Hawk:
Yet you attested that you were first reconciled to God and Jesus was an afterthought; Do you see how double talking gnostics work?
My advocate is the Son sitting on a high and glorious throne; Jeremiah 17:12-13
“Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion.”
“I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me, ‘You
are My Son, Psalm 2:6-7
And this is why gnostics are hypocritical liars. You lowered the bar by claiming that Jesus was like any other fallen man, like you.
Here's where your gnostic plot thickens, Jesus was condemned because He proclaimed that He was indeed the Son of God, One with the Father;
Not only do you deny that He is One with the divine Father, and have relinquished his role to a prophet of God at best, you on the other hand, claim to be one with the father sitting on his throne.
Gnostics are going to be shocked when they find out who is seated on the throne that they are pretending to reign.
But to the Son
He says:
“Your throne, O God,
is forever and ever;
A scepter of righteousness
is the scepter of Your kingdom. Heb 1
Gary Mac said:
Not very many follow Jesus to the Father to be perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect as he was perfected in the Father for themselves do they?
The Father is unknowable, Glory of Christ Jesus opens a small part of the Father's Glory. The Father is Perfect, Jesus Christ grew perfect and is example for our sake.
No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared
Him. John 1:18
Bringing Many Sons to Glory
By the grace of God, He tasted death for all. For it was fitting for Him, for whom
are all things and by whom
are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified
are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying:
“I will declare Your name to My brethren; In the midst of the assembly " Heb 2:9-12