Ryld:
If God the Word is not also Jehovah (not the Word made flesh, but the Word which has been since the beginning before He was made flesh), then why did Christ Jesus say of Himself (as the Word) "before Abraham was, I AM" (the very same Name revealed to Moses as being Jehovah)


Because He has always existed, same as His Father and the Holy Spirit. And He didn't use any name in His statement; He simply said, "I am".


? In fact, even the Jews of whom Christ said that their father was the Devil, the murderer from the beginning, completely understood what Christ meant when He said this--that He, the Word, and thus being God, Jehovah, who also is the Father and the Holy Spirit (since Peter informs us that the same Jehovah speaking to the Prophets of old was the Holy Ghost)--was in the days of Abraham. The Jews chided Christ by saying "you are not yet even 50 years old".


This gets goofier as it goes on! The title "The Word" if for Jesus alone. It was by His word that all things were made, following His Father's "blueprint". And, as Art said, Jehovah is The Father alone! In past discussions, I and othershave posted the Scriptures that PROVE that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are separate Personages while making up the one Godhead. (From this, I was even falsely accused of promoting tritheism, which is absurd.) I believe you've gotten into a mess by adding your imagination andman-made private interps, either yours or someone else's, to the TRUE plain and literal meaning of the Scriptures in the OP. Very clearly, God the father was telling God The Son to sit at The Father's right hand until The Father had dealt with The Son's enemies, and nothing more. The Son said that the Holy Spirit had revealed this event to David. And while david never called himself a prophet, JESUS said he was a prophet, so therefore David was a prophet whether he realized it or not!

Ryld, I believe U could save yourself a lotta probs if U simply believed the Scriptures at face value and quit trying to invent new meanings for them. You're making them a lot more complicated than they really are.

"robycop3 - The avowed enemy of ALL man-made doctrines of worship!"