You will like this here about the Angel of the Lord, how the Angel identifies Himself as God, and many times too.
The angel of the Lord is an enigmatic figure who appears in numerous passages throughout the Old Testament. This angel is often believed to be the second member of the Trinity—Jesus Christ himself.
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“The angel of the Lord is God”? So you are saying that God is an angel now?
And you get upperty when we suggest that the “son of God“ is an angel….not just “an angel” but “the Archangel Michael”….the commander of the angelic forces…….make up your mind….because God is who he is, was, and always will be. He is the Creator, the only eternal Being in existence. He created his firstborn son at some point in time that the Bible calls “the beginning“ (Rev 3:14)……an eternal God has no “beginning”….but his firstborn is the “heir“ of all that God gave him. The son also has “joint-heirs” so there is an inheritance that also awaits these ones. (Rom 8:17)
Does God give himself an inheritance along with them?
We know that “the meek will inherit the earth” as Jesus said….but what do the “saints” inherit?
What are the meek going to do here on the earth? Where are the saints in that picture?
Jesus is our High Priest (Heb 3:1)…..what was the role of the High Priest? It was a position of service to God…is God then his own High Priest?
If there is “one mediator between God and men”, (1 Tim 2:5-6) if Jesus is God, we would need a mediator between him and us as well….since a mediator is a person who facilitates communication between two estranged parties, he cannot be one of the parties.
Acts 4:27 says that Jesus is “God’s holy servant”….is God his own servant?
There is not a single direct statement that supports belief in a three headed god. The Jews would have had apperplexy if Jesus has claimed to be God incarnate….true grounds for blasphemy, not just claiming to be “the son of God”.
If you read John 10:31-36 in the Greek, you can see clearly what is being said. Yahweh is identified as “ho theos” whereas even human judges in Israel are identified as “theos”. Calling someone “theos” is not calling them Yahweh. Jesus said he was “the son of God” and we can take him at his word.
Only those who see through this false addition to later church doctrine shake their heads at the contradictions…..which remain unacknowledged in any conversation….you guys just keep repeating the same misinterpreted passages as if no one showed you the truth….so be it.
We make our choices and we have to be prepared for the consequences if we have been misled.
Jesus will let us all know soon enough.…but did you never wonder why Jesus separates “sheep” from “goats”….and not “sheep from pigs”?
Who are the goats? Both were clean animals under God’s law and suitable for food as well as for sacrifice. What makes one a sheep and one a goat in the eyes of the judge? Disobedience.
Sheep and goats make bleating sounds but you can tell them apart just by what they utter. Sheep are herding animals who seem to know instinctively that being in the middle of the flock means safety…..the stragglers around the fringes are fair game for animals seeking prey…..whereas goats are curious, stubborn and independent, likely to go off on their own and are left vulnerable.
Jesus knows which is which, but the goats have no idea until the judgment is passed that their worship was misdirected to a different god than the one Jesus and his apostles preached (Matt 7:21-23)….one who has never been identified in the written word, thereby breaking the first Commandment. (Ex 20:3) What was the one thing that Israel could never achieve? Obedience to the laws that God gave them. Embodied in the Ten Commandments was really all they needed to do.…yet their repeated disobedience merited God’s punishments. The one thing they did repeatedly was to adopt false religious beliefs and practices. An honest look at Christendom will reveal the same behavior….and will merit the same punishments.
