Originally Posted by
alanmolstad
That's right,in my post I never once used the word "became".......how did I miss that?... :)
So to review what the Bible is teaching us:
God is Spirit, God is invisible , and God does not change.
The Word is God.
so the Word is Spirit, the Word is invisible, and the Word does not change.
That what the God is, the word is also.
And for our salvation , the Word became flesh.
The Word never stopped being God.
The Word never stopped being invisible
The Word never stopeing being unchanged.
But with the birth of the Christ child, we see that the Word had now also the 2nd nature of a human as well.
So the Word remained unchanged in his nature as the one eternal God, for God is always God, and therefore always invisible, and unchanged,etc.
But within this 2nd nature of a man, the Word has became flesh....
The word "became" means it was not flesh before, but then later it became this flesh.
The Word became flesh.
The Word became a man
The Word became a child
The Word became a teenager
The Word became a carpenter
The Word became a preacher
The word became the sacrificial lamb and took onto himself the sins of all men
The Word became dead
The Word became dead for 3days
The Word became resurrected.
The Word became resurrected in a body of flesh and bone.
So,,,,,the key words in the beginning of the book of John is this word "became: for it teaches us that the Word was not all these things at first...but that later it became all these things.
and yet, all the time that it was becoming all these things, the nature the word has with the Father as God Almighty, was unchanged.....unaffected....and as always invisible.