"God from God, Light from Light, True God from True God, Eternally Begotten of The Father ... Begotten, not made; One in Being with The Father ..."
" ... Born of The Virgin Mary ..."
The Christian Understandings of and about The Lord Jesus of Nazareth are BOTH markedly plainly "Historical" AND at the same Time deeply Theological ... such that it is virtually impossible to separate them ...
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The phrase that you quoted is not in the Bible and cannot be true becaue it contradicts the Bible.
You are righ though in that this is so firmly entrenched in some minds that it cannot be separated... without a miracle.
But since God and Jesus and the Apostles said that only the Father is our God, Jesus cannot be our God.
God, the Father:
(Isa 45:5 KJV) I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
Jesus, the Son of God:
(John 17:3 KJV) And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Paul, an Apostle of Jesus:
(1 Cor 8:6 KJV) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
"God from God, Light from Light, True God from True God, Eternally Begotten of The Father ... Begotten, not made; One in Being with The Father ..."
" ... Born of The Virgin Mary ..."
The Christian Understandings of and about The Lord Jesus of Nazareth are BOTH markedly plainly "Historical" AND at the same Time deeply Theological ... such that it is virtually impossible to separate them ...
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The phrase that you quoted is not in the Bible and cannot be true becaue it contradicts the Bible.
You are righ though in that this is so firmly entrenched in some minds that it cannot be separated... without a miracle.
(1 Tim 2:5 KJV) For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;