I can't fond the rule, but one of my topics was locked due to some discussion of the subject.
I had never heard of such a rule and can't find it now.
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What's so great about Jesus? (seriously) ???
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I had never heard of such a rule and can't find it now.
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Bruce-Leiter
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@Lambano found the ruling for us.
Policy - Topics That Can No-Longer Be Discussed at CyB
Sorry to see you go. (if that's the last straw)
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What's so great about Jesus? (cont'd - See OP #1)
- Turned water into wine. (before his time)
- Became a sensation among common folks.
- And a thorn to the religious leaders.
- Left us with some significant teaching about how to live.
- But more than that, showed the way to life.
- Gave his life to save us.
- And rose from the dead on the third day.
- Promised to return some day. Maranatha!
I'd say that's pretty great.
How would you answer the question?
What's so great about Jesus?
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- Turned water into wine. (before his time)
- Became a sensation among common folks.
- And a thorn to the religious leaders.
- Left us with some significant teaching about how to live.
- But more than that, showed the way to life.
- Gave his life to save us.
- And rose from the dead on the third day.
- Promised to return some day. Maranatha!
I'd say that's pretty great.
How would you answer the question?
What's so great about Jesus?
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Bruce-Leiter
Well-Known Member
Having been born of a virgin with the Holy Spirit involved, he is both all-human and all-God. That's genuine greatness and the reason he could die and then rise permanently from the dead.
Sorry, don't follow the logic there.
I like what you are saying, but I don't follow it.
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Lambano
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David Lamb
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Yes, He not only showed us the way to life, He is that Way:
“Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (Joh 14:6 NKJV)
That is indeed greatness!
Bruce-Leiter
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Because he was fully-human, he could die for our sins; because he was fully-divine, he could be resurrected.
Bruce-Leiter
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By God's grace and love, yes, @St. SteVen, all of us believers in Jesus will be resurrected to have our perfect bodies (1 Corinthians 15:51-57):
1Co 15:51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
1Co 15:55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
1Co 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
1Co 15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Will we be fully-divine then, like Jesus? Or was there another reason why He was resurrected?
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Brakelite
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“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ”
Romans 5:8 KJV
Bruce-Leiter
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No, we were created as human; our perfect bodies will be these same bodies made perfect and filled with God's glory (1 Corinthians 15:42-47). The second Person of God who became Jesus was never created, though he took on a human body in Mary's womb. Being God, he is eternal. As God, he was resurrected to give us his gift of new resurrection life (Colossians 3:1-4).
1Co 15:42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
1Co 15:43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
1Co 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
1Co 15:46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.
1Co 15:47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.
Col 3:1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Col 3:2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
Col 3:3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Col 3:4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
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