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No. Omniscient Beings do not have faith. See my first post on why. Jesus is not two beings, only one.

You are making Jesus into two persons. He is not God AND Man, that's two people.

No. He came in the likeness of man, but was different than us. But, Jesus is not two beings in one. He had a divine 'soul' and spirit, he did not have a human nature in the sense that he could carry on a conversation with his divine nature. He was one being. He limited himself to function as a...

Can an omniscient Being have faith? I don't think so. Heb 11.1: Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see. Even though Christ gave up the use of some of his attributes, he still possessed them. For example, he saw Nathaniel sitting under the tree...

If the 10 days are not a literal 10 days, then it would be the only symbolic number in the entire book of Rev. That is, all other numbers mentioned in Rev are literal numbers. But this is something that one must accept before trying to interpret a passage. I basically subscribe to the literal...

καὶ ἐξαλείψει πᾶν δάκρυον ἐκ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτῶν, καὶ ὁ θάνατος οὐκ ἔσται ἔτι, οὔτε πένθος οὔτε κραυγὴ οὔτε πόνος οὐκ ἔσται ἔτι· [ὅτι] τὰ πρῶτα ἀπῆλθαν. "He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed...

scholarly response.

We were chosen in him before the foundation of the world. (Eph 1.3). Theologically, this is known as Positional Truth. Individuals were not chosen before the foundation of the world, but the PLAN was chosen. So, God predetermined a PLAN that included justifying all those who are found IN HIM...

An interesting aspect of the book of Revelation is that every number in the book can and should be treated as a literal number. If 10 doesn't mean 10 in this passage, it would be the only number that is not taken as literal. Hermeneutically speaking, this is the literal, grammatical, historical...

I call this description of Rev 2:8-11 "any interpretation goes."

The Greek text tells us this. Just because you can't refute it doesn't make it untrue. This is why I say that believers who don't learn NT Greek are not serious students of the Word. If I am right, you will not be able to confirm it, and if I am wrong, you won't be able to demonstrate it. To me...

How do you know that it is a poor translation if you don't know Greek? The only thing you are able to do is to read things that support your view by some author.

I don't use translations as my primary source. The concordance by the way does not give you the grammar and syntax of a passage. Looking at a lexicon will give you the meaning of a word, but that is not the main part of exegesis. I figured someone would respond without reading my post. God...

πῶς ἡμεῖς ἐκφευξόμεθα (second generation believers) τηλικαύτης ἀμελήσαντες σωτηρίας; ἥτις, ἀρχὴν λαβοῦσα λαλεῖσθαι διὰ τοῦ κυρίου (first generation), ὑπὸ τῶν ἀκουσάντων (first generation believers) εἰς ἡμᾶς (second generation believers) ἐβεβαιώθη, συνεπιμαρτυροῦντος τοῦ θεοῦ σημείοις τε καὶ...

Maybe we should all become ignoramuses. Maybe we should be like Muslims and rely only on faith. Remember, Jesus told the skeptics of his day to not have faith in him!!!!!!! Do you know what verse that is in?

Perhaps you would like to look at the Heb 2. 3 ,4 and refute my post. I doubt you are capable of exegesis from the Greek NT. Best you can do is to based your opinions of the English Translation, but in this case, you don't need to understand the Greek, just try to refute my post. It is pretty...

So, you can't know if a dream or prophecy is from God until after it is fulfilled? what good does that do? For another view, see my post on Heb 2.3, 4 and Heb 1.1, 2 where it says that God has spoken in times past (by visions and dreams) but no longer, he now has spoken (past tense) in his son...

Purpose is to Worship the Father, GJohn 4:23, 24 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and...

@MatthewG wrote: All people are justified before Yahavah - with sin being paid for - their sins have been covered—believer or not. Meaning all people are able to reach out in faith and gain access to Yahavah due to this victory of Jesus Christ, and Yahavah reconciling the world unto himself...

I agree.