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FAQ # 154
QUESTION 154 : Do you believe He who prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane,
shedding agonized sweat-drops of blood, was God incarnate? Or, “if God
incarnate had died upon the cross, how could the world keep on functioning
during the three-day interval awaiting His resurrection [or even being
Jesus on earth]?”
For question one, most definitely! That’s one reason
I love him so and admire his love for us. Because, being God, he didn’t
have to do it. Rather than using rationale to say a very big God wouldn’t
come and incarnate himself to the point of sweating drops of blood for
humanity, use it as an opportunity to see the love God. Rather than using
rationale to say it makes more sense to me if he sent another pre-existent
being to do it, especially seeing that there were allege distinct dialogues
of two, use it as an opportunity to see that God really loves you.
I guess the notion in mind is not the extra-ordinary
love of God, but rather, confusion as to how can God be one person yet
he is in the Garden and in heaven at the same time. The best explanation
to most would be the Trinity. However, we fail to recognize the prerogative
of God being omnipresent. In fact, one good example is his spirit manifestation
in believers. The one spirit can be talking to 5000 saints worldwide,
yet on different subjects and in different languages, simultaneously.
How can you explain that? You can’t, you just have to accept the fact
that God is omnipresent. Given that fact, it should not be hard for you
to understand that the same God can be enfleshed as Christ “reconciling
the world unto himself” (2 Cor 5:19) and still run the universe at the
same time. Note this Picture I took on Las Olas Blvd water front Port
during my photography class:
This wasn’t the boat I was looking for but I couldn’t
find that one I had earlier saw. Notice the markings I’ve put on the picture.
The boat can be control from the top, where I put heaven, or from the
lower part, where I put Earth. In other words, wherever God is, he is
still in control and running things. The boat that I wanted to photograph
has three steering panels; one at the top, a middle one and one on the
base. This would have been perfect for the illustration. Because it would
show God, when controlling from the top part, operates as the father,
if he is in the middle control panel he’s operating as the Human Son and
when operating from the base control panel he would be the Holy Spirit
in us. One God, wherever he is and in whatever manifestation he chooses,
sill controls all of existence. This is just an illustration, because
just because he’s here on earth doesn’t mean he’s not in heaven; as briefly
shown with the example of the 5000 saints worldwide.
That is what the devils tremble at, "the devils
also believe, and tremble" (James 2:19) – one God who can be
everywhere at the same time, even they are engulfed in him. How can they
do evil and he not see, or they thinking they can get away with it? Even
further, he controls all their affairs invisibly, though they do thus.
That is completely terrifying to know; it’s like saying you’re trying
to run away from away “air” or hid from it, to do evil; not knowing you
can’t exist without it and it is everywhere. I marvel sometimes, why do
devils do what they do.
Anyway, kind of strayed. God is one person (Due 6:4),
known from our root, Judaism. When he became three or profess to be, occurred
when the first Gentile Christian apologists tried to explain their faith
to pagans by compromising it with the Logos Christology. The first Jewish
Christians understood what took place with Christ Jesus being God. They
knew it was the same one God they worshipped come as a man, but to the
pagans this would seem absurd, so the Logos Christology that created the
Trinity made it seems that there is a Godhead with three different individuals
who are called God. One stays in heaven, the other came as the Son, one
goes back to heaven and the other comes as the Holy Spirit. That is paganism,
which the pagan cleaved to. Including Justin Martyr and his other philosophy
buddies.
However, the understanding is clear from scripture
what took place and why. Firstly,
God is a spirit (John 4:24). He had always dealt with the Jew as a spirit,
even at Mount Sinai. However, he was about to do something different,
herald in this verse, “Inasmuch then as the children [WE] have
partaken of flesh and blood [ARE HUMANS], He [GOD THE FATHER
OF US], himself likewise shared in the same, [BECOME HUMAN]”
(Hebrews 2:14-15). In other words, Jesus Christ is simply God the father
in flesh.
Now the reason for the prayers and lifestyle or seemingly
distinctions is exemplary. That is, “his desire
to see all men and women know life as He intended it is so strong that
he has tried again and again throughout the history of man to redirect
us into His predestined path. The life,
death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is His final attempt” (In Pursuit
of Purpose, Dr. Myles Munroe). He did it because he loves us and
wants us to be save!
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