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emphatically proclaims, "Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? Ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any" (Isaiah 44:8). Also in Deuteronomy 6:4 the first comnuindment says, "Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD." Jesus in the New Testament repeated it in Mark 12: 29,30. There is no contradiction between the Old and New Testament.
We must know and believe that there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who has no human spirit but the father incarnate. John 14:8-10. (I Timothy 2:5; H Corinthians 5:19, Colossians 1:20-22, Colossians 2:9). It must be understood, that God and His wordwerenotseparateinpersons. AsitisstatedinPsalms33:6soitisnow: "By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth." In the same way God, by His own flesh, is reconciling the world unto Himself. Chrisfs role of mediation does not imply a separate divine identity. It simply refers to His genuine authentic humanity. As God incarnate, Jesus Christ literally unites both deity and the word that became flesh in His own person. He himself is the meeting place of God and man. He became the place and means of medi tation, not by pointing us to someone else, but by bringing us to Himself, placing us in His body and rilling us with His Spirit.
There is only one divine Spirit in the flesh and blood of God
Rom. 8:9; UCor. 3:17; I Tim. 3:16; John 4:24; Luke 24:39; Heb. 1:1-3;
The idea that Christ has an independent human spirit could not
the one person, one Spirit, and one God view; "The divine Spint cou separated from the human body by death, but His humanity was more ^ a human body - tite sltell of a hitman - with God inside. hody,soul,andspiritwiththefullnessoftheSpiritofGoddwe mgm a body, soul, and spirit. Jesus differed from an ordinary huiran °
filled with the Spirit of God) in that He had all of Gods natitremthm Htm. He possessed the unlimited power, authority and ^ j Furthermore in contrast to a bom-ag^in. Spirit-filled human, the ®P*"
was inextricabty and inseparaHy joined wifli the humamty of Jesus, i ou the Spirit of God there would have been only a
would not have been Jesus Christ." (Oneness, Bernard Volume 1; Page 92).
Jesus is not an agent who leads us into fellowship with archer person, spirit, or another God, for the Bible declares: "...G^ cilingtheworlduntohimself,"(HCorinthians5:19).Chnstdied. Thathe might present it to himself (not to some one else) a Aurch, not hay ing spot, or wrinkle or any such thing." (Ephesia^ 5:2^. John in lus eps declares, "...he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Pother also. (I 2:23; John 14:7-11), for God the Father is truly manifested inthe flesh and not in another complete person.
IfGod the Father is inChrist (the Word made flesh). He can reconcile and mediate with Himself. But if the supposed God the Son is a separate person.
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