Now... @Samson2020 , are you happy with the short version of my reply? I am running out of time at present but i can try again. What you ask is something that i take seriously. that is, to 'expand my thoughts/thinking' , so thank you for reading this and i do apologize if it has made little or no sense and hasn't gone where you might have wanted it to.
No. And I do not mean to sound nasty or mean, but I was expecting more substance. It's one thing to have a doctrine, but another to be able to support that doctrine with scripture.
Let us be mindful of this. It was no mere bit of advice.
[perhaps have a slow look at 1Timothy Chapter 2 and see more in context. - in fact all of 2Timothy touches on some quite pertinent things for us all to remember, more often.
1 Tim 2:5 "
For there is one God,
and one
mediator between God and men,
the man Jesus Christ." Even using the suggested reading it's clear as can be there are 2. God is God
and Jesus is the mediator. How does God become his own mediator? What would be the point?
You see Adam was destined to fail for if he had not failed there would have been no need for Jesus to be the redeemer of mankind. But since He was foreordained before the founding of
the world, Adam had to fail. Gods plan. Jesus was made as a man in order to be under the law, God has not, nor ever will be under the law that he gave for man.
A man lost his place and all of ours in God and with God so that God could send Jesus to redeem man from death and make them alive again unto God. Thus the mediator.
Now God would have no problem fulfilling the law for he does not have the capacity to fail, however; since Jesus was make like unto his brethren, (men) he had the capacity to fail, but
obviously did not. A man failed, and it had to be a man, that just happened to be fathered by God himself, that did not fail.
Jesus was born of God who does not have a carnal mind and as the carnal mind is passed from father to child this is the difference in Jesus and the rest of us. He did however
receive that carnal mind in the garden prior to his death so that he would know what men had experienced all their lives which would make him a better intercessor for mankind.
Now if your looking at verse 3 "For this is good and acceptable in the sight of
God our Savior; 4- Who will have ALL MEN TO BE SAVED, and come unto the knowledge of the truth."
Verse 4 subject for a different thread.
Again we go to 5 and see there is only one God (True God), that being the Father, and there is one mediator that being the one and only begotten Son of the Father, Jesus.
And again we know that God is not a man, and that no man hath seen God at any time according to scripture. John 1:18, and 1 John 4:12 which both were written many years after the death
and resurrection of Jesus, who according to 1 Tim 2:5 was a man, and seen by multitudes of people.
It appears to me that the writer of 1 Tim 2 is giving God the Father credit for being the Savior, but he is not giving credit to Jesus in this case as he mentions Jesus as being the mediator.
We both know that Jesus is the Redeemer in the sense that He is the one who died for us all, but it is the Father who begat Him that initiated the process and brought Jesus' death as the
payment for sin to a conclusion. It's the chicken or egg which came first issue. Thus the Lamb of God, sent by God, was not God, but was as the books describe, Gods Son in the flesh.
Only a man can die, and as God is a Spirit He cannot die. Jesus as a man, in the flesh, could and did.
Who supplied the lambs without spot or blemish to be offered unto God in sacrifice? It was God who supplied all of them, including Jesus.
6- "Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time."
So here we see that Jesus gave himself as a ransom. To whom did He give himself? According to scripture the lamb that was slain was for forgiveness of the peoples sins in order to satisfy God
under the Mosaic law. Jesus who died as the last lamb was under that same Mosaic law until His death, which was a sacrifice unto God for the sin of the world. It was not God sacrificing
himself to himself, it was a man (Jesus), without spot or blemish, that was sacrificed.
I know that at times what we read can lead us to conclude things that may or may not be true, but the Bible is written in order to keep those out who do not yet have the right to consume
the spiritual food that is in it, for it is for the sons, children, elect of the Father. And the hidden manna within is for the overcomer only.
I suppose we can still agree to disagree and be at peace with one another, as the strange part of the topic is that each side believes they are trying to help the other. Kind of a tug of
war game, that in this case no one will win, for the game is to be continued until the day of judgement by design.
So be at peace with me for I mean no ill will toward you or anyone else who may read this, even though passion for the subject may appear aggressive at times.
It is love that we seek to become and must be careful we do not get sidetracked trying to bring along everyone else with us before we have become that. Otherwise we may never get there.