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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: GeneZ Ordered by Verse |
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21 | the angels that sinned | 2 Pet 2:4 | GeneZ | 96825 | ||
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22 | the angels that sinned | 2 Pet 2:4 | GeneZ | 96915 | ||
Thanks, Colin. Yes, I do. Yet, in the spiritual warfare we are required to walk in there are to be expected certain ones who turn out to be antagonists. I have learned to accept this and do not expect respect from certain mind sets when they pop up on the field. Other than that from what I have seen here the majority appear to be genuine seekers, not seeking simply ways to oppose. Respect is a willingness to hear one out. So far, it seems fine and what's to be expected even when things are good. Grace and peace, Gene |
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23 | the angels that sinned | 2 Pet 2:4 | GeneZ | 96916 | ||
Thanks, Colin. Yes, I do. Yet, in the spiritual warfare we are required to walk in there are to be expected certain ones who turn out to be antagonists. I have learned to accept this and do not expect respect from certain mind sets when they pop up on the field. Other than that from what I have seen here the majority appear to be genuine seekers, not seeking simply ways to oppose. Respect is a willingness to hear one out. So far, it seems fine and what's to be expected even when things are good. Grace and peace, Gene |
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24 | the angels that sinned | 2 Pet 2:4 | GeneZ | 96951 | ||
He had to become as a man through obedience. "who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. " (Philippians 2:6-8) He put his Deity's power aside and only functioned as a man. A man who was to be led of the Spirit just as we are now to be. He pioneered the way for us. He tested all the faith we are to live by. He proved it. He proved it by overcoming all evil we could ever face. He then gave us this faith (the mind of Christ) which is the Word of God being applied to our lives. We are to know the Word... understand the Word... and learn to apply its thinking to our situations which our Father has set before us. Angels watch us and cheer us on. Fallen angels watch us and jeer. Those who properly learn sound doctrine and apply it to their lives will overcome the evils of their day. Those who do not, fail to glorify Christ. They only glorify self. " For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear." (2Tim 4:3niv®) Grace and peace, Gene |
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25 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | GeneZ | 96067 | ||
Many confuse the humanity of Christ with his Deity. His Deity was never created. Only his humanity was. The Lord had to take on the form of a man, live as a man by avoiding living in the power of his own Deity; and die as a man for all men. He had to die in our place as a perfect substitute for us. We are a created being. His humanity is a created being. The created was dying for the created. Deity can not die. Deity did not die for us on the Cross. Only the humanity of Christ did. That was made only possible by taking on the form of a created being - humanity. Grace and peace, GeneZ |
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26 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | GeneZ | 96087 | ||
God never suffers. He already knows the beginning to the end. Nothing takes him by surprise, and he is always living as the perfect answer to all our suffering. He is now able to identify with our suffering through the humanity of Christ. That is one reason why mankind needs a mediator between man and God, the humanity of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ can identify with our weakness. "For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. " (Hebrews 4:15) God (Deity of Christ) has no weakness. Deity did not, and could not, suffer on the Cross. God is, and always was, being perfect happiness and joy. For God NEVER changes. Jesus (humanity) suffered in our place, not his Deity. Deity is always being the joy that was set before Christ(humanity) as Jesus bore our sins. "...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Hebrews 12:2) I realize that for some this may be hard to accept at first. For others, it will not be. It is something we are to learn and know about God. He NEVER changes. He now has a policy to express human emotions as a means to communicate with us. For we understand God's policy this way. These expressions are called "anthropopathisms". That means God is attributing to himself traits that he himself does not possess which are used as a means to communicate certain things to finite creatures such as ourselves. God NEVER changes. God is always infinite love and happiness. God is never angry. He never is frustrated. He always sees us as being with him in Eternity as we will be, not as we are now. For what we are now in these bodies is seen by God as being dead and nailed to the cross with Christ. "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me." (Galatians 2:20) Grace and peace, Gene |
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27 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | GeneZ | 96195 | ||
RBT is very familiar to me. Yes. He spurred on my thinking in that area. Yet, my response was from my own reasoning on the subject. Grace and peace, Gene |
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28 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | GeneZ | 96203 | ||
Only the humanity of Christ suffered. I see anywhere in the Scripture where it says Deity suffered for anything. Humanity can suffer. Jesus suffered, but not his Deity. Omnipotence when combined with omniscience can not suffer. God can no more suffer than to lie. It is impossible for God to lie. God has no weakness required for anger. Anger would mean he has limits to what he can do to accomplish his desire. Yet he has a need to express anger as a means to let us know something we should know ACCORDING to our way of thinking. If you wanted to communicate with ants, and ants express anger by twitching their antennae. You may tell them that your antennae is twitching fiercely over something they just had done. You have no antennae. And, you really are not angry over an issue only important to ants. Yet, they understand what you desire (a change in behavior and thinking) and they get the message. God must resort to that at times. Yet, God IS love. God does not simply love. God IS love. We love because God first loved us. God imparted love to us. You said... "Fear" in Hebrew means exactly that, fear. Why should anyone fear a God who never gets angry? " Fear also can mean deep *respect.* "Reverence" A fear of displeasing God. Yet, it says that we fear. Not God. It said God got angry? In other words it is like saying... God's antennae twitch fiercely when we do something wrong. Are you getting this? God already knows our eternal state. He expresses what is needed to correct us according to what we can understand and can relate to. He desires that we submit to his molding us. For only he knows what is to be. We can not see what it is that he is getting us to become. Why should God be angry with anything? Is he limited and unable to do what he desires to do? Anger is expressed only as a means to motivate us until we grow up more in understanding who and what God is. If we do grow, then truth becomes our main concern... not conditioning by pain and pleasure reinforcement. Still having a problem with this? God is not a man. Yet, Jesus Christ is the humanity by whom God is *interpreted* to us. The Greek says that Jesus *interprets* God to us. Jesus is God's perfect means to express what we can relate to about God, as to give us an accurate *concept* about what God is. " No man has ever seen God at any time; the only unique Son, or the only begotten God, Who is in the bosom [in the intimate presence] of the Father, He has declared Him [He has revealed Him and brought Him out where He can be seen; He has _*interpreted*_ Him and He has made Him known]." (John 1:18 Amplified) What we can know about God has been INTERPRETED by Christ to us. We can not know God as God knows Himself. We can not know what it is like to be omniscient. Without Christ as our interpreter we could not have a correct concept of God that we can relate to in our way of thinking. For Jesus Christ is both man and God. He knows perfectly well how to explain and interpret God to men. Before Abraham was existing, Jesus was always interpreting God to mankind. He only became manifested in human flesh when it was the right time in God's plan. God already sees you as you will be. He may appear to get angry at times, but he is already seeing the finished product and is pleased with you, no matter how much you may fail to glorify Christ in time. That is, if you have believed in Jesus Christ. Yet, if we fail to grow up in grace and knowledge, anger and pleasure will be needed to try and get our attention back on the right path. God motivates us according to our understanding. Anger is needed by those who do not please God. Those who do not please God obviously have a poor understanding of God. So, he motivates and disciplines according to where these are in their understanding of Him. Some only respond to anger at a given point in their life. But, God is not really angry. He only would get angry if he could fail to achieve his desire. God does not fail. Man does. Grace and peace, Gene |
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29 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | GeneZ | 96259 | ||
He makes one think and consider about areas no one else that I have found ventures into. Likewise, I do not always agree 100 percent with all he teaches, and neither does he. He had changed a few points of his own over the years. Yet, I have changed some of my views over the years as well. We are all learning together. As you well know his ministry has been a great blessing to those led into the sound of his voice. I am glad I am one of them. Grace and peace, Gene |
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30 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | GeneZ | 96280 | ||
I started sometime in 1981 after having graduated from an independent Bible college. He needs to slow down now. Most people his age are barely getting along living in assisted living facilities. To keep going as long as he has is amazing. Especially, since he taught typically more content in one week than what most pastors can teach in half a year. A walking tribute to grace in action. A crash course in Bible doctrine that seemed would never end. But, it really hasn't. There is yet more on tape that I have not heard than I have. Grace and peace, Gene |
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31 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | GeneZ | 96383 | ||
At one time I used to drive from Massachusetts to DC to hear him teach. Then, when I moved to Georgia, he used to teach just south of Atlanta. Its been an honor. And, its been a blessing. He does not teach you to simply repeat what he teaches, he teaches in a way that gives you the freedom to have your own ideas as well. To even disagree. As long as your disagreement is objective he had no problem with it. Right now I am primarily studying Revelation. Fascinating to see what is there when exegeted. Grace and peace, Gene |
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32 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | GeneZ | 97652 | ||
He only asks of us what he (the humanity of Christ) had already overcome. Jesus was the pioneer of our faith. He forged and proved the way for us by faith, the means to over come the world. That is, our faith (the Word of God made alive in our thinking), we have been given the mind of Christ(1 Corinthians 2:16)! In the Greek the word commonly translated "mind" can also mean "thinking." We have been given his faith. He is the Word (John 1:1). The Word became flesh (John 1:14)... We now have been assigned to learn the Word in an accurate sound way. We will be tested by God's plan to see if what we have learned from the Word (faith) is sound and genuine. "In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith--of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire--may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. "(1 Peter 1:6-7niv®) If we steadily receive truth and are walking in the Spirit we will become overcomers like Christ was an overcomer (of evils in the world). But, if we choose rather to follow after the commonly accepted mainstream popular false teachings that abound today (2 Timothy 4:3) we will not overcome evil, but will be overcome by evil as we conform and are warmly accepted into a system disguised itself in sheep's clothing. Many today have a distaste for sound doctrine. Many want to be told that they are OK in their natural thinking towards who and what Christ is. Many do not want the real Christ. For the Truth requires we deny self and take up our cross in order to follow Him. He is the Word (John 1:1). " For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear." (2 Tim 4:3 niv®) Wide and broad is the way that leads to destruction of the believer's spiritual life. There is provided a broad and wide spectrum of ways to please the many various natural inclinations of believers. Jesus said that only a few will find it. Find the way that leads to his promised "life abundantly." This is to be the maturity in Christ that imparts the capacity to enjoy and experience life to its fullest. So, if we refuse to deny self now we will be refused his life in our experience later on. We must lose our natural way of thinking so that we may gain Christ by sound doctrine (faith teachings). " For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD . " (Isaiah 55:8) Many form denominations and cults because they think God must think like they do. That he must love what they love. The Word is full of shocks and surprised to those who accurately follow after Christ in his Word. Unfortunately, there are those who already know it all (" God must think like we do"). Many have self satisfaction and a pseudo sense of security in numbers. Yet, those who overcome have overcome them as well. Grace and truth, GeneZ |
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