Bible Discussion Thread

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.John1:1And 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.John1:14
dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. KJV
I. The Warning
a. This section of Paul’s letter to the Colossians is a warning about being drawn
away by false teachers.
b. Paul disposes of the Docetic theory that Jesus had no human body as well as the
Cerinthian separation between the man Jesus and the spirit of Christ.
c. He warns them about teachers who bring deceitful notions about Christ which
would lead believers astray.
d. He warns about being drawn away by cheap substitutes and false notions and tells
us to stay away from anything that is not the Christ that he preaches.
II The Superiority of Christ
a. It pleased the Father that in Christ dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
He, as man, was not merely God-like, but GOD. Col 1:19; 1 Tim 3:16
b. The fullness of the Godhead dwells in Christ really, and not figuratively; for he is
both God and man. Matt 1:23
c. Paul asserts that "all that the Godhead is," not just certain aspects, dwells in Christ
and in physical form. Phil 2:6-11
d. The fullness of the Godhead was in Christ before the Incarnation ( John 1:1); and
during the Incarnation. 1 John 1:1-3.
e. It was the Son of God who came in the likeness of men, thus, he asserts plainly
both the deity and the humanity of Jesus Christ in corporeal form. John 3:16-1 therefore Jesus was not an angel he was better then the angels read it again Jesus was God in flesh.
Col 2:8-9 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the
tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.9 For in him
dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. KJ