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Originally Posted by Hoovie
From my Oneness perspective, I think saying Jesus had "the Father" inside muddies things up.
I would say Jesus was a real man who was also God.
The Father is a term we use for God alone - beyond His human existence. The child can understand this because "God can be everywhere".
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Why not stick to what the Bible says? Jesus said, "Know ye not that I am in the Father and the Father in me?"
II Corinthians 5:19 tells us, "To wit, God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself."
From a Oneness perspective, why isn't the very terminology that the Bible uses sufficient to teach a child???
If you tell a child that Jesus was a man and was also God... they still won't understand why He "prays to Himself". Jesus "dwelt" (Gk. skenoo sp?), meaning "tabernacled", or to "tent" (vb.). Thus Jesus is the human tabernacle of God. A man with God inside.
Now, we know there are finer points of doctrine. Those can be taught as the child grows older.
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