74x12
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Not to be rude or anything; but in my view that is a flaw in the way you view your relationship with God.No... it's called knowing your God. There is no reason why our Creator would want to change into a human. God does not bring himself down to us, he wants us to bring ourselves up to him. But in a spiritual way. A way of thinking spiritually and not of the flesh.
To bring yourself up to God is like what they did with the tower of Babel. That is think you can get to heaven by what you do for yourself. You make a tower that you think will reach to heaven. That's man made religious thinking.
If God doesn't reach us we have no hope. That's the grace of God that saves anyone.
No He doesn't change. Absolutely correct. This is one good reason we know Jesus is God. Because Jesus also does not change.God does not change. Is there a verse that tells us that God changed into a man?
Notice:
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. (Hebrews 13:8)
So, no we don't think God changed into a man. He came in the form of a man. We do not believe for a minute that God changes anything about Himself. But, He does do new things. (Isaiah 43:19)
But God always was going to come in the form of a man. As it is written:
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
1 Peter 1:19-20 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
Micah 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
So it as always in God's mind and He set it forth before the foundation of the world but there came a time indeed when God became (as through His salvation on the cross) what He always was in predestination and foreordanation. That is the Savior of the world.
He became a man not for Himself but for us. Do you think God likes being separate from us? God loves us all and so that's why He came to reconcile us to Himself. Because being with us gives God great joy because of His deep love for us. That's why God would do anything necessary to reconcile us to Himself again.Did someone tell you that? Just trying to think why anyone would ever think why our Heavenly Father would want to come down to earth and change into a man.
God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself:
2 Corinthians To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Jesus was reconciling all things to Himself:
Colossians 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Therefore, Jesus is God.