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Are God and Jesus the same person?
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The answer to the question, are God and Jesus the same person, really depends on what is meant
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If this question means to ask, is Jesus really God?
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Or is Jesus God in the flesh?
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Then the answer would be yes, Jesus is fully divine.
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He has all the attributes of God.
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However, the question could be interpreted another way which would require a different answer.
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Theologically speaking, Jesus and the Father are different persons of the Trinity.
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They are one in nature and essence, but they are different in personhood.
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There is an ancient heresy called modalism, and a more modern variation called oneness theology,
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which teaches that God does not exist in three co -equal, co -eternal persons,
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According to modalism, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not three individual persons, but simply three
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Sometimes God reveals himself as the Father, other times the Son, and still other times as the
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If the question is asked, are Jesus and God, the Father, the same person?
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The modalist would answer yes, but biblical Trinitarians would answer no.
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The doctrine of the Trinity is the best explanation for all of the biblical evidence.
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There is only one God, but he exists in three co -equal, co
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-eternal persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
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This is different from the teaching of three individual gods because of the interdependency and
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unity of the three persons of the Trinity.
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There is one God who exists as three individual persons, sharing the same
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Thus, the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God.
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However, the Father is not the same person as the Son, nor is the Son the same
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person as the Holy Spirit.
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This is sometimes complicated by the fact that God the Father is often simply called God
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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He was with God in the beginning.
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Through him all things were made.
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Without him nothing was made that has been made.
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We know from verse 14 that the Word is Jesus.
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In the beginning, he was already there.
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At least two persons are in view here, one called God and one called the Word.
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The Word is distinct from God, yet he is also called God.
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The Word is divine in his essential nature.
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After the essential identification of the Word as God, once again the distinction is emphasized.
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He was with God when it all began.
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Here, we see that the Word is actually the Creator.
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In the Old Testament, we are told that God created everything.
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It is this kind of biblical information that led to the formulation of the doctrine of the Trinity.
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When God is spoken of in the Old Testament, most people probably think of God the Father, but it
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would be more accurate to think of God the Trinity.
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In the New Testament, we see how each person of the Trinity assumed different roles in the redemption of
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lost humanity, but the different persons are always in complete agreement, acting as
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Jesus is God, but Jesus, who is God the Son, is not the same person as
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God the Father or God the Holy Spirit.
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That answers the question, are God and Jesus the same person?
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