THE UNSEEN INVISIBLE GOD OF
PARTS OF THE BIBLE may seem puzzling respecting God and his nature, but God is not the
“author” of confusion (1Cor.14:33). Parts of John’s New Testament gospel appear to suggest that Jesus is God via the “Word”
in his prologue hymn (Jn.1:1ff), while at the same time, in other parts, John clearly states that there is only one true God (Jn.17:3). What’s going on? Who is lying to us? —John or the interpreters of John?
The answer, my friends, is simple—too simple for
some, I suppose. The “word” or the “logos” metaphorically “came” to dwell with men—it was not Jesus or the Christ. And
the “logos” (word) did not become Jesus—the logos did not mysteriously become a human being. However, this plain truth is not
attractive to many in our midst—those theologians and would-be Trinitarian and Binitarian polytheistic-minded theologians who wish
to perpetuate the myth that Jesus is a divine and supernatural God.
Two problems with accepting this truth: (1) Trinitarians would
lose their stranglehold on the faithful (which boils down to finances), and, (2) Binitarians (the Armstrong 2-God type) would lose
their opportunity to become fully-fledged divine Gods themselves in a family of Gods—humans made into Gods (which boils down to pure
and absolute power). Those in the second category, in spite of any protest from their camp, are looking forward to people bowing
down to them and praying to them as their personal Gods. These future human-Gods have been known to suggest that they would
be the Teachers of people to the point that some have assigned the following verse to themselves as one of their godly jobs in the
“Millennium”:
“And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers will not be moved
into a corner anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers. Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way,
walk in it,’ whenever you turn to the right hand or when you turn to the left” (Isa.30:20-21, N
“And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ. But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Matt.23:10-12, NKJV). In appears that, in a religious sense, God does not want us to take the title “Teacher” to ourselves. The New Testament Greek word for “Teacher” is also translated “Rabbi.” The book of John also tells us that God is composed of spirit. “God is Spirit…” (Jn.4:24). The OT states that God “appeared” to people(Gen.35:9), however it does not say that God “became” a man. Paul writes that God is invisible. “He [Jesus] is the image of the invisible God…” (Col.1:15; cf. Gen.1: 27; Heb.11:27). As you might expect, an “image” of something is not that thing; an image is other than the original. Check your own mirror. You see a likeness. The original and the image reflected are not of the same substance. The reflection looks and acts the same as the subject, but they are not the same.
The target passage
proclaims: “No one has seen God at any time” (Jn.1:18, N
