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  1. keithr

    Jehovah is either God or He is not, correct?

    God's name is still in the New Testament. In Revelation 19 the word hallelujah appears four times (verses 1, 3, 4 and 6). It's an untranslated Hebrew word, combining the Hebrew words halal, meaning praise, and Yah or Jah, which is a contracted, or abreviated, form of God's personal name. The...
  2. keithr

    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    No it's not a bad place. But it's not where Christians go to live after they have been changed to be new creations, having the divine nature. The thief on the cross beside Jesus was not a Christian. The "paradise of God" is not the paradise on the earth where non-Christians, such as the thief...
  3. keithr

    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    That's a shame! It's much better to be with Jesus and God in heaven. John 14:2-3 (WEB): (2) In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. (3) If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to...
  4. keithr

    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    Even if sin was in the blood (the Bible says that "the life of the flesh is in the blood", Leviticus 17:11) it would not matter, beause the blood of the mother and the blood of the fetus do not come into contact or mix (and the mother and fetus can have different blood groups).
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    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    Normal blood has a total of 46 chromosomes. When a child is conceived, 23 chromosomes come from the mother and 23 come from the father. One of these pairs determines the gender. For this pair, the mother always provides an “X” chromosome (so called because its shape somewhat resembles the...
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    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    Israel and Satan do not crush Christ's head, and Christ is not full of pride - it was Satan' pride that led to him becoming God's adversary! You've got it backwards - I'll assume it was a careless mistake on your part. Mary does not bring us salvation. Jesus did that. As I've pointed out...
  7. keithr

    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    In what way was she first, and where in the Bible does it say that? She certainly wasn't the first saint in the history of mankind, e.g. Psalm 106:16 (WEB): (16) They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.
  8. keithr

    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    Isaiah 54 is obviously not referring to Eve! It is symbolically referring to Zion/Israel, to whom God says, verse 5, "For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth". But even so, all Bible...
  9. keithr

    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    Nor does "blessed art thou among women". The Cambridge Bible Notes says of this phrase, "These words are of dubious authenticity, being omitted by B and various versions. They may have been added from Luke 1:42".
  10. keithr

    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    The woman referred to in Genesis 3:15 is Eve. It's not a symbolic woman, and it definitely is not referring to God's loyal angels! The next verse also refers to "the woman": (16) To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your...
  11. keithr

    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    You're mixing me up with theefaith again! I am not a RC and I don't have RCC beliefs.
  12. keithr

    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    Perhaps I wasn't clear enough? I wrote "Jesus taught that we should ask God for forgiveness, not to ask Jesus", by which I meant that Jesus taught that we should pray to God, and to ask God for forgiveness for our sins, and that Jesus did not teach us to pray to anybody else but God. I didn't...
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    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    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.
  14. keithr

    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    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...
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    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    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...
  16. keithr

    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    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.
  17. keithr

    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    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...
  18. keithr

    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    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).
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    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    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...
  20. keithr

    Christians are not under the New Covenant

    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...