"Finding Life" -2

"No man hath seen God at any time; the Only Begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him." (John 1:18) I can say without a doubt that Jesus Christ is God. To know that He is, was, and always will be Him to whom your life is owed makes the counting the cost thing a little more vital. The verse above is one that is used by many to try and argue the fact that Jesus could not be God, because it plainly says that "no man has seen God at any time"; however, the meaning behind this statement by John is one of figuratively seeing God, and means that know one knows God, is acquainted with Him, or knows His character. And this expression of 'seeing God' is only used in John's writings, and can be found later in John 6:46; 14:7, 9; 15:24; 1 John 3:6; 4:20; 3 John 1:11. Which is quite interesting, since it is John who makes a point of declaring the deity of Jesus Christ throughout all of his writings. With this thought in mind, we must assume that the reason John has chosen to use this figurative meaning, is to express the importance of Jesus Christ being manifested in the flesh, because He was God declared to us in a way that we could comprehend. Why is this critical to finding Life? and does this really matter in the way Life is found? I think that it does. Because of who Jesus is, and was, He not only declared God to us, but was in fact God manifested to us in the form of man; who, for lack of a better word, was dead to God. And because man was dead to God, which was due to sin, God in the form of a man took on the sin of man upon Himself, that man might then have Life in Him. Now then; let me ask you: Do you think it makes a difference in knowing who it was that took on your sins? "John (the Baptist) bare witness of Him, and cried, saying, This was He of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me; for He was before me. And of His fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." (John 1:15-17)