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Child of Wisdom Jesus Became His Parent
Kelly P. Gallagher
In this chapter we will look into the phenomena that Jesus had a personal Spirit. We capitalize spirit because His personal Spirit was divine at his birth, yet grew into full deity through the process of his life and resurrection from the dead. Matthew 11:19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children. In this verse, and the previous verse, Jesus says that John the Baptist and Himself were children of Wisdom, the Wisdom of God. In the book of proverbs, Wisdom is personified as a woman. However, to avoid worship of a female deity, Wisdom, God has always called Himself male - He. The Holy Spirit is a He, Jesus is a He, the Father is a He. Pagans love to worship the female deity, the “Queen of Heaven” which has been worshipped under the names Astarte, Diana, Leto and the Virgin Mary, among others. Even the Israelites backslid into worshipping and making cakes to the Queen of Heaven. The Bible does, however, speak of a female personification of God’s Wisdom, which shows the feminine side of God: The Proverbs, Chapter 4 5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. 7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. 8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. 9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. Prov 1:20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: Prov 3:19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. Prov 7:4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: Prov 8:1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? Prov 9:1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: We can see from the above verses that Wisdom is personified as a female and was the agent of creation. In John 1, the Word is said to be the agent of creation and the Word is called male. The Gospel According to John, Chapter 1 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 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. We can see that the Word is Male, and the agent of creation, while Proverbs says that Wisdom is the agent of creation and was also a personified female. Also, the Wisdom of God was with God in the beginning, and it would be safe to say that the Wisdom of God is also God Himself: The Proverbs, Chapter 8 22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: 26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. 27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: 28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: 29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: 30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; 31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men. The above verses show that Wisdom was with God and was the agent of creation, yet was with the agent of creation at the same time. From studying these verses it is clear that the Wisdom of God is interchangeable with the Word of God and both were with God in the beginning. The Catholic Bible, the Latin Vulgate says this in Psalm 110:3 “before the daystar, like a dew, I was brought forth (or begotten)” They use this verse to say that the Word of God, which is the Son of God, was begotten before the creation of the sun, the daystar, therefore, before creation itself. Thus the councils say that the Son of God was begotten twice; once in eternity and once at the incarnation of Christ. Some church fathers, like Hilary of Potiers, believed that the Son of God was also begotten at the resurrection. Why would it be important whether the Son of God was begotten once, twice or three times? The answer is that the wrong idea about when the Son of God was begotten can lead to a false Christology and a false understanding of the Godhead. It can lead to two or three gods and a form of tritheism, or polytheism, where God is worshipped as multiple Gods and in effect, is idolatry. It also leads to the idolatry of worshipping the Eucharist as God and Mary as the Mother of God. The cakes of bread offered to Astarte, the Queen of Heaven, in the Old Testament become the round (like the Sun God Baal) wafer offered to the Mother of God, Mary in the Roman Catholic church. No one in the Catholic church would believe that they are doing this; but by mixture with the pagan religions and prostituting the truth and the offense of the Cross for the sake of numbers and money are the reasons that the Catholic church is so large and has over 1 billion souls in her grasp. At the other extreme of Catholic Trinitarianism is the Unitarian belief that God is one and denies the Deity of Christ. Also, the Oneness Pentecostal movement believes that Jesus only is in heaven, that the Father and the Holy Spirit are but roles of the same person. We believe that the truth lies in the middle of these extremes. The Father, the Word (which became the Son) and the Holy Spirit are indeed separate prosopons, not hypostases. This means that they are indeed real persons and have been from all eternity. However, never was the Word or the Son begotten from all eternity. This idea is from the gnostic heretic Origen, of Alexandria Egypt, a hotbed of heresy and idolatry. This invention was incorporated into the councils of the church and finalized in the creeds that most Christianity believes. When God spoke the worlds into creation, He created the worlds out of nothing. Just the power of His Word made that which did not exist, exist and have being. The Word of God was present as the Wisdom of God and was with God. God created the heavens and the earth through the agent of His Word, or the Logos (the Greek word for Word). Yet, as the verses above state, Wisdom was with God as He created the worlds and yet Wisdom also is said to have done the creating of the world. One cannot separate the Father, the Word, or the Holy Spirit from any action. The Spirit of God also was involved in creation as it “brooded” (imagery of a female hen brooding over her chicks). Jesus Himself uses this imagery when speaking about the destruction of Israel. There is neither male nor female in Christ Jesus. God is above maleness and femaleness and He is also above being limited by the three persons that make up the one hypostasis of God. God said, “let US make man in our image.” Adam was created in the image of God: He has three parts; body, soul and spirit. Adam had Eve “in him” at the time that God created Adam in His image. So the Wisdom of God could be likened to Eve, which was “brought forth” out of the side of Adam, yet really was Adam. She was “bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh”, said Adam, and she was. Comparing God to man is definitely seeing through a dark mirror, because God is above being limited as Adam was. God has three person/parts to Him, yet these person/parts are interchangeable and can be “sent” separately. Adam’s body, soul and spirit were fixed and most likely could not leave the body. Witches can astral project today, but it is not without the help of demons that man can do this - he cannot separate body and soul by himself. Now, the last Adam, Jesus is compared to Adam in probably the most difficult verses in the Bible to understand: The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, Chapter 15 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. We can see clearly that the first Adam was made (ginomai, a process) a living soul. His soul was breathed into him by God at the time he was created. The last Adam, Jesus, was made (same word, ginomai) a life-giving, or quickening spirit. We believe Spirit here should be capitalized to show that the personal spirit of Jesus was divine, however the translators of the King James Bible may have put a small letter here because it would imply change to God’s spirit. This is the mystery of the incarnation and godliness - God became a man and a man became God in His personal Spirit by joining with God and totally taking on the power and glory and attributes of God. We, as Christians will also partake of the Divine Nature, but not directly. We will partake of “His” divine nature, not become it. Also, the “His” talked about by Peter refers to Christ, not God the Father: 2 Pet 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 1 Cor 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 1 Cor 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. Eph 2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Jesus is called God in 2 Peter, “God and our Savior Jesus Christ”. It is Christ’s divine nature that we are to partake of. We will partake of God’s nature through Christ, who is God made man. We will not become God, but as 1 Cor 6:17 says, we are one spirit with the Lord. We will be honored to partake of His divine nature, yet we will not become God, or be divinized. This is the error of Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, who believe that through the Eucharist, we become God. This blasphemy is just a repetition of the heresy of the serpent in the garden who said, “ye shall become gods” to Adam and Eve. Notice that it is the Father, the Word (not the Son) and the Holy Spirit that are in heaven in I John 5:7. The new versions of the Bible consistently take this verse out because it is found in only a few Greek manuscripts. The King James translators put this in the Bible because they believed it belongs there. I trust that group of scholars much more than the modern so-called scholars who wouldn’t hold a candle to any of the great men of the King James Bible. We believe that this verse was taken out of the Greek Texts because in the Greek speaking world Sabellianism, or Oneness Theology, was everywhere and they wanted this verse out because it denies that the Son is part of the Trinity and really shows the Oneness of God. 1 Jhn 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1 Jhn 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. 1 Jhn 5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. 1 Jhn 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. We must be careful to read scriptures in context, as well as to be sure that we have the right scriptures. We believe that God preserves His Word and that the Word of God is preserved in the texts that underline the King James Bible. Some extremists go so far as to say that the English of the King James is better than the underlying Hebrew and Greek or that it is a re-inspiration. This is nonsense. However, we do believe that God put together a group of men who were so knowledgeable of ancient languages and also combined personal holiness and a true born again relationship to God in the men who translated the King James Bible that never again could this happen. We are in a time of apostasy, and only apostates will be translating the Bible. It is not a coincidence that almost all of the new versions rely on the Alexandria, Egypt texts rather than the Received Text that came from Antioch, Syria. The church moved to this very city in Acts chapter 11 after the destruction of Jerusalem. Every heresy in the church from all the church age has come from Egypt, including the heresy of three hypostases in one God; the Roman Catholic Trinity. Many so called “Protestants” honestly have not studied this out and have been duped by reading the wrong versions and also by not studying beyond the surface of the Bible, which SEEMS to agree with the Catholic Trinity. The Bible does show that God has Three in One, but it never defines what those three are, other than to say that these three bear record in heaven. Notice that the Son is not here, but the Word. The One who rides on the horse, Jesus, is called the Word of God because He is fully one with Him. Still, John is speaking after the resurrection and is careful not to call the Word the Son. Always there is a distinction of the two. Roman Catholicism takes away that distinction. (3140) marture>w, — mar-too-reh’-o; from (3144) (ma>rtuv); to be a witness, i.e. testify (literal or figurative): — charge, give [evidence], bear record, have (obtain, of) good (honest) report, be well reported of, testify, give (have) testimony, (be, bear, give, obtain) witness. (3141) marturi>a, — mar-too-ree’-ah; from (3144) (ma>rtuv); evidence given (judicially or generic): — record, report, testimony, witness. 1 Jhn 5:7 For there are three that bear record (3140)in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1 Jhn 5:8 And there are three that bear witness(3140) in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. 1 Jhn 5:9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness (3141) of God which he hath testified of his Son. 1 Jhn 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record (3141) that God gave of his Son. We see that the two Greek words martureo and marturia, where we get the word “martyr” are from the same root and one is bearing witness and one is being a witness. The three that are in God bear witness, but God is the witness. Also, the blood, the spirit and the water bear witness, but God is the witness. In addition, we can see from the above verses that the three that testify in heaven and the three that testify on earth are giving evidence OF THE SON. One of the three is the Word, which bears record of the Son, so they are indeed distinct. The one hypostates of God includes three prosopon/persons (although the word prosopon is never used of the three member of the Godhead). I use prospon because it is a real person, but not the actual being. All three prosopon/persons in the Godhead share a single hypostasis. The Roman Catholic church has changed hypostasis for ousia (essence) and said that God is three hypostases. God therefore is three essences within one essence. This is extra-biblical and anti-biblical. It sets up a three headed God. The Greek word for one is heis (pronounced hice) and means “numerically one, one another”. The three who bear record (real separate persons) are one another and are one being. Jesus spoke of the witness of His Father as one witness to His truth, and another being Himself. Although there are three who bear witness, only God the Father is one witness, not three. These verses are carefully worded by God and every word in the Greek language must be carefully studied. We dishonor God if we read the Bible only on a surface level and are also easily brought into deception. We believe that God does not want us to worship three gods in one, but One God who reveals Himself as three persons. However, the Holy Spirit and the Father are not to be the focus of our worship. All honor goes to the Son, Jesus Christ. When Jesus Christ is prayed to, worshipped, baptized in His name, all the Godhead is rightly worshipped and obeyed. There is not Jesus only in heaven, but IN HIM are the three witness of the Godhead; the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit. By right thinking and theology of the Godhead and the mystery of the incarnation, we praise God with understanding and therefore give more glory to Him.
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