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Christ is God (Mat 28:19, John 20:28, Heb 1:8-9).


               The Holy Ghost is also God (Mat 12:31, Mat 28:19) and it is the same triune God
               that empowers us to perform the ‘greater works’ (John 14:12).


               God is either described as acting as one of the Three Persons (Ex 3:14, John 1:1,
               14, 14:26) or as the Godhead of Three Persons - the We (Gen 1:26, 3:32, 11:7,
               Rom 1:20). Or, again, as God i.e. the He or I acting as the single, Person of God
               (Gen 1:1, 3:11). God is Three Persons (Gen 1:26, 3:32, 11:7, Rom 1:20) in One
               Person (Gen 1:1, 3:11), a mystery indeed of Three Names in One Name (Mat
               28:19) and One God (Mat 28:19). The Person of Christ is the same Person as the
               Word (John 1:1, Rev 19:13-16).

               Status of Christ


               The complete and eternal humanity (Gen 1:26, Mal 3:6, 1 Tim 2:5) of Christ as
               well as His Divinity, is established by such verses as Acts 3:22-23 which calls
               Jesus a ‘prophet’.  This is another aspect of Man being in the image of God (Gen
               1:26-27).


               Jesus is perfect as begotten (John 1:1, 14, 8:58, 1 Tim 2:5), he did not become
               perfect and he learned obedience in the sense that he experienced it as he obeyed
               (Psalm 119:71, 2 Cor 5:21, Heb 5:8-9, Rev 2:27).


               The Nicene Creed and an Ecumenical Council


               The Nicene Creed is valid. The filioque or latter version is the more accurate as it
               adds to the first the words 'and the Son' (John 15:26; 16:7), meaning that the Holy
               Ghost proceeds from the Son as well as from the Father but both are true as
               written. I now call for an ecumenical council of all Christians, or their
               representatives, to consider the doctrines of this book. Christ is the only begotten
               of the Father (John 1:15) that is he is THE Son of God whilst a Christian is A son
               of God (John 1:12). What this means is that Christ, the eternal Man as well as God
               (1 Tim 2:5, Rev 22:13), is thereby 'first' (Rev 22:13) and the 'only' begotten (John
               1:14, 1 Tim 2:5, Heb 1:6-8). However all Christians are also begotten sons and
               daughters of God (1 Pet 1:3, 1 John 5:1, 18). At the first and second resurrections,
               the resurrectee is begotten of death (Rev 1:5) and Christ was the first to do this
               (Rev 1:5), i.e. to have the completely new body that Christians have at this time
               which is to be distinguished from, say, Lazarus after he was raised from the dead to
               die again (1 Cor 15:42-47, 1 Thes 4:16).
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