Study 3: The Mediator of the Atonement the Only Begotten One

(1) Who is the Great One whom Jehovah has exalted to so high honor? What has He done to merit it? What is He yet to do in His high exaltation? Page 83

(2) Did our Lord Jesus have a pre-existence? What was He before He was “made flesh”? 84, par. 1

(3) Was He then “a god” or mighty one? And if so, what was His name? Page 84, par. 2

(4) In that pre-human existence, was the Son in some sense “before” all creatures in time as well as in rank? Page 84, par. 3

(5) Why did the Son stoop to human conditions? Was it of compulsion? Page 84, par. 4

(6) Was His humiliation to human conditions intended to be eternal? Explain fully. Page 84, par. 5

(7) Did Jesus’ resurrection restore Him to the spirit plane? Page 84, par. 6

(8) Of what station is our Lord Jesus now? Page 85, par. 1

(9) Why was our Lord in His pre-human existence known as The Word or The Logos? Page 85, par. 2

(10) What does Alex. Clarke say of this word Logos? Page 85, par. 2

(11) Show the fitness of the name to the Son, and give an illustration of a king’s Page 85, par. 3

(12) Does the Greek text of John 1:1 show two persons and refer to both as God? Page 86, par. 1

(13) Is there anything in the Greek text to differentiate these two Persons who are both styled God? What and how should the verse be translated to show its Greek value? Page 86, par. 1, 2

(14) What beginning is here referred to? Page 86, par. 3

(15) If the word “beginning” here refers to the beginning of Jehovah God’s creative work, state what that work was, and give three or more Bible proof-texts on the Page  86, par. 3

(16) If our Lord as Jehovah’s Word or Logos was His first creation, whence came angels and men, and all else that have been created? By whom were these created?   Page 87, par.  1

(17) How should we understand the declaration that our Lord was rich and for our sakes became poor? Page 87, par. 1

(18) How will this comport with our Lord’s reference to His glory with the Father “Before the world was”? John 17:5; Page 87, par. 1

(19) How can these Scriptures be answered by those who deny our Lord Jesus’ pre- human existence? Page 87, par. 2

(20) Do these Scriptures examined substantiate the thought that our Lord Jesus was the “Only Begotten” of the Father? (1 John 4:9) What does “Only Begotten” imply if not that none other than He was the direct creation of the heavenly Father? Page 88, par. 1

(21) What Scriptures declare that God sent His Son into the world, and thus imply our Lord’s pre-human existence? Page 88, par. 2

(22) The Apostle says, “He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him ” According to this Scripture, was it the Father or the Son who directly created the world? Page 88, par. 2

(23) If the Son created the world, by what power did He do it–His own, or the heavenly Father’s? Quote a Scripture proving that it was the Father’s power exercised through the Son. Did our Lord Jesus claim to be the Father as well as the Son, and to have sent Himself into the world? Quote a Scripture on this Page 89, par. 1

(24) Quote four other Scriptures in which the Lord represents Himself as having come down from a heavenly condition to an earthly state. Page 89, par. 1, 2

(25) Did Jesus claim that His existence antedated that of Abraham? Where? Page 89, 2; Page 90, par. 1

(26) Explain in what sense our Lord was before Page 90, par. 2

(27) How shall we understand our Lord’s statement, “No man knoweth the Son, but the Father”? Matt. 11.27; Page 91, par. 1

(28) What is the key to this knowledge? Why cannot all understand such matters? Page 91, par. 2

(29) Why was Nicodemus refused a knowledge of heavenly things? Why is it necessary to believe God’s revelation respecting earthly things before we can understand heavenly things? Page 92, par. 2

(30) How was our Lord’s pre-existent condition referred to by the wise man? Page 92, 3; Page 93, par. 1

(31) In what sense was Christ “the first and the last”? Page par. 3

(32) What is the ordinary theory respecting “incarnation”? Page 93, par. 3

(33) What is the correct theory respecting the text: “The Logos was made flesh and dwelt among us”? John 1:14; Page 93, par. 3; Page 94, par. 1

(34) When our Lord is referred to as a man in the Scriptures, does this imply that He was a blemished man–an imperfect man? Page 95, par. 1

(35) Quote two Scriptures which prove that He is not referred to as a sinner in any sense of the word. Page 95, par. 1

(36) If our Lord had been of fallen human nature, could He have been our Redeemer? If not, why not? Page 95, par. 2; Page 96