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  1. Peterlag

    So what happens to the old self that was in Adam?

    Peter has the same mindset as Paul when he writes in 1 Peter "that we, being dead to sins,..." Peter goes on to say that Christ suffered once for sins so as to bring us to God, and so this is why the Scripture reads "being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:" Again, the old...
  2. Peterlag

    What does Colossians 1:16 mean when it says "For by him were all things created..."

    A belief system called Gnosticism was taking root in Christianity at the time the book of John was being written that taught there was a supreme and unknowable Being, which they designated as the "Monad." The Monad produced various gods, who in turn produced other gods, and one of these gods...
  3. Peterlag

    So what happens to the old self that was in Adam?

    Again nothing about sin in the above verses.
  4. Peterlag

    So what happens to the old self that was in Adam?

    Because you think 1 John was talking to Christians when he said we should confess. He was talking to the Gnostic folks who were around in his day who did not believe that they sinned.
  5. Peterlag

    So what happens to the old self that was in Adam?

    Your above verses say nothing about sin. It is written... Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 1 John 3:9
  6. Peterlag

    What does Colossians 1:16 mean when it says "For by him were all things created..."

    Speak for yourself. I have no sin. Have you not read the Scriptures where it says... Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 1 John 3:9
  7. Peterlag

    So what happens to the old self that was in Adam?

    We undergo a miraculous exchange at the center of our being once we have the spirit of Christ. Who we were in Adam is no longer there. We become a new person because we are now a child of God who is in Christ. The key event causing this exchange is a death, burial, and resurrection with Christ...
  8. Peterlag

    What does Colossians 1:16 mean when it says "For by him were all things created..."

    Good Question. We undergo a miraculous exchange at the center of our being once we have the spirit of Christ. Who we were in Adam is no longer there. We become a new person because we are now a child of God who is in Christ. The key event causing this exchange is a death, burial, and...
  9. Peterlag

    What does Colossians 1:16 mean when it says "For by him were all things created..."

    The verse does not say he created absolutely everything without exception. It says all things and then names "thrones, powers, rulers and authorities".
  10. Peterlag

    What does Colossians 1:16 mean when it says "For by him were all things created..."

    I have come to realize that "in him" means in the spirit. I now understand being in Christ is being in the spirit and neither of them (in Christ or in the spirit) has anything to do with the darn flesh. It now seems perfectly clear to walk in or by the spirit is the same as putting on the Lord...
  11. Peterlag

    What benefit does it produce to make Jesus God

    Here's how 22 other Bibles translate Exodus 3:14... New International Version God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM. New Living Translation God replied to Moses, I Am Who I Am. English Standard Version God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM. Berean Study Bible God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM. New...
  12. Peterlag

    They are taking my stuff down. And are having meetings on if, probably when they will delete me...

    They are taking my stuff down. And are having meetings on if, probably when they will delete me completely. This is okay with me. I rejoice that I'm in the same company as others who have told the truth of God's Word.
  13. Peterlag

    Does John 1:1 say Jesus is God

    I don't have a verse for this but based on my scope of the entire Bible and how I understand the Christ. Jesus did not say he existed before Abraham. He said I was the one who mattered before or above Abraham. Not that he was here before Abraham.
  14. Peterlag

    Does John 1:1 say Jesus is God

    Jesus did not say he existed before Abraham. He said I was the one who mattered before or above Abraham. Not that he was here before Abraham.
  15. Peterlag

    Does John 1:1 say Jesus is God

    A note on John 8:58... "I am" Trinitarians argue that this verse states that Jesus said he was the "I am" (the Yahweh of the Old Testament) so he must be God. This is just not the case. Saying "I am" does not make a person God. The man born blind that Jesus healed was not claiming to be God...
  16. Peterlag

    What benefit does it produce to make Jesus God

    A note on John 8:58... "I am" Trinitarians argue that this verse states that Jesus said he was the "I am" (the Yahweh of the Old Testament) so he must be God. This is just not the case. Saying "I am" does not make a person God. The man born blind that Jesus healed was not claiming to be God...
  17. Peterlag

    Does John 1:1 say Jesus is God

    You lost me.
  18. Peterlag

    Data On The Trinity

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  19. Peterlag

    Does John 1:1 say Jesus is God

    I would respond if I understood what you're asking.