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. • John 5:39 . .You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life That's still true even to this day; there are Jews actually believing they obtain eternal life academically, i.e. from study. The Jehovah's Witnesses do too; and they get that from John 17:3 which...

. • Jer 10:10 . . Jehovah is in truth God. He is the living god. The Hebrew word for "living" in that passage is chay (khah'-ee) which first appears in the Bible at Gen 1:20 where it speaks of aqua life and winged life. Then it appears at Gen 1:24 where it speaks of life on land. It appears...

. Christ's genealogy given in the gospel of Luke is sometimes appropriated to establish Mary's biological connection with David, and subsequently Adam, but I personally don't recommend that route because the language and grammar of Luke 3:23 is much too controversial. Along with the language...

. Marks said: "Jesus is a Human, in Human flesh, but not from the line of Adam" • 1John 4:2-3 . . By this you know the Spirit of God . . Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh...

. That's Jehovah's Witness theology. In reality; it was no more possible for Jesus to sin than it is for God to sin. • Luke 1:35 . . And the angel answered and said to her,"The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy one...

. The so-called sinful nature (a.k.a. the fallen nature) got its start when Adam tasted a forbidden fruit. • Gen 3:6-11 . . So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also...

. FAQ: Was Jesus virgin-conceived so he wouldn't inherit Adam's fallen nature? REPLY: The so-called fallen nature is believed to be propagated by men. Along with that is the belief that baby Jesus eluded the fallen nature by his virgin conception. Oh? Then whence did Eve obtain the fallen...

. FAQ: If Jesus was David's biological posterity, and David was Adam's biological posterity, then by extension, didn't the two passages below apply to Jesus the same as it applies to all the rest of Adam's posterity? "Sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way...

. FAQ: From whence did baby Jesus obtain a Y chromosome for his male gender? REPLY: In the beginning, Eve's entire body was constructed with material taken from Adam's body. Seeing as how Eve is the mother of all women, then any material taken from Mary's body to construct a Y chromosome for...

. It is believed by some (I won't say who) that Psalm 45 applies to every Messianic king each in their turn, beginning with David. _

. Which version did he quote? The original LXX or an English translation of a hand-made copy of the original LXX? _

. Most Christians, if required, will readily attest that Jesus was fully God and fully Man; the meanwhile believing he was some sort of divine hominid implanted in Mary's womb, viz: they honestly believe Mary was Christ's surrogate mother rather than his real mother. However, it's very easy to...

. A major difference between Moses' law and the law of Christ is that Moses' law slams violators with a number of severe penalties and curses for non compliance, whereas the law of Christ doesn't. A second major difference between Moses' law and the law of Christ is that Moses' law specifies...

. Post No.3 isn't an indictment. It simply reports the existence of two non Christian translations of Psalm 45:6/7 I think you might be surprised at the amount of bias that goes into English translations of the ancient languages; especially when linguists encounter ambiguity. Caveat Lector...

. That's the Christianized version of Psalm 45:6/7; there's others. "Your throne is from God, it is forever and ever" (Stone Tanach) "Your throne, O judge, [will exist] forever and ever" (Chabad.org) _

. • Gen 1:26a . . And God said: Let us make Man in our image, after our likeness. • Gen 3:22 . . And the Lord God said: The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Deut 6:4 says God is a singularity. But until the 'us" and the "our" of Gen 1:26 and Gen 3:22 are positively...

. The apostle Paul had this to say about the Jews' religion: "Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all. Rather, we uphold the law." (Rom 3:31) Although a routine day of rest remains codified for Judaism, there has never been a routine day of rest codified for Christianity-- the...

. The Jews' routine day of rest is a "covenanted" day which didn't exist as a holy day of obligation until the pact that Moses' people agreed upon with God per Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, viz: neither Adam, nor Noah, nor Abraham, nor Isaac, nor Jacob were required to practice...

. Observance of the routine seventh day is mandatory for Jews, whereas according to the 14th chapter of the epistle to Romans; the observance of holy days is optional for Christians. _

, I suggest that you be a bit more thoughtful with your choice of words lest the hapless day arrive when you are forced to eat them. "I say to you, that every careless word that men shall speak, they shall render account for it in the day of judgment. For by your words you shall be justified...