SeventhDay
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What do you do with paradoxical truth? I will give you an example:
Eph 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
Eph 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Eph 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
This is not the paradox, but it is the scripture that shows that God the Father is one!
Now, this is the paradoxical scripture:
1Co 8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Now, this scripture is not saying that there is one God and there is another something else but rather is referring to God's oneness. God is one person the Father, but God works through the Son which is God's oneness and is in a Father and Son relationship. However, is God's oneness two persons or one. Can we see Jesus as the one God who is the Father in Father and Son relationship? Are we going to separate Father and Son into two persons? If The Father and the Son are one, then what does that say about who Jesus really is?
The paradox is how we see Jesus who is God manifest in the flesh. Are we going to separate the Father from the Son and make them two?
God is one body, one Spirit and is our Father and works through all and that is the Christ in us. There is one Spirit and is Christ the Spirit or not?
We see two operations of God in personages or roles but it is the one God who is the Father but the Father has two roles which is the Father and the Son and the Son has the role of son of man. It is the son of man revealing to us the Father and the Son in a unified personal relationship which is God's oneness.
Is not Jesus the Spirit of Christ in us and are we not one in God in Christ who works through us and fills us?
In conclusion when we see a paradoxical truth, we must harmonize the scriptures.
God bless you.