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the imperfect verb hn in GJohn does explicitly state that Christ is a pre-existent being. He was "before" all things that were created.

The certainty of salvation is not based on a feeling like peace, although you may feel peace. The certainty of salvation is based on what the Word of God says.

I disagree. The Trinity was involved in communication before or sans creation. The Father communicated to the Other Members of the Trinity. As an example, if the Father said to the Son, "One, Two, Three" then he said One BEFORE he said Two. Since we don't know what infinite duration means, we...

Since God is an eternally existent being, how do we refer to his state of existence sans t1? In other words, assume there was no creation. As far as when t1 occurred, I think you can take any beginning, no matter which beginning you select, God was already in existence. Remember, GJohn 1.1 says...

Lambano said: @Lambano I read a book called The Constantine Codex, a fictional work by Christian historical scholar Paul Maier. In his book, ou intrepid archaeologists find an old Bible codex that contains two unique features: A different ending to the book of Mark that is written more in...

The word you are looking for is sans. Not "before." I just used the word 'before' to keep it from getting too Philosophical. The word sans means "without." Before Creation was metaphysical time. God is eternal and has existed sans creation. sans is as word that William Lane Craig uses when he...

So that, when I talk about the Trinity, I say, “There is one Godhead, and within the Godhead, there are three distinct Beings: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Each member of the Godhead possesses an eternal, infinite, unchanging nature.” This is the kind of article you...

more on John... So, John, with one stroke of his pen, tells us who the Word (later defined as Jesus) was. Jesus is God! That “carpenter” was God?! A Jew would simply have called this statement blasphemous. But John shows no mercy as he continues. Jesus is not the same as God? We know this...

Without any introduction, here are the words the Apostle John chose to begin his gospel: EN ARCHi HN hO LOGOS KAI hO LOGOS HN PROS TON QEON KAI QEOS HN hO LOGOS Roughly translated: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John realized the staggering...

I just looked at the site and it says that the Free version does not have NOTES. I don't know how much it costs but it would be well worth it. I am pretty sure you can highlight a verse if you buy the NET Bible. Sorry, it's been quite a while ago when I bought the NET Bible. I use the Free...

I am certain of my salvation. The Bible is true and it is from the Bible that I have certainty of my salvation. If I don't have salvation, then the Word of God is a lie. 1 John 5:13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal...

Pearl, The NET Bible has a Notes section where you can write long notes to yourself regarding a passage. In fact, you are limited to the margins in a physical book, but with notes, you can add as much info as you want. You just have to join. I think it is free. I do have a physical copy myself.

Remember that in the first century, the Apostles could be consulted if a church wasn't sure if a Gospel was canonical. The Gospels were one of the first writings to be accepted as Scripture. By AD 180 (at the latest) the Gospels and Paul's letters were considered Canonical. Remember Peter refers...

NET Bible (it has 10's of thousands of notes to help the reader to understand a word or phrase or manuscript issues) I should add that the NET Bible is online for free. www.netbible.org

We have too many ancient manuscripts and translations by which the NT can be reconstructed. This is due to having about 6,000 Greek manuscripts, and 10,000 Latin manuscripts, and another 10,000 translations into other languages. BTW, we have not analyzed all these manuscripts and translations to...

What you mention I have heard also, so it might be the case. But I do know that Othman took on a strategic effort to destroy all written Qur'anic manuscripts that differed from the one he liked. Having destroyed all the old manuscripts, the Muslims have a very limited way of supporting any...

The Text-Critical Case Against Biblical Inspiration seems to imply that if we have anything less than full certainty about the text of the Bible, then we can't have confidence in it or its inspired origin. But this is to ask of history more than it can ever supply. What we should expect from...

Christ as the firstborn, only son, unique son Πίστει προσενήνοχεν Ἀβραὰμ τὸν Ἰσαὰκ πειραζόμενος, καὶ τὸν μονογενῆ προσέφερεν ὁ τὰς ἐπαγγελίας ἀναδεξάμενος, Look at these passages below of Heb 11.17 and see if you see something strange, even contradictory: NASB 1995 By faith Abraham, when he...

1.1 Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος en archi hn o logos in beginning was the Word This is just a brief statement about the verb used here. It is the verb EIMI. It is in the Imperfect Tense. And en archi simply refers to the a beginning. Which beginning is contextually developed. Here the beginning is of the...

Yes, that's right. There was a contradiction in the Hebrew manuscripts, but the KJV added the words "the brother of" to avoid the contradiction.