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This is one of the latest winds of doctrine...whereby we derive an ultimate value based on what God was willing to sacrifice for us. Instead of navel gazing, however, we should look at the depth of God's love...not any intrinsic value we might have. besides we are to be crucified in order to...

When we sin WE leave God's presence. The new nature within us is like a mold we are meant to be forged or stretched into until we resemble Christ in our character. We don't leave the mold...we just avoid it. We tend to fill the mold with excuses and religious beliefs rather than allow ourselves...

I'm not one to take offense from a fellow human. ;) The reason i piped in about the Is. 9 list of Jesus' qualities is that I am sensitive to how Jesus is portrayed to the Jews. Already they see us as being very pagan influenced. And they do have a point there. What I have found in the...

Nicely written. Thank you for the time you have taken. This subject is not that important to argue over since there is no other similar name to compare it to in the Bible. HOWEVER, "Everlasting Father" is definitely not in the text. A name is a composite of ideas in one word....like Daniel (God...

People tend to judge as they are...not accurately with what is being presented to them. I never said "devil's children." That is the kind of assumed black and white kind of judgment that the majority have accepted in the face of a more nuanced approach that takes into consideration the depth of...

Holding up God's standard will always elicit reactions from the flesh. It is assumed that anyone who agrees with the high standard of Christ as being righteous and true must be elitist and claim to be walking at that standard. What is for sure is the one who complains against the standard is...

I'm sorry if it sounds elitist to compare what is for the few as opposed to what is accepted by the many. But that distinction is borne out by both the words of Jesus and lived experience. Is it better to just stay silent and allow the majority to remain in the dark? What is the function of...

LOL Matt 28:19 is not the original wording....Even the Pope (the one that retired) admitted it. Early writings quote that verse as saying....baptizing them in My name. ...which fits in with the rest of the biblical narrative. Just read Acts....no other name under heaven by which men are saved...

No abiad (actually Aviad) means MY Father goes on (until)....which is not correct in my estimation. What is says is AVIED (or abied in your rendering) "Witness of My Father" There are some Gentile scholars to be sure...the best one is actually a Catholic priest (I actually spoke with him). The...

Thank you. But I think you mean fundamentalist beliefs...not fundamental Christian beliefs. The abberations in the modern doctrines are due to there being great delusion among those who are unable to endure sound doctrine. The doctrines I espouse are apostolic and backed up by the Spirit and the...

Do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God? Jesus shares the Holy Spirit with His Father. When He sends the Son the Spirit goes with Him. Do you believe that the Spirit also accompanies spiritual Christians? Not as a separate entity from God...but in fellowship with God. Have you ever heard...

Not at all. The Jews are expert in reading Hebrew...if you didn't realize that. Now they had the OT for a thousand years BEFORE there was a church of Christ. AND...the early believers used the OT as their bible. No Jew EVER considered God's Spirit as a separate person. It's absolutely ridiculous...

Spiritual Christian...called personally by the Lord. There is no trinity apart from Roman doctrines that try explaining spiritual things to non-spiritual people. There is the Father and the Son united in One Holy Spirit. We join in fellowship with them by that One Spirit. The Spirit of God is...

Scholarship has some merit...but spiritual understanding goes much further. Otherwise the Jews would be the very best expositors of scriptures...which they are not. Why not? A lack of spiritual understanding. The same goes for religious scholars. Religion does not equate to prophetic...

I have studied Hebrew for many years. I can read the OT in Hebrew. I use the scriptures to define the scriptures. Avi in Hebrew means MY FATHER...not just Father. Ayin dalet (a two letter word in Hebrew) means either "until" or "witness." Now Jesus is indeed "a witness of My Father" an...

You are muddying the water here for no reason. The Hebrew word ad (ayin dalet) does not mean forever...it means "until". So then saying avi-ad means everlasting father is a real stretch...and unreasonable in my view. A much more common use of ayin-dalet as a stand alone word is ed which is the...

In Hebrew there are no vowels. The word translated as "everlasting Father" avi-ad could just as easily be rendered as avi-ed. And to me that rendering makes more sense. Avi-ed means "witness of my father". The difference is in whether we add in the "a" or the "e" as vowels. It doesn't make...

Today the saints are scattered throughout the world. The nets that are cast gather in believers....but not for the sake of growth in Christ-likeness. Today believers want to be the "saved" of the world but not the "light" of the world. Shallow conversions and misleading doctrines have filled the...

Disciples make disciples. What the church lacks are actual disciples. There is no bringing people into a life unless that life is being lived in. The whole tenor of the modern gospel is in cross avoidance. People are being told what they can get for free. without any sacrifice. It is no wonder...

That's only half true. We need to be encouraged in the ways of God and discouraged in our own way of thinking. We are NOT God. So then when we trust ourselves we are NOT trusting God. To think that we actually know something needs to be discouraged! ;) We need to encourage each other to let God...