Things New and Old: The Word, NOT Jesus, was made flesh

Things New and Old

Ancient truths revealed in the Scriptures are often forgotten, disbelieved or distorted, and therefore lost in the passage of time. Such ancient truths when rediscovered and relearned are 'new' additions to the treasury of ancient truths.

Christ showed many new things to the disciples, things prophesied by the prophets of old but hijacked and perverted by the elders and their traditions, but which Christ reclaimed and returned to His people.

Many things taught by the Apostles of Christ have been perverted or substituted over the centuries. Such fundamental doctrines like salvation by grace and justification have been hijacked and perverted and repudiated by sincere Christians. These doctrines need to be reclaimed and restored to God's people.

There are things both new and old here. "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things" 2Ti 2:7.

Friday, February 6, 2026

The Word, NOT Jesus, was made flesh

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#Eternal_Sonship_a_Fable

Sunile wrote:
"Jesus did not lay aside His Divine Nature when He took up flesh and dwelt among us. He laid aside His glory, and then at times was "transfigured" before His disciples, allowing them a glimpse at the glory He had with the Father before incarnation.

"But Jesus maintained His Divine Nature during His incarnation. He was verily God and verily man. The Son of God and the Son of Man. Completely Divine and at the same time, completely human.

"Great is the Mystery of Godliness!"

sing
I thought Jesus was already the eternal Word made flesh and dwelt among men; he didn't need to take up flesh! Jesus is already flesh.
There was no Jesus before the Word was made flesh..

Sunile
Your heresy denying eternal sonship will not be tolerated on my page.

sing
What is wrong with my comment?

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Let me rephrase his words to reflect what I believe is the truth:

"The eternal Word did not lay aside His Divine Nature when He took upon Himself flesh and dwelt among us. He laid aside His glory, and then at times He was "transfigured" before His disciples, allowing them a glimpse at the glory He had with the Father before incarnation.

"But the eternal Word remained and continued to be Divine in His incarnation. Therefore, Jesus was verily God and verily man; Jesus is the Son of God and the Son of Man; He is completely Divine and at the same time, completely human."

I thought it was the self-evident truth that:
- the Word is the one-natured Divine Being,
- Jesus, the incarnation of the eternal Word, is the dual-natured Being, both Divine and human.

Bearing this distinction in mind will at least assist us in communicating without confusion.

Jesus is indeed the Son of God and the Son of Man; He is the Son of God because He was DIVINELY conceived (in contrast to the eternally generated fable); He is the Son of Man because He was conceived in the womb of a woMAN, therefore as true a man as can be.

Just my simple thought.
Why do some go ballistic with such obvious observations?

And since you are here, please remember that John 1:1,14 reads thus:

"1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... 14 ¶ And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Many unconsciously read them as:

1 ¶ In the beginning was the Son, and the Son was with God, and the Son was God.... 14¶ And the Son was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

In the incarnation,
- the Word didn't cease to be what He was, i.e Divine
- the Word did become what He wasn't before, Divine-human Son of God.

A biblical distinction is the essence of sound theology.