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NASB | John 5:19 ¶ Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 5:19 ¶ So Jesus answered them by saying, "I assure you and most solemnly say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself [of His own accord], unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever things the Father does, the Son [in His turn] also does in the same way. |
Subject: First Century Second Coming? |
Bible Note: Fatherof4, Much as I like the preterist position in many aspects, hyperpreterism has a big problem: death. People are still dying (separation of body and soul)and according to scripture at Christ's return the last enemy to be conquered is death (1 Cor. 15:26). The Church everywhere still says Maranatha! Come Lord Jesus! in her prayer and did so even after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in A.D. 70. See the Didache for an early second century example written about A.D.100-110. "May your grace come and this world pass away." If the present state of victory over death is the only one, with no hope of the resurrectrion of the body when Jesus comes, then "we are the most pitiable of all men." (1 Cor.15:19). The only way hyperpreterism can deal with this is to shoehorn certain passages in to a preconceived mold to make the scripture fit the theory rather than the other way around. Emmaus |