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Welcome Ezra! :) I would invite you to look at a few authors who are real experts in their various fields of expertise and experience. What is so interesting about them is that they are just as dialectical as the bible is in that they deny the existence of the other.....yet as you put them...

Yes. Jesus is not the "words" plural. I believe the truth of it goes beyond what we moderns can fathom....the word that was made flesh is the Hebrew word YHVH. Immanu el. Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a word: but the honour of kings is to search out a word.

In your opinion. There is zero evidence to this stretch in the bible.

A certain poster tends to value opinion over biblical evidence to the contrary. He couldn't wrap his mind around the concept...the biblical concept....that although Jesus was always IN the Father, He was not always a separate person. At some point God divided His person into 2. This had a...

Likewise and thank you! :)

Yes He pre-existed and was there before creation.

When you consider that the Godhead is the family of God....Father and Son. These are One (family). The mystery is that a remnant of human beings will join that family as adopted sons and fellow heirs with Christ. The glory goes to the Father and to His only begotten Son Jesus Christ. :)

The fact remains that God said...TODAY I have begotten you. If both Father and Son always existed....could Jesus say...TODAY I have made a Father for myself? No, the text shows that The Son comes from the Father...and not the other way around. The Father does not come from the Son. That's why...

Jesus said...What is the use of gaining the world only to lose your soul in the process. A Christian while respecting the authority of temporal political leaders...does not seek to wield power over others. This is an excerpt from a famed theologian...Jacques Ellul. "I can very well say...

Such is the case. :) The other thread was about guns. What I meant by power is the power of the gun. Really all temporal power. We are not to seek to dominate others or vanquish them by human means. Of course we fight by the Spirit. But who is going to do that BEFORE they relinquish all human...

I am starting this thread to discuss the difference between the way of Christ by the Spirit...and the modern cultural form of Christianity that seeks to give temporal governments credibility. The Christian way is not just a way of non-violence...but a total renunciation of all temporal power...

How can you miss this basic aspect of Jesus? :eek: Jesus told us to resist not evil....love our enemies...bless not curse...forgive.....etc The Christian way is not according to power in this world. The power that we move in comes from heaven. The weapons of OUR (disciples of Christ) warfare...

A Christian is one that uses things differently than others. We must divorce the gun from it's evil purpose...that of maiming people and taking life. I personally have a number of firearms that I have used for things like hunting, target shooting, and historical re-enactments. But I would never...

If Mr. Jack wasn't preaching...would Jesus still return?

The path of Christ is through a continuing forsaking of the world...as well as a continuing trust in His ways. We glory in the cross so that we are not seriously affected when things go well or badly. Both are in the Lord's hands. We don't draw strength from good happenings any more than we draw...

Your first statement is from your own opinion.....as you will not be able to show from the bible what you have accepted to be true. Do you just ignore where God says TODAY I have begotten you???? You tend to follow opinion and reject the biblical evidence that your opinions is...well...just an...

We must begin with a closer look at the personal level. I have come to see the following formula as true in regards to our personal faith and choices.... Our cross in our strength//// His cross in His strength. The first step towards a true faith in Christ is to forsake the world. There is no...

We have each been given a measure of faith. No two people have exactly the same amount. It is quantum. No one can control, manipulate, or limit the faith of another. God decides these things. Even what we do about that faith is up to each individual. The corporate Ekklesia is not about...

Scientists seek continually for the "Theory of Everything"...that is one theory that ties in and harmonizes the law of the Big (the ways of the universe, gravity etc...) together with the law of the Small (quantum theory). The subject is vast and is far beyond the mortal mind to grasp. I don't...