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the divine nature dwell in Christ in the same way that Christ dwells in the believer.ForthattobesoHewouldhavebeenbuta manfilled withGoaand not God Himself, manifested in His own flesh as God the Father incarnate, Emmanuel.
The suggestion of dual or three personalities in the Father-Christ is unsdiptural (Isaiah 7:13,14; 9:6). Neither did Christ gradually take on the divine nature, for in that case the reality of His deity would have been dependent upon the humanity of Christ and not upon the Father incarnate. Discardingthe abovemisconceptions, how can we show that the Father and
Triniterian Representation of the Trinity
Three identical men are not one God
theSonareinseparably bound together to compose but one person, one con sciousness and one will? (See John 5:30; 6:38; 8:28; 14:10.) However, whilst there are outer and inner natures in God, (Spirit and flesh), there is but one person of the same nature. The attributes of the flesh are not to be attributed to the Spirit; both are attributed to the one person, God the Father incarnate
and not God the Son incarnate.
Chnst cannot be properly described as deity possessing humanity, nor humanity indwelt bydeity. God the Father incarnate was complete in one person possessing both outer and inner natures. As the Bible teaches us of
Him in the days of his flesh, Christ at the same moment can be weak yet still beommpotent. Hecanincreaseinknowledgeyetstillbeomniscient. He can be finite yet remain infinite. He can be localized, yet He remains the omnipresent God the Father, or Enunanuel Qohn 3:12-13). (See also Isaiah
9:6; Isaiah 7:13-14; Isaiah 40:1-16; Isaiah 42:5; and Isaiah 44:24.)
When Jesus, as the Father incarnate, speaks of Himself as a single person. He does not portray a split personality. The individuals with whom He encotmtered thought of Him as one person with a single and undivided per
sonality gohn 12:44-45; 14:6-11; John 8:19,29; 10:30; 15:24; Matthew 19:28).
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