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LOL! Yes, you might as well go ahead and cite the whole Council of God, Pierac. It's all about Jesus. As the writer of Hebrews says: "Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, Whom He appointed...

Well, I think we can consider what Jesus says to Peter in Matthew 16 when Peter confesses Jesus to be "Christ, the Son of the living God" as an incontrovertible indicator ~ "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven"...

I'm going to interject into an exchange or two that you've had with other posters here: The fact that Jesus us both of God the Father (the Son of God) and of man (born of a woman, the Son of Man ~ as He Himself calls Himself many times qualifies Him (beyond all those who are merely of man) to...

Yes, I'm 100% with you on all this. "Pretty neat"... that's one way to put it, I suppose... :) Well, two things. First, to really know someone ~ anyone ~ depends not on you, but on that person. And the second thing follows ~ if one denies that Jesus is God and thus merely a man, he or she...

Well, God Himself, in the Person of the Holy Spirit. He put us "on the right track," and He's with us every step of the way on that right track, even keeping us on that right track. He is the author and finisher of our faith, as the writer of Hebrews says (chapter 12). A large percentage of...

Not at all. Paul says Jesus is the image of the invisible God. So you're doing here the very thing you're railing against. Absolutely. So do you think Jesus is also made/created in God's image? Or do you believe what Paul actually says in Colossians 1, that He is the image of the invisible...

God's Word is formative, yes, for sure. Hm. Well Hebrews 11 is saying that by faith we are saved, just like all the heroes of the faith from Abraham on down. Right? And what that verse in particular is saying is that we may do all kinds of things to serve and please Him, if we don't have...

I agree, but what that means cannot be lessened one iota, it is what it is. Agreed, because... it's all right there. Throughout God's Word. :) Only to those with itching ears, as Paul says in 2 Timothy 4:3, who accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and turn away from...

That's certainly what many have done, in so many different ways. But the great thing is, though the grass wither and the flower fade, the word of our God stands forever (Isaiah 40:8; 1 Peter 1:24). Grace and peace to you.

Sure. Probably so. Didn't mean to imply otherwise. Grace and peace to you.

Well, I'm sure you've had that discussion many times, as have I with Jehovah's Witnesses such as yourself. Plus it's getting into a subject different from what we were discussing, and I didn't care to launch into that on top of what we were discussing (which I think you would be appreciative...

I would encourage you to... think and pray on it. These things are spiritually discerned, as Paul says: "...these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person...

Whoa, stop right there. I'm not in any way saying or positing that we cannot understand God. But His ways are not our ways, His thoughts not our thoughts, as Isaiah says, and this is what David is saying in Psalm 139. And it's what Paul is saying in Romans 11 when he writes, "For who has...

That's just it, Keiw, most of what you "showed from the Bible is truth" is quite different from what the Bible actually says and means. Some of which I demonstrated, and some of which I just dismissed. That's quite enough of this for me. Grace and peace to you.

The intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something. Individually speaking, yes, we all have an intrinsic nature, yes, and qualities that are indispensable to our being and quality. That's an excellent question, Rich. Maybe better than you realize... :) I'll answer that, at least to...

Merely one of many. :) Grace and peace to you.

That's just not the case. But there are plenty of men who, in their fallenness, get what He has said wrong, and/or make it into something it's not, either inadvertently or to suit themselves. LOL! Yes, probably so... :) LOL! Sure He could have, I guess. :) My goodness. I assume you're...

Well actually... :) Covenant marriage is actually a three part "deal." God, the man, and the woman. But I'm with ya on Ephesians 5. :) Yes, it's God's... idea. :) Grace and peace to you.

That matters not. As I said, it is firmly based in and affirmed by Scripture. Irrelevant. I mean... sorry, no offense intended. But to explain by use of a parallel, the exact words, "One should not take his own life or that of another" are not, woodenly speaking, found in Scripture, but that...