Yeshua, the Firstborn Word/Wisdom

By Shmuel Playfair

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with the (Most High Creator) God/Power, and the Word was God/Power .... And the Word became flesh...." John 1.1-18]It should be noted that God's first-created personified Word was the vocal expression of God's Wisdom, which was both the means/instrument of His creation and His revealed Instruction/Law given to His people. In the beginning, the single Creator created or gave birth to the personified "firstborn" Word/Wisdom or Instruction/Torah/Law. Furthermore, the single Creator/Source created all things through/by means of the personified Word/Wisdom. John pictures the spoken personified Word/Wisdom (not the Creator Himself) as much later becoming embodied in the life, works, and teachings of a historical human being, Yeshua. No human being has ever physically seen God, the invisible immortal Father/Creator. However, the visible, mortal, and faithfully obedient son, Yeshua, the one being in the bosom (i.e., who lives in harmony with the will) of the Father--that one explained or made the Creator known. cf. John 1.1-18]In stark contrast to a threesome God with three distinct god-persons imagined by the pagan church fathers, Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 8.6, "Yet for us, there is one (single) God, the Father/Creator, from Whom are all things....and one Master/Lord through whom are all things." "Through whom are all things" refers to the personified firstborn first-created Word/Wisdom embodied in the life and teachings of Yeshua. Because the Word/Wisdom is the instrument or means through which God created all things, it cannot simultaneously be the single Creator, the Originator, or the Source of all creation. Unfortunately, misguided idolaters mistakenly equate the "firstborn (Word/Wisdom) of creation" with the single Creator Who is neither "born" nor "of creation."Note that Paul, John, and other writers of the Renewed Covenant Scriptures distinguish "the From Whom Are All Things" (the only Most High God, the Father/Creator) from the "through whom are all things" (the firstborn of creation" the personified, firstborn first-created Word/Wisdom). Since the later historical human creature, Yeshua, embodied the spoken personified Word/Wisdom in his life and teachings, he is figuratively called the beginning of the Creator's works or acts of creation, through or by whom the single God created all things. cf. Rev. 3.14] At the same time, Paul, John, and the other Jewish writers acknowledge the Father/Creator as the only Ultimate Power, the Most High God, and distinguish Him from the firstborn, first-created Word/Wisdom, which functions as the Father/Creator's subservient instrument/means.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08LJZMJ2R
• ISBN13: 9798550433201
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"