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Originally Posted by Ohio
If Jesus is not God what is He? When was His genesis? How could He create all things if He was not God? How could He know our hearts if He is not God. (Thousands more questions like this could be asked.)
But please respond to these.
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I’ll probably get slammed for this, but have you considered Satan, how he knows thoughts, hearts, lives in people, is the power of the air, that the whole world is under his control in some sort of way? Yet he is a created entity and NOT God. Please do not read more into this than as related to your heart question. Satan seems to know a lot more that we do about the cosmos, yet when questioning Jesus, after Jesus’ anointing aaaheeem, he says to Jesus if you are the Son of God, and Jesus answers how man should live by the word of God, that we should not tempt the Lord our God, and that we should worship the one true God. This was Jesus responses. Satan did not ask him if he were God, or some sort of triune question, which by the way, both would be a new and shocking revelation to every Jew!
Concerning what is he, I’ll enter into the 1 Cor15.45b debate. He was the last Adam, and now is a life giving spirit, how all of this appears is a large topic in the NT epistles and revelation, he is the resurrected man that is siting on the right hand of God, as the scripture prophesied - sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.
Concerning creation, I think I responded to this before to you- all things were made by God through, in view of his master plan, idea, thought, logos. The creation and entities in the heavens all give God in the throne credit for creation. Actually, the creeds seem to account for God Almighty creating. I can’t reiterate this enough, that Paul beseeches us to keep the oneness by acknowledging the one God and Father through whom are all things and to whom are things. Most important principle to follow in appreciation all things God.
Modern Christianity seems to want to associate all the things of God with Christ, so the scriptures get turned on their end and prayers, and speaking and teaching which takes away the splendor of God our Father, and eliminates the greatness of God and His work by and trough and to Christ. If we would have spent our days in the LC under a ministry that Blessed the God and Father of our Lord Jesus- much of this could have been recovered.