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May 14th -- Colossians 1

The Image of The Invisible God
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Christ was a divine manifestation -- an embodiment of Deity in flesh -- Emmanuel, God with us. "God gave not to him the spirit by measure" (John 3:34). The spirit descended on him in bodily shape at his baptism in the Jordan, and took possession of him. This was the anointing which constituted him Christ (or the anointed), and which gave him the superhuman powers of which he showed himself possessed ...

When Jesus said, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father also," he did not contradict the statement that "no man hath seen God at any time", but simply expressed the truth contained in the following words of Paul: "Christ is the image of the invisible God" (Col. 1:15); "The brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person" (Hebrews 1:3). Those who looked upon the anointed Jesus, beheld a representation of the Deity accessible to human vision.

Robert Roberts, Christendom Astray, pages 107-108

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