What are the implications of "And the word became flesh and dwelt among us"?

The Word is the eternal Son of God. John 1:1 leaves us in no doubt, that the Word was there, in the beginning, with God "and the Word was God". John 1:14 tells us "the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us."

Who made his dwelling among men? Why, Jesus of Nazareth. That is why John and the other disciples could say "We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."

Christ Jesus is the living Word of God. Remember how God spoke all things into being? That is the Word of God as spoken.

When the Son of God humbled himself to take on human form, he was fully man and fully God and so the Word dwelt among us. It is through the power of the Holy Spirit that the written word comes alive and transforms lives. "Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ" (Romans 10:17).

The Holy Spirit opens our eyes, unstops our ears and softens our hearts so that we may receive the true gospel. So we have the written Word and the living Word of God. Since the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit together make up the One Being who is God, then it is entirely proper to say that the Word was God.

Jesus is quoted as saying ''before Abraham was ,, I am.'' Another scripture says he was slain from the foundations of the earth. This appears to speak to the timelessness of God and to an existence outside of time. Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever.

He was with God and a part of God at all times. When he agreed to come to earth to expound on sacred truth , he changed the way people viewed his Father. He spoke for the Father and to him.

Jesus said he only did what he saw the Father doing . His miracles were the Fathers miracles as seen by Jesus. Jesus in the second Adam.

The first was disobedient. Jesus was obedient to death. As for him being the Torah, no he was not the Torah which was scribed by men and was filtered by their own prejudices.

It does not mean there was not inspiration by God but we are also aware that we prophesy in part and always have. There is no biblical disclaimer that the prophecies in the Bible were not partial or influenced by the man giving them. To the contrary the Bible says the spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet.

The Bible says Moses ,who spoke face to face with God and not in dark speech and riddles like other prophets. Moses made concessions to the people when he agreed to allow easy divorcement of wives. Why would Jesus be the Torah?

Do we really believe God wanted the people to slaughter innocents and rape people and take them captive as slaves? No , of course not. Do we think God really sent she bears to kill young men who were mocking Elisha by saying ''Go up ye bald head?'' I believe the young men were killed by bears.

I am just not certain that was God's perfect will and way to deal with mocking young men. It could have been a coincidence that the shebear came forth. This doesn't take away the important lesson of the story.

Don't mess with God's prophets. Yes , there is powerful importance to the scriptures . God has breathed into them but given us a brain and the holy spirit to judge what is truth and what is cultural prejudice.

Why were women considered unclean a longer period of time after they gave birth to a female child? This is recorded as a practice in the New Testament. Does God really think women are unclean or are they washed in his blood and forgiven along side of men?

We are led by the Holy Spirit now and the Bible is to be read through the son glasses of love. If it is not loving , dismiss it. Is it loving to rebuke people from the pulpit or is it the way of God to go to them and them along and bring loving concern about behavior as a father to a son or sister to a sister?

Why did women have to eat dirt from the temple floor if they were suspected of adultery to prove their innocence.? If they lived , they were innocent. I have heard the explanation that this was because on the blood of the sacrifice could be in the temple. No bleeding person of any kind was allowed .

When Uzziah steadied the ark of the Covenant and died for it. Was this the judgment of God or like touching a high voltage wire? I think it was a whoops.

Jesus is the living word of God. The Bible is just a book of people relating their experiences with God and they are not always loving or humane. They are sinners and the man who says he has no sin deceives himself.

This goes for every person who wrote every word down in the King James . The Bible was never supposed to be worshipedas God. That would be absurd.

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