Angelina said:
God is Spirit. Jesus came from Heaven born by the Spirit. Prior to being born as a man...Jesus was Spirit. We are flesh made in the image of God who is Spirit, One day we will leave these earthly tents and become spirit just as God is Spirit and the Lord is Spirit...
God is Love. God of course is more than love. God is Spirit, especially on earth, since no man normally sees Him or hears His audible voice.
God is more than Spirit. See how it works? Your comprehension of Absolute and Qualified is lacking. Limiting God to be ONLY ONTOLOGICALLY Spirit, are ye? What were the OT visions of Him then? Illusion? Drunken dream?
You are hopelessly limited by your conception that one essence cannot possess multiple persons or bodies. It's a difficult concept to understand, granted, but one that would make sense with a living and powerful God.
Who is it you speak to? One essence CAN possess different Persons. This would be, em Gods of like kind. Or in Chinese patois, Gods of Rike Kind.
Same as a Pantheon, sir. Can I call you sir, thou whom has to continually determine if I belong on your forum at all?
John 5:18 HCSB
This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
Jn 10 making himself God. Jn 5 an idiom to make oneself EQUAL to God is to usurp his God-self-given right to authority. Big diff.
This is what galled them regarding Jesus' "working on the sabbath." The statement:
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But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
So then it is easily determined "Jesus is making himself EQUAL to God."
But the view was wrong and a misinterpreted view of his statement.
His Father SHEWED him the work first, and in faith Jesus did the work. This means he is OBEDIENT to God, not equal to God.
His faith had eyes to see and he was obedient, no less.
YOUR eyes do not have faith to see the truth, sir. Proof in the same passage:
18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
[SIZE=.75em]19 [/SIZE]Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
[SIZE=.75em]20 [/SIZE]For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
So then it might behoove you to understand Context, in exegesis, sir. C o n t e x t . Spell it and consider it.
John 1:1, John 8:24, John 8:58, John 10:30-33, John 20:28, Colossians 2:8-9, Philippians 2:5-8, Hebrews 1:8 (lifted from Psalm 45:6) and many, many others testify to a Jesus where, as Colossians 2:8 says, the Godhead dwelled fully. We clearly know from historical sources that Jesus existed. We uphold the Bible to be Truth and therefore if we have an extant Jesus making pretty bold claims and numerous witnesses testifying to this claim, then something is amiss to claim that Jesus was either a liar or that a number of people necessarily lied (at threat of death) throughout the centuries.
This is the methodology of this forum to list as many verses as you think applies to the issue? I have already addressed EACH AND EVERY ONE already. So then at the next level you have to address my posts not start over. Or go slower. Since I don't like to repeat.
Each verse in fact has a compendium of possibility. A history of C o n t e x t . A linguistic milieu. A seque into magical meaning, the wonderous meaning of God.
Shotgun verses do not impress me. Or the discerning reader.
You, unsuccessfully, attempt to dictate to this forum community that no one can reply unless it pretty much agrees with your illogical assertion. That might work on a Jehovah's Witness forum, but it won't work here.
Inneundo. I stand alone to take down the mountain of false Christianity. Which unfortunately many here adhere to.
justaname said:
Sorry nothead you have me confused with someone else...this is the only forum I am active on and the only forum I have ever joined...
Sorry bumpkins, I hate to hear this name Snatt LIck. People like him need to get a flagellate and start flagellating. His own back.