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KJV Romans 6:23 23 For the wages of sin is death... That hasn't changed. Which is why Christians ought to be exhorting one another not to sin. Keep the commandments. Love one another. Then death doesn't become an issue right?

Took 6 literal days for creation. Unless you believe the fourth Commandment to be a metaphor or figurative. Then I guess you can believe in anything.

I get what you are saying about the creatures that depends on certain native species though. Pine is used because it's fast growing. Many native trees take a hundred years or more to mature, where pine in NZ takes 20-25. Such growth sustains the timber industry and no cost to NZ wildlife because...

Aussie could do with more pine. Timber shortage at moment. There no building going on... Housing has come to a standstill in many places because builders can't get timber. And there very little coming from overseas.

KJV Exodus 30:18-21 18 Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. 19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: 20...

Scripture, aka God, says be baptized. I don't think you would suggest surely that obedience isn't necessary for Salvation?

I would suggest the humility and self deprecation, obedience, and surrender of Christ to the Father was not because Christ was human, but because He was His Father's Son. This submissive attitude didn't have it's beginning in Bethlehem, but in heaven when He agreed to come to die.

You admitted that Jesus, before His incarnation as a man, was had an intimate relationship as a Son, with His Father. Now we know that everything God does, is perfect and good. The Son, was begotten of the Father. Begotten means one born with the same nature and character as that which have Him...

I didn't say faith in Jesus. I said the faith of Jesus. The same faith Jesus had... Bringing similar results.

I don't think you are. Though I'm hardly surprised when I reread my post... Full of typos. You compared what you call the tripartite nature of man with the theory of the trinity. I suggest that both are mere human devisings and the comparison you make valid only on that basis. Their common...

I don't consider that the scriptures are telling us that Jesus just "appeared" as a man. He was, in every respect, a real man, just as we are. With all the emotions, temptations, weaknesses, and physical and mental limitations that are common to us all. And to edit a PS... he also had the need...

That doesn't support the commonly held conviction though that the "spirit" of man is an independent sentient being though, which is what I assumed you were arresting when you started that man has a "tripartite" nature... Body, soul, spirit. Which further suggests that though the body dies, you...

Forgive me if I sound harsh, but I'm going to speak straight with you. Because you think you were redeemed by the shedding of the blood of a mere man, then you have a very reduced and misunderstood perspective of the love of God, and therefore little appreciation of what the gospel entails, and...

Do you have an example of that working in scripture in the human sense?

The only reason he was mortal was by choice. By taking upon Himself human nature, deity became a mortal man. The deity and/or divinity of Christ is not dependant upon a theological construct of man. Jesus was His Father's only begotten Son.... Who was sent from the Father's side to become our...

Sorry but I disagree. God said the truth... You shall die of you eat of that tree. Satan said, no, you won't surely die. You shall be like God and live forever. And the church has been teaching that ever since. And you intubated the same by suggesting a difference between body and spirit...

Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)” Galatians 1:1 Christ's spirit slept in the grave with His body. Christ was truly as dead as we would be without Christ. He declared to Mary,I have not...

That the Son of God (the Word) is as much ‘God’ as is God the Father is not in question. As Paul wrote to the Colossians “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily” Colossians 2:9 Other translations render this verse this way “For it...

So is the Father imperfect in begetting a Son not after His likeness?

I said in an earlier post in this thread (can't be bothered to search through 700 odd posts to find it) that the greatest evidence we have in scripture that Jesus is God, is that He is the Son of His Father.