God the Father AND the Son
January 11, 2008
What the Church says: God is the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. He is the Holy Trinity of the Church and can be all three persons and one God at the same time. How? Why? The semantics don’t matter; God just is. The Son is separate from the Father, but is the Father… The Father sent His one and only son to die for us…He sent…himself…
What they say: How does that make any sense?! How can God be someone that He isn’t? One moment He is the Son, but the next He also isn’t? How can God be flesh and killed when God cannot be destroyed, and the Bible says that no eye has ever seen His face!? Oh, but because we have seen God the Son instead of God the God, we still have not looked upon..His..face… If God is omnipresent, what is the need for the Holy Spirit? God is everywhere inherently, right?
If God is the Son, why did he pray to the Father asking that he not have to take on the yolk that God the Father put on him? Jesus asked that the cup be passed away from him…but why ask himself? If Jesus was God the Son asking God the Father, wasn’t he really just God himself asking God himself to spare…himself? And if Jesus was God the Son, a manifestation of God the Father, how could he have the flesh to be spared (after all…God has no beginning or end..)? Either Jesus was a good man, faithful servant, loyal prophet, or he was a liar. Newspapers are filled with the lies and corruption of man; just because it is in print, does not make it valid. The Bible telling us that Jesus was God does not make him God.
What I say: When a born again Christian proclaims to have recieved Christ in their heart, they say that Jesus is in them; that he lives in their heart. Does Jesus really live in their heart? Of course it is silly to get so legalistic, but why get legalistic about the terms of God being both Father and Son?
The Bible says that man cannot look upon the face of God, but yet man was constantly looking for their Saviour. How could God make himself shown to man if not to change how He shows himself to man? God as the Son was the way to bridge the gap; from man to God, Jesus stretched out his arms for us.
There are many men that can be called great, good, loved men; but Jesus was perfect…how many other men are noted to be such? Sure we can discount him as just another good prophet…but was Mohammad perfect? Is there any other documents of another man, let alone a prophet being perfect? Perfect! We seem to let that concept escape our reasonings; who else but God could be perfect?! It’s like a cruel joke on us really: God can say ‘I know it can be done because I did it’ anytime we say it’s too hard.
I’m going to have to take a TBC (to be continued); like my other posts, these are just ‘openers’ to themes to come. Kind of like ‘Answers 101.’ Stay tuned for the rest of the semester when we hit Intermediate Answers. 
Tags: God, Father, Holy Spirit, Trinity
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