A Brief History of Tomorrow

Originally posted by Sandash ↑

Hi Wotsup,
This is where I start to struggle.

You say, “The first milk IMO is who are God and Jesus.”
By “first milk” I assume you mean “basic understanding”.

Well, I imagine God is a spiritual entity of some sort from a higher dimensional universe, and since he’s not one of us, I guess I’d have to think of him as an “extra-terrestrial”, but I have no idea what he looks like.

You say, “In the Beginning was "THE" Word = In the Beginning was Aleph Tav or Alpha Omega = WORD the beginning and the ending which IS, which WAS and which is to come the Almighty. We are Alpha Omega's of "THE" Alpha Omega = WORDS and why, how so God can be ALL in ALL into BOOKS.”

I don’t really understand all that, but I believe John 1:1 is where the trinity concept comes from and I know you’ve hammered that before, so maybe we shouldn’t go there again.

If it were not for the phrase, “and the Word was God”, it would make a lot more sense!

What works for me is that in the beginning, or at the start of everything, was God and his son, the "preincarnate Jesus" who is to become the mouthpiece or speaker for God when he incarnates down here as human Jesus, hence his name “the Word”.

I wonder what IBM’s super computer “Watson” would come up with if it was tasked with rewriting the Bible so that it all made sense ... or would it self-destruct trying?

Just for interest, the Nephilim were the giant bullies and tyrants who filled the earth with violence and are mentioned in Genesis 6:1-4 and Numbers 13:32-33 and were the offspring of some naughty angels who took a fancy to some of Adam’s beautiful daughters, and were the reason for the Deluge.

Enoch was the great-grandfather of Noah and is mentioned in Genesis 5:18-24. The Book of Enoch was considered scripture by many early Christians, but it and many other books became discredited after the Council of Laodicea, and being under ban of the authorities, afterwards it gradually passed out of circulation.

So much manipulation and censorship of the old texts ... I can’t help but wonder why ... and how much faith we should place on what they’ve fed to us.

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If it were not for the phrase, “and the Word was God”, it would make a lot more sense!
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Sandash, while the original Holy Writings were inspired , none of the copies and translations were. Not all scholars believe “and the Word was God”, is a valid translation. What is it that these translators are seeing in the Greek text that moves some of them to refrain from saying “the Word was God”? The definite article (the) appears before the first occurrence of theos (God) but not before the second. The articular (when the article appears) construction of the noun points to an identity, a personality, whereas a singular anarthrous (without the article) predicate noun before the verb (as the sentence is constructed in Greek) points to a quality about someone. So the text is not saying that the Word (Jesus) was the same as the God with whom he was but, rather, that the Word was godlike, divine, a god.
John 1:18 says: “No one has ever seen God.” Verse 14 clearly says that “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us . . . we have beheld his glory.” Also, verses 1, 2 say that in the beginning he was “with God.” Can one be with someone and at the same time be that person? At John 17:3, Jesus addresses the Father as “the only true God”; so, Jesus as “a god” merely reflects his Father’s divine qualities.—Heb. 1:3.
I have recently been going through online lesson with a 10 year old and she is delighting in what she is learning. It makes sense!

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