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  1. Brakelite

    Jesus Is God: Part 1

    Those are from Hebrews, and Paul is quoting David... New International Version Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom. New Living Translation Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever. You rule with a scepter of justice...
  2. Brakelite

    Jesus Is God: Part 1

    Love that hymn. Makes me long to get back to fellowship.
  3. Brakelite

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    Actually, it's closer to the topic than you may realize. Our first responsibility in our Christian walk before ministering to others, is to love God with all our hearts, soul, mind, and strength. We can't love others until we first love God. Obeying Him in all things is the first essential...
  4. Brakelite

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    Is it? Those murderers, adulterers, Sabbath breakers etc stoned for transgressing the law will ultimately be resurrected to damnation, the second death. That's the same death as Romans 6:23. It's the opposite to life.
  5. Brakelite

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    Not all. If you are using it to benefit others as Jesus did, "it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day", then yes, you are doing good. But if you are using it selfishly, just as ah holiday or day off and laze around in bed all day, watch television, go to the theater or the local bar or sports...
  6. Brakelite

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    Depends on your definition of perfect. A bud is perfect in it's current state. It changes into a beautiful rose and is perfect. Perfect doesn't mean final goal attained, it means heading perfectly in the right direction. That's all we need to do. What we can do though is cease to sin. Jesus in...
  7. Brakelite

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    Yes, hyperbole. But we would all have been better off maybe if Adam had hated Eve and not succumbed to her suggestion.
  8. Brakelite

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    My work.. My doing good is directly in proportion to my surrender to the holy Spirit who gives me the mind of Christ. It effectively them becomes His responsibility to make as He wills, and it is His report card that gets the A+.
  9. Brakelite

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    Death is still the wages of transgression against God's laws... Whether Jew or not. And yes, Sunday is not the Sabbath. I want writing about the Sabbath in connection to Sunday, but the 7th day.
  10. Brakelite

    Jesus Is God: Part 1

    Let me clarify a little more. Belief that at some time 'in eternity' the Son came forth from His Father, thus becoming a son in the highest sense, does not mean He isn't eternal. As a Son of God He inherited all things that the Father is. With God He does all things to perfection. Thus Christ...
  11. Brakelite

    What's the weather like where you are?

    Those tracks on the road are mine from my board. Speed. Never mind your fancy tricks... Just go hard.;)
  12. Brakelite

    Jesus Is God: Part 1

    There is much in your quote I agree with. Yes, Jesus was a man and certainly could empathize and sympathize with our lives and temptations... His temptations as you say were very real. He inherited the very same weaknesses we inherit from our ancestors. He can from a line of prostitutes...
  13. Brakelite

    Jesus Is God: Part 1

    I think it important that we share a true perspective of Father Son relationships from a Godly example... There are many who through a less than ideal and even abusive relationship with their own human fathers cannot envisage a Father God being any better, particularly in light of false theories...
  14. Brakelite

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    A deeper study of the Sabbath Commandment reveals that it was set aside in love for man to give man the opportunity to use it for the benefit of others. Notice in the commandment it says, KJV Deuteronomy 5:14 14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any...
  15. Brakelite

    Victorian Earthquake 5.9 magnitude

    Thought I was back home. Getting homesick now. Although geoservices Oz have downgraded to 4.0 . Be interesting to know if it's related to volcanic activity on Buller.
  16. Brakelite

    Why do you feel it is so hard to be good?

    Yet Jesus found it necessary to explain the deeper meaning of murder when He spoke of hatred. Despite the law everyone knew from birth. And that's aspects of the law that one will never learn from a change of heart or the Spirit. For example, the 4th Commandment which can be obeyed only on the...
  17. Brakelite

    Jesus Is God: Part 1

    It is in line with Orthodox Trinitarianism. But me, being somewhat rebellious throughout my life, have my doubts whether it's actually correct. I believe the Father/Son paradigm is literal ontologically. That the Son is a literal offspring of the Father... It was God Himself who initiated the...
  18. Brakelite

    Jesus Is God: Part 1

    Here a copy of the official SDA belief currently. It isn't a Creed as all our briefs are open to change as we grow in understanding. The Trinity There is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three coeternal Persons. God is immortal, all-powerful, all-knowing, above all, and ever...
  19. Brakelite

    Jesus Is God: Part 1

    Does not the above contradict... Which specifically deals with how God is in His nature? This is what cannot be explained... How the persons of the Godhead have their unity together. I have seen certain explanations of the Catholic version of the trinity which state that none of the members can...