Creation, Procreation or Incarnation - Which?
by Robert Schmid
”In the beginning God…”
This is a statement of fact, not expected to be questioned
or debated. However, man(kind) living under the curse of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, has done precisely
that and has developed a multitude of definitions of “God”
that are indeed “good and evil.”
God presents Himself as the Almighty who created the heavens
and the earth and all that is in them. In other words, everything
in the universe, including the universe itself, had a beginning,
and God is the cause of all beginnings.
But, man (kind) in his fallen state still asks the question:
Who created God and when was His beginning? All I can say
is that there are no correct answers to false questions.
“In the beginning was the Word…”
That is also a statement of fact, not expected to be questioned
or debated. However, man (kind) living under the curse of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, has done precisely
that and has developed a multitude of definitions of the word
“Word” that are indeed “good and evil.”
God presents Himself as the Almighty who created the heavens
and the earth and all that is in them, through and by His
Word. God spoke, and it was! His Word was (obviously)
always with Him, and His Word (obviously) was Him.
But, man (kind) in his fallen state still asks the question:
Who was the Word? This, even though John 1:1 clearly says
that the “Word was God,” not
a second God, but The God.
John 1:14 then tells us that “the Word
(of God) became flesh”, became the
Son (of God) and was named Jesus
by God His Father.
This then raises the question: Who is Jesus Christ?
The question, who is Jesus Christ, has been
debated throughout the world, since His birth, now for over
2000 years, and has been written about in innumerable books
and literature of every kind, and yet, would still be answered
differently by every individual from without and from within
Christian churches. Unbelievably, but one of the great controversies
of the third century, and to this day, is to come up with
an acceptable definition of the relationship between God the
Father and His Son Jesus!
Why is this and how can this be? How can we all claim His
name and fame and yet have no common understanding of who
He was and who He is? How can we not understand the relationship
between the Father and his Son,
considering that every child has experienced first hand what
the relationship is between a father and his child?
Jesus Christ Himself quizzed His disciples about that question
when He asked them: “Who do men say that I the Son of
man am?” And they said, “Some
say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah
or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But
who do you say that I am?”
That question is obviously directed at us today as much as
it was to the disciples then. Simon Peter replied for all
of us when he said: “You are the Christ, the
Son of the living God.” Jesus then confirmed
that the answer was correct when He said: “Blessed
are you, Simon Barjona! Flesh and blood has not revealed this
to you, but my Father who is in heaven.”
Considering that the answer was confirmed by Jesus personally,
we can be sure that the answer was not only correct, but complete,
in order to know the answer to the question: Who is Jesus
Christ? The answer is: Jesus is the Christ, the Son
of the living God.
So, first of all, Jesus Himself said He was the Son of man
by being born of Mary, and God clearly stated that Jesus was
the Son of God by being begotten/sired of God. In other words,
being born of a human being made Him a born human
being, and being begotten of God made Him a begotten
God Being.
Considering the above answer, why then is Jesus still an
enigma to so many.
There are three methods by which man believes that a being/person
can come into existence:
By CREATION
Only God creates. He created
Angelic beings. He then created one human
being, Adam, out of the dust of the ground by speaking him
into existence through His Word. Eve was made
out of Adam. Angels and Adam are called sons of God, because
they were created by God. Adam and Eve were
not given the power and ability to create
other human beings.
By INCARNATION
Here is the definition of incarnation: A
BEING that already exists is endowed with
a human body. An appearance in human form. In Christian (Catholic)
Theology: effectuation of the hypostatic union through the
conception of the second person in the Trinity
in the womb of the Virgin Mary. That is precisely the belief
and teaching of Catholicism, Protestantism and the Churches
of God.
Jesus Christ pre-existed His birth and existed
before He was born of God, appearing in human form through
an incarnation and birth through Mary.
The problem is that incarnation and re-incarnation
are mythological concepts that are neither scriptural, nor
can they be substantiated “by the things that are made.”
By PROCREATION
In procreation, Adam had it within himself
to beget/sire other human beings because
he was created in the image of God who has it within Himself
to beget/sire other God Beings.
Cain and Abel were begotten of Adam and
are therefore known as the sons of Adam.
Jesus Christ was begotten of God and is
therefore known as the Son of God. True son ship,
whether human or divine, can only come through procreation.
So, the question: How did Jesus come into existence, answers
itself.
If Jesus came into existence by being CREATED of God, Jesus
would not really and not literally be the Son of God and God
would not really and not literally be His Father. As a created
being, Jesus could not have defeated Satan and become the
Savior of all mankind.
If Jesus came into existence by an INCARNATION, then He did
not really and not literally become the Son of God 2000 years
ago. An existing eternal God being would have came to earth
as a human being, never ceasing to be fully God, and yet be
able to die, a Biblical impossibility.
That leaves us with only one conclusion and that is that
the living God, Jehovah Elohim, the God of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob reproduced Himself, through His Word, 2000 years
ago, by an act of PROCREATION when He fathered
a Son whom He named Jesus.
The ONE God of the Old Testament became God the Father, and
the Word (of God) became the Son (of God), and these TWO God
Beings now constitute the ONE God Family.
God said we would know the spiritual, would know Him, by
the things He created (Rom. 1:19, 20). God created the process
of procreation within Adam and Eve. All human
beings, since Cain and Abel, including Jesus, have come into
existence through procreation. No parent
would ever say that his child existed before it was conceived,
except in the parents mind. Only those who believe in INCARNATION
and RE-INCARNATION believe and teach that a being/person literally
existed before that being/person was begotten.
That brings us back to the question: “But, who do YOU
say that I am?” Only YOU can and must,
sooner or later, answer that question! God Himself answered
the question when He said: “This (Jesus)
is my beloved (firstborn) Son, with whom
I am well pleased; listen to Him.”
The question is: Do you believe God or tradition?
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