Folks, SBG still refuses to answer a very simple, yes or no question. So he correctly points out I do not know what point he was trying to make.
As far as posting with clarity, I submit his post demonstrates a lack of communication skill.
Did he deny the Father and Christ are one essence? Nope he deflected.
Does being divine necessarily mean equality in all things? He does not say.
So much for a study that cannot be questioned.
What do you mean by essence? Is your essence time related?
I believe the Father and the Son are of the same essence however I do not believe that Christ in the days of his flesh were of the same essence.
Today I do not believe the Christ the Son of the Living God, Jesus, by name can die yet I believe for about thirty three years that same Jesus could die and I do not believe the Father can or could die.
Now what do I mean by Father?
Jesus answered, 'If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying me, of whom ye say that He is your God; and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep; Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.' John 8:54-56
I believe the one they were calling their God was the Father. Where was the Son of the Father?
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,
preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying,
In thee shall all nations be blessed.
How was that preaching the gospel unto Abraham? How did Abraham see the day of Christ?
Gen 22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only
son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
What did Abraham believe concerning that? He believed the Gospel, because he saw the day of Christ.
Heb 11:18,19 YLT By (To) faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises, reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive
him.
Who in figure did he receive? Who is the one and only to date who has been raised out of the dead to die no more, no more to return to corruption?
He saw: God hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee. 'And that He did raise him up out of the dead, no more to return to corruption, he hath said thus -- I will give to you the faithful kindnesses of David; Acts 13:33,34 YLT
This
is the day, the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Ps 118:24 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all
things he might have the preeminence. Col 1:18
