Showing posts with label Sons of God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sons of God. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Proverbs 8:22-31

Colossians 1:15-17, "He [Jesus] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by Him all things were created, {both} in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things" - NASB

John 17:4-5, "I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given me to do. And now, O Father, glorify me together with yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was". – KKJV

"Where did you happen to be when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you do know understanding. Who set its measurements, in case you know, or who stretched out upon it the measuring line? Into what have its socket pedestals been sunk down, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars joyfully cried out together, and all of the sons of God began shouting in applause?" - NWT

Proverbs 8:22-31, "The Lord [Yhwh} created me at the beginning of his course. As the first of his works of old. In the distant past I was fashioned, at the beginning, at the origin of earth. There was still no deep when I was brought forth, no springs rich in water; before {the foundation of] the mountains were sunk, before the hills I was born. He had not yet made earth and fields, or the world's first clumps of clay. I was there when He first set the heavens into place; when he fixed the horizon upon the deep; when he made the heavens above firm, and the fountains of the deep gushed forth; when he assigned the sea its limits, so that's its waters never transgress His command; when he fixed the foundations of the earth, I was with Him as a confidant, a source of delight everyday, rejoicing before Him at all times, rejoicing in His inhabited world, finding delight with mankind." – Tanakh – JPS Oxford (tetra indicator - mine).

Thoughts? Discussions? Trinitarians?

Who exactly does Jesus think he is? A son of God who applauded at the world's creation? The first son of God? Maybe even the only "begotten" son of God (or as John calls him, monogenes theos)? Interesting questions.Why do so many Christians not feel that the Hebrew Scriptures have anything to offer them?