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The Deity of Christ in the Gospel of Matthew - Part 2

...en or his omnipresence. Notice how God is equated with his name, a point we will return to in a later article (Lord willing). This temple was eventually destroyed because of the persistent sin of the people and a new “house of the Lord” (Ezra 1:3,5 etc) was constructed when people returned from captivity in Babylon. Matthew sees the birth of Jesus Christ as a new depth in this continuing saga of God coming to dwell with his people. He points out that he is the fulfilment of the prophecy of Immanuel — “God with us” at the very beginning of his Gospel (John’s Gospel presents the same theme with John 1:14 “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt (l...

Was the omniscience of God a developed idea?

...Or do we retroactively place our current theology of God on God? Consider the Garden of Eden: '[T]he Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”'  (Gen. 3:8-10) Now today we make it into a rhetorical question, but was this always so? In this story, God is spoken of almost in a physical-bodily sense as walking in the garden, since "they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden" as he moved about, and then tried to hide themselves from his view! Next think of the tower of Babel - "The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built" (Gen 11:5) - Did he not just know already? Also this story...