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This is the problem with Islam. Their god was not a relational being until he created someone. For all eternity past, he was all alone.

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GJohn 1.18 θεὸν οὐδεὶς ἑώρακεν πώποτε· μονογενὴς θεὸς ὁ ὢν εἰς τὸν κόλπον τοῦ πατρὸς ἐκεῖνος ἐξηγήσατο. No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known. There is a textual variant here that has made this a very...

Once you deny the deity of Christ, anything goes.

Here is how the Jews understood his claim to deity: But Jesus answered them, My Father works hitherto, and I work. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

Paul does not advise us to attack, but to stand. of course, the armor of God are all spiritual doctrines and we have those to STAND on when Satan throws his darts at us, but we are only advised TO STAND, not to attack. I guess I don't call standing fighting. And lead us not into temptation, but...

Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil walks about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil one.

I will assume you are a new believer so I will go easy on you, but your position is overtly blasphemous and I thought you ought to know that before you wrote any more on this subject without studying it. You wrote: Jesus said.. "I and my Father, are ONE".. ONE what? Finally, What...

I will tell you this, you wont find me fighting the devil and his demons. Christ prayed that we would be kept from Satan, not battle him.

This is close to blasphemy. Can God the Father be Fully God and Fully the Father?

The Christian college I attended I found this to not be true. Yes we need to prayerfully seek Truth from God. But I have found that this was the belief of those who didn't get very good grades and to me at least, were rather lazy. To understand the word, you need to train yourself to be able to...

Let me give you one to two of my notes regarding this topic. Because, you developing some thoughts on the logos as more than a person is actually how the Greek Philosophy would take this verse. the question in John 1 is whether or not you want to take this as a Jewish expression or a Greek one...

Because God's word says so. I am certain of the Bible's validity and its doctrines. If for some reason I couldn't know if I was certain, this verse would have to be explained. And, if you explained this before, I am sorry, I don't recall it. Also, the Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit...

1 John 5.13 There is no denying that we can "KNOW" we have eternal life. What you are doing in my opinion is trying to hide the fundamental clarity of Scripture.

the imperfect verb hn in GJohn does explicitly state that Christ is a pre-existent being. He was "before" all things that were created.

The certainty of salvation is not based on a feeling like peace, although you may feel peace. The certainty of salvation is based on what the Word of God says.

I disagree. The Trinity was involved in communication before or sans creation. The Father communicated to the Other Members of the Trinity. As an example, if the Father said to the Son, "One, Two, Three" then he said One BEFORE he said Two. Since we don't know what infinite duration means, we...

Since God is an eternally existent being, how do we refer to his state of existence sans t1? In other words, assume there was no creation. As far as when t1 occurred, I think you can take any beginning, no matter which beginning you select, God was already in existence. Remember, GJohn 1.1 says...

Lambano said: @Lambano I read a book called The Constantine Codex, a fictional work by Christian historical scholar Paul Maier. In his book, ou intrepid archaeologists find an old Bible codex that contains two unique features: A different ending to the book of Mark that is written more in...

The word you are looking for is sans. Not "before." I just used the word 'before' to keep it from getting too Philosophical. The word sans means "without." Before Creation was metaphysical time. God is eternal and has existed sans creation. sans is as word that William Lane Craig uses when he...