That they may be one, even as we are one

 That they may be one, even as we are one

 

John 17:21-23 『That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.』

The idea of ​​the Trinity explains that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are each God, but the three Gods are one. It promotes mystery by saying that God is one while speaking as if there are three Gods. The idea of ​​the Trinity causes misunderstanding of Christianity. Jesus Christ is not only God, but also the Son of Man and the Son of God. Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit in Mary's womb, and when he was 30 years old, he was baptized by John, and was called the Son of God.

Matthew 3:16-17 "Now when Jesus was baptized, he went up immediately from the water. And behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. And lo, a voice from heaven, saying, 'This is my Son, the Beloved; in him I am well pleased.'" Jesus Christ, the son of Mary, inherited the sinful body of the first man Adam in the flesh, and by dying on the cross on behalf of all mankind, he broke the chains of the body of sin. Therefore, as the first man Adam, Jesus Christ died to fulfill God's will.

Jesus died in the flesh, but was made alive in the spirit. That is why he was resurrected in spirit three days after his death. 1 Peter 3:18『For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:』

Resurrection is the making alive of the spirit. The flesh is destroyed by death. And after the spirit is resurrected with a spiritual body, it remains on earth for forty days and ascends to the right hand of God. Hebrews 10:12 "But Christ, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God."

Why do people make Jesus, the Son of God, God? The reason is that God came to the world as a man in the image of God, so Jesus is God. Here, they misunderstand the image of God. The image of God does not mean divinity, but a visible body. It means that he came to the world in the body of sin to die a substitutionary death.

Colossians 1:15 "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creation." He is Jesus Christ with a fleshly body. The firstborn of every creation means the first man. Christ, who came to the world in the flesh, is the first man Christ. The first man came to give the body of sin to people, but Jesus Christ is the Christ who came to die to the body of sin.

The oneness of God and the Son Jesus Christ means the unity of the spirit. The oneness in the Holy Spirit means that they were originally one, but the Sabbath was broken because of the fallen angels, and God created the material world to confine their spirits, and God predestined Christ before the creation of the world, and God Himself went out of the Holy Spirit. They were divided into God in the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ outside the Holy Spirit, and they could not become one. Therefore, in order to become one again in the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ became the Son of God and performed the work of saving the spirits of the fallen angels.

All sinners living in the world seem to have their spirits imprisoned in the flesh. They are outside the Holy Spirit. However, in order for them to enter the Holy Spirit, the problem of sin had to be solved. That is why Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died on the cross, and the spirits imprisoned in the flesh rose up and were resurrected with a spiritual body. Those who are resurrected by uniting with Jesus who died on the cross and with the resurrected Jesus Christ enter into the Holy Spirit.

Romans 6:6-7, "For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin."

Through the death of Jesus Christ, sinners are freed from sin and enter into the Holy Spirit. Romans 8:1-2 “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.”

In this way, the Father God, the Son Jesus Christ, and the saints become one in the Holy Spirit. Therefore, these are the words Jesus spoke before his ministry on the cross: "I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one." Originally, in the kingdom of God, the angels became one with God in the Holy Spirit, but because of their sins, they went out of the Holy Spirit, but through Christ, they became one again in the Holy Spirit.

1 John 5:6-8 "This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. It is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth. There are three who bear witness, the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three are one."

Water symbolizes the Word of God's covenant, that is, the Father, and blood symbolizes the atoning death of Jesus Christ, the symbol of the new covenant, and the Holy Spirit testifies that the saints who died on the cross with Jesus and are united with the resurrected Christ are given resurrection life. Therefore, it testifies that those who are in Christ are those who are in the Holy Spirit.

1 John 5:11-13 “He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed the witness that God gave about his Son. And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. These things I write to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.” Life means resurrection life, and without present resurrection life there is no eternal life.

The statement that the Father God, the Son God, and the Holy Spirit God exist separately and yet are one is nowhere in the Bible. It is merely a statement made by Bible scholars through inference. Believers must know that it is not the Trinity, but that the Father God, the Son Jesus Christ, and the saints must become one in the Holy Spirit. If one does not enter into this, he is not in Christ and is not saved.

In order for a believer to enter into the Holy Spirit, he or she must receive the life of resurrection. However, if one believes that the resurrection is the resurrection of a dead body or that resurrection occurs after death, it means that the believer is not currently one with God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.