The Bible - written for one child
The Bible - written for one child The Bible was written primarily for Jesus to know who he was and what he should do.
Pre-incarnation
Before becoming a baby, Jesus was known as 'The Word', or 'the Son of God'. John declares:
- Joh 1:1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John also says that in heaven there are three who testify: the Father, the Word, and the Spirit [1]
John did not invent the idea that Jesus was the Word of God or borrow it from Greek philosophers. [2] John understood the scriptures the way that Jesus did. [3]
Hinting at Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning", [4] he interprets the Hebrew 'bara' ברא as the Word which created, rather than simply created as the translators do. John is thinking and correlating on the 'higher' plan of ideas, and not merely words. When God created, he spoke, he used the Word of God to do so. He said "Let there be light" [5] and there was light. He said, "Let there be a firmament" [6] and there was a firmament.
John also read in Ge 1:3 that when God said "Let there be light" the Hebrew word said [7] also means word and lamb. Perhaps when he heard John the Baptist proclaim that Jesus was the lamb of God, he heard that Jesus was the Word of God. [8]
He was fully God with all the attributes (powers) of deity. He knew everything there was to know. He was all-powerful; able to accomplish his will. He was also present everywhere; not yet having a physical body.
Knowing that when he chose to take the body of a child, he would no longer be everywhere. While in that body, he would not use his divine power; he would not be a super-baby, flying, moving large stones and turning clay pigeons into living birds. Nor would he use his knowledge of everything. He would choose to limit himself to the capabilities of a baby, who would grow into a man [9]
How would he know who he was (the eternal Word of God), and what he was to do (make the Father known by dying on the cross)? How would he know the plan purposed from the beginning? He would experience a God-sized amnesia about his divine nature.
Facing his incarnation [10] and kenosis [11], he wrote notes for himself. He hid within a record of the lives of men, everything he would need to know to accomplish his purpose. [12]
The Old Testament is the collection of notes that the Word of God wrote for himself, as cheat sheets for knowing the Father and the Father's will when he would experience his incarnational amnesia. It is one book written by the Word, for Jesus.
The mystery
The mystery, which is hidden in the history, was written for the Word of God [13] who would become flesh [14], and 'close his eyes' to his divinity [15]. Just as one does not become blind when closing your eyes, neither was his divinity diminished in any capacity. He simply chose not to use it, and instead chose to be tempted in every way that we are, without advantage [16].
Others could not understand the mystery because of their sin [17]. But being born sinless, and having no sin [18] he was able to understand the scriptures. [19]
As he grew, he learned who he was and what he was to do from the riddles he hid in the scriptures. He learned that he was the Son of God. [20] He learned that he was God. [21]
While he taught, he kept the mystery secret. [22] And though he shared the 'literal' meaning of the parables with his disciples he did not reveal the mystery contained in them until after the cross [23] [24]
The riddles (dark sayings) are now available, because Jesus gave the apostles the 'keys' to teaching. [25] They teach these keys in their writings. In the books of the New Testament, the authors teach us to read the riddles of the Old.
Now Jesus can be seen everywhere in the mystery.[26] Though the Bible was written for one child; Jesus, all the mysteries in his cheat sheets can be examined by all.
Reference
- ↑ 1Jo 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
- ↑ John's 'Logos' is from Hebrew, not Greek
- ↑ About
- ↑ Ge 1:1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- ↑ Ge 1:3 ¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
- ↑ Ge 1:6 ¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
- ↑ said, word, lamb אמר
- ↑ Ge 1:3 ¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
- ↑ [[Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:, with no advantage over other men but one; he would not be conceived in sin.
- ↑ Being made flesh
- ↑ "emptying himself"
- ↑ Eph 3:9 And to make all [men] see what [is] the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
- ↑ 1Jo 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
- ↑ Joh 1:14 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.
- ↑ Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
- ↑ Heb 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.
- ↑ Eze 12:2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they [are] a rebellious house.
- ↑ 1Pe 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
- ↑ Lu 2:47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
- ↑ Lu 2:49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?
- ↑ He knew he was God
- ↑ Mt 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
- ↑ Ps 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
- ↑ see Marriage supper of the lamb
- ↑ Mt 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
- ↑ Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
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