Your first mistake of the day. the "Spirit" in that body called the Christ is EQUAL WITH, not EQUAL TO, but EQUAL WITH God."...such craziness. where's this equality to and with, all coning from; your mind not mine...adding your words as mine is so typical of you.
let the bible answer this. LISTEN and LEARN. Isaiah 40:25 "
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One." answer NO ONE ELSE BESIDE YOU. Isaiah 45:21 "Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not
I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour;
there is none beside me."
now there is no one EQUAL ... "TO" him, (one Person), nor beside (him), one person. but is there someone EQUAL "WITH", him, (a single Person). YES, God he himself. let's see it in scripture. Isaiah 41:4 "Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning?
I the LORD, the first,
and with the last;
I am he." the LORD, all Caps is the First, and he the LORD, all Caps is the Last. notice .... "THE" Last, meaning ONLY one PERSON. so how is the LORD, ONE PERSON is also the LAST, the same one Person. let the BIBLE show us and then explain to us. Isaiah 48:12 "Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called;
I am he; I am the first,
I also am the last." BINGO, this explain the EQUAL "WITH" vs the EQUAL "TO". Oh my God, this is just 2 easy not to understand. if the Lord Jesus was equal "TO" God that would INDICATE a separate and distinct person from God. but the term "WITH" as Isaiah 48:12 clearly states, INDICATE the SAME ONE PERSON. well now how is that? let the bible speak. Isaiah 63:5 "And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold:
therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me." God's OWN ARM is he HIMSELF in FLESH, as Isaiah Chapter 53 clearly states. but how did God's OWN ARM, is he God himself in flesh. if one want to END right.... start Right. start at the beginning. Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." here the revelation is in the term "God" itself, LISTEN, and LEARN,
GOD: H430 אֱלֹהִים 'elohiym (el-o-heem') n-m.
אֱלֹהֵי 'elohiy (el-o-hee') [alternate plural]
1. (literally) supreme ones.
2. (hence, in the ordinary sense) gods.
3. (specifically, in the plural, especially with the article) the Supreme God (i.e. the all supreme).
4. (sometimes) supreme, used as a superlative.
5. (occasionally, by way of deference) supreme magistrates, the highest magistrates of the land.
6. (also) the supreme angels (entities of unspecified type).
[plural of H433]
KJV: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Root(s): H433
the
plural of H433 ok, what or who is H433?
H433 אֱלוֹהַּ 'elowahh (el-o'-ah) n-m.
אֱלֹהַּ 'eloahh (el-o'-ah) [shortened (rarely)]
1. one with supreme strength and ability.
2. the Supreme Being, God the Creator, Yahweh by name.
3. a supreme entity, a god-like creature (that is, one of God's supreme creations, or one of man's inventions).
[probably prolonged (emphat.) from H410]
KJV:
God, god.
Root(s): H410
what did GOD: H430 אֱלֹהִים 'elohiym (el-o-heem') say? the
plural of H433 of, of, of, of, now understand the term of. "of" translates
the genitive case of nouns, with various shades of meaning. Of these
the subjective and
objective are mentioned here, which need careful distinction.
KNOWING THIS, back to Isaiah chapter 53, Isaiah 53:1 "Who hath believed our report?
and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?" God is about to reveal his ARM from Isaiah 63:5... Listen here, Isaiah 53:2 "For
he shall grow up before
him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him."
For
he shall grow up before
him? YES, this is the objective (he), as to who was "SENT", the Son. and the subjective (him) that sent his OWN ARM, (he) who grew up before him. my God this is Just too easy.
so apak do just what Hebrews 5:12 say to do. "For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat."
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