of necessity also a believer with God, because Jesus and God were one. (a unity of purpose with God towards the Jews). Explicit proof for this understanding comes from Jesus‘ own words. For when he was about to depart, he prayed to God to cover all his disciples with His protection and keep them all one, in the same way that he and God were one. Jesus said, ―Now I am no longer in the world, but these (the disciples) are in the world, and I come to you. Holy father, keep through your name those whom you have given me that they may be one as we are. (One).‖ (John 17:11) If Jesus and God were one person, one being, one God, so was Jesus asking God (himself) to make the twelve disciples also into one person, one being, just as he and God are one? Or was he praying to Him that they may be united in purpose with God in precisely the same way that he was united with God? In another place, Jesus said, ―I do not pray for these (disciples) alone, but also for those who will believe in me through their words. That they may be one, as you Father are in me, and I in you; that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And the glory which you gave me I have given them, that they may be one just as we are one.‖ (John 17:20-22) Hence, if someone is prepared to believe that Jesus and God together constitute one existential being, then they (he) must also be prepared to believe that at least twelve other persons, the disciples, also constitute component parts of the ―One‖ divine being. Furthermore, we read in the Bible, ―He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.‖ (Mark 16:19) Here, the Bible clearly speaks of two different, distinct personages, metaphysically separated from each other. Only one of the two is God. Any one claims that both of them are God, no longer has One God, but two!
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:55:13 +0000
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