"But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house which I have built!" (II Chronicles 6:18)
This might be an ideal time to interject why we make reference to God as being male in gender. First and foremost, God is a Spirit, filling the heavens and the earth. Even the scriptures state, "Why even the heavens cannot contain God?" How big is God? Well, in God, we live and we move and we have our being. Further, God created man in His own image. This might be where we begin to think of God as HE.
The first woman was taken from man. The bone was of his bone and the flesh of his flesh making man incomplete without the woman. Eve then, is the mother of all living. God delivered Eve from Adam in the garden of Eden. Thereafter, whither male or female, we all came from a female.
One day a person wanted to inquire as to where I came from. I replied, I came from a woman. Where did you come from? It is the same situation within creation. When that initial creation intersects with salvation in the second Adam or Christ the New Creation, it is here that our understanding of the gospel message is increased. Indeed, for clarity, there is neither male nor female in the body of Christ Church.
For further clarification, you might want to read I Corinthians 11:1-16. Here, you will begin to read how no man has seen God at any time. It is the only begotten who is in the bosom of the Father who hath declared Him. The only begotten. Jesus spoken of Him as the Only begotten. In comparison, we are spoken of in the scriptures as begat.
The difference is that Jesus is God’s holy child being conceived of the Holy Ghost, spoken of in the scriptures as one who is without father or mother. He has no beginning of days, nor end of life. Why? Because His beginning is after the order (the lead) of Melchisedec.
We cannot be talking of the flesh in which the Spirit of the Christ was embodied. for the flesh covering began in the womb of Mary when she served as a surrogate Mother. The fetus being seeded of the Holy Spirit. What do the scriptures state? That which is conceived in you Mary is of the Holy Ghost ... and finished at Calvary. He was sown a natural body and yet raised a spiritual body. Jesus is introduced as being God with us -- as a Son. The Word was made or veiled and the flesh lived among us.
"He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own and His own received Him not." (John 1:10-11)
The Word that was God was clothed in the flesh of fallen humanity. Having been clothed upon with flesh in Mary’s womb, the pure humanity is attributed to the Holy Ghost which was in the man Jesus the Christ. To wit, God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. (II Corinthians 5:19)
You see, in the New Testament, we learn the Word was veiled in flesh. The Word -- God Himself. The SAME Word (or counsel of God ) that had brought forth Adam. God Had promised that He would become our Saviour, and in keeping with His promised Word, He conceived Himself into Mary’s womb. Even though He had created all things, God still humbled Himself for you and I. God took upon Himself the form of a servant in a son form. He was referred to as the second Adam. He was the Lord Himself!
God who at different times and in various manners spoke to us through the mouths of prophets has now spoken to us as/in His Son. God’s Spirit created all things and by Himself (as a Son) and for Himself, all things were made. Apart from Himself, there is nothing made that was made. God said, "My glory, I will not give to another." It is also said, "Let all the angels of God worship Him."
Jesus the Christ is the same God, yesterday, today and forever. This is why Thomas declared to Jesus,“my Lord and my God!" So should we hear ye Him, and worship Him, knowing too that the risen Jesus is both our Lord God and Saviour. (Acts 2:36) One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. (Ephesians 4:5-6)
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