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Jesus dwelled all the fullness of the Godhead bodih·. So from Paul perspective, Jesus is not in the Godhead. The entire Godhead j in
Jesus.
The pronoun "who " and the pronoun "what" arc not th same. Who represents a person, but what represents a position or occupation. Who identifies, what describes. If you ask, "who", th response will be in the form of a proper noun. \X/hen the question
is "what", the response will be in the fonn of a com1non noun or title. Now, here's the way I like to put it.
• • • Since "who" is aperson and "what" is a posilio11, '111/Jo" (all llf'ver be ''what" im!ess ''who" can do orf1-1!fil! 111hat '111hat" is . . .
God is one "who" and can be as many "whats" as he wants to be.
And without controversy grea t is the mystery ofgodliness:
God was manifest in the .iesh, jusd.ied in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, heh"eved on in the world,
received up into glory.
There is only one God; and in order to save us, he decided to manifest, that is, make himself clear, obvious and visible to the naked eye. The Bible didn't say that God stopped being "who" he was because he didn't stop. He kept on being the same God that he always was, but the center of his activity shifted. Whereas he used
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The Bible says in 1 Timothy 3:16: