History shows that Greek thinking has had a strong influence on Christianity. Greek thinking demanded that all things fit into 2 categories, i.e., created or uncreated. So according to this type of thinking, Christ was either created or uncreated. This helped immensly in shaping the false doctrine of the Trinity.
Scripture teaches that between the uncreated God and creation, there was an intermediary step. This mediator is Christ who is the Word become flesh. He is the ONLY begotten of God and the only one who has seen God and can declare him.
There is a big jump between God and created beings. In fact we cannot even see God, so forget about trying to comprehend God or even seeing him with your eyes.
1 Timothy 6:15-16
15 which God will bring about in his own time, God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
16 who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen.
John 6:46
No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.
John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
But for us there is the image of God. i.e., Christ, who reveals the invisible God to us. That is why Jesus said “if you have seen me you have seen the Father”. Jesus wasn’t a created angel and nor was he a non-created God. Scripture is clear. He is and was the Word of God. The firstborn son. The only begotten.
Now if we are to correctly understand the truth about rank and where Christ is in relation to God and us. Look at this next scripture:
1 Corinthians 11:3
Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
So us created beings have a head who is Christ. BUT Christ also has a head who is GOD.
Can you grasp what this means? It changes the very foundation of most denominations and this is why such teaching is largely ignored today. Men want to cling to that which they create with their own hands. Yes Christ is our origin, for he is our head and we came into being by God through Christ.
God > Christ/Word > Man > Woman.
God > Christ/Word > creation
It isn’t the following as many people advocate:
God> Angel > Man
God-Father > God-Jesus> Man/creation.
Greek thinking sets the stage for the exisitence of those last 2 incorrect points. That is why I am convinced that Greek thinking has contaminated or even formed much of Christianity. Sadly many of these infected people fight to stay infected and try to infect others. But Paul knew about the Greeks and their philosophy, yet he preached “Christ crucified” to them, which was an offence to their proud intellectualism.
So Paul didn’t take the stance of trying to compete with their intellectual understanding of things because he knew the foolishness of God was greater than the wisdom of men. Yet some teachers try to intellectualise false doctrine. But false doctrine is false doctrine, no matter how big the words you use or how impressive it may sound.
Jesus is not created nor is he the uncreated God. Instead, he is the only begotten of God, the Word OF God.
A wise man sticks to revelation from God rather than imagine all kinds of vain imaginations with his own mind from his own spirit and try to create God in an image within his own limited understanding.
