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For many true Christian it is impossible for them to understand how it is that Christ could be the Word or pre-incarnate Logos made flesh. How can Jesus have been a man born after the flesh and under the law and also be the Word who gave the ten commandments to Israel on Mount Sinai?
This problem is a bit like the one about the Holy Spirit. How could God be one yet made up of two beings for the present time (Who or What is the Holy Spirit? What is the Holy Spirit? Cliff Notes Version) and be made up of millions of individuals in the future and still be one? Without God’s Holy Spirit, it is impossible to understand this. In order to understand how God is one all we have to understand is how the Church is one. The church which is an earthly, imperfect, physical, flesh-and-blood example of the Kingdom of God is made up of many members yet it is only one body where every part would work in full harmony with all other parts contributing in its own way to the well being of the whole body if it were a perfect copy of God’s Kingdom.
1Co 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
1Co 12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.
1Co 12:15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
1Co 12:16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
1Co 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
1Co 12:18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
1Co 12:19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?
1Co 12:20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
1Co 12:21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
1Co 12:22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
1Co 12:23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
1Co 12:24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
1Co 12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
1Co 12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
1Co 12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
God’s government which is based on God’s law and on God’s truth is what makes it possible for oneness to exist fully in God’s Kingdom and for unity to exist in the Church where all are to believe the truth of the Bible.
1Co 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
In order for the Church to be one today it must be one in what is believed. If everyone believes the same thing, speak the same thing and have the same attitude of wanting to obey God in all things then the Church is one though made up of many, different individuals with different personalities and abilities just as every part of a human body are separate and distinct and have different functions in the body.
The oneness in our physical human bodies is due to the unbreakable physical laws that regulate its functioning and which have been established by God at the creation of man. God’s physical laws governing the functioning of our physical bodies and the existence of the universe cannot be undone by men; all they can do is discover them. In the spiritual body of Christ, all are to be in subjection to God’s spiritual law to the best of their abilities physically speaking and fully, spiritual speaking i.e., their attitude is to want to fully be in submission to God’s law in their lives even though they know that in this life they can never be perfect in their obedience (All of Rom 7). They do not want to do their own thing or obey God according to their own understanding but are worshiping God in truth and in Spirit (John 4:24) according to the foundational truth of God’s Church given to the disciples by Christ and taught to the new converts as God the Father calls men and they follow their calling.
So how was Christ God in the flesh?
We read in the Bible that Christ was begotten of the Father in the body of the virgin Mary and that He was thus born after the flesh i.e., just like any other man and under the law i.e., the law that says that the penalty for sin is death i.e, the second death which hung over the head of every human being unless Christ were to succeed to rescue mankind from this penalty by becoming the perfect sinless sacrifice to be accepted by God the Father for the expiation of the sins of all mankind.
In Philippians 2:5-8 we read how the Word which was God divested himself willingly of his Godly powers and accepted to become a man in order that God’s plan of salvation may be accomplished by living a perfect sinless life as a human being and becoming God’s perfect sacrifice for the sins of mankind past, present and future. At the moment of His begettal by the Father, a spirit was placed in the embryo and that spirit essence contained the personality or person of Christ. The spirit in man empowers the animal brain with intellect and defines the personality of the individual. The person or personality that was in the body in the physical appearance of God (John 14:9) and possessing mortal, animal life was that of the Word or Logos.
The person or consciousness that was in the human body of Jesus was that of the Word who had existed forever with God the Father. This personality or consciousness was imparted to the body of the man Jesus conceived in Mary’s womb at the time of conception when God placed the spirit of Christ in the physical life that had been started. The spirit in man is what imparts the personality and records all of what we are; all of our experiences, our personality, the shape and look of our bodies, etc. and which returns to God at our death (Ecc 12:7) and is stored by God to be used again at the time of the resurrection to bring us, the person that we are and have been, with the same look and appearance, to eternal life.
This is how Christ was God in the flesh.
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