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God is not a man that he should lie? Put not your faith in that of a man? Hear Oh Israel, the Lord thy God is one God? Christ said  all power in heaven and earth had been placed into his hands? Placed into his hands by whom? My father and I are one, Christ said? God tempts no man at any time and God himself cannot be tempted at any time? Was it ever possible for Christ to be tempted to sin and/or was it even possible for Christ himself to even think about sinning? Christ was the one-and-only, holy and pure, Creator-God of all-time that has ever existed and/or will ever exist. Christ Jesus was the Lamb of God. He was and he is the holy-one of Israel and he is totally without sin. The Lord God Almighty Hashem/Eli manifested himself in the form of  a man on the earth in those days? Will YHWH ever be less God and/or less man because of what was completed at the cross 2,000 years ago?


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God is not a man
Numbers 23:19


  • (Numbers 23:19) - "God is not a man that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent.  Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?"  

     A common objection to Jesus being God in flesh is raised by citing Num. 23:19 where it says that God is not a man.  In light of this verse, how could Jesus be both God and man (have two natures)?  The solution is simple.
     First of all, the verse says that God is not a man in the sense that he would lie, or repent (from sin).  Therefore, there is no problem here because this statement is not against Jesus being God in flesh, but against God being able to sin.  It is like me saying, "I am not a man who robs banks."  The statement is not saying that I am not a man, that I am not a man who robs banks.   Likewise, God is not a man that he would lie.
     Second, this statement "God is not a man" was written at the time of Moses.  It was not for another 2000 years that Jesus, the Word, became flesh (John 1:1,14).  We can see that when it was said that "God IS not a man," that God was not a man.  It was not until the incarnation that the word, which was God, became flesh.  So, when this statement was written in numbers, it was true.  God had not become a man.  Therefore, there is no contradiction.
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Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of


       God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.
       Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy,
       joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures. The
       Holy Spirit makes this happen through faith. Because of it, you
       freely, willingly and joyfully do good to everyone, serve
       everyone, suffer all kinds of things, love and praise the God who
       has shown you such grace. Thus, it is just as impossible to
       separate faith and works as it is to separate heat and light from
       fire! Therefore, watch out for your own false ideas and guard
       against good-for-nothing gossips, who think they're smart enough
       to define faith and works, but really are the greatest of fools.
       Ask God to work faith in you, or you will remain forever without
       faith, no matter what you wish, say or can do.

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       This text was translated for Project Wittenberg by Rev. Robert E.
       Smith and is in the public domain.  You may freely distribute,
       copy or print this text.  Please direct any comments or
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                             Rev. Robert E. Smith
                                Walther Library
                        Concordia Theological Seminary
      
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Hear Oh Israel the Lord our God is one Lord.(Deuteronomy 6:4)


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John 10:30 I and my Father are one.
And for the people that think this scripture means Jesus and the Father are Like one.
John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father? (He said have "I" been so long time "with" you. and yet hast thou not "known" "me") One can only say WOW! This is why Peter baptized in Jesus Only Jesus Name, because he understood Jesus was the Father incarnate.
1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
God cannot remain one when divided into three, he is one in number!!!! Here Oh America the Lord our God is ONE LORD!!!!
Thats why Jesus Name baptism is rejected because to baptize in Jesus rejects three persons of the trinity and supports that Jesus is God the Father robed in flesh which is the Son of God. And how can anyone separate the Holy Spirit from God? Can you separate a spirit from itself? God is a Spirit, you cannot have two omnipresent spirits and yet have one God.
People must rediscover the term "one", One God, One Lord, One faith, One baptism. ONE ONE ONE ONE ONE. Not one group or unity but one person "God" when the Bible say One Lord that means One RULER for the word Lord means ruler. ONE RULER...Also (Zec 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. ) and his name ONE. Peter fulfilled Jesus command of Matt 28:19 in Act 2:38, Peter understood Jesus perfectly well, and did as Jesus said to do. To be baptized in the titles Father, Son, Holy Ghost is unbiblical, but to be baptized in the NAME of the Father, and Son, and Holy Ghost is proper because Jesus in that name. If Jesus was referring to Father and Son and Holy Ghost as names, He would have more likely put it like this, Baptize in the names of the Father, and Jesus, and Holy Ghost. If Jesus was referring to the titles as names he must have forgotten his own name, and substituted it for Son. Now does that make since for Jesus to do that? No it doesn't. The Bible does not teach three in one but does teach "For in him(Jesus) dwelleth all the fulness of the GODHEAD bodily."(Colossians 2:9) In Jesus dwell all that God is. Jesus is God in Flesh. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the WORD WAS GOD. John 1:14 And the WORD was MADE FLESH...! You cannot divide a limitless Spirit into sections, and if you did manage to separate a unlimited omnipresent one God into three you would actually have four because the fact that God is limitless you could not divide him into three persons completely and there would be a fourth left over which was his previous state before he was divided. God showed Him self to Moses as a bush, so does that mean we have God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit & Bush?
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24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

28 For the kingdom is the LORD’S: and he is the governor among the nations.

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Psalm 22  V.24 ...."neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard."   NOTE: God the father didn't hide his face, turn his back or ever forsake the Lord at any time on the cross that day when the christ of God hung suspended between heaven and earth.  When Christ cried unto him, he heard. Yes, YHWH heard him. Christ's father heard him when he cried out to him.
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