[Esaias]

Originally Posted by mfblume

I agree with all that you said, seeing that it is a case of termonology.

When I say the physical man is not God I mean humanity is all that this body and soul is and was. I believe Jesus was literal when he told the rich young rule to not call him good because no man is good, only God. Thomas touched the body, but the body was purely human and not deity since the deity is eternal and the body was not.

I think this also touches on an issue I have been concerned with for many oneness people for years, even decades. They distance Jesus' humanity from us and do not see that He relied on the direction and power of the Father as much as we need to. Many oneness people deny that. Jesus as a man genuinely had to learn and grow in wisdom, and learn obedience. He did precisely the things we can and should do when dealing with satan, and did not treat the devil as only God could handle him, and us be unable to in that same manner.

Thomas knew God was in that human being, just as He is now in us. But the difference between us and Jesus is that his very person was God, and I do use that term person because the Bible did, while obviously standing o the greek meaning of the term and not what person have been evolved into apart form that.