God and Christ  Concordant Studies “GOD IS SPIRIT” (John 4:24). “God no one has ever seen” (John 1:18a). Since God is spirit, He is therefore invisible, intangible, imperceptible. He is all-sufficient; He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. While such, indeed, are among God’s attributes, it is not inherent in this title (i.e., “the Subjector,” or…

God and Christ Concordant Studies THE SCRIPTURES REVEAL that Jesus is “the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matt.16:16). Since our Lord is God’s Christ (i.e., Anointed) and Son, it follows that He is not God. All would acknowledge that the fact that Solomon was David’s son, proves that Solomon was not David. Yet…

God and Christ Concordant Studies THE SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSIONS FOR “GOD” signify neither supremacy nor unoriginatedness of being. And, these terms may be used either in a relative sense or in an absolute sense–even when used in a literal sense and in a faithful sense. “God” is a title which speaks of Subjectorhood or Placership. Ultimately…

God and Christ  The English Form With the Hebrew and Greek Equivalents as Anciently Pronounced, Significance, Usage,  A.V. Renderings, and First Occurrences EL [earlier CV, AL] (singular) means SUBJECTOR, (Gen. 33:20), and is also used of men (mighty men Ex. 15:15). The A.V. renders it might, power, strong, God, and El, as in Immanu-el. The…

God and Christ “I WILL BE TO THEM FOR A GOD,” says Yahweh to Israel under the new covenant. Under the old covenant, He had neglected them, but under the new, He will impart His laws to their comprehension, and inscribe them on their hearts (Heb. 8:9,10). The old covenant left obedience to their own…

God and Christ  Part Two  The distinctions between deity absolute and relative abound in the Scriptures of truth. Along with the impressive likeness are emphatic contrasts. Some of these are essential to the manifestation of the likenesses. A Mediator Who is invisible and inaudible could not mediate. He must be the opposite of His God…

God and Christ Part One THE ringing insistence of the Scriptures that there is only one God has been subtly undermined by the prevailing teaching concerning a “triune deity.” When we inquire into the relation of the three members of the “trinity” to one another, we are met by meaningless and incomprehensible, as well as…