The eternal God existing in space and time fathered a Son uniquely by parthenogenesis. They jointly created the whole universe, including all the heavenly hosts, before creating humankind in their own image and likeness from the soil of the earth. Divine self-sacrifice is portrayed in both the Father and the Son as they gave of themselves that others might exist and live. Mankind's fall in Eden led to the Redemption Story, akin to the human drama of parental love, self-sacrifice, discipline and grace, leading eventually to the transformation of mankind into glorious children of God.
Read MoreGod is the Father of Glory, the head of Christ, even as Christ is head of all creation. The Father is the prime Godhead or Deity, beyond all philosophies and human traditions. He is the only true God who is above all. Christ, His only begotten, is His live model, in whom His fullness dwells.
Read MoreThe "Corporeal God" view posits that Jesus is not a metaphor for God, but the literal manifestation of God. He is the "exact imprint" of a Father who is a personal, localized, and glorified Being. Under this logic, the Incarnation was not God taking on a "foreign" shape, but the Eternal Son stepping into the mortal version of the form He and His Father have shared from eternity.
Read MoreThe "Exact Imprint" of Hebrews 1:3 is the definitive bridge between the Father's hidden majesty and the Son's manifested reality. The Father is the Source-Form (Spirit-Substance), and the Son is the Expressed-Form (the Imprint). Together, they share a complex, glorious, and objective nature that defines the very shape of deity. The "Exact Imprint" is the DNA of the Godhead. It establishes that the Son is the tangible manifestation of a Father who possesses a glorious, objective, and complex spiritual form. Invisibility is a temporary state of human limitation, but "Face-to-Face" communion is the eternal destiny of the believer.
Read MoreAlan Segal’s "Two Powers in Heaven" (1977) is considered a seminal work that fundamentally shifted the scholarly understanding of the relationship between early Judaism and Christianity. Before Segal, many scholars viewed high Christology (worshiping Jesus as God) as a pagan influence that invaded Jewish monotheism. Segal demonstrated that this concept was actually rooted in pre-Christian Jewish thought. Binitarian Roots: His work proved that a "binitarian" view of God existed in Judaism as early as the late 3rd century BCE, providing a Jewish theological framework for later Christian devotion to Jesus.
Read MoreDirecting Gemini to look at some primary concepts (Space, Source Occupant, Creation) in relation to my understanding of First Principles and the Father-and-Son relationship to see the outcome of this interaction. Interesting insights from Gemini's rigorous logic. At times, it had to be pulled back from straying into its own preconceptions or incompatible ideas. Sessions from Z1 onwards are most intriguing.
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