a word,
so
God never was without "The
Word,"
nor "The Word" without God;
or as a
word is of equal age, or
co-etaneous with its idea,
so
"The Word" and God are co-eternal.
And as an
idea does not create its word nor a word
its idea; so God did
not create "The Word," nor the
"Word" God.
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Theophilus on
TRIAS to deny that TRIAS meant TRINITY. The
World Created by God Through the Word.
Theophilus.Autolydus.II
Chapter IX.-The Prophet's
Inspired by the Holy Ghost.
But men of God carrying
in them A holy spirit and
becoming prophets,
being inspired and made wise by
God, became God-taught,
and holy,
and righteous.
Wherefore they were also
deemed worthy of receiving this reward, that
they should become
........... instruments
of God, and contain the wisdom
that is from Him,
...........
........... through
which wisdom they uttered both
...........
........... what
regarded the creation of the world and all
other things.
For they predicted also
pestilences, and famines, and wars. And there
was not one or two, but many, at various times
and seasons among the Hebrews; and also among
the Greeks there was the Sibyl;
and they all have spoken things consistent and
harmonious with each other, both what happened
before them and what happened in their own time,
and what things are now being fulfilled in our
own day: wherefore we are persuaded also
concerning the future things that they will fall
out, as also the first have been accomplished.
Chapter X.-The
World Created by God Through the Word.
And first, they taught us
with one consent that God made all things out of
nothing; for nothing was coeval with
God: but He being His own place, and wanting
nothing,
........... and
existing before the ages, willed to make man by
whom He might be
known;
........... for
him, therefore, He prepared the
world.
........... For
he that is created is also needy; but he that is
uncreated stands in
need of nothing.
God, then, having His
own Word internal within His own bowels,
........... begat
Him, emitting
Him
........... along with His own wisdom
before all things.
He had this Word as a helper
in the things that were created by Him,
and by Him He made all things.
He is called "governing principle",
because He rules, and is Lord of all things
fashioned by Him.
He, then, being Spirit
of God,
and governing principle,
and wisdom,
and power
of the highest,
came down upon the prophets,
and through them spoke of the creation of
the world and of all other things.
(This was the Spirit of
Christ, 1 Peter 1:11; Revelation 19:10)
For the prophets were not
when the world came into existence,
but the wisdom [Spirit in this
instance is Sophia] of God which was in
Him, and
His holy Word which was always present with
Him.
Wherefore He speaks thus
by the prophet Solomon:
"When He prepared the
heavens I (Wisdom or Sophia)
was there,
and when He appointed the foundations of the
earth I was by Him as one brought up with
Him."
[Ps. cxix. 130. Note this tribute to
the inspired
Scriptures
and their converting power; I
might almost say their sacramental energy,
referring to John vi. 63.]
Jesus DENIED
that the Spirit was ANOTHER GOD or
"brother"
It is the spirit that
quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
nothing:
the words that I speak unto
you,
they are spirit, and they are life.
John 6:63
And Moses, who lived many
years before Solomon, or, rather, the Word of God by
him as by an instrument, says,
"In the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth."
First he named the "beginning,"
and "creation,"
then he thus introduced God;
........... Beginning: 21
That is, the first principle,
whom he has just shown to be the Word.
for not lightly and on
slight occasion is it right to name
God.
........... For the divine wisdom
foreknew that some would trifle
........... and name a multitude of gods
that do not exist.
In order, therefore, that the
living God might be known by His works,
and that [it might be known that] by His Word
God created the heavens and the earth,
and all that is therein,
he
said, "In the beginning [Word]
God
created the heavens and the earth."
Then having spoken of
their creation, he explains to us: "And the
earth was without form, and void, and darkness
was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God
moved upon the water."
This, sacred Scripture
teaches at the outset, to show that matter, from which God
made and fashioned the
world, was in some manner created, being
produced by God. [1 Cor. ii. 9.]T
Thomas Campbell
and most agreed with Tertullian who used the word
TRIAS.
Tertullian
an inventor of trias c. ad 206: But, first, I
shall discuss His essential nature, and so
the nature of His birth will be
understood. We have already asserted that
God made the
world, and all which it contains,
by His Word, and Reason, and Power.
It is abundantly plain that your
philosophers, too,
regard the Logos-that is, the Word and Reason-
as the Creator of the
universe.
And we, in like manner, hold that the Word, and Reason, and Power,
by
which we have said God made all,
have SPIRIT as their
proper and essential
substratum, in which
the Word has in being
to give forth UTTERENCES,
.......and REASON abides to dispose and arrange,
......and POWER is over all
to execute.
We have been taught that
He (reason) proceeds
forth from God,
and in that PROCESSION He is GENERATED;
so that He is
the SON of God,
and is called
God from unity of
substance with God.
For God, too, is a Spirit.
Even
when the RAY is shot from the sun,
..........it is still
part of the parent mass; the sun
will still be in the
ray, because it
is a ray of the sun-
..........there is no division
of substance,
but merely an extension.
Thus Christ is
Spirit OF
Spirit,
and God OF
God, as light OF light is
kindled. [Jesus: My
WORDS are SPIRIT and LIFE
The material matrix remains entire and
unimpaired,
though you DERIVE from it any number of shoots
possessed of its qualities;
so, too,
that which has come forth out of God
is at once God and the Son of God, and the two are one. In this way
also, as He is Spirit of Spirit and
God of God,
He
[SPIRIT] is made a second in manner of
existence-in position, not in nature; and He did not
withdraw from the original
source,
but
went forth.
This
ray of God,
then, as it was always foretold in ancient
times, descending into a certain
virgin, and made FLESH in her
womb,
..........is in His
birth God and man united. |
Campbell, Thomax,
Trinity The
relationship of Word to God was the same
as the relationship of a word to a
thought.
And so this is the most common
understanding among the church fathers.
The the word is the SON of the
speaker as FATHER then there is ot problem
trying to sort out how a LITERAL son of
god could be equal with the Father or of
the same age.
1st. A WORD is a sign
or representative of a thought or an idea,
and is the idea in an audible or visible
form.
It
is the exact image of that invisible
thought
which is a perfect secret to all the
world until
it is expressed.
2d. All men
think or form ideas by means
of words or images; so that no man can think
without words or symbols
of some sort.
3d. Hence
it follows that the word and the idea which it
represents,
are co-etaneous,
or of the same age or antiquity.
.......
.It is true the word may not be uttered
or born
for years or ages after the idea exists,
........but still
the word is just as old as
the idea.
4th. The idea and the word are
nevertheless distinct from each
other, though the relation between
them is the nearest known on earth.
........An idea cannot
exist without a word,
nor a
word without an idea.
5th. He
that is acquainted with the WORD, is
acquainted with the
IDEA,
for the idea is wholly in
the word.
By putting
together the above remarks on the term
word,
we have a full view of what John
intended to communicate.
As a word is an exact IMAGE of an
IDEA,
so
is "The WORD" an exact image of the
invisible God.
As a WORD cannot
exist without an idea, nor an
idea without a word,
so
God never was without "The
Word,"
nor "The Word" without God;
or as a
word is of equal age, or
co-etaneous with its idea,
so
"The Word" and God are co-eternal.
And as an
idea does not create its word nor a word
its idea; so God did
not create "The Word," nor the
"Word" God.
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H. Leo Boles: The author of this book gave a
series of lectures during the month of January,
1938, on "The Holy Spirit" at Freed-Hardeman
College, Henderson, Tennesse: published March
4, 1942.