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No abiad (actually Aviad) means MY Father goes on (until)....which is not correct in my estimation. What is says is AVIED (or abied in your rendering) "Witness of My Father" There are some Gentile scholars to be sure...the best one is actually a Catholic priest (I actually spoke with him). The...

Thank you. But I think you mean fundamentalist beliefs...not fundamental Christian beliefs. The abberations in the modern doctrines are due to there being great delusion among those who are unable to endure sound doctrine. The doctrines I espouse are apostolic and backed up by the Spirit and the...

Do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God? Jesus shares the Holy Spirit with His Father. When He sends the Son the Spirit goes with Him. Do you believe that the Spirit also accompanies spiritual Christians? Not as a separate entity from God...but in fellowship with God. Have you ever heard...

Not at all. The Jews are expert in reading Hebrew...if you didn't realize that. Now they had the OT for a thousand years BEFORE there was a church of Christ. AND...the early believers used the OT as their bible. No Jew EVER considered God's Spirit as a separate person. It's absolutely ridiculous...

Spiritual Christian...called personally by the Lord. There is no trinity apart from Roman doctrines that try explaining spiritual things to non-spiritual people. There is the Father and the Son united in One Holy Spirit. We join in fellowship with them by that One Spirit. The Spirit of God is...

Scholarship has some merit...but spiritual understanding goes much further. Otherwise the Jews would be the very best expositors of scriptures...which they are not. Why not? A lack of spiritual understanding. The same goes for religious scholars. Religion does not equate to prophetic...

I have studied Hebrew for many years. I can read the OT in Hebrew. I use the scriptures to define the scriptures. Avi in Hebrew means MY FATHER...not just Father. Ayin dalet (a two letter word in Hebrew) means either "until" or "witness." Now Jesus is indeed "a witness of My Father" an...

You are muddying the water here for no reason. The Hebrew word ad (ayin dalet) does not mean forever...it means "until". So then saying avi-ad means everlasting father is a real stretch...and unreasonable in my view. A much more common use of ayin-dalet as a stand alone word is ed which is the...

In Hebrew there are no vowels. The word translated as "everlasting Father" avi-ad could just as easily be rendered as avi-ed. And to me that rendering makes more sense. Avi-ed means "witness of my father". The difference is in whether we add in the "a" or the "e" as vowels. It doesn't make...

Today the saints are scattered throughout the world. The nets that are cast gather in believers....but not for the sake of growth in Christ-likeness. Today believers want to be the "saved" of the world but not the "light" of the world. Shallow conversions and misleading doctrines have filled the...

Disciples make disciples. What the church lacks are actual disciples. There is no bringing people into a life unless that life is being lived in. The whole tenor of the modern gospel is in cross avoidance. People are being told what they can get for free. without any sacrifice. It is no wonder...

That's only half true. We need to be encouraged in the ways of God and discouraged in our own way of thinking. We are NOT God. So then when we trust ourselves we are NOT trusting God. To think that we actually know something needs to be discouraged! ;) We need to encourage each other to let God...

Our carnal nature with its selfish reasoning (self-love) is our living sacrifice to God. Our animal nature is our animal sacrifice. Does our carnal nature die at the cross. Well, yes and no. We are dead in Christ when the power of the flesh is disconnected from us to free us to be holy in...

It takes an understanding of what part of us is able to live together with the Lord and with His people. Look at the state of the church...where every carnal consideration is being met. Now why doesn't the modern church look like the early church? The difference is the love of the flesh and the...

God sees us a garden. Now, a garden has as many weeds as proper plants. If we just water a garden without also taking out the weeds...then the weeds will choke out the plants because they grow faster. Lies have a way of taking over the garden unless they are properly identified. So then what...

Hi to all, I think it necessary to do a post on maintaining some discernment when trying to encourage or discourage people in their Christian walk. What normally happens is that there is NO discerning between the inner man and outer man of a person so that either a person is encouraged as a...

I'm encouraging people to be properly encouraged! We are all created in God's image...in the inner man. That is the only part of us that should be encouraged...the part that God has chosen to regenerate and save. I'm not suggesting that this thread is for weeding out weeds...but simply using a...

God sees us a garden. Now, a garden has as many weeds as proper plants. If we just water a garden without also taking out the weeds...then the weeds will choke out the plants because they grow faster. Lies have a way of taking over the garden unless they are properly identified. So then what...

Christianity is not a list of things to avoid. It has to do with what we are to do. An idle mind is the devil's plaything. Study the Word. Look more deeply into a proper understanding of the truth. When you put more effort into seeking the Lord then God helps you with the rest of your life. Seek...

There is absolute truth...in a Person. Christ the Lord. The popularity of Christianity is not due to the faithful witness of believers. Most believers do not line up with the truth because of a lack of conformity with Christ. The conundrum lies with having to believe in the truth but with the...