Jesus, Gods Anointed Son................
Jesus, Gods Anointed Son................
Sheesh! Talk about training at gnats and swallowing camels!
The point of the passage in John 1 is to directly claim the deity of Jesus Christ. It isn't complicated. Any third grader can read the passage and understand the point that is being made.
Hi Clete,
No gnats or camels, since there other ways to translate John 1:1
I've researched the Unitarian/Trinitarian thing for a long time, even had a thread on both Unitarian and Historical Arian Christianity, so know a little bit about the debated passages involved. I have no problem with various Unitarian interpretations on John 1:1, because I don't see the need to make Jesus into God Almighty (YWHW). I see it as unnecessary and a lot of strain still after so many centuries of Christological politics.
Since I see only 'God' as 'God',...I have no need to confine the INFINITE to an image, man, person, form or concept,...since the Infinite can use any image, form, concept or personification to express, reveal or represent itself
God is SPIRIT. - so no need to idolize Him/Her/IT. We worship the Father alone as 'God', in spirit and truth, and the Son worships the Father along with us, because we have the SAME FATHER.
Jesus is still wholly loved, honored, worshipped even as God's Son and Messiah within a
Biblical Unitarian purview. I honestly still do not see why Jesus has to be the all supreme
GOD HIMSELF (well, some 1/3 of him). No reason whatsoever, since He is God's Messenger of Great Counsel (Angel), Prophet, Apostle, Messiah-Son, Anointed Agent, Representative. All that God is...is certainly revealed, expressed, demonstrated thru His Messiah-Son, INDEED. So to see the Son is to see the Father. This doesn't make the Son the Father of course.
Jesus is God's Anointed Messenger.
The Lord Jesus holds his special and unique Sonship, definitely,......He is the express image of the Father, but he does not need to be GOD HIMSELF, to be all the scriptures say about him, and Jesus own words reveal his subordination to God as His Messiah-Son. - note as well, my Christology includes aspects beyond a biblical Unitarian one, but I don't share those unless I choose to, but this is sufficient to prove a Unitarian view is rational/logical. Jesus is elohim, and the son of elohim, in as much as He stands in his messianic office of 'Son of God' and 'Son of Man',....sure. Jesus being elohim however does not make him YHWH, the Father. An understanding of names, terms and titles is essential here, from a Unitarian view. Even we are 'elohim' being children of the Most High, sons of God
Jesus is the firstborn Son among many brethren, we are his children in a sense, adopted under his Sonship, one body. 'God' both fathers and mothers us