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261 | What is the theme or themes of John? | John | Tamara Brewington | 204564 | ||
What is the theme of John, is it one theme, two, three, more? God Bless, hat lady |
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262 | What is the theme or themes of John? | John | Tamara Brewington | 204580 | ||
My Dear Searcher, Help me out here there is no thread below you and the ones above me don't say anything.:) Humor me a bit, try typing in the word John in the search engine here and see where it takes you. Humor me some more, try typing in the words theme of John and you will find one referrence to the theme of one passage in John. I posted the question because I can't find it in any of the threads, tell me what to type and I will be glad to try again. God Bless hat lady |
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263 | What is the theme or themes of John? | John | Tamara Brewington | 204732 | ||
Dear Searcher, As usual looking through every thread there was did not yeild anything about the whole book of John and what the whole subject matter is about, which is what I mean by theme. Some of these threads only speak about the theme, or what the subject matter is all about, for a small portion of John. That is not what I am looking for. God bless your heart, but my dear you keep on choosing to answer myself and others with will meaning advice that does not yeild an answer to the question once all the threads you are talking about have been exhausted. You are assuming that whoever has posted a question you think must already have been answered has not gone throught the threads and search engines to find what they are looking for. You are preventing my questions and other people's questions from being truly answered by anyone because you have posted advice or asked people to refine how much of a passage they would like to know about when they have made it crystal clear they want to know about the whole thing and not a little part. I went back through several questions that you did not really answer by posting a not and gave folks a real answer to their question. Now I cannot get anyone to try and answer all the questions you choose to post a reply to because folks see that it was apparently answered sufficiently simply because it now appears in Primary (?). I can't tell you how much I appreciate your attempts at help, but I also can't tell you how frustrating it is not to have a chance to have my questions actually ansewered. Please consider whether or not you could search through the threads and search engines first your self before directing others to do so as a post. Please consider that people know that they are asking about whole passages and whole books when they post a question with only one verse, because we all know the one verse is required, but it may not cover the whole scope of a question posted. Happy 4th of July to you, God Bless Tamara |
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264 | what about doing the work jesus did | John | Tamara Brewington | 205530 | ||
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265 | What is significant about the Word? | John 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 203732 | ||
Word is Greek it means Logos which means all knowledge, someting said, reasoning, the Divine Expression, cause, utterance and Jesus is called the Word because He is the Divine Expression of all that can be known and all things were made through Him, by Him and for Him. In Bible times everyone knew that it meant the Divine Expression. Try these three sites for help understanding the meanings of words in the Bible; www.blueletter www.esword www.scriptureanalyzer4all |
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266 | Wisdom as Evangelism? | John 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 203852 | ||
I came across a stituation in which I was evangelising with someone. They are more educated than me by a long shot, two seminaries, one big degree and such. I did not know this person very well and was taking class from them, we went out to the park for class credit. This guy was trying to catch fish by asking passers by if they would like to discuss The Moral Argument, The Cosmological Argument, The Anthroplogical Argument, The Teological Argument and so on. Passers by who were caught would be presented with an argument for that God exists as The Absolute Moral Law Giver, The Uncaused Cause, The Creater of Man in His Image, The Intelliegent Maker of Creation and so on. Then this guy would point out the fatal flaw in the rational of the passer through setting an intellectual trap by showing them how their veiw was hypocritical, lacked rationality or otherwise did not measure up to the logic and wisdom of what he had presented as his argument. This was an Apologetics course and the point was to learn how to apologize for the faith. After pointing out their fatal flaw he would then try to get them to admit God existed, if he could get them to do that, then and only then would he give them the gospel message of Christ's atoning death. He invited me to something called,"spiritual munchies", a get together of believers and nonbelievers to hear a bit of Jesus wisdom from the gospels. The scripture was Mathew 7:1-5. I sat there for two hours while we ate and discussed the elements of the text, like what is a log in your eye and what is a measure of judgment. The unbelievers were never given the gospel message of Christ's atoning death. I confronted this guy and asked why he didn't just give them the message that could save and that it bothered me that we were being unequaly yoked with unbelievers studying scripture that has the power to equip the saved with wisdom, but which does not have the information necessary to save. He said the wisdom of Jesus has the power to draw people salvifically to God and that he was doing pre-evangelism. He said there is a mandate to use wisdom to evagelize. I said the aposltes never used wisdom to evangelize in fact Paul talks a lot about not using wisdom to evangelize because they are seeking wisdom and that Christ and His atonement are our wisdom according to Paul. He accused me of hiding behind the gospel and being unwilling to deal intellectualy with people who can respond to rational,logical wisdom in order to get saved and that my methods of giving people the scriptures and the message of Christ's atonement was running away from the world. I Corinthians 2:1-8, 1:18-31, Colossians 2:2-10. Scripture to support his point if you think it can be validated, opinions please. | ||||||
267 | Wisdom as Evangelism? | John 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 203875 | ||
Thanks for another link, was that you Doc? You seem to be the only one answering yesterday, don't mind a bit... I will check this out and get back to you on this. Thanks Tam | ||||||
268 | Is Jesus the same God as God, or a God? | John 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204613 | ||
Dear heart, Go to John chapter 1, verse 1-5 and read them with the understanding that the word Word in Greek is Logos. They add the word a, making the verse read the word was a god. This is a referrence to Jesus Christ as being called the Word. This word means a number of things but the most important meaning is the Divine Expression, as in the Divine Expression of God. More important than that note what John is saying in verse 1; In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. This literaly means that Jesus who is the Word is God. Start with that as the begnining of your argument. Move along to one of their favorite scriptures Colossians 1:15. The words creation and firstborn are two of their favorite words. They take this verse to mean that Jesus was a created being, the angel Michael, who came to earth and became an ordinary man as the first born of those who have risen from the dead. They miss a couple things here. One is that it says Jesus is the image of God, not made in His likeness as we are. The word in Greek doesn't just mean image, it also means, more correctly, representation. Jesus is the representation of God as God's exact image, not as made in God's likeness. That means Jesus has the same spiritual nature as God not one derived from God as made to be like God, Jesus is God. They love the word firstborn because they believe in something called the Sonship of Jesus, that Jesus is physically begotten by the Holy Spirit as a created son of God and that Jesus is first in the order of created beings as an expample of how to be a son of God. They love the word creation becuase to them this usage of the word here means that Jesus was created. They ignore that down in verse 18 that it is saying that Jesus is head as ruler of everything based on verse 16. They further ignore that verse 18 says that Jesus is the first born of the rising of the dead, but it means to be the first to rise from the dead to eternal life, which is what verse 15 is talking about. Take verse 16 which they like to ignore. This verse clearly states that Jesus created everything and that includes the universe, the earth, and all of the spiritual powers and seats of authority. Only God Himself has that power, therefore Jesus is God. They add the word other five times in verses in this passage and the most important place is in verse 16. This makes it say Jesus as a created being created all other created things, rather than that Jesus created all things. The first means Jesus is a creation who created other creations things, the original means Jesus as the sovereign creator created all created things which means He could not possibly be a creature. The Old Testament says the Lord our God is one God. Deuteronomy 6:4 says the Lord our God is one. Exodus 20:3 says you shall have no other god before me. Therefore God doesn't need or approve of their being another God which is what they say Jesus is. Genesis 1:26 has God talking to other parts of His own personality. They try to get around this by saying God was talking to some angels or talking in the third person for royal effect. The word for God in Genesis is Elohim in Hebrew and means gods plural. There twisting of scripture goes on and on. Try this; Go to http:, two slashes, bible.ca, add one slash, Jw-NWT.htm This is a site that will have a chart for you of every twisted scripture they use in their false Bible which serves to remove the deity of Jesus. Whereever it says in your Bible, the Son of Man, this was an expression of the Hebrews from OT times that meant the Messiah. Wherever it says in your Bible, the Son of God, the Jews in Jesus time knew that it meant that the son of God was made of the same nature, character, authority and power as God and therefore was God, which is why they put Jesus to death. Try this; Go to www.blueletterbible.com and type in the search engine those two phrases and read the entire passages where these two phrases come up to see where the Bible is saying Jesus is God. Nathaniel said it; John 1:49 and see Mathew 16:16 and see Hebrews 1:6 - who else is allowed by God to accept worship except God. Make sure you look at that chart, I bet they twist this scripture too. Try www.scriptureanalyzer4alland the free parts of the www.esword.net to see what the Greek words really are that make up the English text and compare that with your Bible and then their Bible and you will see they add and remove words to make their case. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus is the Son of God as the incarnation of the angel Michael. Nowhere does it say this is the truth in the Bilble. The Jehovah's Witnesses change the Bible at certain key points to make it say what they want it to say and take out key Greek word translations and replace them with whatever they want. Hope this helped. God Bless, Tamara |
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269 | Is Jesus the same God as God, or a God? | John 1:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205313 | ||
Dear Colt45, Something is missing here in your understanding of all of what the word Logos means... It does mean what you say, but it also means something more important from the Strong's concordance; it means the Divine Expression, that is the Divine Expression of God Himself. This is why the other posts which were given to you from Colossians is important... You said in your second post; God, however you want to define him was born as a human being Jesus the Christ. The Creator/God the Father/YHWH put his mind his thoughts into a human being. This is the objection to your point up there; God did not put His mind His thoughts into Jesus Christ the human. Christ who is also fully God along with the Father, and who according to John 1:1,2 was there in the beginning with God and was also God, put His own God nature, Jesus put His own thoughts and mind into the body of a human by His own free choice as part of the Father's plan. Where it says in Colossians 1:16 that Jesus created all things, the universe, the authorities in heaven, and all things have been created by Him and for Him and through Him, that means He is equal with God the Father, they share the same powers the same abilities. But important to remember is that Jesus and the Father and the Holy Spirit are three distinct separate persons who each have their own thoughts, or mind, as in the Holy Spirit searches the mind of God to know what the will of God is, but all of them together are one being. Therefore it is not possible that God gave Jesus Christ the human God's thoughts, whether you are saying God the Father or Jesus the God, as God giving Jesus Christ the human His thoughts the concept is incorrect. God did not infuse a human with His thoughts, God incarnated Himself, put flesh on God as a covering. Hear this saying and understand; God put on humanity and humanity put on the divine. God did not infuse humanity with His thoughts, He put on human flesh on top of being God, that is why the Bible says that Jesus is God in the flesh among men. Jesus as God never stepped down from being God for even one moment of time, He never diminished His powers as God, He chose not to operate His powers fully as God in the flesh. This is called the Doctrine of the Impeccability of Christ. You may have meant something a little different from what you wrote when you said that the creator became a human being etc, and that His mind His thoughts became Christ. Christ means Messiah and Jesus as a member of the sovereign God head, the trinity, who has always existed from eternity past into eternity future was always going to become the Christ on earth. The Messiah was always going to be Jesus from eternity past to eternity future, there is no point in time, in eternity at which Jesus became the Christ, He has always been the Christ. Do you see now how Jesus who is the Logos, which also by the way meant to the Greeks all knowledge in the whole universe, and also which also means the cause, is the Divine Expression of God in the flesh? This is why John says in 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. This is what is meant by the Divine Expression, which is actually the first meaning given in the Strong's for the word Logos. God's Day To You, Tamara |
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270 | Normalization in theology? | John 1:5 | Tamara Brewington | 204134 | ||
What is normalization in theology, does anybody know? John 1:5. | ||||||
271 | Normalization in theology? | John 1:5 | Tamara Brewington | 204344 | ||
Dear Searcher, Had to think about what you said for a while... What do you think about normalization being the reconciliation of parties, like God and man, the darkness of the world to the light of God? Or what do you think about normalization being hte reconciliation of concepts like the scriputres for salvation by water baptism with the scriptures for spirit baptism? God Bless, the hat lady |
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272 | Jesus Powers Diminished As A Human? | John 1:14 | Tamara Brewington | 205327 | ||
Dear Forum Members, Here is a question for your consideration; Did Jesus diminish His powers as God in order to become fully human, His omnipresence, omnipotence, or omniscience, and therefore, was it the Holy Spirit who was working through His humanity? Or did Jesus merely decide to put His full use of powers aside, in order to become fully human, retaining all His full powers of God and in addition to that receive an anointing of the Holy Spirit in order to fulfill righteousness? See these passages before attempting an answer please - Mathew 3:15, John 1:14, Colossians 1:17, Mathew 24:36, Luke 8:45. Please endeavor to divide scripture to arrive at your answer, as specualtion is fruitless, I say this in love and respect for others and ask the same in return. By His Infinite Grace, Tamara |
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273 | Jesus Powers Diminished As A Human? | John 1:14 | Tamara Brewington | 205335 | ||
Thanks Doc, I had got an answer that dove tails with this one today in school from my pastor... I wanted a second opinion from in here, glad you caught this one and gave me excellent posts, now I know what that faulty theory is called. Another very nice professor was teaching about the hyostatic nature of Christ and was saying that Jesus diminished His powers of being God to take on humanity and took on the Holy Spirit to do the works of God as the Christ. My pastor taught me today before class about the Doctrine of the Impecability of Christ and said that what I had been taught was incorrect because it is in direct contradiciton to this very important doctrine which would disallow for the posibility that Jesus as fully human could ever have the ability to choose to sin, while choosing not to, but indeed had the inability to sin, even though tempted to sin, and having the inability to sin, did not sin. The ability to choose to sin implies that there is a possibility that Jesus as fully God and fully human could have stopped being God, or could have diminished characteristicis of being God, and been able to actually sin as a choice. But Jesus as God was always incapable of sinning as He is God, even though he put on the flesh. Jesus may choose not to use His powers in full capacity, but He may never have the possbility of committing sin, or He is not God. This is what I was looking for Doc, the content of all three posts, fits the context of my questions on this subject. Thank you very much, good to hear from you after so long, Much Christian love to you my brother in Christ, Tam Tam |
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274 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205508 | ||
Dear stoneslinger, Well to start it was His first miracle, right? And we have Mary encouraging Him on there as a sort of catalyst with Jesus saying, woman, what does that have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come. But somehow Mary goes on ahead with a plan and tells the servants to be prepared to do whatever He would ask as if she had not heard Him. This is what they like to term as the beginning of Jesus minsitry and it is characterized by a miracle, which in itself is an interesting fact... Why start with this kind of miracle? Why not start with demon possesion instead? Or raising from the dead? Any of those would have made a bigger public entrance to His ministry. We can difintely say that turning the water into wine was a great sign signifying His deity. Interesting as well is that He called some disciples before performing this first miracle, or sign as John terms it. Although the first actual sign of Jesus diety is in the calling of Nathaneal where Jesus knows Nathaneal's business before being told and Nathaneal repplies, indeed you are the Son of God! So that makes it interesting that the commentators consider the water into wine as the first sign. Head scratcher... One thing that is significant here is that this is the first time for His disciples to really get a taste of the type of work He was going to go about doing. This is His first public miracle and it was on a large scale with plenty of witnesses. The fact that the headwaiter said of the wine that it was better wine; there were huge pots for purification of water, which had to do with mixing water with wine so the wine would not ferment, but this was not watered down water, it was pure wine, proving that it was not of the other batches sitting around. Jesus calls His mother woman distancing Himself from her being His mother in begninning this minstry of His... There is an allussion here to an OT prophecy that the Messianic age would be characterized by the free flowing of wine in, Jeremiah 31:12, Hosea 14:7, and Amos 9:13 so this event could be said to be in keeping with these prophecies... Hope this helped, God's Day To You, Tamara |
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275 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205511 | ||
Dear Flinkywood, Quote; MacArthur Study Commentary, John MacArthur, pg.1353, par.3; 2:4 Woman. The term is not necessarily impolite, but it does have the effect of distancing Jesus from His mother and her request. Perhaps it was the equivalent of "ma'am" what does your conern have to do with Me? The expression, common in Semitic idiom (Jud.11:12. 2 Sam. 16:10), always distances the two parties, the speaker's tone conveying some degree of reproachapter Jesus tome was not rude, but abrupt. The phrase asks what is shared in common between parities. The thrust of Jesus' comment was that He had entered into a purpose for His mission onearth, so that He subordinated all activities to fulfillment of that mission. Mary had to recognize Him not so much as a son that she raised, but as the promised Messiah and Son of God. Hope this makes sense, God's Day To You, Tamara |
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276 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205518 | ||
Dear Val, I like your thinking there Val! You got me to thinking about what you are saying and asking here a bit. Jesus was fully God and fully man. Maybe every supernatural act He did from knowing what people thought to making wine was a miracle He was doing as fully God, while remaining fully human? Hope you don't mind I answered your note to John, it was just so profound what you said! God's Day To You, Tamara |
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277 | water to wine? | John 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205526 | ||
Dear John, First of dear heart my brain is on bonk because I thought sure as sure I was repplying to Val!? oops my bad...:))))) Yup you are absolutely right about that John absolutely! Sometimes the simplest things become profound to those of us how divide a scripture until the whole thing is laying on the floor in pieces John! Oh I am laughing at myself again, I never take myself very seriously lest I actually think I have gotten somewheres..... Jesus whole existence is full of beginnings, isn't it? Genesis, pre Genesis, John 1, 2, 20, Acts 1, a whole lot more of em too I guess... Yeah I got to scratchin my head over MacArthur's use of a modern word and concept to describe a first century setting, kinda strange of him don't you think? I think you are dead on about that point there. Okay John so we won't call you profound, we will reserve that title for wonderful Val, okay? We will go back to calling you loquasious and eloquent in speech, how's that? By His Infinite Grace, Tamara |
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278 | Was Nicodemus saved? | John 3:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204136 | ||
Was Nicodemus saved, anybody know? | ||||||
279 | study questions for john chapter5 | John 5:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205453 | ||
Dear swampgator3, Welcome to the forum! Here are some techniques for you that are tried and true and are used by lay people, pastors, theologians, and are taught in numerous books. 1)Read the passage thoughtfully, read it repeatedly, read it at one sitting, read it over again. 2)Read the passage in another translation, read it out loud to hear it. 3)Read the passage patiently, read the whole thing, go back and read if for its parts for the fourth time. 4)Read the Bible selectively, who, what, where, when, why, what difference does it make. 5)Read the passage the fifth time and pray it through in its parts add libing a prayer as you go. 6)Read the passage a sixth time looking for words that connect the parts, assess the passage as being part of the book it is in and what the whole book is saying (a commentary will help with this), look at the historical setting this took place in. 7)Take the passage you have now read six times and in a notebook make observations starting from the beginning in a numbered list, make them into questions after you do this, go back and start asking questions you don't know the answer to yourself and study the passage to find the answeres and write the questions and answers down. I don't mind walking you through this it is okay, you are having trouble and asked for help. Let's start from the beginning, number ; 4)Who; Jesus, a lame man, the Pharisees, , what; healing a man, claim to deity, where; the Bethseda Pool, when; on the Sabbath, why; to incite the Pharisees by healing a man on the Sabbath and by making Himself equal to God, what difference does it make; Jesus has the power to heal us, Jesus is God and has 4 witnesses. 7)Make observations; a)The crowd followed Jesus because He was doing miracles on the sick. b)A man was there for 38 years who could not get into the water to get healed. c)The Jews were angry because Jesus healed on the Sabbath. c)The man did not know Jesus healed him. e)The Jews were out to kill Jesus because He claimed to be equal to God. f)Jesus spoke of the two resurrections. g)There are 4 witnesses about who Jesus is. Now it is your turn, take these observations I made for you and turn those into questions. Now, go back on your own and come up with questions that you don't know the answers to and try to answer the questions using the information in the passage. Now, go back and make some more observations that are obvious that I did not make, try to come up with ten of them, make these into questions. Excersize for you, what events are pivotal to the story part of this passage which move the story from one part to the next. Excersize for you, what words appear over and over in this passage, these words will show you something about the meaning of the text, make questions from these. Now you have a whole lot of questions about this passage don't you? A professor once had a smelly fish and laid it on a table in the lecture hall. He told his students to stand over the smelly fish and make observations and write them down. He did this for three days straight and his students came up with 600 observations altogether from one smelly fish. I guaruntee you, if you take this same passage and do this excersize over and over and over, you will keep on coming up with more observations and more questions. Bible study is an art, practice your strokes and you will get good at it! Keep asking questions that you have dear. God Bless You. |
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280 | study questions for john chapter5 | John 5:1 | Tamara Brewington | 205459 | ||
Dear John, Good point John, good point! Tam |
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