| (Copyright) by Royce Mitchell, Jr. (Manvel, Texas) |
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| It is better understood in context. I’ve put the context below from the BBE bible: 1Ti 6:13 I give you orders before God, the giver of life, and Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate gave witness to the faith, 1Ti 6:14 To keep the word untouched by evil, clear from all shame, till the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ: 1Ti 6:15 Which at the right time he will make clear, who is the eternal and only Ruler, King of kings, and Lord of lords; 1Ti 6:16 Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it. Paul is giving orders as if he is standing before the Father and Jesus. Those orders are to “keep the word untouched by evil, clear from all shame, till the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ:” Keep these orders until Jesus is again revealed, when He comes as King of Kings, which is when He will make everything clear. The rest of the sentence is referring back to Christ who will make everything clear, and who is, among other things, King of Kings and Lord of Lords who has life forever. He, Jesus, is living in the light no man can approach, who no man has seen, which is the Father, who Jesus Himself said that no man has ever seen. These verses give no support for the idea that Jesus is a created being. He is not created except that He divested Himself of Godhood and took on the form of a mortal man through the impregnation and parturition process of Mary. However, that process is not under discussion by Paul here. Those who want to claim that by there being only one God person don’t grasp the concept that God is not His Name, but it is what He is. That’s like saying that there is only one Mitchell when we know that we all came from Adam and Eve and are one family some of whom are named Mitchell, what we ARE. The one God movement doesn’t deal with Genesis 1 where Elohim, a plural word, said “Let US create…” There are Gods, but they are still One, as Jesus said, “I and my Father ARE one.” ——————————————————————————— Reprinted with permission from: Houston Church of God http://www.houston-church-of-god.org/ ——————————————————————————— |
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