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  • huntingtonwindowcleaning
    You actually imply that the "scholarship of the Hebrew YHVH" agrees w/ me, that the name, "YHVH," "is not just 'phonetics." (Compare to your previous paraphrase of my comment, that "God is 'not into phonetics.") So there is in fact no disagreement here on your FIRST POINT. On your SECOND POINT, that the Greek, "...made known to them your name" (Jn 17), "refers to the representation, the character (istics) of God," I also agree. For it is this particular "representation and characteristic" of God, I propose, that is the very mystery that Jesus came to reveal. Thus far then, and respectfully, I see no conflict with the Heb & Grk scholarship to which you refer. And this brings us to your LAST POINT. And here again I agree. Nothing mysterious about the term "father," per se. But there are different senses of meaning. George Washington is known as the "Father of our nation." Similarly, I believe, God was the Father of Israel. But He was not Israel's Father in the sense that they were His BEGOTTEN children. Jesus was the 1st begotten (Heb 1:5), but also the firstborn of MANY BRETHREN (Rm 8:29, 14-15). This, I say, is the mystery in Christ's revelation of God as "Father."
  • huntingtonwindowcleaning
    Robert, my message concerns the Word that was made flesh (Jn 1:14) and - from the vantage point of a 21st century saint - a meditation on how it may have been effected. Note, the Word was "conceived" in Mary's womb (Lk 1:31) as Jesus. Thus Jesus began as a DNA molecule comprising the strand of genetic information in Mary's ovum (Rom 1:3) and the strand of genetic information that God apparently combined with it (Lk 1:34-35) at conception. DNA is information that uniquely describes each of us. As the Creator God (Jn 1:3), termed "the Word" in the Jn-1 context, became Jesus through this conception, then the God-planted strand of genetic material would have contained information describing the Creator God. Now Strong's definition of the "Word" (Logos) is consistent with "information" (especially note, "computation" and "divine expression"). I submit therefore that when the Creator God "emptied Himself" (Php 2:7 NASB), He was reduced to, transformed into, or transcribed upon the genetic material that God planted in Mary's ovum, WHICH GENETIC MATERIAL- describing the One that was in the beginning with God, and Who Himself was God the Creator - WAS THE WORD that became flesh.