[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Evangelical

CS. Lewis (quoting an early church person) said it best: "The Son of God became a man that men might become sons of God.". We could rephrase that to say - "God changed so that we might change".

Actually, CS Lewis was a scholar of the English language, and if he wanted to say "God changes" he would have said God changes. That aside, he was admittedly a lay theologian, loosely paraphrasing from a number of fallible ancient sources, and not the infallible Word of God.

They take the Old Testament and use it to disprove the New Testament.

Interesting you should bring this up. It was Witness Lee who attempted to use an Old Testament prophesy, which was a really poor way to confirm/affirm a very questionable New Testament theological thesis, as a proof text for his modalistic teaching that the Father became the Son. Again, this showed Lee's decidedly ignorant and amateurish approach to biblical theology. If historical Christianity's teachings regarding the Trinity "border on tritheism", then Witness Lee's teachings certainly border on rank modalism.

One key change or process that God went through was that humanity was added to divinity. Before Jesus, God had no human element. After Jesus, God has a human element. Everyone might accept that Christ was fully God, divine, before His birth.

"Mingle, mingle, hallelujah!" "God mingled with humanity lives in me, my all to be". Yes I remember all too well. To say that "humanity was added to divinity" is not an accurate way to speak of the incarnation, in my opinion. The term "added" smacks way to much of the notion that God was missing or insufficient in one sense or another. Also, I would note that this term "mingle" is not an term or notion used by many noted theologians and scholars through the years, and the main reason for their lack of employing such terms as "mingle" is that such terms imply a change in God himself - again a notion which is foreign to Scripture when taken as "the whole council of God".

Thanks for your thoughtful response.
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