Share: Who is the overall Creator, God the Father or Jesus Christ? In the Old Testament people were puzzled as to who the Creator is. →Some thought it was the Father who created them: • Have we not all the one Father? Has not the one God created us? Why then do we break faith with each other, violating the covenant of our fathers? (Mal 2:10, New American Bible) Note: Jesus Christ is also referred to as the Father: • For a child is born to us, a son is given us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace. (Isa 9:5, NAB) • What accord has Christ with Beliar? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said: “I will live with them and move among them (Emmanuel, cf Mt 1:23), and I will be their God and they shall be my people. Therefore, come forth from them and be separate,” says the Lord, “and touch nothing unclean; then I will receive you and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty (cf Rv 1:7-8).” (2Cor 6:15-18, NAB, emphasis mine) → Some were not sure whether the Creator is the Father or His Son: • The words of Agur, son of Jakeh the Massaite: The pronouncement of mortal man: “I am not God; I am not God, that I should prevail. Why, I am the most stupid of men, and have not even human intelligence; Neither have I learned wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the Holy One. Who has gone up to heaven and come down again– who has cupped the wind in his hands? Who has bound up the waters in a cloak– who has marked out all the ends of the earth? What is his name, what is his son’s name, if you know it?” (Pro 30:1-4, NAB) Note: Jesus Christ is the Holy One of God (cf Mk 1:24; Lk 4:34; Jn 6:69; Rv 16:5). It was Jesus Christ who has gone up to heaven and come down again: • No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. (Jn 3:13, NAB) It was Jesus Christ who made the heavens and the earth with His own hands: • And: “At the beginning, O Lord (O Son), you established the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; and they will all grow old like a garment. You will roll them up like a cloak, and like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end.” (Heb 1:10-12, NAB, emphasis mine) → While some are totally in the dark as to who created them: • Ashes his heart is! more worthless than earth is his hope, and more ignoble than clay his life; Because he knew not the one who fashioned him, and breathed into him a quickening soul, and infused a vital spirit. (Wisdom 15:10-11, NAB) Note: Jesus Christ is the Author of life and Source of all God’s creation: • The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses. (Acts 3:15, NAB) • “To the angel of the church in Laodicea, write this:” ‘The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the source of God’s creation, says this:’ (Rv 3:14, NAB) Jesus Christ is the life-giving Spirit: • So, too, it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being,” the last Adam a life-giving spirit. (1Cor 15:45, NAB) Jesus Christ is the breather and baptizer of the Holy Spirit: • The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. (Gen 2:7, NAB) • And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the holy Spirit.” (Jn 20:22, NAB) • John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. He fed on locusts and wild honey. And this is what he proclaimed: “One mightier than I is coming after me. I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals. I have baptized you with water; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” (Mk 1:6-8, NAB) In the New Testament the Creator was revealed in three ways: the Creator was God the Father through Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ was the Creator Himself; and, God the Father and Jesus Christ are the one Creator because they are one Lord God Almighty. Please read complete article here: splendorofthechurch.ph/2014/12/13/who-is-the-overall-creator-god-the-father-or-jesus-christ/
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 12:00:26 +0000
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