Thank you for your reply. Yes you are quite correct to a point, in Luke 12:32 Jesus is here 'personally' addressing the nucleus of his 'little flock' wich actually comprised later og both Jew and Gentile. (John 10:16) "I have other sheep [Gentiles] not of this fold [Jews] these also I must bring and they shall become one flock, one shepherd."
I enjoy watching you try to twist. So the 'little flock' grows but remains small and will always be the 'little flock' so that you claim that everyone that disagrees with you are not of the Elect, except of course it is now one 'big flock'.
The problem is that in some of the scriptures you are using, the wording is erroneous due to mistranslation from the original Greek. In John 1:1 "The Word was with God." is rendered by a capital Theta, while at the end "the Word was a god." is rendered by a standard Theta; denoting two God's of unequal status. (Vatican Greek Manuscript 1209)
This is what we are talking about isn't it, interpretation, translation.
If Jesus is "a god", he is a god nonetheless. The means there are two gods, this is
polytheism.
How then do we reconcile what John is saying with the rest of Scripture?
Torrey's New Topical Textbook - Christ Is God
As Jehovah
Isa 40:3; Mat 3:3;
As Jehovah of glory
Psa 24:7; Psa 24:10; 1Co 2:8; Jam 2:1;
As Jehovah, our RIGHTEOUSNESS
Jer 23:5; Jer 23:6; 1Co 1:30;
As Jehovah, above all
Psa 97:9; Joh 3:31;
As Jehovah, the First and the Last
Isa 44:6; Rev 1:17; Isa 48:12-16; Rev 22:13;
As Jehovah's Fellow and Equal
Zec 13:7; Phi 2:6;
As Jehovah of Hosts
Isa 6:1-3; Joh 12:41; Isa 8:13; Isa 8:14; 1Pe 2:8;
As Jehovah, the Shepherd
Isa 40:11; Heb 13:20;
As Jehovah, for whose glory all things were created
Pro 16:4; Col 1:16;
As Jehovah, the Messenger of the covenant
Mal 3:1; Mar 1:2; Luk 2:27;
Invoked as Jehovah
Joe 2:32; Act 2:21; 1Co 1:2;
As the Eternal God and Creator
Psa 102:24-27; Heb 1:8; Heb 1:10-12;
As the mighty God
Isa 9:6;
As the Great God and Saviour
Hos 1:7; Tit 2:13;
As God over all
Psa 45:6; Psa 45:7; Rom 9:5;
As the true God
Jer 10:10; 1Jo 5:20;
As God the Word
Joh 1:1;
As God, the judge
Ecc 12:14; 1Co 4:5; 2Co 5:10; 2Ti 4:1;
As Emmanuel
Isa 7:14; Mat 1:23;
As King of kings and Lord of lords
Deu 10:17; Rev 1:5; Rev 17:14;
As the Holy One
1Sa 2:2; Act 3:14;
As the Lord from heaven
1Co 15:47;
As Lord of the Sabbath
Gen 2:3; Mat 12:8;
As Lord of all
Act 10:36; Rom 10:11-13;
As Son of God
Mat 26:63-67;
As the Only-begotten Son of the Father
Joh 1:14; Joh 1:18; Joh 3:16; Joh 3:18; 1Jo 4:9;
His blood is called the blood of God
Act 20:28;
As one with the Father
Joh 10:30; Joh 10:38; Joh 12:45; Joh 14:7-10; Joh 17:10;
As sending the Spirit, equally with the Father
Joh 14:16; Joh 15:26;
As entitled to equal honour with the Father
Joh 5:23;
As Owner of all things, equally with the Father
Joh 16:15;
As unrestricted by the law of the sabbath, equally with the Father
Joh 5:17;
As the Source of grace, equally with the Father
1Th 3:11; 2Th 2:16; 2Th 2:17;
As unsearchable, equally with the Father
Pro 30:4; Mat 11:27;
As Creator of all things
Isa 40:28; Joh 1:3; Col 1:16; Heb 1:2;
As Supporter and Preserver of all things
Neh 9:6; Col 1:17; Heb 1:3;
As possessed of the fulness of the God head
Col 2:9; Heb 1:3;
As raising the dead
Joh 5:21; Joh 6:40; Joh 6:54;
As raising himself from the dead
Joh 2:19; Joh 2:21; Joh 10:18;
As Eternal
Isa 9:6; Mic 5:2; Joh 1:1; Col 1:17; Heb 1:8-10; Rev 1:8;
As Omnipresent
Mat 18:20; Mat 28:20; Joh 3:13;
As Omnipotent
Psa 45:3; Phi 3:21; Rev 1:8;
As Omniscient
Joh 16:30; Joh 21:17;
As discerning the thoughts of the heart
1Ki 8:39; Luk 5:22; Eze 11:5; Joh 2:24; Joh 2:25; Rev 2:23;
As unchangeable
Mal 3:6; Heb 1:12; Heb 13:8;
As having power to forgive sins
Col 3:13; Mar 2:7; Mar 2:10;
As Giver of pastors to the Church
Jer 3:15; Eph 4:11-13;
As Husband of the Church
Isa 54:5; Eph 5:25-32; Isa 62:5; Rev 21:2; Rev 21:9;
As the object of divine worship
Act 7:59; 2Co 12:8; 2Co 12:9; Heb 1:6; Rev 5:12;
As the object of faith
Psa 2:12; 1Pe 2:6; Jer 17:5; Jer 17:7; Joh 14:1;
As God, he redeems and purifies the Church to himself
Rev 5:9; Tit 2:14;
As God, he presents the Church to himself
Eph 5:27; Jud 1:24; Jud 1:25;
Saints live to him as God
Rom 6:11; Gal 2:19; 2Co 5:15;
Acknowledged by his Apostles
Joh 20:28;
Acknowledged by the Old Testament saints
Gen 17:1; Gen 48:15; Gen 48:16; Gen 32:24-30; Hos 12:3-5; Jdg 6:22-24; Jdg 13:21; Jdg 13:22; Job 19:25-27;
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Scofield Reference Bible Notes - John 1:1
Word
(Greek, "logos"); (Aramaic, "Memra," used in the Targums, or Hebrew, paraphrases, for "God"). The Greek term means,
(1) a thought or concept;
(2) the expression or utterance of that thought. As a designation of Christ, therefore, Logos is peculiarly felicitous because,
(1) in Him are embodied all the treasures of the divine wisdom, the collective "thought" of God 1Co 1:24; Eph 3:11; Col 2:2; Col 2:3 and,
(2) He is from eternity, but especially in His incarnation, the utterance or expression of the Person, and "thought" of Deity Joh 1:3-5; Joh 1:9; Joh 1:14-18; Joh 14:9-11; Col 2:9.
In the Being, Person, and work of Christ, Deity is told out.
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Geneva Bible Notes, 1599 - John 1:1
In (1)the (a)beginning (b)was (c)the Word, and the Word was (d)with God, and the (e)Word was God.
(1)The Son of God is of one and the selfsame eternity or everlastingness, and of one and the selfsame essence or nature with the Father.
(a)From the beginning, as the evangelist says in (1Jo 1:1); it is as though he said that the Word did not begin to have his being when God began to make all that was made: for the Word was even then when all things that were made began to be made, and therefore he was before the beginning of all things.
(b)Had his being.
(c)This word "the" points out to us a peculiar and choice thing above all others, and puts a difference between this "Word", which is the Son of God, and the laws of God, which are also called the word of God.
(d)This word "with" points out that there is a distinction of persons here.
(e)This word "Word" is the first in order in the sentence, and is the subject of the sentence, and this word "God" is the latter in order, and is the predicate of the sentence.
The original rendering is"...Kai Theos e'n o' Logos" or "...and God was the Word."
Bottom line is that the Word is God!
