The Deity of Christ Attacked, Part II
This one will be short...gotta go to work this morning. This is part 2 to rebut the video "The Human Jesus" that a recent person posted to counter our claims regarding the doctrine of the Trinity. The video, as I said before, is really an attack on the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ.
During the video they attempted to "rebut" commonly used verses that teach the deity of Christ. I'm just going to briefly touch one main one this morning. Read John 1:1-5 (they really only talked about v. 1 and 14 very briefly in the video):
John 1:1-5 KJV John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
According to the video, the "Word" (Logos in Greek) is just a plan, not a person. God had a plan and when Christ was born the plan was fulfilled. That's true- we don't deny that the Father had a plan from eternity past...and that He fulfilled it in Christ. However, what's funny is that this plan is male! In Greek you have masculine, feminine and neuter words...notice that first of all the Word is called God (weak explanation on that in the video)...and secondly, notice that the Word is referred to as "him" three times in the passage. Isn't that odd...a plan that's a "he" and not an "it"...sounds like a person to me.
From eternity past God had a plan to redeem...and that plan was for the Son of God to take on what He didn't have before- flesh (more later on that)...and He did just that...He took on flesh, He lived a perfect life (try doing that as a mere empowered human) and He paid sin's price for those who couldn't. He is God!
During the video they attempted to "rebut" commonly used verses that teach the deity of Christ. I'm just going to briefly touch one main one this morning. Read John 1:1-5 (they really only talked about v. 1 and 14 very briefly in the video):
John 1:1-5 KJV John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
According to the video, the "Word" (Logos in Greek) is just a plan, not a person. God had a plan and when Christ was born the plan was fulfilled. That's true- we don't deny that the Father had a plan from eternity past...and that He fulfilled it in Christ. However, what's funny is that this plan is male! In Greek you have masculine, feminine and neuter words...notice that first of all the Word is called God (weak explanation on that in the video)...and secondly, notice that the Word is referred to as "him" three times in the passage. Isn't that odd...a plan that's a "he" and not an "it"...sounds like a person to me.
From eternity past God had a plan to redeem...and that plan was for the Son of God to take on what He didn't have before- flesh (more later on that)...and He did just that...He took on flesh, He lived a perfect life (try doing that as a mere empowered human) and He paid sin's price for those who couldn't. He is God!
1 Comments:
Just so there's no confusion. I'm not saying that logos, becuase it is masculine, has to refer to a person who is male. What I tried to say was that the pronouns that refer back to logos make the Logos not an idea but a masculine person. The One Who became flesh in v. 14 is a He!
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