The Word Became Flesh - by bionic mosquito

 Noting that the Word initiated the relationship – He came into the world – yet it requires some form of participation or action to “receive” Him and to believe on His name. Even here, not by the will of the flesh but of God. Just how to put faith and works together in a way that recognizes all that is in this short sentence? No wonder the topic is a hot button for many, though it need not be; there is no escape of the idea that our participation is necessary to our salvation.....

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....In the synoptic gospels. The theme of Mosaic law and Jesus’s teaching receives meaningful treatment only in Matthew. In John, Moses is mentioned eleven times in various passages. No other Old Testament figure receives as many mentions (for example, Abraham is mentioned nine times, but all in one passage).

Of course, Jesus is superior to Moses. He is not merely an agent through whom the Logos acts; He is the Logos. Further, in the gospel of John, He is not contrasted to Moses or considered a new Moses; He supplants Moses as the chief authority, superior to Moses.

Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ, this juxtaposed to the law given through Moses. Per John Ashton:

“This statement, bleak, blunt, uncompromising, illustrates more clearly than any other in the whole of the New Testament the incompatibility of Christianity and Judaism.”

John was deliberately repudiating Judaism, at least as it was observed in his time. “You have heard it said….” Many of what was heard said was not in the law, but in traditions built by the Pharisees and others. This, clearly, was repudiated.

Conclusion

John 14: 7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”

8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”

9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

Jesus did more than reveal in a more complete way an understanding of God. He offered the ability to behold God Himself. In this way, He opened up for us salvation in the fullest sense: Christ Jesus, the Son and the Second Person of the Trinity, made it possible for man to enter into union with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.