29/06/2024
Jesus Christ: The hidden mystery hidden in God from eternity"
Imagine three fishermen—one in a grand ship, another in a modest boat, and the last in a humble canoe—each exploring the ocean at different depths. Their varied experiences of marine life mirror our journey through Scripture. The Bible, like the vast ocean, holds depths of wisdom that our minds—be they ship, boat, or canoe—determine how deeply we can explore.
As one who has sailed the carrier of contemplation, reading the Bible and standing on the shoulders of giants, I have been carried to profound depths, and have perceive from the Scriptures that Jesus Christ was an eternal idea in God, hidden in Him for ages to become our Savior.
Delving deeper, I was given to understand that from eternity, Jehovah God foresaw humanity's fall, a fall so great that, as written in 1 Corinthians 1:10, left unaided, all of humanity would have been condemned. God, seeing no man can intercede (Isaiah 59:16), and moved by inexhaustible love, foresaw His majestic glory clothed, appearing as a sun (Ezekiel 1:26), just as Jesus later radiated before His disciples (Matthew 17:1-2) and to John on Patmos (Revelation 1:16).
This divine provision—God's plan to put on flesh—is why He became the Messiah or Anointed One (Mashiah in Hebrew, Khristós in Greek, Christ in English). Jesus is thus the manifested thought of Jehovah God Himself coming in the Flesh. His Human side is the Messiah that became our Savior, as Isaiah 59:16 poetically describes.
This eternal idea in God is encapsulated in John 1:1,14: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." If understood, we can say from eternity Christ was in God, and in time God was in Christ—the mystery behind Jesus' statements of unity with the Father (John 10:38, 14:10-11, 10:30).
To claim the Messiah existed as a "Spirit Being" who was the Son of God from eternity misinterprets Scripture. The Bible clearly states the Son was born in time (Psalm 2:6-7, Hebrews 1:5-6, Galatians 4:4).
When humanity fell, Jehovah God of the Old Testament incarnated as Jesus Christ, fulfilling His own foreknowledge which He inspired the prophets to declare, as in Isaiah 9:6, Zechariah 2:10, Dan 7:13; Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23. This challenges the later Athanasius Creed that separated God into three persons by putting away the Apostolic Creed: "Jesus is Lord."
Biblical passages, when properly collated, reveal the Trinity as Jehovah God (the Father) being Jesus' soul, the Son as the Anointed body from Mary, and the Holy Spirit as Jesus' invisible presence—aligning with the Old Testament's monotheistic teaching (Deuteronomy 6:4).
In my unyielding search to understand Christ's nature, I've found evidence in pre-Christian Jewish literature discussing the concept of Messiah ben Joseph and his sacrificial death to atone for the sins of the people. I have also seen many passages affirming that the "right hand of God" is figurative, and not literal at all.
The spiritual world's geography, as described by Jesus in the story of Lazarus and the rich man, explains why God couldn't directly intervene in hell or on earth. As the sun can't descend to Earth without catastrophic consequences, so God's unmediated presence would overwhelm the lower spiritual realms.
Everything presented here is "Sola Scriptura," derived solely from the Bible, challenging established doctrines and inviting a reexamination of the Divine trinity, all in support of the Old Testament declaration: "Hear, O Israel: Jehovah is our God. Jehovah is one." (Deuteronomy 6:4).
