No one has seen God at any time, John?

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Thus, as soon as Mosheh began to write the Torah, the Logos-Dabar-Word of the Almighty became flesh: Lambskin.
That's a view I've never heard before.

John 1:14-17 LITV
14) And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, glory as of an only begotten from the Father, full of grace and of truth.
15) John witnesses concerning Him, and has cried out, saying, This One was He of whom I said, He coming after me has been before me, for He was preceding me.
16) And out of His fullness we all received, and grace on top of grace.
17) For the Law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

No, based on the above, and other passages, the Word Who tabernacles among us, this is Jesus.

Yes, it is my reading,
I thought so. You have a POV that requires you to insert a word that changes the text. I don't think we will have much more to discuss. Yes, I am aware of the doctrinal aspect, and you've introduced a significant change to the text based on your reasoning, but not on the actual text.

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Jesus said before Abraham, I am. What do you think that means?
Just to jump in here a moment . . . the most literal rendering is that Jesus said, "Before Abraham did exist then, I do exist now." It's the statement only an Eternal Being can make. The Jews were asking Jesus about the timing of what He had said, "You aren't even 50 years old and you've seen Abraham? This was Jesus' answer, that His present existance is prior to Abraham's past existence.

John 8:53-58 KJV
53) Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
54) Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
55) Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
56) Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
57) Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
58) Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

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@Riven

The Trinity doctrine is indeed confusing, and different people define it differently. I am not here to give you what people say, but what God says--not what you may read of what is written per se, but what I have received from God directly:

Thus, in common terms, the so called Trinity is simply the Me, Myself, and I (am) of God, known also by many more names than only three. Which is not to say that there are not many counterfeits among other religions--because there are.

As such God shows up even in many forms, as angels, voices, and visions, etc. He's God, He can do that.

Carry on!
 

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John 1:14-17 LITV
14) And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, glory as of an only begotten from the Father, full of grace and of truth.
15) John witnesses concerning Him, and has cried out, saying, This One was He of whom I said, He coming after me has been before me, for He was preceding me.
16) And out of His fullness we all received, and grace on top of grace.
17) For the Law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

No, based on the above, and other passages, the Word Who tabernacles among us, this is Jesus.

The passage you posted does not say what you say. There is no statement in John 1 saying that "Jesus is the Word", it's rather all presumption on the part of those who wish to force their preconceived doctrine into the text.

I thought so. You have a POV that requires you to insert a word that changes the text. I don't think we will have much more to discuss. Yes, I am aware of the doctrinal aspect, and you've introduced a significant change to the text based on your reasoning, but not on the actual text.

Please prove your accusation with actual evidence. What Greek word did I add to the text? You yourself just did exactly what you accuse me of doing: you added but into John 1:17 when there is absolutely no equivalent in the Greek text, it simply isn't there, your favorite translator-interpreters added it there to help you read their interpretation of the text, rather than what it actually says. Moreover your types use this text against the Torah and against Mosheh, which the Almighty warns against in the Torah, and the Torah is spiritual, (Rom 7:14a), and thus, so is the leprosy. If you are going to post verses reinterpreted by lying scribes I hold you accountable for passing them off as true on the board. In fact John 1:17 has already been addressed in this thread.

Misreading οτι, inserting "but" when it is not there, and misinterpreting δια twice:

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

17 οτι ο νομος δια μωυσεως εδοθη η χαρις και η αληθεια δια Ι̅Η Χ̅Ρ εγενετο

Because the Torah was given through Mosheh; the grace and the truth came to be through Ι̅Η Χ̅Ρ

I understand that translators do such things due to an antinomian bias: do you understand that?

I do not need your antinomian lying scribes: I can read the text for myself.

Moreover, please remember what you yourself posted concerning John 12:48 in reply #299, (did you post another rendering somewhere? I did not see it if you did). You merely posted an image file from an interlinear:

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So that everyone may fully understand, this is what the interlinear says:

The one-un-placing me and no getting-up the declarations of-me is-having the one-judging him the saying which I-talk that shall-be-judging him in the last day

Are you serious? And you have not provided an actual translation of this text anywhere else? And you accuse me of changing a word to suit my own point of view? I have not changed anything which appears in the Greek text: what I did was to render ekeinos literally for what it actually means, so as to wake people up as to what Trinitarian scholarship is doing to hide the truth in texts such as this which refute your doctrine. And the more literal we get in our readings of the Greek scriptures the more the Trinity doctrine becomes indefensible.

Some translations render ekeinos here as "He" or "he". That rendering is the same as "that One" because either way it refers back to the statement, "the Logos which I have spoken" and "he" is of course third person, so it cannot be the Meshiah himself because it is the Logos which he has spoken, ("that One", "He"). Others render ekeinos as "the same", and still yet it refers back to "the Logos that I have spoken", and therefore cannot mean the Meshiah himself. Others entirely omit ekeinos, and why would they feel the need to omit this word from the text? obviously they must realize how damaging it is to the Trinity doctrine, and apparently therefore they avoid it all together.

The most egregious tampering with the text is the fact that so many English translations pervert the text in order to make the Logos in this passage into an inanimate object, rather than the Living Logos, whom we know is the one and only one-of-a-kind Son who is ever in the bosom of the Father, (John 1:18), and that One, (He), is the only Judge. They are indeed playing the logical fallacy game called special pleading, where in their minds LOGOS is a super duper GOD-WORD in John 1:1, but merely some simple inanimate logos-word spoken by THE SUPER LOGOS in John 12:48, (even though in John 12:48 Logos has the article attached, the Logos), and no doubt they do this because otherwise John 12:48 destroys their doctrine.


@Matthias was right when he said you are a hypocrite.
 
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Belle of the Ball … excuse me, @Riven. Everyone wants to dance with you. Enjoy the attention and dance with all of them before settling on a theology partner.

The Ball doesn’t last forever but the consequence of our decision does. Beware of those who whisper sweet nothings in your ear and remember what you‘ve learned from the teacher (Luke 6:40).

 
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There’s a thread in one of the “Christian Only” forums titled: Make Sure You’re Following the Real Jesus.

If N.T. Wright was a member Christianity Board @Riven he could post in that thread. He’s not and I can’t (someday soon you’ll be able to) so I’ll take the liberty of posting something Professor Wright wrote that is germane to my belief and the critically important topic of that thread.

“Jesus’s beliefs, therefore, remained those of a first-century Jew, committed to the coming kingdom of Israel’s god. He did not waiver in his loyalty to Jewish doctrine. But his beliefs were those of a first-century Jew who believed that kingdom was coming in and through his own work. His loyalty to Israel’s cherished beliefs therefore took the form of critique and renovation within; of challenge to traditions and institutions whose purpose, he believed (like prophets long before, and radicals in his own day), had been grievously corrupted and distorted; and of new proposals which, though without precedent, were never mere innovation. They always claimed the high ground: fulfillment, completion, consummation.

We can summarize Jesus’ beliefs in terms of three most fundamental Jewish beliefs: monotheism, election, and eschatology.

Jesus believed that there was one God who made the world, and who called Israel to be his people; that this one God had promised to be with his people, and guide them to their destiny, their new exodus; that his presence, guidance and ultimately salvation were symbolized, brought into reality, in and through Temple, Torah, Wisdom, Word and Spirit. He was a first-century Jewish monotheist.

(Jesus And The Victory of God, p. 652)

I bolded the last sentence. I don’t think Professor Wright would mind.

Make sure you’re following the real Jesus. I’m staking my life on the real Jesus being the one who is a Jewish monotheist.
 
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The Bible says Moses spoke to God face to face, but then God says no one can see my face and live
To see Moses face to face is the will of God, so he can live, it's the plan for salvation.

And if as this is said, no one who has seen Jesus Christ will live.
 

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@Riven this is what you need to know about who the one God is. If you’ll remember it you won’t be lead astray by anyone.

Here’s something that you should think about @Riven -

“Jesus made the fundamental confession of Judaism his own”. - New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology

Has Jesus made the fundamental confession of Nicene Christianity his own?


If you conclude that he has, then you should too. Luke 6:40.
 
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Here’s something that you should think about @Riven -

“Jesus made the fundamental confession of Judaism his own”. - New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology

Has Jesus made the fundamental confession of Nicene Christianity his own?


If you conclude that he has, then you should too. Luke 6:40.
Concerning Luke 6:40, I do not presume that those who formulated the Nicene Creed, nor its current followers, are genuine disciples of Christ and their Lord. They were, and many still are, followers of themselves and others like them, chasing their own version of a Christlike creed, of false and meaningless perfection.
 

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To see Moses face to face is the will of God, so he can live, it's the plan for salvation.

And if as this is said, no one who has seen Jesus Christ will live.
Exo 33:20 - And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
Exo 33:21 - And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
Exo 33:22 - And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
Exo 33:23 - And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
 

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To see Moses face to face is the will of God, so he can live, it's the plan for salvation.

And if as this is said, no one who has seen Jesus Christ will live.
I would suggest you might want to reconsider you reply here.

Exodus 33:20 - 23 employs clear metaphorical and anthropomorphic language rather than describing a literal physical encounter with the one true God, who is the Father. And God cannot be seen in our current state, and I'm not sure he can also be seen in a new human energy vessel or body either.

And as for Yeshua, he is not God Almighty, and therefore in the next life, he shall be seem by any immortal 'new' human being.