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Originally Posted by jfrog
If A = B exactly and totally then B = A. However if A is a proper subset of B, then B is not a subset of A. I would say the statement "The Word is God" is closer to subsets than equality.Consider this. The Word was with God. If the Word is with God this implies that the Word is not God (because we know God is one so anything with him cannot be him). So if we take the statement the Word is God by itself, then we might assume that the Word = God. However, if we take the statement "the Word was with God" then we would be forced to assume the Word is not equal to God. Both of these things cannot be true if we accept these statements as both implying equality in the traditional sense. In other words, both of the statements the Word is God and the Word is with God cannot both be used to imply equality.
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I appreciate your logic, but I disagree with you.
Or maybe we're meaning the same ting, but saying it differently-- that kind of thing happens in these kinds of discussions.
If I were to record you on an audio tape, and then play the tape back, would I be hearing you?
Would I be able to say, "That is you."
Now are you that tape recorder?
Are you that tape on the reel?
No.
Now the Son of God is the Word of God made flesh.
In Jesus, we have more than an audio recording of the Father.
When we speak, we don't visibly create anything, but the Old Testament says that God spoke the world into existence. The New Testament says that Jesus created the world. The only way for both to be true is for Jesus to be the physical embodiment of the Word of God.