"Free" Will

[StanJ]

In all seriousness though, this is a good way to get a thread locked. Obviously the "Free Will" part has run its course. Last time, back to Free Will.

In all seriousness, I agree....LOCK it. It has run it's course IMO.

 

[Barrd]

Oh man, I need to print this and frame it! Thanks, Barrd!

Hey, I know we don't always agree...but when you're right, you're right.

And you're quite welcome.

 

[Barrd]

I have to agree....locking this ridiculous thread would be a good idea. It's run it's course.

 

[logabe]

My friend that does not say" Jesus is God"...if you really want to post a scripture that means "Jesus is God."..why don't you post one that says "Jesus is God"

I agree, but I need to lift up the name of Jesus one more time.

Isa. 45:21-23 says,

21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together:
who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that
time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just
God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am
God, and there is none else.
23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear.

Wow! Okay I believe you are one God and not three.

Isa. 43:10-12 says,

10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have
chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he:
before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
11 I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no savior.
12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was
no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord,
that I am God.

I thought Jesus was the savior, but looks like God took credit for that.

John 10:29-33 says,

29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is
able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
30 I and the Father are one.”

Whoa Jesus, you fixing to get a bunch of Jews mad.

31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him.

Why are you stoning Him?

32 Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father;
for which of them are you stoning Me?”
33 The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for
blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God.”

Refer back to verse 30. They couldn't accept the fact that Jesus was the same God that they read about
in the book of Isaiah. Guess what, if Jesus wasn't God, He was blaspheming, and He would have deserved
to be stoned. But that wasn't the case, Jesus was the God of the Old Testament that was in Spirit, but not
in the flesh yet. Let's continue on in John 10:34,

34 Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I said, you
are gods’?
35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture
cannot be broken),
36 do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world,
‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
37 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; 38 but if I do
them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know
and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”

As the Son of God, Jesus is recognizing that He didn't have an earthly or fleshly father, but
His Father was the Spirit of the Word that impregnated Mary. He was called the Son of Man,
because God used Mary to bring about His humanity that qualified Him as a man. He couldn't
have an earthly father, because the seed of the man (Adam) was tainted with sin. Eve didn't
sin willfully, so the mortality came from the man.

Then, Jesus again, confirms He and His Father are one by saying, I am in the Father and the
the Father is in me, which upset the Jews once again, because they understood what he was
saying to them. Their reasoning was He was blaspheming by saying He was the Messiah.

What a God! What a Plan!

Logabe