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When God creates something, he simply has to utter the words and it comes to
pass, such as, "Let there be light."

We learn from other scriptures that while God was the master planner, it was
actually Christ who was used to create all other things. Everything is "by
him, through him and for him." Think of it as an architect and a builder.
The architect makes the plans but the builders do the actual building. In
the end both can say, "I built that building." Or, as a boss and a
secretary. The boss dictates a letter but the secretary actually types it
and sends it out. God is the author of things created, Christ is the
"master worker."

But because the nature of creation relates to utterances, what Christ was
doing was the actual utterances. So when God created heaven and earth it
was actually Christ who uttered the words, "Let there be light."

This worked for everything created and thus Christ became known as the "The
Word".

But since God had to first create Christ and Christ could not create
himself, Christ is unique in being the only creation of God that required
God's direct utterance. This makes Christ unique among all other creatures.

In heaven, other spiritual beings were created in different forms generally
considered "angels". Christ was such an angel and is identified in
scripture as the "archangel" Michael. There is only one archangel. When
Hebrews compares the nature of Christ as an angel to the other angels
though, it is with reference to this direct creation, this "only begotten"
reference to Christ being directly created. Thus he asks "To which angels
did God say, "Today I have become your father." is a reference to God only
speaking to create Christ but not the other angels. The other angels were
created through God's wish but Christ's utterance as the Word.

As an angel, though in an incorruptible body, he was still mortal as all
angels are. Thus Satan can be killed along with the rebel angels, but
Christ himself died and was dead for "three days and three nights."

Lars

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matthew_member@newsguy.com wrote:


>>The purpose of this scenerio is not as an allegory for God, (although
>>there is some allegory here) but to show that "will" is not a
>>well-defined thing, or at least it's not easy to nail down what
>>someone's "will" is.
>
> Of course, I have known this for a long time. In fact, it was I who
> told you that Luther and Chemnitz never understood the definition of
> 'will' in the NT. For they denied what St. Maximus the Confessor knew
> so well, that the very word 'will' (qelhma) implies that the _person_
> doing the willing is b