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NASB | Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is [eternally changeless, always] the same yesterday and today and forever. |
Bible Question:
Thanks, I wish there was a technique to help me memorize the bible. I pray and try to meditate on one chapter or scripture, but it is not working. Sometimes I feel that something is holding me back from helping me go to that next step in my Christian life. I get approached by other religions a lot. And I was speaking to a Jehavoh Witness and she was saying that God never changes and that we should start from the beginning. We got into the discuss of doctrines and she asked what I thought and I said. "I don't believe Jesus is a created being becuase he is the same today, yesterday and forever" And her reply was that is GOD who is the same "today, yesterday and forever". I knew I had read in the Bible where it said Jesus but I could not remember. Is there also a place where it says God is the same, yesterday, today and forever. Because this will really prove my point that Jesus is GOD!!!! Thanks very much. |
Bible Answer: Noveta, Here's some additional thoughts from C.H. Spurgeon in his sermon on "The Immutability of God": "But God is perpetually the same. He is not composed of any substance or material, but is spirit-pure, essential, and ethereal spirit-and therefore he is immutable. He remains everlastingly the same. There are no furrows on his eternal brow. No age hath palsied him- no years have marked him with the mementoes of their flight- he sees ages pass, but with him it is ever now. He is the great I AM-the Great Unchangeable. Mark you, his essence did not undergo a change when it became united with the manhood. When Christ in past years did gird himself with mortal clay the essence of his divinity was not changed; flesh did not become God, nor did God become flesh by a real actual change of nature the two were united in hypostatical union, but the Godhead was still the same. It was the same when he was a babe in the manger, as it was when he stretched the curtains of heaven- it was the same God that hung upon the cross, and whose blood flowed down in a purple river, the self-same God that holds the world upon his everlasting shoulders, and bears in his hands the keys of death and hell. He never has been changed in his essence, not even by his incarnation- he remains everlastingly, eternally, the one unchanging God, the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither the shadow of a change." Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |