Christians, real question here, please help me understand.?
Time and time again I see references like, "Jesus created man" "Jesus is God", "Jesus is the supreme being".
As I am a reformed Christian and studied different denominations (long story), I am at a loss as to what flavor of Christianity preaches that Jesus BECAME God after his death, not that he is separate from God. Those churches I attended never taught that.
So, if you believe Jesus IS God, what denomination teaches that (versus the trinity?).
Thanks for your help to increase my knowledge of this world's religious beliefs.
Anonymous2007-10-05T07:38:31Z
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The doctrine that Jesus is God *IS* the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. There is no way for an orthodox Christian to separate the two doctrines. If the Divinity of Jesus Christ and the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity were not linked (do a Google Search on the term "hypostatic union") - then - people could rightly say that Christians are polytheists...which we are not!
As for Jesus "becoming God after His Death"...I have NO IDEA who teaches that...nor is the idea Christian in any way, shape or form.
They are not seperate entities: God is ONE: One being, three persons. A human is one being and one person: A cat or dog is one being and NO persons: God is one being and THREE persons. We can not FULLY understand the Trinity, but the scripures are pretty plain that God IS Trinity:
Jesus tells his apostles to baptize "in the name [notice, singular, not plural] of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matt. 28:19). This is a proof-text: three distinct Persons united in the one divine name. In 2 Corinthians 13:14, Paul writes, "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all." We see this same unity of divine Persons in 1 Corinthians 12:4–11, Ephesians 4:4–6, and 1 Peter 1:2–3.
The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is God (cf. John 8:58, 10:38, 14:10; Col. 2:9). It also clearly teaches that the Holy Spirit is God (cf. Acts 5:3–4, 28:25–28; 1 Cor. 2:10–13). Everyone agrees the Father is God. Yet there is only one God (Mark 12:29, 1 Cor. 8:4–6, Jas. 2:19). How can we hold all four truths except to say all three are One God?
And yes, Jesus DID say he was God. In John 8:58, when quizzed about how he has special knowledge of Abraham, Jesus replies, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I Am"—invoking and applying to himself the personal name of God—"I Am" (Ex. 3:14). His audience understood exactly what he was claiming about himself. "So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple" (John 8:59).
Also significant are passages that apply the title "the First and the Last" to Jesus. This is one of the Old Testament titles of Yahweh: "Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, Yahweh of armies: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; besides me there is no god’" (Is. 44:6; cf. 41:4, 48:12).
Oneness Pentecostals believe that Jesus is the only One. This is not true. God is made up of three beings yet they are all One in essence. You have God the Father, God the Son(Jesus) and God the Holy Spirit. Jesus was always God. So was the Father and the Holy Spirit. Bible believer. Fundamental Baptists believe this way.
God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are one (also commonly, but not Biblically, refereed to as the Trinity and the Godhead) in spirit and purpose as evidenced in Creation when God made man in "our" image. They are separate entities as evidenced by the fact that Jesus was able to come to earth while His Father remained in Heaven. It is also stated in the Bible that Jesus did not consider Himself to be equal with God and assumed the being of the Son. Same way with the Spirit.
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