I dont know why you people just cant accept what you read and have to add what is not there.
Matthew 4:3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Matthew 4:6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
Matthew 4:9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Satan calls him the Son of God, not God. Do you not believe what is written? I mean how plain does it have to be! And on the last temptation to offer to God what is already his is about the most rediculous thing I have ever heard, like Satan could tempt God with what he already has.
James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
But thats ok you can just go on calling God a liar and say that the witness of his son is a lie. Im not.
Frankly, a lot of us seem to behave much like the religious Jews of Jesus' day when it comes to discussing the 'Trinity; All sorts of alarm bells go off and the accusations of heretic soon begin to appear, If it's any comfort, some intransigent doctrinal fanatics accused Jesus of being the devil and so I'm not so easily threatened by this kind of accusatory nonsense.
It seems that the problem is not so much with the basic ideas behind the so-called 'Trinity' as it is about the convoluted manner with which it's usually undersood and explained. Most Christians are hard pressed to successfully enunciate their own triune-self, (body, soul and spirit), .... much less a triune God..
Since our desire is to truly worship the Living God in spirit and in truth, we should first want to rightly identify Him in order not to serve foreign gods.
Christians don't seem to have a problem identifying Father God; at least, concerning His existence. Yet, it remains true that there is a large chasm between what many Christians believe concerning His true identity; about His true face ... His character and attributes.
For some, it seems that the Holy Spirit is a little more challenging to properly identify. Most imagine a mysterious ghostly form gazing over heaven and earth and occupied with performing the wishes and commands of Father God.
However, it's the ideas concerning Jesus which seems to have given a lot of Christians the most difficulty. It's often compounded difficulty because Jesus is also said to be the 'Word'.
John 1:1 says " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made".To properly identify Jesus, we must first have a full understanding about the origin and meaning of the 'Word'.
The Word was born in the very heart of God; in His innermost being. In God "the Word" was formed and that Word formed all His eternal counsel of what was to be. God worked on a plan. In His inner self a fantastic great idea evolved, a thought which contained all His intents and purposes. And this was with God and remained hidden with God as a yet unspoken thought.
The Word was with God, the Word was God. That plan, that unspoken Word, is what gave substance to the beginning of everything.
Before God uttered one single word, that Word, (meaning the complete plan of God), was prepared in Him. God had thought of everything; including even the most trivial details. He considered and concluded to Himself, "This is it!". This is the plan I will accomplish.
In the beginning this Word was with God and all things came to be of that Word. Without the Word, nothing of that which has been created since the beginning would have existed says John. It was this very fact that formed the basis of John's thinking and the starting-point of his gospel, (John 1:1) and also his letters (1John1:1).
Clearly, the 'Word' cannot be perceived as an independent personage. Similarly, the figure of 'Wisdom' in Proverbs 8 is not a personage.
The Word of God became flesh in the womb of Mary. Therefore, Jesus is the Word made flesh.
It's not for nothing that Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to Your word”.
It was the eternal Word of God which impregnated Mary and behaved as the *****/seed of God. This Word is connected to the power of God's Spirit and overshadowed Mary.and she received the seed of God, His Word,
Jesus, as Word of God, is the incarnation of the invisible God's thoughts. He is the firstborn of all creation because only in Him has Father's ultimate intentions and purposes for mankind reached it's glorious fulfillment.
Therefore, the statement of Jesus saying, "Before Abraham was, I am", (John 8:58), is abundantly: clear. Before Abraham existed, the New Creation (including Jesus), existed in the depths of God's innermost being as the 'Word'. Before his fall Adam was the immature man of God, but the last Adam was the mature. The stupendous difference between a caterpillar and a butterfly!
In this very day and hour, God is still working with His original intentions; according to His Word. He continues to accomplish His original plan; He remains active with the, "Word that is from the beginning". Father God remains completely dedicated to the full realization of His Word, His plan.
Thus we Christians too declare of ourselves, "Be it be for me according to your Word".
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