46 The Two Trees in the Garden Part 2 - a podcast by Warren Kay and Ian Hartley

Jesus understanding of God is radically different than that revealed by the Old Testament Writers. No wonder the disciples asked Him to show them the Father. Fortunate for us, He shares with us the God that He knew and revealed Him through His life and teachings. 

Jesus arrived two millennia ago and completely negated this view of God.

Jesus came to show that God is represented by the Tree of Life not the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. This picture of God was completely new for our suffering planet (John 13:15). It was not a magnification of something Moses or Elijah or Isaiah or Jeremiah had said. Jesus is the most creative being who has ever existed. He is unique. He is not an improvement of the Old Testament prophets but God himself. He is the only eyewitness we have of God (John 1:18), and his testimony about God is more accurate than any other prophet’s testimony.

Hebrews 1:1-3

Here are some of the unbelievable statements made by Jesus which contradicted long held beliefs by God’s chosen people.

Matthew 5:27-28

Exodus 20:14)

Matthew 5:31-32

Matthew 5:38

Matthew 5:43-48

Jesus Christ claimed that he and God are congruent in character, this means that they are alike in every aspect of character. Jesus portrays the whole character of God not only one aspect of his character. Some say that Jesus came to show the love of God with his first advent and at the second advent he will show the power of God in executing unrepentant sinners. Here is some of the evidence Jesus gave that his revelation implied he embraces all of God character:

John 1:1

John 1:18

John 12:45 NLT When you see me, you are seeing the one who sent me.

John 14:8-10

What ever we say about Jesus we can also say about God. What ever we say that is true about God we can also say about Jesus. We cannot provide contradictions between God and Jesus Christ. If there are apparent contradictions the contradiction indicates some truth about God or Jesus is misstated.

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