Chapter 3 Why the Bible doesn't say what the songs say?

 

Chapter 3

Why the Bible doesn't say what the songs say?

 

It is true that the Bible speaks about God, the heavenly Father and Creator of all, about his Son and about His spirit, the holy spirit, however, if we read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, we find the testimony that there is only One true God, the Father only.

Here are some examples:

Exodus 20:1. And God spoke all these words: 2.“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3.“You shall have no other gods before a me.”

Matthew 4:10: "Jesus said to him, 'Away from me, Satan! For it is written: "Worship the LORD (YHWH) your God, and serve him only. (quote from the Old Testament)

We see this from Exodus 20 and John 17:3: "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent."

1Corinthians 8:5-6: “For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many "gods" and many "lords"),

yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.”

1 Timothy 2:5: “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus”

James 2:19: “You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.”

If this God were a trinity or a binity, we would have expected these texts

to specify this clearly. But there is no mention for a “Trinity” or a “Binity” here.

Reading the Bible, in any language, we will find one God and one Creator, nothing more, the Father only! The Universe was created by God the Father, the Creator alone, THROUGH the Son, not BY the Son (John 1:3), not with a second god and third god. We have here an Architect or Engineer (God, the Father alone) and a worker (the Son). All those working in factories know very well the difference.

But, when Christmas comes around, there is an old tradition in the Church songs; and these songs reveal that God became man, being born as Jesus. And if God was born, He had to die. This idea is very old,

and it is not of our present time.

For example, Melito, Bishop of Sardis (c. 170-180), about the death of Christ, he writes thus (if indeed he wrote this and it is not a writing attributed to him falsely):

"And so He was lifted up on a wood and He was given an inscription, to indicate Who was killed. Who was this? It's a hard thing to say, and one of the most frightening things to keep from saying. But listen, as you tremble before the face of the One to whom the earth shook. He who hanged the earth in his place was hanged. He who set the heavens in their place is fixed in one place. The One who posted all things fast is posted quickly on the wood. The Lord is insulted. God IS KILLED. The King of Israel is destroyed by an Israeli hand." (Peri Pascha —On the

Pascha, 96)

Wow! How is it that the Bible doesn't say that?

John 3:16 ”For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

The Death of Jesus

Mark 15:33 ”At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 34. And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud

voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God,

why have you forsaken me?”).

However, the question remains: how did some Christians like Melito (or a pseudo-Melito), come to this radical conclusion that God the Creator of the world [Himself] became man, died, and then rose from the death?