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1 | Son or son? Holy Spirit or holy spirit? | Gen 1:26 | Hank | 65454 | ||
Zerotheory: Two of your statements particularly catch my eye. [1] "I think everyone and everything is the eternal Son of God." [2] "I believe in MYSELF" My comments on [1]. If you acknowledge the deity of Jesus Christ, then what you have said about Him amounts to pantheism, a non-Christian view that in one way or another fails to see God as distinct from creation. In pantheism, God is equated to all that exists and all that exists is God. Are you indeed a pantheist? Oh, I pray that you are not.... My comments on [2]. When I asked you, "What DO you believe, your answer was, "I believe in MYSELF." This leads me to infer that you are perhaps a very young and immature person. That's all I have to say about your answer, but the Bible has something to say about it. I submit for your solemn consideration two verses: The first comes from Jeremiah 17:9: "The heart is deceitful about all things, and desperately wicked." The easiest person on earth to deceive is oneself ... The second is from Proverbs 3:5,6: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths." Whether you are young or old, these are sound words of wisdom. They are true. They are trustworthy. You are precious in God's sight. Trust in Him this very day with all your heart. Such is my prayer for you this evening. Zerotheory, I'm well past the half-century mark in my life. In fact, I've been a Christian for more than 50 years. And I have never had occasion to rue the day when I became a regenerate believer, a child of the King, a Christian. On the contrary, I view it as the turning point in my life, the most important thing that has ever happened to me, or could ever happen, in this life. One parting note: God wrote the Bible. We should be happier and wiser to read it for all it's worth, to accept it as eternal truth, to believe it, to study it, to ask God for illumination of it. But to remember always that God put it together and we should never presume to try to pick it apart. We are doomed to failure if we do. --Hank | ||||||
2 | Son or son? Holy Spirit or holy spirit? | Gen 1:26 | zerotheory | 65500 | ||
Hank, thank you very much for your response. Here is one thing I believe, I believe that God did not intend for labels to be placed on people for their thoughts and that just because one feels differently from another they are no more or less worthy of faith. Am I a pantheist? No, but my eyes, mind, and heart are open to understnad that point of view. Do I believe in **parts** of cosmotheism? Absolutly! The reason why is because there is both logical and mathematical proof that God exists. Let me ask you a question; Do you think that the God you know is the "EXACT" same God as anyone else knows? If your answer is "yes" then why all the discussion? If your answer is "No" then there God is different then yours. Here is a conflict in your statement: Jeremiah 17:9: "The heart is deceitful about all things, and desperately wicked." **AND** Proverbs 3:5,6: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths." Here is a case and point: "But to remember always that God put it together and we should never presume to try to pick it apart." Man put it together through God. God changed everything from one language to multiple for a reason. Love is in the heart and logic is in the mind. God gave us both, it was for a reason. There is a message in all of this: "Use your mind to find all of Gods glory and your heart to love him with all or YOUR glory". Sorry, just observations. |
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3 | Son or son? Holy Spirit or holy spirit? | Gen 1:26 | Reformer Joe | 65512 | ||
You wrote: 'Let me ask you a question; Do you think that the God you know is the "EXACT" same God as anyone else knows? If your answer is "yes" then why all the discussion? If your answer is "No" then there God is different then yours.' Hank and I believe in the same God. We differ in a few respects on what He is like and how He operates, but that is a far cry from saying we believe in different Gods. The problem is not God being "different" for me and "different" for Hank. Our God is the same, but our problem is in our understanding of God. And by "our," I mean "Hank's." ;) --Joe! |
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4 | Son or son? Holy Spirit or holy spirit? | Gen 1:26 | zerotheory | 65520 | ||
Joe, Great point! "The problem is not God being "different" for me and "different" for Hank. Our God is the same, but our problem is in our understanding of God." I am happy for both of you. How is it that you are so certain? Is it because you both beleive there is only one God and they are one in the same? How would you explain Hindus, Muslins, Buddists, or any other non-Christian? Or for that matter that of the Pantheist? |
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