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681 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | flinkywood | 96343 | ||
No, not you, it's your target that's hardened, Makarios. Colin |
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682 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | flinkywood | 96235 | ||
Makarios, as theological reinforcement for believers this is already a good string, but I think your man is too hardened to repent. Be careful with your time; there are many legitimate truth seekers here (Matthew 7.6). | ||||||
683 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | flinkywood | 96204 | ||
Thanks, Gene. Colin. |
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684 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | flinkywood | 96193 | ||
First, Christ is God; Christ suffered; therefore, God suffered. "He (God) now has a policy to express human emotions as a means to communicate with us." I never heard of this policy. Anthropopathy is defined by Webster as "The affections of man, or the application of human passions to the Supreme Being." 1 John 4.19 says, "We love Him because He first loved us." It does not say "He loves us because we first applied human passions to Him." Also, "God is never angry"? Do you read the bible? If not, please go to Proverbs 9:10: "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom..." "Fear" in Hebrew means exactly that, fear. Why should anyone fear a God who never gets angry? Or maybe He only feigns anger for our benefit. If so, was God lying all those OT times He claimed to be angry? The God you describe is too liberal for the bible. Colin |
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685 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | flinkywood | 96070 | ||
Humanity? Okay, but God did suffer and die on the cross; it's stated repeatedly in the NT (1 Cor 15:3,4 for ex.). That's how He defeated death: 1Co 15:57 "but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." Think about what God has done for us: that though He's infinitely powerful, He's also so infinitely humble that He seems never to ask anything of us that He hasn't already asked of Himself. What a beautiful God this is. Colin |
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686 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | flinkywood | 96063 | ||
"Anything but Jesus", might be a good slogan for world religion. "Bahai, we're anything but Jesus!" Okay, Christianity is a religion, but Jesus is my Lord and my God, not my religion. Anyway, I once posted a question to a certain JW Forumite along these lines: If Abraham was poised to sacrifice his own son, does he have more faith than God, who sacrificed only a creation, not even His own blood (check out Acts 20.23 in the NWT: "...to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with the blood of his own Son"). Whose sacrifice is greater Abraham's or God's? I never got an answer from the JW. Colin |
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687 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | flinkywood | 96052 | ||
Nolan, good stuff. In fact, if you start with (Isa 41:4) "Who has performed and accomplished it, Calling forth the generations from the beginning? 'I, the LORD, am the first, and with the last. I am He.'" This is God. Then (Isa 44:6) "Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: 'I am the first and I am the last, And there is no God besides Me." God again. Then (Isa 48:12) "Listen to Me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called; I am He, I am the first, I am also the last." God again. Hop to Rev 1.8, and assume God as the speaker: (Rev 21:6) "Then He said to me, "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost." Either God or Jesus speaks here. Now back to (Rev 2:8) "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life, says this..." If you have a red letter bible, these letters ain't black. Can you beat this nifty proof without calling John, or Jesus, a liar? This JW thing is so warped. Colin |
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688 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | flinkywood | 96041 | ||
How many of the true gods altogether? | ||||||
689 | Jesus Created or Creator??? | Rev 3:14 | flinkywood | 96012 | ||
Jesus is "a God". Any idea how many gods in all? | ||||||
690 | Is Paul Hill going to heaven? | Luke 23:43 | flinkywood | 95912 | ||
Fair enough, Hank. | ||||||
691 | Is Paul Hill going to heaven? | Luke 23:43 | flinkywood | 95905 | ||
That's a good answer What if Paul Hill had come on this Forum, declared himself a believer, then advocated murder in the name of Jesus? Colin |
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692 | Is Paul Hill going to heaven? | Luke 23:43 | flinkywood | 95900 | ||
Just finished reading a charming article on a fellow Christian, Paul Hill http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,482865,00.html who wrote a how-to booklet on stalking and killing abortion doctors and, if necessary, their police guard. Is this man going to heaven? Colin |
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693 | WHy four gospels not one? | 1 Cor 15:3 | flinkywood | 95665 | ||
I'd like that. How do we go about it? Colin |
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694 | True believer | Rom 10:9 | flinkywood | 95624 | ||
EdB, it may be that this reference to Jesus as worm derives from Psa 22:6 "But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people", combined with Jdg 10:1,2 "And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim. And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir", conflated with Job 25:6 "How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?" The name Tola means "The scarlet worm", a white worm whose crushing produced a red dye (the life cycle of this worm is also highly interesting), thus the analog to Jesus. The worm of the messianic psalm is also this variety as is the The Job worm, so I can imagine how the scarlet worm analog might evoke the magical realism necessary to evoke the Jesus-worm fantasy. God uses earthly things to point to Jesus (the Tabernacle in Heb 8.5, for ex.), so the worm seems to be a clear metaphor. A study on the name and life of Tola and the history of the scarlet worm sounds like a good idea. I like your posts. Colin |
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695 | WHy four gospels not one? | 1 Cor 15:3 | flinkywood | 95593 | ||
Hey, sneaky guy, you're going to see Jesus some day, you know, (Mat 7:22-23) "Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.' You are playing with fire: (Rev 22:18,19) I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book. Joseph Smith, Mohammed, Buddha, L. Ron Hubberd are all spiritual decoys. But you, be careful, your actions carry grave, eternal consequences. |
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696 | WHy four gospels not one? | 1 Cor 15:3 | flinkywood | 95583 | ||
Emmaus, I like this string of pearls. Great answer. How did you put it together? Is there a topical source? Do you know these scriptures by heart? (The Navigators refer to 2 Tim 2.2 as "The 2-2-2 priciple, by the way). Colin |
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697 | How to "win the world" ? | Bible general Archive 2 | flinkywood | 95314 | ||
ApostoloB, You've posted 3 times in this forum, initially with a warning to "be careful not to condemn brothers who are preaching Jesus, and Him crucified." Several forum regulars have queried you about this post, but you've not responded. It sounds as if you meant to say something edifying about judging fellow Christians, so I'd like very much to hear your thoughtful answers. Also since you began with a warning and, more recently, with the sweeping declaration, "The Body of Christ will never function as God intended until these discrepencies have been corrected", I ask, 1) What "discrepencies" 2) What do you know about God's intentions for the Body of Christ that God doesn't know already? 3) According to what you've "taught", at what point can a believer "be considered a member of the Body of Christ"? You raise intriguing questions about the nature of your belief. How do you answer? Colin. |
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698 | The Problem with WoF in a nutshell | Bible general Archive 2 | flinkywood | 95131 | ||
Jim, I was led to the Lord in a small bible study led by a man who claimed a direct line to the Holy Spirit. One morning he actually announced that the Sprit had told him there were 2 thieves, not one, on either side of Jesus. I was a young Christian and though this, among other, equally fantastic assertions, struck me as false, I nevertheless held onto it until I left this group and began to seriously study and trust the written word. I was also baptized Catholic at a young age, and through time grew to loathe organized religion and what I imagined as the Christian (read "Catholic") concept of God, sin, hell, redemption, etc. I even cursed God to my Christian brother in the vilest language I could muster, so I'm a case study on how God can use a false prophet or a heretic to save a wretch like me. In writing this I realize He even used my own vanity, my own craving for exclusive knowledge (because I'm better than most), to break through my stubborn, thick hide. (I'm reminded how He used the Devil himself for Job's edification). So I stand as an example of your thesis, and it's plain that love for Jesus, the Father, our neighbors are the heart of it all; but I also believe in calling heresy heresy, don't you? Especially in context of a Christian forum. I speak here of anyone who would deny or quasi-deny the deity of Jesus (JW's, Mormons and their ilk) in sleight-of-hand attempts to destroy the work of the cross and the nascent sprit life of young believers. (You are new to this forum; there's plenty of that here). Yes, God works among the Mormons and JW's (in very mysterious ways!), so I believe it's our job to slap them around a bit. I speak as a former slapee. Colin |
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699 | Introducing the English Standard Version | NT general Archive 1 | flinkywood | 95045 | ||
Hank, the DEC is dusted. Colin. |
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700 | Introducing the English Standard Version | NT general Archive 1 | flinkywood | 95031 | ||
Hank, I knew you'd know a "DEC" when you saw one. Just what the heck is a DEC? A dangling elliptical clause, (Or a "DEC" to those few in the know), Is a jangling centrifugal pause In the midst of a scriptural flow. Stay honed, Hank, you are so there! Colin. |
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