Mike,

You said:

Matthew 7:13… Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

All underlined words are genitive.  Certainly this doesn’t mean that the gate is the “instrument” that does the actual entering for us, right?

Mike, when the word following dia is genitive a…[Read more]

Danny,

Thank you for this post of answers to my questions:

Hi LU,

In this post I will answer the remaining questions from your list.

Is the Lord Jesus and God the father one? Yes or No.

Yes. John 10:30 I and my Father are one.

Danny, can you tell me of a higher unity in heaven or on earth?

No. Jesus and His Father are the highest unity there…

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Mike,

You said:

We are actually told about the moment that this event occurred with God and His firstborn Son Jesus in the scriptures…

Psalm 2:7…  I will proclaim Yahweh’s decree:  He said to me, “You are my son; today I have become your father.”

We learn from this psalm that there was a time when God had no son, and therefore wasn’t a fat…

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Hi LU,

I answered your remaining questions.
You can find my answers in #post-931992
Do you have any comments?

God bless

Mike……you asked, which paticular word in Gen1:1 indicated that a person created the heavens and the earth?   There is no paticular word there which identifies which person or  God, created the heavens and the earth.  That is supplied later in the text as the “LORD” GOD.  The LORD being the “person” your asking for.

You still can’t get it into…[Read more]

Carmel: AN EMPTY AND VOID STATE” … A POSITIVE STATE… AND ALWAYS
NEGATIVE!
I shortened your 30 word point into something more understandable.  Here is my reply…
ME: WHAT’S THE USE SINCE YOU NEVER MAINTAINED WHAT WE ARE DISCUSSING!
SCRIPTURES!
“The burrito I scarfed down gave me severe stomach cramps until I voided my bowels, rendering them empty.”…[Read more]

Hi to all

Daily Devotional

WHEN YOU ARE SERIOUSLY TEMPTED, LOOK TO JESUS

He sat down under a broom, and asked for death, saying: That is enough! Now, Lord, take my soul, for I am no better than my fathers. (1 Kings 19.4)

Jesus is afflicted by all our sufferings. The General of our salvation has been made perfect through suffering. During our…[Read more]

You’re not going to believe this… but after 50 days of Proclaimer being unable to find an answer that was one day and one post removed from his question, and to which he’s had the actual post number for over a month, he has FINALLY located it!

Now let’s just hope it doesn’t take him another 50 days to answer my next question! 🙏🙏🙏

Proclaimer: My question was as follows:

In Genesis 2:4,  how many hours did it take for God to create the heaven and earth?

And despite it saying ‘day’ which you have been arguing forever is 24 hours…

Incorrect.  What I’ve been arguing is that the Hebrew word “yowm” is used EXACTLY like the English word “day” is used.  Its default meaning…[Read more]

It is a nonsensical question akin to someone asking, “How many grapes in a bunch?” or “How many grains of salt in a dash?”  The terms “bunch” and “dash” are intentionally vague to give a general idea without having to identify a specific number of grapes or grains of salt.

My question was as follows:

In Genesis 2:4,  how many hours did it take…[Read more]

“No amount of evidence will ever convince an idiot” – Mark Twain

FOR PRETENDER, CARMEL, AND GENE…

Revelation 21:1…  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

Is John calling the current earth on which we live the FIRST earth?

Carmel: AN EMPTY AND VOID STATE” … A POSITIVE STATE… AND ALWAYS
NEGATIVE!

I shortened your 30 word point into something more understandable.  Here is my reply…

“The burrito I scarfed down gave me severe stomach cramps until I voided my bowels, rendering them empty.”

There you go.  An empty and void bowel is way more positive than a bowe…[Read more]

LU: It seems that Mike is trying to use “dia” in your verses as if it is with an accusative Greek formed word that follows it…  However, the creation verses that you used do not have “dia” followed by an accusative word but by a genitive word. 

Did you notice in your screenshot that the definition is still through (not “by), even when followed b…[Read more]

LU: My point with the coin analogy is about how one side requires the existence of the other side to be the side it is. In other words the Father requires the existence of the Son to be the Father that he is. The Son requires the existence of the Father to be the Son of God that he is. It is together, as in existence, not necessarily locat…

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Mike:  Jesus is not God, Kathi, but one of God’s many heavenly sons – each one created with free will to either obey and align their wills with the will of their God – or reject their God like Satan and a third of God’s heavenly sons already did.

LU:  Is Jesus the Son of God or merely a Son of God?

Jesus is one of God’s many heavenly sons.  He…[Read more]

Mike: Hopefully your Dad’s passing was similar.

Yes. My Dad passed away without long suffering.
I’m thankful for that.

Thanks Danny.  My Dad also died from cancer.  But he only had to take morphine some days, and even then only when he over-exerted himself… and only for the last month of his life.  He lived a blessed life, and suffered very little at the very end of it.  Hopefully your Dad’s passing was similar.

Mike: See Gene, there is a simple answer – but it involves understanding.  I’m trying to lead you there.

Here are the facts:

1.  Yahweh said He was the ONLY savior.

2.  Scripture calls Jesus and many others saviors.

How will YOU reconcile the two seemingly contradictory scriptural claims?

Gene: Simply answer,  God who is “in” all things,   …

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Mike,

I’m sorry for the loss of your dad.
My dad passed away 3 years ago from cancer.

May God grant you and your family the strength to bear this loss.

God bless