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NASB | Genesis 1:31 God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:31 God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good and He validated it completely. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day. |
Subject: How do you substantiate your answere? |
Bible Note: “I DO NOT BELIEVE GOD IS EVIL.” Hi, Stultis! Part 1 of 3 Thank you for your clarification! I want to apologize for my energetic post… as you clearly noted, I had been put off… I did start to believe that you were setting up a preamble to an old doctrine (good and evil)… Again, I cannot convict of the Truth--not a single human being will ever be able to do this! Whoever claims to have such power is an agent of the anti-Christ (as such an anti-Christ him/herself). It is only the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of God, that can convict us of the Truth! The Bible is the Word of God. But we cannot even being to fathom the simplest of Scripture without the Holy Spirits revelation! When we seek to know God using our own limited means (human reason and wisdom) we short way short of the mark! This is not to say that we must become theologians in order to understand Scripture… I am simply stating fact. The Word of God is God’s revelation to us--if we remove God from the equation we end up with mud: we allow Satan to pull us into that black hole known as pride and ego! We spin our mind’s wheels seeking to convince the world of our perceived wisdom that can render God’s Mysteries disclosed to our keen abilities; Adam and Eve taste some of that wisdom! But if instead we humbly ask the Holy Spirit for assistance, since He is all-knowing and all-loving, He can guide us to the fullness of the Truth! You have several arguments… you request that all response be substantiated by Scripture… I have attempted to do just that… the problem is that you seem to subscribe to a teaching that allows you to divorce Scripture passages from the rest of the Bible and that allows you to dictate limitations on what Scripture speaks on… From that reasoning some have devised that Jesus is not God… a couple of particular Scripture passages, if interpreted only through their methodology--which to me is quite similar to yours--would actively render Christ a little more than a man: ‘But as for that day or hour, nobody knows it, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son; no one but the Father. (Mark 13:32) Jesus said, ‘Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.’ (Matthew 8:20) If stripped of all other Scripture content, these two passages (Mark 13:32 and Matthew 8:20) do suggest that Jesus Christ is not God: He calls Himself the Son of man and He testifies that there is something that not even the Son knows about… Since God is Spirit and not a man and since God is Omniscient there seems to be credence to anyone who holds the belief that Christ Jesus is not God… The problem is that Scripture is not devoid of other Scripture; rather, Scripture supports Scripture! When the above passages are scrutinized against other passages the conclusion is that those seemingly straightforward face value interpretation were flawed! In John 16:28 Jesus states that He came from the Father--God is Spirit, as so is Jesus who came from Him. Further, it is revealed, through the angel Gabriel, that Mary will conceive Jesus, the Emmanuel, by the Power of the Holy Spirit and not by mere human copulation! So, clearly, Jesus’ declaration of being the Son of man has a deeper meaning than simply: Jesus is human! In John 16:29-30 we find Jesus’ disciples witnessing that He is all-knowing and their profession of faith that they believe that He comes from God!--these revelations, as well as Peter’s in Matthew 16:16-17, came by the Grace of the Holy Spirit! Further confirmation of Jesus’ Omniscience is found in John 17:10: All I have is yours and all you have is mine, and in them I am glorified. It is not that the Word became incarnate and devoid of Divinity… the truth is that Jesus never stopped being God; He simply did not retain His Authority in His total submission to the Father in order to fulfill His function as the Lamb of God (Philippians 2:5-8; John 17:5;): I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you to bear now. However, when the Spirit of truth comes he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking of his own accord, but will say only what he has been told; and he will reveal to you the things to come. He will glorify me, since all he reveals to you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: all he reveals to you will be taken from what is mine. (John 16:12-15) |