Is God a person? - Page 3

mfblume · #21 04-14-2010, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

Is the person of God separate or distinct from the person of Christ?

No. I thought we were oneness here.

Dedicated Mind · #22 04-14-2010, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by mfblume

No. I thought we were oneness here.

just trying to understand your point of view in saying that God is a person. Most people are saying that He is not and saying, I think, that God is spirit and is manifested in the person of Christ. How is your view different from this?

Timmy · #23 04-14-2010, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by mfblume

No. I thought we were oneness here.

37.4% are!

Timmy · #24 04-14-2010, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Timmy

37.4% are!

Or 33.33%, depending on which poll you use.

Falla39 · #25 04-14-2010, 04:13 PM

Col. 2: 8 -10

8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

Timmy · #26 04-14-2010, 04:14 PM

Are you going to vote, Sis Falla?

pelathais · #27 04-14-2010, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by mfblume

No. I thought we were oneness here.

But DM's question does raise some deep theological issues that have been debated for centuries.

Some Oneness folks state that Christ was essentially an "empty shell" of a human being and was "just a body" that God inhabited.

More careful Oneness scholars have developed what I think are better Christologies whereby we see the carpenter's son as a complete human person - body, soul and spirit; and that all the fullness of the Godhead was manifest in that complete person.

So technically, there may end up being two "Persons" under discussion within the Oneness theology, at least "two Persons" analogously.