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I didn't say it was wrong to speak/pray to Jesus. You had written that we should not ask for forgiveness from anybody except Jesus, so I was just pointing out that Jesus taught that we should pray to God, our heavenly Father, to ask for forgiveness.

And yet Jesus taught that we should ask God for forgiveness, not to ask Jesus: Matthew 6:9,12 (KJV): (9) After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. (12) And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. or (ISV): (12) and forgive us our...

Your post sounds like you are sharing the Jehovah's Witnesses' views/beliefs, but I've not heard about angels producing Jesus before. That doesn't sound at all Biblical! The Bible tells that Jesus was/is God's only begotten son, e.g. 1 John 4:9 - In this was manifested the love of God toward...

That's true, even if you don't believe in the Trinity. "But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" - Luke 5:24 (WEB). Who gave the Son of Man (Jesus) that authority? God, of course.

I'm just wary of 'translations' that add to God's word - it can all too easily lead people to go off on tangents of misunderstanding. Unfortunately most popular does not necessarily mean most accurate and truthful translation. We need to be aware of how trustworthy each translation is...

That's what the Jews said, but don't forget that Jesus told them that the Son of Man of could forgive sins too (Matthew 9:6), and that the judgement of everybody has been given to Jesus (John 5:22) (and resurrected Christians will judge angels - 1 Corinthians 6:3).

It's interesting that you have picked the only translation that translates it as "have been fulfilled" (and not mention which translation it is - the NLT, which is derived from the Living Bible, which is a personal paraphrase and not a translation). Clearly not all of God's promises have been...

The Ezekiel passage is the same as Jeremiah 31. It is God saying to Israel that He will bring them back to the Promised Land and make a new covenant with them: Ezekiel 36 (WEB): (22) “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of...

Thank you for your comments. As you might presume, I see it differently. ;) Jeremiah 31:31 is referring to a new covenenant for the Jews only. The chapter has God telling how He will bring the Israelites back to the Promised Land. In the last verse of chapter 30 God says, "In the latter days...

This is the Angel Of God speaking to Joseph (not Mary), saying that the boy's father is God (the Holy Spirit - verse 20) and that the boy should be called Jesus (that is, 'YHVH is the Saviour'), and that Jesus would save God's people (Israel) from their sins (not save them from the Roman or...

Jesus means "YHVH is salvation" (Online Bible Hebrew Lexicon) or "YHVH saved" (Strong's Hebrew Lexicon). The Hebrew name Yëhowshuwa‘ (or Jehoshua) comes from words YHVH and yasha', which means 'save', 'saviour' or 'deliverer'. So it could also mean 'YHVH saves' or 'YHVH is saviour'. Naming...

Luke 2:30 - what has Simeon (to whom the Holy Spirit revealed that before he died he would see God's Messiah) saying to God while holding the baby Jesus, "for my eyes have seen your salvation", got to do with Mary? No reverence is given to the mothers of any of the Old Testament prophets and...

Your powers of deduction and logic are appalling! Luke 1:35 is referring to a one-off event that resulted in the conception of Jesus. There is absolutely no reason to suppose that if Mary had another child, with Joseph as the father, that the child would be God. Remember - "God is not a man...

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to insult you. I was just trying to emphasise the importance of giving attention to the details, otherwise it can lead to misunderstanding. :)

I didn't write post #831 - 'theefaith' did. Again you seem to be imagining that theefaith and me are the same person - we're not! 'theefaith' is a Roman Catholic, he has declared himself to be so. I am not. #834 is a post by theefaith. #830 is a post by me. If you can get simple things...

I don't know why you would make that comment - it should be obvious that I am not a member of the Roman Catholic church and that I disagree with a lot of their stated beliefs. Some people on this forum have even thought that I was a Jehovah's Witness (but I'm not)! My only claim would be that...

Abraham had righteousness imputed upon him, so he was justified, but his sins were still not forgiven, so he was not saved. The whole merit of Jesus' sacrifice has, so far, only been applied to Christians, so only they currently have their sins forgiven. Nobody has yet been saved. Christians...

As I said previously, nobody could become a Christian before Jesus started his ministry, when he was aged about 30 years old. Mary outlived Jesus and she believed Jesus, so of course she was (or became) a Christian. The same applies to Jesus' brothers and the other apostles - it's not that...

Perhaps we should define what we mean by being 'saved'. Everyone is saved from death, the first death, as a result of Jesus' sacrifice of his life as the substitute for Adam, and as Jesus has paid the redemption price therefore all of mankind will be resurrected back to life again. Christians...

There's a difference between being saved before you die, which means you must become a true Christian before you die, and being saved during the Millennium, after being resurrected. For example, the first person that you mentioned, Simeon, was a Jew, and the implication is that he died shortly...