Search results

My dad insists I'm catching up with him when he calls me on my birthday every year. He's close to your age. He was only 19 when I was born. My poor mother, rest her soul, was a year older. She suffered greatly. But she believed God was watching over her. :)

Thank you for your response. :) He died fully. A human spirit has no life. It is merely breath on loan from God. You didn't prove it but you gave sufficient evidence to convince me, mostly because I already believed it. No, it does not. He didn't survive death in any way. He was resurrected...

Soul and spirit are not the same thing, and with regards to Jesus being God, you're preaching to the choir. :)

I don't mean to indicate anything. I'm just quoting Scripture to provoke thought. I can tell you upfront and honestly that 30+ years ago when the question was first brought to my mind I took, from the evidence I could find, that Jesus is God every bit as much as the Father, as was the Holy...

I repent in dust and ashes. :( I just had a mini-row with a fanatic, not because of his beliefs, but solely because of his manners. I waited way too long to withdraw. I'm ashamed. :oops:

What do you know about what has happened in my mind? It really is about making others look weak, isn't it? I don't care what you think about me. This is kind of narcissistic, isn't it? I'm not concerned with what other "trinita-raisins" do. I'm not, as I said before, even sure I'm a textbook...

Yes, it must be that I am just a closed-minded cherry picker. Who said it did? Not me. You presuppose that we all think alike. It's really quite an us-and-them thing, isn't it? Or we could let mental gymnastics tell it, obviously. What is the common man to do?

There can be no doubt here that you are much more desperate to prove there isn't a doctrine of trinity than nearly anyone is to prove there is. Hardly anyone is starting threads about it except those who vehemently oppose it. The damnation remark is certainly a straw man in my case. Intellectual...

@Wrangler I'm not an anti-non-trinitarian. I simply don't agree with many of their various claims. I'm not even sure that I'm a textbook trinitarian myself. I just believe what the Bible appears to me to say about some divinity issues. In my view, there's room for variance within the larger...

How can you ascribe intent to millions of people you don't know? Confusing Your objection is duly noted. Despite your hostile-sounding presuppositions, I simply agreed that a triune God was indicated when I was first shown the Biblical evidence supporting it. You obviously agreed to the...

By what figure does the Bible represent death? "But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope." 1 Thess. 4:13 (1 Cor. 15:18, 20) (John 11:11-14). Where do the dead sleep? "And many of them that sleep in...

What would cause someone to arbitrarily want a man to be God?

What do you base that conclusion on, BB? :)

The Bible seems to claim and drive it home. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. (Acts 5:30)

I'm afraid we're at odds here. My take is that God breathed into the nostrils of man and he became a living soul. Not that he has a soul, but that he is a soul. :)

If this is true then the logic would follow that He did not fully die for the sins of man. :)

Is there any particular reason you chose not to address Isaiah 9:6? Is Jesus God? — His enemies recognized His claim to be God. Take for example the words of Jesus in John 10:30, “I and the Father are one.” We need only to look at the Jews’ reaction to His statement to know He was claiming to...

So do you believe that if one holds the triune God doctrine, what they really want is to be God?