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NASB | 1 Corinthians 15:21 For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 15:21 For since [it was] by a man that death came [into the world], it is also by a Man that the resurrection of the dead has come. |
Subject: The ransom - God or man? |
Bible Note: Greetings Alien Resident! I was beginning to suspect that the real problem in our discussion was that you had an agenda to prove. The JW's don't accept that Jesus is God, so they try to turn Him into a 'god'. You are trying to 'prove' that someone other than God could pay the price so that the sacrifice of Jesus makes sense in your theology. However, Scripture simply doesn't say what you have been trying to make it say my friend! Of course God incarnate can be 100 percent man and 100 percent God. Would it make more sense to say that God could cease to be God? The 'kenosis' of Phil. 2:5-11 explains it perfectly clearly. To put it a different way, God simply tied one arm behind His back. :-) But, Ps. 49:7-8 disproves your entire thesis my friend. No man can pay a ransom to God. Only God could do it, because God is the offended party, not man. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |