statement alone seems to settle the argument, but many are so set out to want to be right that they become defensive and put up walls. Now to be fair the other camp will now seek to find any passage that could help validate their beliefs or doctrines. They now turn justification into a self-explanatory reasoning tool in order to be believed in what they say in the camp can only be acceptable. The next part of the first verse will be altered in order to prove themselves right by proving all others wrong. Once again, the argument itself is out of order and really has become the focus. Here comes Peter cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail, hippoty hoppity Easter's on its way. So, let's look at the rest of that first verse. "...There is ONE man standing between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.." How many men? The passage says there is only 1, and that man is Christ Jesus. Notice that the passage didn't say the Man Jesus, or the man known as Jesus, but much rather CHRIST Jesus. Why? Is it really that hard to accept or believe or maybe trust that God is above man? Is it really too tough to conceive or should I say concede to the idea and notion that God is NOT man but GOD? Why is it that we cannot accept that God is in a category all by Himself? Didn't He create man?
Wouldn't that state a position of God to mean that He is more powerful and more than any human just because He created us? His voice is beyond ours, insomuch that it has a positive outcome. When we say we are going to create say light we have to realize that there are risks that we take in order to achieve it? Make a light bulb, screw it in, turn it on for an hour and what happens when try to hold it? Do we not get burned? Are we not damaged by our creation? Do we not have to be respective of what we've made? Ye we do. On the other hand, when God creates light, it is productive. Yes, it can be damaging for instance if we gaze straight into the sun, are we not blinded? So we have come to learn how to respect it, right? In the meantime, we still want to make the Scripture say what we want it to say. We want to have our spiritual cake and eat it, too. Here comes Peter Cottontail... There is another passage of Scripture that says that God was IN CHRIST reconciling the world unto Himself (2 Cor. 5:19). Christ is God. God is Christ. They cannot be separated, they cannot be undone, nor can they be more than the same. So how do we understand this phrase in 1st Timothy when it speaks of something (someone) standing between God and man? The word that helps all this makes sense is the