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.
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."
He did not simply invent the idea or borrow it from Greek philosophers. He understood the scriptures the way that Jesus did. Hinting at Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning", [1] he interprets the Hebrew 'bara' ברא as the Word which created, rather than simply created as the translators do, because when God created, he spoke, he used the Word of God to do so. He said "Let there be light" [2] and there was light. He said, "Let there be a firmament" [3] and there was a firmament.
He was fully God with all the attributes (powers) of deity. He knew everything there was to know. But knowing that he would not use that knowledge when he became a man, he helped write the mystery in the one book so that he could discover who he was and what he had chosen to do.
There are a few movies based on the idea that when the character goes to sleep, they don't remember anything that happened before. This is the story of the Word. When he became a man, he 'forgot' everything he had known.
The mystery, which is hidden in the history, was written for the Word of God [4] who would become flesh [5], and 'close his eyes' to his divinity [6]. 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 [7].
Others could not understand the mystery because of their sin [8]. But being born sinless, and having no sin [9] he was able to understand the scriptures. [10]
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. [11] He learned that he was God separated from God and his people by ignorance. [12] Jesus was relatively 'ignorant', compared to before he became a man, because he had chosen not to use his omniscience. The people were ignorant of God.
We can now read those same riddles, because he gave the apostles the 'keys' to teaching. <ref.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.</ref> In the books of the New Testament, the authors teach us to read the riddles of the Old.
We can now see Jesus everywhere in the mystery.
Reference
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
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