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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Two Beginnings, #2
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: (Deuteronomy 6:4)
"Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord." There only is the one God. In this the Jews are absolutely correct. There are not three Gods in one Person or One Person in three Gods. The Father, the supreme Lord, has exalted Christ to His right hand. But the Father is the Father and the Lord Jesus is His Son and Priest.
The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. (Psalms 110:1-4)
"The Lord" (in the above) is the Father. "My Lord" (David's Lord) is the Logos, Christ.
If we view the Father and the Logos as the same Person, or if we understand the Son to be a Person equal to the Father and existing with the Father as another God throughout the eons that are true of the Father's existence, we will never understand numerous passages of the Scriptures, and we must then regard ourselves as polytheists.
Notice carefully the implications of the following verse:
For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. (I Corinthians 15:27)
It is clear from the above that there are two Personalities involved. The Person referred to as having had all things put under Him is one Person. The other Person who put all things under the first Person is a second Person. To interpret the passage otherwise is to bring hopeless confusion into a concept that the Scriptures express clearly and directly.
The Father and the Logos. There came a point in what we would term time, although the word time probably has no meaning in this context—at some instance the Word, the Logos, came forth from the inscrutable, invisible God. There was a beginning.
How long ago did the beginning take place? There is no way in which we can comprehend how long ago the Logos came into existence. Perhaps time as we know it would be unable to go back to such an inconceivably distant past.
But the Logos did come forth from the Father in the beginning. Now there were two Persons in existence—if we could call such a transcendent state "existence."
We have no way of knowing how long the Father and the Logos were the only two Beings in existence.
The Logos is the embodiment of the Divine Life of the Father.
(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) (I John 1:2)
Is the Logos a distinct Person? Yes indeed. Does the Logos have a will of His own? Yes, indeed He does. Are the Father and the Logos the same Person? No, Each is a Person in His own right.
To be continued.