John 1

[Steve Consilvio]

I only have a moment, but let me make a couple of points to your good questions.


1. Jesus was like a man, but not a man. He could raise the dead, walk on water, stop a storm, etc. Those are things that God does, not prophets. He is in a totally different class of man, but he bled, too. The alpha and the omega, being two things simultaneously.


2. If we accept the scripture, then we must accept the narrative, too. Scripture is full of three things: Instruction, Description and Prediction. It is critically important to be aware of all three, lest description become accepted as instruction, and one does the exact opposite of what one was instructed to do, as is common. According to scripture, Jesus was foretold, and he fits the narrative. He is God's Isaac.


3. Jesus himself says that when he leaves that another is coming, namely the Holy Spirit. He introduces the trinity, not the church. More interestingly, in my mind, is that the Spirit has a more powerful role than Jesus.


John 14: 15"If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— 17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be[c] in you.