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November 1, 2009 - 8:04 am - by Richard Fernandez
Charles
2009-11-01 21:40:48

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Whoops. Made a mistake here. The Lamb here is capitalized–so Blake is referring to Christ. The problem is that God did not “Make” Christ. This idea of Christ being made –is part of the 3rd century arian heresy that Newton promulgated because he took descartes scientific method to its logical conclusion.

Christ was not made, rather (and here’s a pretty good exegesis)..
Christ also existed throughout all eternity with God: [In old testament terms:] “The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. From everlasting I was established from the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled before the hills. I was brought forth (or born); while He (God) had not ‘yet made the earth and the fields, nor the first dust of the world” (Prov. 8:22-26)

In the new testament we also read that, “In the beginning was the Word (Christ) and the Word was with God… He was in the beginning with God” (John 1:1-2). Christ Himself declared, “‘Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was born, I AM’” (8:58) and He prayed to God saying, “and now, glorify Thou Me together with Thyself, Father, with the glory which I ever had with Thee before the world was” (John 17:5). In Colossians 1:17, we read that Christ “is before all things… (Col. 1:17) which necessarily imply He was “with the Father” (I John 1:1-2) throughout all eternity past.

Those passages should not be considered to be a contradiction to the fact of God’s unity, but rather a complement to the right understanding of who God is or of the nature of the true God. Thus, not only did Christ inhabit all the days of eternity past with God, but we are taught that Christ was God” (John 1:1); ” He existed in the form of God” (Phil, 2:6); He existed in the very essence of God. Christ was equal with God (John 5:18: 10:33).

THE HOLY SPIRIT

Not only do the scriptures reveal that God is but one, and that Christ coexisted with God throughout all eternity past – that He is equal with God – that He is God, but they also teach that the Holy Spirit is God. That fact is more particularly seen in Acts 5:3-4 where Peter tells Ananias that by lying to the Holy Spirit, he lied to God. Secondly, in 2 Corinthians 3:18, the Holy Spirit is called “The Lord”. Third, Hebrews 9:14 affirms that the Holy Spirit is “The eternal Spirit”. Therefore, the Holy Spirit also existed throughout all eternity past with God the Father, and with God the Son.