I Got a Question that
I want to share with you all:
How can Jesus be God
and there is still one God? And how
can you say we are saved by grace and
works?
Dear Friend,
Good
to hear from you. I do not know where you got the idea that I promote that
Jesus is "just a man".
No,
God the Father is a God, and when he has a son, that son will be God also. A horse will not give birth to a hedge-hog!
Jesus
was the Firstborn Spirit-Child of the Father, long before this world was
created. Then Jesus was known as Jehovah, and with the powers of his Father vested
in him he created this world.
Under
the direction of his Father he was the God of the Old Testament. Therefore, the
Father and the Son is one God, and the Holy Spirit who testifies of them is the
third personage in that unity of individuals.
Obeying
Jesus is obeying the Father! Obeying
the voice of the Spirit is obeying the Father! We do not need to discuss the
voice of the Father here, since he does not address man directly since the fall
of Adam.
It's
a little bit like Arsenal Football Club. It has an offensive line, a mid-field
and a defensive line. They are all Arsenal, offense, mid-field and defense. But
they are still Arsenal collectively!
Now,
Jesus is the Father in one very
important sense: He is the one who made it possible to be reborn from death,
and to be reborn into the presence of the Father. That makes him the Father of our
eternal lives. So both the Father and the Son can rightly be titled
"Father", but for different reasons.
Man
does not deserve to be saved from their sins; therefore it is mercy, or grace
that saves them. But when that ladder of salvation is being raised to the
burning house (which is the world), the believer who will not work his way over
to the ladder of grace will burn down with the non-believers.