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The Reasoning Of Our Faith Case #7
by
Elder Lloyd T. Lockett
The Apostolic Note
Scripture in it's sum provides us with enough
support to prove that the Jews and today's oneness train of thought is
based on the reasoning of God's own self-concept, that He is one God and
therefore all that is attributed to Him is of absolute necessity in
reference to the fullness of the Godhead in its totality in Jesus and
not in a Co-equal partnership of divine power in any realm of thinking,
especially from the Judaic-Christian world and Oneness reality that only
see God as a monotheistic Deity. We can see the Dual Nature at work all
through the book of John.
In John.2:19-22 Jesus made a powerful statement of raising himself from
the dead in 3 days.
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three
days I will raise it up. 20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was
this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?? 21 But
he spake of the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was risen from
the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and
they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
The wonderful epistle of Paul, Romans.6:4 reveal the Father as raising
King Jesus.
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as
Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in newness of life.
This is the all surpassing question, did two persons raise Jesus from
the dead? Certainly not! This was due to the power of One
God. It is impossible to know the Father without first knowing the son.
Why? Because sonship is God's way of using humanity to give man a way of
experiencing God. God can now be known in His immanence through the
person of Jesus and then and only then can the transcendence of the
Father be know in His fullness, through His manifestation and title of
the son of redemption. The role of God can be understood in that order
and not the other way around, because sonship is a relational
manifestation of identifying humanity's finiteness to the infinite
reality of incomprehensible Godism. The Hypostatic Union is the
Sovereign prerogative of God revealed to man. So than, man in his
limitations in power, presence and knowledge can experience God in His
dual nature and by doing so we can then understand the reality of our
hope by faith in Jesus the son. This outpouring of the kenotic self
revealing by way of becoming humanity to save humanity through humanity
is what is needed to develops the relationship of lost man to the
Father. The Jews wonted Jesus dead because of his claim to be God. In
the book of John.5:17 and this is John's witness to that fact ,"17 But
Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.18 Therefore
the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the
sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal
with God.
Note that Jesus said it the way they understood it , "making himself
equal with God". because He Is God! It's time to remove the lie and see
Jesus for the sum of his Godness, he is all of God. The Hypostatic Union
is the Sovereign prerogative of God revealed to man.
Elder Lloyd T. Lockett
"The Apostolic Note" is a letter developed by Elder
Lockett to challenge our thinking of today's Christocentric reasoning,
"the system of theology that has it's focus on the foundational and
absolute authenticity of Christ, based on his person and works, making
Christ the focus of everything". Without this understanding the
Christology "The doctrine of Jesus Christ and the Incarnation -God made
flesh giving us the two nature
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