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  1. JohnD

    Revelation 20 and the so-called millennial reign

    Revelation 20 (KJV) 1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and...
  2. JohnD

    How did Paganism get into the church?

    I am convinced he was the horseman Revelation 6:2. He broke ground for the greatest entrance of paganism into the faith (i.e. Roman Catholicism). A hijacking that even most Protestantism reflects to this very day. SUN worship is still SUN day worship. Incorrectly dividing the word of truth to...
  3. JohnD

    Where did the Bible come from? - Shot out of a canon

    The late Dr Chuck Missler did a fascinating study on the subject wherein he cited the process of creating a hologram (a 3 dimensional image) which is only fully illuminated when subjected to the same laser light it was created with. Without that same laser light, the image is less detailed...
  4. JohnD

    Where did the Bible come from? - Shot out of a canon

    The Bible is the word of God. Jesus declared the word of God is truth (John 17:17). 2 Peter 1:20-21 indicates several things: all inspiration (spoken or written) comes from the Holy Spirit all scripture (having come by that process) is prophetic scripture is to be interpreted by the Holy...
  5. JohnD

    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    Hebrews 1:10 states that the Father prepared his body. Hebrews 1:15 states that the Father became his Father and he his Son at the incarnation. John 1:14, John 3:16, John 3:18, 1 John 4:9 calls Jesus the only begotten Son of God / of the Father Because the only thing the Father created is the...
  6. JohnD

    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    The biblical testimony is that Jesus preexisted the incarnation: John 8:58 ← I AM Micah 5:2← from everlasting 1 John 1:2 ← that eternal life etc. all referring to the eternality of God the Word who became Jesus in the incarnation (John 1:1-2, John 1:14) who subsisted in his Spirit as God...
  7. JohnD

    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    God the Father was with God the Word in the beginning (John 1:1-2, 1 John 1:1-2) as was the Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:1-2). The preincarnate Jesus (God the Word) acted alone by himself in creating all things (Isaiah 44:24). But he was eternally in the company of the Father and the Holy Spirit...
  8. JohnD

    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    I am quoting God's Word. God's Word makes it a fact. Jesus is God the Word incarnate (John 1:1-2, John 1:14 / Colossians 2:9 / John 1:3, Colossians 1:16, Isaiah 44:24, Genesis 1:1).
  9. JohnD

    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    No this is obviously referring to the incarnation.
  10. JohnD

    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    Unto us... a Son is given up for sacrifice (Isaiah 53 / John 3:16). John 1:14 the only begotten of the Father (the only creation of the Father) is the body (humanity): Hebrews 10:5 (KJV) 5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body...
  11. JohnD

    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    If God the Word is also a creation then God the Word created himself. The text clearly states "by him..." Colossians 1:16 (KJV) 16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or...
  12. JohnD

    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    Extrabiblical examples of exaggeration does not prove exaggeration in the scriptures. In fact John 1:3 is specific about this that there is no exaggeration in that Jesus (preincarnate) is the Creator of ALL THINGS created (in the beginning). John 1:3 (KJV) 3 All things were made by him; and...
  13. JohnD

    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    No. all things means all... things...
  14. JohnD

    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    Actually, Jesus is the firstborn over all creation positionally. Intentionally. Not actually. The Father was not a father until the incarnation (Hebrews 1:5) neither was the Son a son until then. Note the tenses of "I will be..." and "he shall be..." meaning prior to this point in history when...
  15. JohnD

    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    Note I highlighted in your own quote ALL THINGS. NOT just some things like you suggest.
  16. JohnD

    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    The Greek in John 20:17 follows the same non-kai-noun grammar that John 1:1 does (which the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Christadelphians who the Jehovah's Witnesses got the idea from use to falsely indicate Jesus was only a god rather than Almighty God). "The only true God: the Father AND...
  17. JohnD

    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    The Bible does this in other matters as well. Galatians 3:24-25 for example which is the fulfillment of the Law of Moses (Romans 3:31) in a way that no one would have fully comprehended until the cross of Christ.
  18. JohnD

    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    The text covers things no one could fully comprehend until the fullness of the events of creating mankind played out (finally with the incarnation of God the Word). "Let us make man in our image and after our likeness..." Jesus is the <visible>image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15)...
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    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    God is a unity of plurality. Examples of unities of plurality include: corporations cities families One family consists of more than one member (there is no such thing as a family of one member). Even the word for God is plural (elohiym). There is only one elohiym: Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
  20. JohnD

    Did Jesus claim to be God?

    So, John 20:17 also relegates the Father to only a god?