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"Dunamis" does indeed mean power. It is the word we get "dynamite" and "dynamo" from. But it isn't the word that is translated as "almighty." That is "pankrator."

Because believers in the Lord Jesus Christ had other names before they were first called Christians in Antioch. They were called, disciples, saints, followers of the way, and other names too.

Well, according to Strong's Concordance, it means almighty: "3841. pantokrator [pan-tok-rat -ore;] from 3956 and 2904; the all-ruling, i.e. God (as absolute and universal sovereign): Almighty, Omnipotent." "Pan" means "all". "Krator" comes from "kratos", meaning "power." Nothing...

Then I apologise again for my misunderstanding.

Sorry, I may have misunderstood your earlier post. I thought you were saying that people who made use of the "Ignore" feature only did so because they lack communication skills.

That is too great a generalisation. Not all theologians can serve only "mik".

I am sure that is not the reason the "ignore" feature exists. I rarely use it. When I occasionally do, it is not because I lack communication skills, but because communication with the poster concerned has become repetitive, or because the other poster is being rude in some way.

You seem to be assuming that Jesus Christ is not fully God. Even His enemies recognised that He claimed equality with His Father. Was He lying when He did so? I still don't know what you imagine Jesus had to escape from. Where did Jesus refer to the renewing of His mind as being born again...

You seem to suggest that Jesus Himself needed saving. Saving from what? The bible teaches that He was without sin: “For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all [points] tempted as [we are, yet] without sin.” (Heb 4:15 NKJV)

Matthew 3:16 doesn't say that Jesus had the Christ born within Him at His baptism, It says: “When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.” (Mt 3:16...

Thanks.

I think me not having heard of Kool-aid might be because I am in the UK. Perhaps it's American.

I have never heard of Kool-aid before - presumably some kind of drink. I have never come across a church that uses "something like Kool-aid and various crackers" at the Lord's Supper. I'm not saying that none do, just that I have never come across any that do.

But Jesus was not denying that He was the son of David. He was saying rather that He was not merely one of David's physical descendants. He is also Son of God, which explains why David called Him Lord. But He was by natural descent Son of David. The New Testament opens with these words...

Possible the fulfillment of Malachi's prophecy: “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.” (Mal 4:5 NKJV) There were many similarities between Elijah and John. I don't believe that Jesus meant that John was a re-incarnation of Elijah.

How does that fit with what Paul wrote to the Ephesian Christians about their salvation? He attributes their salvation (and his own) to the work of God: 1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world...

But translations do matter. Some translations make the verse men something completely different. Just one example is the New World translation used by Jehovah's Witnesses. In the first of John's gospel, that version says something like: "And the word was a god." That means something...

Yet Jesus Himself said the He and His Father are one. Even His enemies knew that He claimed equality with God. How could He be equal to God, without being God? Besides, John opens his gospel with these words: “1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was...

It's clearer perhaps in an earlier chapter of Matthew: “7 ¶ As they departed, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? 8 “But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Indeed, those who...

But the context shows what traditions he means: “13 ¶ But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth, 14 to which He called you by our...