Hi Mike,

You: Of course I believe that,

Me: Mike NOWHERE DURING OUR DISCUSSIONS REGARDING THIS MATTER YOU EVER POSTED AND SAID THAT 

GENESIS 1:1 IS A SUMMARY!

I CHALLENGE YOU TO PRODUCE SPECIFICALLY AND CLEARLY SUCH A STATEMENT!

You: Carmel. I not only said it was, but even brought up Gen 2:4 as another example of the same. 

NO, Mike, <…[Read more]

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Daily Devotional

GOOD SAMARITANS OF THE SEA

AN AMAZING FACT: Throughout history there are many examples of dolphins helping humans in distress. The earliest record of dolphins saving people dates back over 2,000 years in ancient Greece. The musician Arion was returning home by boat after winning a handsome reward for singing. Some…[Read more]

Hi Danny, our Mike is not interested in other nations’ gods rather he’s more interested in Christian gods like Satan, Michael, Jesus and so on…

Hi Mike,

The gods of Egypt could be either just idols or demons.

The important thing is that our God is far above them all.

God bless

Polytheism, Monolatry and Monotheism

The concepts monotheism and polytheism are two extreme ends. Although their general definition is commonly accepted, in real religions they are met in various forms. There is no single and pure form of monotheism or polytheism. Pure forms are only theoretical concepts. All ANE religions have features of both…[Read more]

Mike….. No,  Jesus never acknowledge the existences of other God’s to him,  or he would be a liar, by saying that there is “only” “one” “true” God.   But can there be other God’s , Yes, and No……We must first establish what the word God “MEANS” .  Let’s do that First , then proceed Ok?  

So now my first question to you is this,  What does th…[Read more]

One ideological struggle unveiled by biblical texts was between those who allowed room for the existence
of deities in addition to Yahweh and others who denied the existence of other divine beings.  These competing ideologies are unequivocally displayed beside one another in Psalm 96.4–5: “For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is t…[Read more]

FOLLOWING

CHRIST AND THE PHARISEES*  

or The faithfulness of Christ in keeping the Sabbath.

Now here is another element that comes into play. The Pharisees consulted with the Herodians. The Herodians were a sect of Jews quite opposed to Pharisaism. They derived their title of Herodians from the fact that they were the friends, supporters a…[Read more]

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Daily Devotional

HE WHO LAUGHS LASTS

AN AMAZING FACT: Women laugh more than men do.
A hearty laugh spreads faster than the flu and quickly involves your whole body. First, your epiglottis begins to vibrate, half-closing over your larynx and making breathing difficult. When strong enough, the struggle for air activates your tear…[Read more]

Listen again very closely…

1.  The Bible – FROM BEGINNING TO END – teaches about many gods, and one Most High God Yahweh whom we are to worship and serve.

That’s it.  There is no number 2.  I challenge you to show me from scripture that the Bible slowly changed from the existence of many gods and one Most High Creator God, and started teaching t…

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Adam:  Book of Enoch is only a Apocryphal book and written much later and beyond the Hebrew Canon. So the so called Watchers as you mentioned is another later interpretation of the Torah.

Prove it.  Put up or shut up.

Adam:  During the time of the two kingdoms, Yahweh was consistently associated with a female deity, Asherah.  Together, the divine couple was the main source of animal, agricultural and human abundance. 

That is a very misleading statement, as it implies that the Bible itself associates Yahweh and Asherah as “co-gods”.  The Bible does no such thi…[Read more]

Adam:  A small number of texts, found primarily in the prophetic books, assert that Yahweh is the only god who exists and is to be worshipped by all nations, but these are a minority; the majority of texts impose the strict worship of Yahweh alone on Israel but seem to acknowledge that other deities exist and can be legitimately worshipped by…

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Gene:  Mike., Yes the word came to be with God because the word was God… God and his word are one and the same thing… You can not separate you from your words , neither can anyone separate God the Father from his words either, just that simple Mike.

Poor Gene.  I’ve got you speaking out of both sides of your mouth now, trying your best to be “…[Read more]

Danny: Hi Mike,

I never said there is only one god (lowercase g)
I said that there is only one God (Capital G)

There are no upper/lower case distinctions in the Hebrew and Greek scriptures, Danny.  Again, your argument is unrelated to the question I asked you…

Who are the gods of Egypt that were punished by Yahweh?  (The answer is that they ar…[Read more]

Adam:  Hi Mike, thanks a lot for your excellent narration on the Biblical religion. Yes I too agree that Biblical religion had taken its birth in the midst of Polytheism and mostly maintained it status as Monolatry than Monotheism which is visible in fewer texts like Isaiah 44-46.

I didn’t say anything about the Bible “taking its birth in the…[Read more]

Hi Mike,

I never said there is only one god (lowercase g)
I said that there is only one God (Capital G)

God bless

Danny: Hi Mike,

Created beings are not God and they will never be God.

Agreed.  But nobody here ever claimed that created beings are God, so your statement is random and unrelated to the discussion.

Exodus 12:12… On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment o…[Read more]