"Before Abraham Was, I AM"

[saved by grace 101]

Why not an individual? Is not Scripture a witness of the behaviors we can expect to be exhibited by one who expresses truth with understanding from a sincere love?

God calls us to reason with Him. His truth is divine and certain and traceable and logical and elegant and eloquent, hence His unequivocal titular reference as the Word.

This is not bombast, the meaning is clear and concise, the language is unambiguous and plain albeit lofty but accessible by simplest effort of definition lookup.

There is a reason people are beginning to believe a pattern machine could possibly "think."

But I was speaking of a particular denomination and what is written in the bible, that does not come down to one person does it

 

[XtraPercept]

But I was speaking of a particular denomination and what is written in the bible, that does not come down to one person does it

I only build on what I understand of what you posted with intent to accentuate the means by which we might identify a pure fountain from the irrational theology of a thorny bush.

 

[saved by grace 101]

I only build on what I understand of what you posted with intent to accentuate the means by which we might identify a pure fountain from the irrational theology of a thorny bush.

What I posted specifically concerned a denominational belief and what is written in the bible.

 

[XtraPercept]

What I posted specifically concerned a denominational belief and what is written in the bible.

I hope I did not detract from your purpose in expression with the interjection of mine. I apologize if you feel I commandeered anything from you, I just had appreciation for the points you illuminated.

 

[saved by grace 101]

I only build on what I understand of what you posted with intent to accentuate the means by which we might identify a pure fountain from the irrational theology of a thorny bush.

You are always welcome to give your thoughts on what I posted that you responded to

 

[keithr]

I agree with the statement Jesus made as,I Am, was a reminder to those to whom he spoke of Moses and his meeting with God.

Why do you say that? There was no mention of Moses in the recorded discussion - Jesus spoke only about his Father and the Jews mentioned Abraham. Jesus simply declared that he had been in existence from before Abraham existed. There was nothing in what Jesus said that would lead the Jews to think about God telling Moses about what name they should use when referring to God.

God told him that when Pharaoh asks who sent Moses to him,tell Pharaoh, I am sent me.

No He didn't; you need to read the Bible more carefully. Exodus 3:14 UASV:

(14) God said to Moses, "I am what I am"N3 And he said, "Say this to the sons of Israel: ‘I am sent me to you.’"​

or from the Septuagint (Greek) - Brenton:

(14) And God spoke to Moses, saying, I am THE BEING; and he said, Thus shall ye say to the children of Israel, THE BEING has sent me to you.​

I Am God. I Am Creator.

There is no mention/insinuation of creating in the expression "I am".

I Am is designation of beingness.
I Am,I exist.

So to paraphrase, Jesus said, "before Abraham was a being, I have been a being". He was not saying "Before Abraham was a being I have been almighty God". He was not saying that he has been, and continues to be, his own Father.

We are because I Am.

What? There is no mention of anyone existing just because God said that He was what He was, or that He will be what He will be.

 

[XtraPercept]

Why do you say that? There was no mention of Moses in the recorded discussion - Jesus spoke only about his Father and the Jews mentioned Abraham. Jesus simply declared that he had been in existence from before Abraham existed. There was nothing in what Jesus said that would lead the Jews to think about God telling Moses about what name they should use when referring to God.

You do not know the Name of which the Psalmists wrote.
You do not know the Message from which you pull a quote.
You do not know the nature from which you here emote.
You do not know the Reason for which you now feel smote.

 

[keithr]

You do not know the Name of which the Psalmists wrote.
You do not know the Message from which you pull a quote.
You do not know the nature from which you here emote.
You do not know the Reason for which you now feel smote.

What are you trying to say? This is a Bible Study forum, not a place to share ambiguous poetry.

 

[XtraPercept]

What are you trying to say? This is a Bible Study forum, not a place to share ambiguous poetry.

You speak directly against the Name I worship, so I speak against you.

 

[Marvelloustime]

You have not fooled me my friend but only thine own self .
you read it through the lens of Your RCC
just like many others read it through the lens of ................many denominations of men .
Time we read it for our own selves .
A jw will tell ya he or she reads the bible
A mormon says they have done the same
A calvnists says they do the same
And so on that list does grow .
WANNA know what i notice they all have in common
ITS THUS sayeth my , FILL IN the blan k, and they all got errors too .
OH YEAH its bible time in the house .
And now what do i notice in all those houses
AS well as even in the false religoins
THEY all coming to faith more and more in this ecumenical god of a harlot .
Which preaches a unviersal love of the world
that all the decieved beleive to be the LOVE of GOD .
Talk about a powerful delusion . TEHY found out what all false religons had in common
and preached that junk . people bought it too .
The RCC been fleeing for years as have many in that land known as protestant .
TIME to put a bible into the hand of this people and get them the heck outta anything ecumenical and fast .

@amigo de christo

 

[Marvelloustime]

You have not fooled me my friend but only thine own self .
you read it through the lens of Your RCC
just like many others read it through the lens of ................many denominations of men .
Time we read it for our own selves .
A jw will tell ya he or she reads the bible
A mormon says they have done the same
A calvnists says they do the same
And so on that list does grow .
WANNA know what i notice they all have in common
ITS THUS sayeth my , FILL IN the blan k, and they all got errors too .
OH YEAH its bible time in the house .
And now what do i notice in all those houses
AS well as even in the false religoins
THEY all coming to faith more and more in this ecumenical god of a harlot .
Which preaches a unviersal love of the world
that all the decieved beleive to be the LOVE of GOD .
Talk about a powerful delusion . TEHY found out what all false religons had in common
and preached that junk . people bought it too .
The RCC been fleeing for years as have many in that land known as protestant .
TIME to put a bible into the hand of this people and get them the heck outta anything ecumenical and fast .

@amigo de christo

 

[Taken]

Before Abraham Was, I AM

Abram is the created.
Abram is the created, MADE Abraham.

The “I AM” is the (without beginning);
CREATOR and MAKER.

Nothing that was CREATED and MADE was Created and Made ….
Before the “I AM” Creator and Maker.

The “I AM “ Creator / God, Created by, through, of His Will and Pleasure.

Gods Creation was Created and Established in the Beginning during a 6 Day Span….

Habitats… Heaven and Earth
Beings… out of such Habitats to Occupy / Inhabit such Habitat's.

Inhabitants… IN Heaven… Holy.
Inhabitants… ON Earth……Good.

Inhabitants IN Heaven and On Earth…
Created with FREEWILL … to remain Holy / remain Good…. Or Not.

Holy Heavenly Inhabitants electing to NOT remain holy…Shall ultimately remain alive Forever “separated” From God.

Good Earthly manKIND inhabitants “through” procreation, via a mans Seed, by default lose their Goodness.

ManKind “individuals” Have an Offering From God….(any individual “person”) … Can Freely Choose or Reject…
To Become “MADE” (body, soul, spirit) by, through, of;
* the WORD of God (Lord Jesus)
* the POWER of God (Christ)
and…
* the SEED of God (Christ)…
Good, Perfected, holy, Once and Forever With God.

Every individual mankind of being, while alive in his own (blood) bodily life… must choose or by default be rejected.

Every man’s natural (blood) life Shall Die.
When? Most individual persons will not know “when”.

Every person is Warned…
Choose you THIS day…
Your Forever destiny…
MADE Alive forever With God…
Or
Destroyed and Remembered no more.

Isa 41:
…I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

Isa. 48:
… I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

John 8:
…[28] Then said Jesus…the Son of man, … know that I am he…

John.9
[9]… he said, I am he.

Glory to God,
Taken

 

[amigo de christo]

You do not know the Name of which the Psalmists wrote.
You do not know the Message from which you pull a quote.
You do not know the nature from which you here emote.
You do not know the Reason for which you now feel smote.

Let all flee from the ecumenical boat
for on the day of THE LORD it shall sink and surely not float .
Just finishing up your rhyme .

 

[Davy]

You need to read the Bible more carefully. John sees God sitting on a throne in heaven - Revelation 4 WEB:

(2) Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne​

(5) Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.​

(6) Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the middle of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.​

(8) The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”​

The resurrected Christians are symbolically represented by the 24 elders:

(10) the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,​

(11) “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”​

They throw their crowns before almighty god YHVH's feet, not Jesus' feet.

Continuing - Revelation 5 WEB

(1) I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.​

(2) I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”​

(3) No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look in it.​

(4) And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look in it.​

(5) One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome; he who opens the book and its seven seals.”​

(6) I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.​

(7) Then he came, and he took it out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne.​

(8) Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.​

(9) They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,​

(10) and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”​

(11) I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;​

(12) saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”​

(13) I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”​

John then sees Jesus approaching God and taking the book (scroll) from God's right hand. The resurrected Christians, and the four creatures, fall down before Jesus and say that Jesus was worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, because he was killed (God is immortal and cannot be killed), and bought us for God. The myriads of angels then say that Jesus (who has been killed) was worthy to receive power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing. Jesus receives that power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing from God. Then every created living being says may "the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever" be to God and to Jesus.

Revelation 4 and 5 make no sense if Jesus is God; they only make sense when you read what it says, that Jesus, the slain Lamb of God, bought us through his death (the price for our redemption), and bought us for God. Jesus has proved himself, as God's only begotten Son, to be worthy to receive power, wealth, wisdom, strengh, honour, glory and blessing from God.

So you are wrong, the only verse in the Bible that describes people throwing their crowns before anybody's feet, does not say that their crowns were thrown before Jesus' feet.

So I throw it back at you, you've "no idea who you are accusing of being a liar". "I shudder for such folks" that can't understand what they are reading (I mean the Bible! I'll ignore your errors in understanding my last two posts in this thread).

Go back to Revelation 1 instead of just skipping over what John saw regarding Lord Jesus... and what Jesus said to John...

Rev 1:9-18
9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
14 His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire;
15 And His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and His voice as the sound of many waters.
16 And He had in His right hand seven stars: and out of His mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and His countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. And He laid His right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
18 I am He That liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
KJV

 

[keithr]

You speak directly against the Name I worship, so I speak against you.

What have I written that is directly against almighty God YHVH or His beloved Son Yeshua? If you think I have said something you disagree with, then show me from the Bible why you think I am mistaken. As I said, this is a Bible Study forum!

2 Peter 1:17-18 WEB

(17) For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”​

(18) We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.​

 

[keithr]

Go back to Revelation 1 instead of just skipping over what John saw regarding Lord Jesus... and what Jesus said to John...

I had replied to 'amigo de christo' writing:

AND i also didnt SEE JESUS tell all them who threw their crowns before HIS FEET TO cease , get up and WORSHIP GOD

The verses you quote from Revelation 1 do not mention "all them" throwing crowns at Jesus' feet. It just says that John fell at Jesus' feet. Revelation 1 is therefore unrelated to what he wrote!

 

[GodsGrace]

No, he was only a man. Philippians 2:7-8

WEB

(7) but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.​

Phil 2:7 states that he EMPTIED HIMSELF, taking on the form of a servant.
WHAT did He empty Himself of?

(8) And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.​

ISV

(7) Instead, poured out in emptiness, a servant's form did he possess, a mortal man becoming. In human form he chose to be,​

(8) and lived in all humility, death on a cross obeying.​

Yes sir.
He CHOSE to become a mortal man in human form.

BUT
WHAT was he before He decided to become mortal?

Hebrews 2:17 NET

(17) Therefore he had to be made like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.​

You sure do use a lot of different versions.
But they all state the same.

Jesus was MADE like His brothers and sisters in every respect.
Jesus had to ALSO be a man...a perfect man....so that the cross would mean something.
And that something is He had to be perfect as an atonement for sin...as you've stated.

He had to be a perfect MAN just as the lamb in Exodus 14 had to be perfect with no blemish.

Jesus was seperated from God when he bore mankind's sins on the cross and died - Mark 15:34 ISV

(34) At three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, eloi, lema sabachthani?" , which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"​

('forsaken' is translated from the Greek word egkataleipo meaning to abandon, desert, to leave behind.)

This reply above is in answer to my statement that
THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND WAS ALWAYS WITH GOD.

Your answer has nothing to do with what I stated.
The WORD is the logos of God.
His thought, His logic, HIs reason,,,,
do you believe THE WORD/THE LOGOS was at some point separated from God?

I certainly agree that Jesus felt abandoned on the cross.
But THE WORD was always with God.

Or as the REB translates it, "The Word was in God's presence, and what God was, the Word was". The note in the UASV says, 'John is not saying that "the Word" was God the Father'. See this post in which I wrote:

So if the word is the word proclaimed by Jesus during his ministry, what does “the word was with [pros] God, and the word was God” mean? There are numerous examples of the Greek word pros in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), e.g. Zechariah 1:1 - “In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word [logos] of the LORD unto [pros] Zechariah, … saying,”. This is saying that the word of God was with Zechariah, and Zechariah proclaimed that word. Similarly in John 1:1 it means that the word of God was with God, and it was God Himself expressing the word. It then says that the word was God. Verse 18 says, “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him”. It is Jesus that expressed and proclaimed the Father; the Father was the word that was proclaimed to the world – the word was God. Verse 18 is the summary of John’s prologue, summing up what he introduced in verse 1. The word proclaimed in the ministry of Jesus was the revelation of God, the Father, Himself – God expressing and revealing Himself through Jesus.​

THE WORD was NOT God the Father.
But the WORD is God....
anything that is a part of God is God.
God cannot be separated from Himself.

And Zecharia never claimed to be God.

I don't think so!


Yes, God is our saviour:

Hosea 13:4 WEB

(4) “Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.​

And Paul also teaches that:

1 Timothy 1:1 WEB

(1) Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;​

He also points out that our hope is in Jesus:

2 Timothy 1:8-10 WEB

(8) Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,​

(9) who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,​

(10) but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.​

Just as God is the creator, yet He chose to have His only-begotten Son perform the creation according to God's design, likewise He chose that His Son should be our redeemer and saviour:

Colossians 1:12-20 WEB

(12) giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;​

(13) who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;​

(14) in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;​

(15) who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.​

(16) For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.​

(17) He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.​

(18) He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.​

(19) For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;​

(20) and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.​

As John also confirms, 1 John 4:14 WEB

(14) We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.​

Yes, Jesus is a god (a mighty, supernatural ruler), but he is not the one and only true almighty God, our Father in heaven, YHVH. Even after his resurrection, God is still Jesus' god:

Revelation 1 WEB

(1) This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,​

(5) and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;​

(6) and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.​

Yes, even God YHVH refers to His Son as a god, but that doesn't mean that Jesus is God YHVH.

We agree that God is our Savior.
We agree that Jesus died to be our Savior.
CONCLUSION: Jesus is God.

You say that God YAHWEH refers to His Son as God,,,,
that's good enough for me.

The UASV note for this verse says:

Or, based on grammar and context, an alternative reading could be, of the great God and our Savior.​

As indeed the KJV translates it:

(13) Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;​

Note that Paul is here talking about the appearing of the glory of God and Jesus, he is not saying that God is Jesus. He is referring to,
Matthew 16:27 WEB

Note that Paul says OUR GREAT GOD AND SAVIOR.
I think Paul knew what he meant to say.

And the grammar refers to one person,,,
not two.

(27) For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.​

Similar ambiguous translation again. The KJV has:

(1) Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:​

and the footnote says the Greek has just "our God and Saviour", i.e. it omits the "Jesus Christ".

and the UASV note says:

Or, based on grammar and context, an alternative reading could be, of our God and the Savior Jesus Christ.​

Again, Peter is talking about the "righteousness" of God and/or Jesus, it is not saying that God is Jesus. That's not what Peter believed; he wrote, 1 Peter 1:3 WEB

(3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,​

(To be continued.)

You read too many versions and too many writings by men that are not Christian.
Please read the bible and let the Holy Spirit speak to you.

(anyone who does not accept the Trinity should not consider themselves to be Christian).

 

[GodsGrace]

(Continuing...)

You don't say what translation you're quoting from, but the KJV has:

Keithr
What difference does it make what translation I'm using?
You think you can refer to a version of the bible that will CHANGE what it means?

If this were true,,,
we could ditch the New Testament...
throw it out with the garbage...
because it would not be worth anything.

If we cannot trust God's WORD...
what can we trust?

For the record, I use the NASB.
But I have about 15 versions in front of me,,,
including some in different languages...
and they all mean the same.

(18) No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.​

Translation problem again! Other translations:

KJV:

(5) Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.​

UASV:

(5) to whom belong the patriarchs, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh. God, who is over all, be praised forever. Amen.​

ISV:

(5) To the Israelis belong the patriarchs, and from them, the Messiah descended, who is God over all, the one who is forever blessed. Amen.​

GNB:

(5) they are descended from the famous Hebrew ancestors; and Christ, as a human being, belongs to their race. May God, who rules over all, be praised forever! Amen.​

1 John 5:19-20 WEB

(19) We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.​

(20) We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.​

The "true God" is referring to God, not Jesus. Compare with John 17:3 when Jesus said (WEB):

(3) This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.​

Here's
1 John 5:19-20
19 We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
20 And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.


Please note:
Verse 20 The Son has given us understanding.
So that we may know HIM WHO IS TRUE....correct, this is referring to Father.

AND WE ARE IN HIM WHO IS TRUE
IN HIS SON JESUS CHRIST

Who are we in?
Father?
No. We are IN JESUS...we are told to abide in Jesus throughout the NT.

Then it goes on to say:

THIS IS THE TRUE GOD AND ETERAL LIFE.

Here TRUE GOD is referring to JESUS since Jesus was spoke of last.
Check out your Greek grammar or English grammar.

And WHO gives to us eternal lfie?
JESUS.
JESUS IS THE TRUE GOD AND ETERNAL LIFE.

John 14:6
6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life...

John 3:16
16“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:36
36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life;


Jesus IS THE LIFE.


part 1 of 4

 

[GodsGrace]

part 2 of 4 @keithr

No, God does not have blood - He is a spirit (John 4:24) and not a man (Numbers 23:19). It is obviously referring to Jesus' blood.

Acts 20:28 UASV

(28) Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the congregation of God, which he obtained with the blood of his own Son.​

GNB

(28) So keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock which the Holy Spirit has placed in your care. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he made his own through the blood of his Son.​

Acts 20:28 It states. HE PURCHASED WITH HIS OWN BLOOD.

New International Version
Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.

New Living Translation
“So guard yourselves and God’s people. Feed and shepherd God’s flock—his church, purchased with his own blood—over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as leaders.

English Standard Version
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

Berean Standard Bible
Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

Berean Literal Bible
Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has set you overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with the own blood.

King James Bible
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

New King James Version
Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

New American Standard Bible
Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

NASB 1995
“Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

 

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NASB 1977
“Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

Legacy Standard Bible
Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

Amplified Bible
Take care and be on guard for yourselves and for the whole flock over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd (tend, feed, guide) the church of God which He bought with His own blood.

Christian Standard Bible
Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock that the Holy Spirit has appointed you to as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

American Standard Version
Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

Contemporary English Version
Look after yourselves and everyone the Holy Spirit has placed in your care. Be like shepherds to God's church. It is the flock he bought with the blood of his own Son.

English Revised Version
Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in the which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops, to feed the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as bishops to be shepherds for God's church which he acquired with his own blood.

Good News Translation
So keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock which the Holy Spirit has placed in your care. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he made his own through the blood of his Son.

International Standard Version
Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to be shepherds of God's church, which he acquired with his own blood.

NET Bible
Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.