ExposingThe
Trinity!
Jesus was Begotten To Bring Many Others!
As Adam was, so is Christ!
Nab B, October 2016
“Rightly Divide the Word”
(2 Tim 2:15-18)
“Shun the Traditions of Men”
(Col 2:8)
A Different Approach!
I hope my unorthodox approach will show you how the Trinity doctrine is inadequate to fit what is revealed in the scriptures.
My interest, and hopefully yours, is to find what God is saying, not what a system of theology is saying! My notes endeavour to show how the scriptures, though profoundly deep, are equally clear and simple to understand if we allow His Spirit to guide us. Whether you agree or not, let us "speak the truth in love". (Eph 4:15)
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Bringing back humans into God’s divine family began with a plan (called logos); then a promise of a human Son whose origin is God! This Son will bring and redeem the many.
How Christ Begets Many
Adam became a death-giving soul but Jesus became a life-giving spirit. Through Adam, humans were born physically, but through Christ, they are reborn spiritually. To be transformed from the soulish to the spiritual, Jesus Christ must do it.
"Having predestinated [planned] us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will." (Eph 1:5)
Why is Jesus contrasted often with Adam but not with God? Simply because both Adam and Jesus were humans who were endowed (by God) to beget or regenerate other humans. Adam did it through the flesh, but Christ does it through the Spirit of His Father. Clear and simple.
“Thus it is written,
“The first man Adam became a living being;
the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.”
(1 Cor 15:45 ESV)
Note Jesus’ role as a co-creator of the new human, transforming the old into the new. Note the stark contrast between Adam and Christ. I split the verses so you can clearly see the contrast:
“The spiritual is not first, but the natural,
and afterward the spiritual.
"The first man was of the earth, made of dust;
the second Man is the Lord from heaven.
"As was the man of dust,
so also are those who are made of dust;
"And as is the heavenly Man,
so also are those who are heavenly.
"And as we have borne the image of the man of dust,
we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.”
(1 Cor 15:46-49)
Jesus Christ will always be the Firstborn Son of God, monogenés; who came directly from the Father (no need to read more into it). All others are born again, anagennaó, by the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ. This was the plan of God (or logos) from the beginning (see John 1:1-3).
Now, true believers begotten sons of God are sharers in God and Christ's "Divine nature".
"He has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE." (2 Pet 1:4 ESV)