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41 | A Study of John's Gospel. | John 1:1 | Rainbow Maker | 43188 | ||
part 2 John 1 11- 14 Verse 11 Jesus came first of all to the People of God, to the Jews but most of them did not receive him as the Messiah, the Son of God but only as Jesus the son of Joseph the carpenter and Mary. Luke 4:21-22 reads “And He began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." And all were speaking well of Him, and wondering at the gracious words which were falling from His lips; and they were saying, "is this not Joseph”s son?"” NASB Matthew13:55-56 reads “"Is not this the carpenter”s son? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? "And His sisters are they not all with us? Where then did this man get all these things?"" NASB Mark 6:3 reads” "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not His sisters here with us?" And they took offense at Him."NASB Verse 12 I find the wording of this verse very interesting, it reads:”But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, John 1:12 NASB To those who received Him Jesus gave the RIGHT to become children of God, salvation is not a privilege for the few but the right of all people, everyone can claim it. As many Jews who did receive him along with others who were non Jews such as the Canaanite woman, mentioned by both Matthew and Luke though not by Mark or John, see Matthew 15:21-28 and Mark and: 24 -30, were given the right to become children of God. The following link will take us to three Synoptic Gospel charts which compare each one to the Gospel of John; these will be useful later when we are studying the “signs” in John. http://www.users.bigpond.com/ajblair9/Andrew/Synoptic_Chart.htm The words “ even to those who believe on His name” at the end of verse 12 refer on to all those who have come to believe in the Name of Jesus, those of us who unlike Thomas did not touch the wounds in his body, we also have the right to become children of God. Verse 13. “Who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” NASB This verse explains that unlike Judaism where most people become Jews simply by being born into a Jewish family or of a Jewish mother, children of God or Christians cannot become so by being born into a Christian family or by having a Christian mother. Children of God are willed and desired to be so by the Father. God our Father wills everyone to claim the right of our salvation; this is not anything we can initiate; only God can do this. Verse 14 John 1:14 “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.” NASB Now returns mention of the Word. That Word which was in the beginning with the Father was made flesh and dwelt among us. The nativity stories in Matthew 1:18-24 and Luke1:26 -38 explain how this came about. Notice that John speaks about this in the past tense, writing from beyond the event and looking back on this “and we saw His glory"; a glory that could belong to none other that the only Son of God, a glory that was grace filled and truth filled! |
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42 | A Study of John's Gospel. | John 1:1 | Rainbow Maker | 43189 | ||
Part 3 John1:15-18 Verse 15 John 1:15 John testified about Him and cried out, saying, "This was He of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.'" (NASB) When John the Baptist testified about Jesus he speaks of Jesus having a higher rank that himself because though Jesus came after Him he existed before him. Later on Jesus Himself was to say in John 8:58 “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am." This is part of what some like to refer to as the mystery of the incarnation and has its reference in the Nativity Stories. By this I mean that the nativity stories explain how Jesus who pre-existed time itself, and who therefore pre-existed Abraham, who was in the beginning with the Father as co-creator of everything that is came to be born into the world He made; as one of us! Verse 16 -18 “For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.” God’s favour comes to us through Jesus Christ so that we receive the free gift of grace abundantly. Moses it was who brought the Law to the People of God which law exacts obedience under penalty while grace and truth bring freedom from the law through the salvific gift of Jesus’ death for us. Verse 18 The prologue ends much as it begins with the reference to Jesus, the Logos and only Son of God as being the only one who has ever seen the Father and who came to make God Known. This same Jesus who at the time of writing the Gospel had already returned to the bosom of the Father. |
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43 | A Study of John's Gospel. | John 1:1 | Rainbow Maker | 43190 | ||
Hi Cynthia I have just posted at 12:55am 12 April Australian EST time. The post was so big I had to do it in three parts so I sent one to each of you. Andy |
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44 | A Study of John's Gospel. | John 1:1 | Rainbow Maker | 43191 | ||
Hi Angel I have just posted at 12:55am 12 April Australian EST time. The post was so big I had to do it in three parts so I sent one to each of you. Andy |
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45 | A Study of John's Gospel. | John 1:1 | Rainbow Maker | 43192 | ||
Hi Reformer Joe I have just posted at 12:55am 12 April Australian EST time. The post was so big I had to do it in three parts so I sent one to each of you. Andy |
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46 | A Study of John's Gospel. | John 1:1 | Rainbow Maker | 43373 | ||
This is fine Angel, I am interested in etymology and translations and words in their own right. Just keep on with what you feel the Spirit prompting you to say. Yes Witness does carry the judicial connotation of bearing witness,of being able to know that what John the baptist or John the evangelist saw was Truth and not a lie. My wife and I are going to be away from the computer until next Thursday afternoon. We are having a short break away in the bush. I will have more to say later. Andy |
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47 | A Study of John's Gospel. | John 1:1 | Rainbow Maker | 43454 | ||
No Angel no one is kidding. We are both going away for four days Sunday our time so I'll be back next Thursday. In him. Andy |
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48 | A Study of John's Gospel. | John 1:1 | Rainbow Maker | 43455 | ||
No Angel the Jews are not replaced by the Christians they are and always will be the People of God we are "the other sheep who do not belong to this fold" Andy |
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49 | A Study of John's Gospel. | John 1:1 | Rainbow Maker | 43456 | ||
Welcome to this part of Lockmans and thank you for this clarification. Are you knowledgeable of the Hebrew and Greek or did you just make a paste over? I had always taken it as the way you explained so I did not think to exlain that part further. will you continue to join us from time to time? Andy |
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50 | A Study of John's Gospel. | John 1:1 | Rainbow Maker | 43457 | ||
Yes Angel, They will "look on Him whom they have pierced" zechariah12:10 but not until "the fullness of the gentiles "has been brought in. I believe that Jesus died for everyone right from the start, if tthe Jews had accepted him then they would have brought us in as converts or protlytes anyway, instead it is the other way around. Andy |
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51 | A Study of John's Gospel. | John 1:1 | Rainbow Maker | 43518 | ||
Hi Meusing, Good we need a scholar of the original languages I have a little Demotic Greek, though I have not used it since my son was in kindergarten. We were living in a predominantly Greek area of Sydney at the time and a few of us anglo aussies decide to learn a little, kali imera, oops I do not think I remember much. Is that croswalk the site that has the prayer group and the chat room? If it is I have been there. What is the Swordsearcher bible programme? I have something called Parsons Technology from Cedar Rapids Idaho on disc but it is getting dated. Andy |
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52 | "Be ye in the world but not of it."? | Rom 12:2 | Rainbow Maker | 38576 | ||
"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect." These are the words of Paul. Can someone tell me whether Jesus also said something akin to this? For example I recall a verse from the AV which reads " Be ye in the world but not of it." Yet I have put it into several search engines without finding it and there are no cross refferences from Romans to it in my Bible. Where does it come from? Rainbow Maker |
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53 | "Be ye in the world but not of it."? | Rom 12:2 | Rainbow Maker | 38580 | ||
Thankyou, these are what I keep finding too so I think that what I remember is a corruption or abridgement of the verse in Romans I began with. | ||||||
54 | Can a divorced person remarry? | 1 Cor 7:15 | Rainbow Maker | 39166 | ||
"It was said, 'WHOEVER SENDS HIS WIFE AWAY, LET HIM GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE'; 15 Matt 5:32 but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. 16 Matt 19:3 Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?" 17 Matt 19:7 They *said to Him, "Why then did Moses command to GIVE HER A CERTIFICATE OF DIVORCE AND SEND her AWAY?" 18 Matt 19:8 He *said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way. 19 Matt 19:9 "And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery." Concerning divorce this is one of the very definitive teaching of Christ on the matter. There is only one reason a man can divorce his wife and that is if she has been unfaithful, only on this occasion can the husband remarry without committing bigamy, though I suspect that the wife cannot. The Old Testament says different things about dicorce, such as: Deut. 24 :1 says "When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, AND Mal 2:16 "For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with wrong," says the LORD of hosts. "So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously." If we take our Lord's words as we read them then divorce is no more than a legal separation and does not carry the right to remarry. This is the view held by the catholic church. Christians of other denominations believe that divorce is final and does carry the right of remarriage with it. Teachers have told me that what our Lord did was to raise the status of women when he forbade their husbands just to divorce them three times as they were wont to do. I have heard another say that it is not what God wants when we condemn those who divorce. 1./Divorce however has always been a civil thing for us and 2./there are those who believe that unless a marriage is solemnized in church that it is no marriage at all. 3./What God has joined together let not man put assaunder. My question is if we are sure that God did not really join us together but it was an act our our own will then does that mean we can divorce? |
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55 | Can a divorced person remarry? | 1 Cor 7:15 | Rainbow Maker | 39256 | ||
1 Corinthians 7:15 Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace. First of all little one I am not a Catholic I merely stated what is believed by millions of those who are. Secondly if I was a Catholic rather than merely an anglocatholic I would have considerable more inspired scripture than most of the other members of this forum. Thirdly and this time is the exception to my rule, I do not believe in criticizing the beliefs of other Christians because I believe that we are called to believe as we do by the Holy Spirit because there is something we need to learn by going that way. So I would ask you to keep that in mind. " You write: THE JEWS, GREEKS AND ROMANS OF THE NT ERA CORRECTLY UNDERSTOOD THAT DIVORCE INDEED IS A DISSOLUTION OF THE MARRIAGE BOND JUST AS THOUGH IT HAD NEVER BEEN." I congratulate you in your perception of this but do not forget that many who approach scripture for answers are formed in the image of their own sociohistorical period rather than that of the times when the Scriptures were written. Your brother in Christ. |
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56 | Annulment equates to Biblical divorce? | 1 Cor 7:15 | Rainbow Maker | 39268 | ||
1 Matt 5:31 "It was said, 'Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce'(apostasion a certificate of divorce ); compared with 2 Matt 5:32 but I say to you that everyone who divorces(apoluô which means to set free,or to release.) his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. The dictionary meanings here are not terribly useful. Chôrizô is the word used in the Corinthians passage meaning to separate or divide. The Corinthians passage is more contemporary than the Gospel and we find it in the context of the lived reality of the Christian experience. There seem to be a variety of graduated meanings for divorce whereas an annulment from the Latin ad plus nullus and Funk and wagnalls dictionary(1981, page 26) means to put an end to, especially in the case of marriage. My simple understanding of divorce has come to me while I was sojourning in the Catholic Church. On the one hand while Catholics may obtain a civil divorce they are still considered to be married and have in fact obtained just a legal separation. In order for one or both to remarry other people they must go to the Marriage tribunal and provide witnesses from when they first married in order to prove that theirs was a non sacramental union. They must prove either that one or both of them were not practicing catholics at the time or that some other anomally was preexisting which should have made marriage impossible. Everyone can get a civil divorce at some cost though not everyone who desires one can get their marriage annulled. For some of my Catholic friends an adulterous/bigamus civil marriage or marriage in another church was what they had to settle for in absentia adnullus. This combined with the knowledge that God can forgive anything if we ask forgiveness. It is my belief that an Annulment is more than a Biblical divorce since in order for anyone to remarry they must be in the state as if they never were married to begin with. The Corinthian case is a very good pointer towards the fact that our current social conditions, whatever they are, in whatever country ought to bring us to do as they did and to examen the circumstances. lets think about: - 1 Cor 7:17 Only, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each, in this manner let him walk. And so I direct in all the churches. 1 Cor 7:18 Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised. 1 Cor 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is the keeping of the commandments of God. Rainbow Maker |
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