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Eternal life is to know the one true God and his son

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John17-3

God made man in his image. Jesus is called the image of God. We are not the source. Jesus is not the source. Both are images of God. One made, the other begotten.

Further, an idol is the opposite. It is an image of God made by an image of God (man). All idols start of in the mind of man and not the Spirit of God. The Trinity Doctrine included. It creates a God from the mind and reasoning of man and abandons the teachings of scripture on who is the one true God.

Jesus said in John 17:3:
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

Do not ignore the words of eternal life my friend.

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  • March 11, 2015 at 5:41 pm#790492
    Proclaimer
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    “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

    Jehovah Witnesses re-interpret this verse to say, “…and the Word was a god” to suit their own teaching…. (that Jesus was really Michael the archangel)…

    If you don’t agree with this definitive verse, how would you re-word it to explain what you believe concerning the deity of Jesus Christ…?

    The Scripture clearly says, “with God – was God”…which is wording that perfectly describes and defines the trinity – separate yet the same.!

    Firstly, there are no JWs here so who are you talking to?

    Secondly, the Trinity is not taught in John 1:1. What it teaches is the Logos and God. The Holy Spirit as the third member of the Trinity doesn’t get a mention. Why is that? Because God is not a Trinity. If there were three members that make up God, then why are they not in John 1:1?

    Thirdly, you need to study the Word of God, not parrot off the traditions and doctrines of men. If you delve even a little into the original language it becomes clear that Jesus is not God in John 1:1. Even Trinitarian scholars admit that John 1:1 does not teach that Jesus is God himself.

    Finally, John states the whole purpose of his book. While you may say it is to teach that Jesus is God, in John’s own words he says in John 20:30-31.

    30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
    31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. “

    Clearly the above is what many here believe and teach while you oppose us for believing that Jesus is the Christ and Son of God. Instead you teach from a third century doctrine that states that he is God.

    Even Paul says, “For us there is one God the Father” and you oppose us for saying the same thing.

    More importantly, Jesus said: “Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.“.

    This is a powerful 3-fold witness from John, Paul, and Jesus Christ himself, yet you still oppose us for believing what they have written. I don’t really need to mention that when you oppose us for believing these scriptures, you oppose John, Paul, and Jesus. Clearly your argument here is not really about us or me, but the scripture itself.

    This is something you need to get sorted before your depart this world DavidL. Jesus said that the truth about knowing the only true God and his son is eternal life. If you do not even know who the only true God is, then can you really claim to know the only true God? That is a valid question right. If I claimed to know the president of the USA, and then later said that he was actually a committee of three people, then would you believe that I actually know him and play golf with him?

    March 11, 2015 at 5:46 pm#790493
    bodhitharta
    Participant

    DavidL

    So before the Heavens and Earth were created God didn’t exist? Now I understand what you believe God is.

    Isaiah 55:9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

    Oh By the way here is the answer to the question:

    Isaiah 42:5 This is what God the LORD says– the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it:

    So God was God before the heavens and earth and giving power over these things does not make you the creator of them or God

    March 12, 2015 at 1:53 pm#790504
    DavidL
    Participant

    t8 –

    …no JWs here so who are you talking to?

    JW’s are example of how people are forced to redefine this verse in order to deny the plurality of God..

     

    Trinity is not taught in John 1:1.

    John 1:1 reveals the divinity of Jesus Christ with wording that perfectly describes the tri-unity, “with God..was God” – separate yet same.!

     

    ..parrot off the traditions and doctrines of men

    Feel free to show where I am merely reiterating dogma..(!)

     

    ..you oppose us for believing that Jesus is the Christ and Son of God

    Wrong – I oppose you for teaching cult doctrine, and denying the true deity of Jesus Christ.

     

    If you do not even know who the only true God is, then can you really claim to know the only true God? That is a valid question right..?

    Wrong again – “Anyone who denies the Son doesn’t have the Father, either..” – 1 John 2:23… Just like the JW’s, you are teaching a dead, uninspired religion that re-defines Scripture according to your own understanding – and not according to the Spirit of God who alone gives life to the Word.

     

    March 12, 2015 at 2:12 pm#790505
    DavidL
    Participant

    Bodhitharta… maybe you have the wrong thread.

    March 12, 2015 at 2:18 pm#790506
    DavidL
    Participant

    NickHassan

    “But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater”

    3 equal persons??

    …is the wife equal to the husband..??

    March 12, 2015 at 2:35 pm#790507
    DavidL
    Participant

    P.S. Still waiting for anyone’s re-wording of John 1:1 – (that is, if you disagree with how it stands in every major Bible translation).

     

    ie. do you think it should read, the Word was god, or a god…etc, etc..???

     

    ..and if Jesus, existing as the Word, was merely some god with God, but completely separate to God – please explain how this could make any sense with the rest of Scripture..?

    March 12, 2015 at 3:33 pm#790508
    bodhitharta
    Participant

    You simply misunderstand John 1:1 it is not saying what you think it is and it is not in the context you are putting it in. John is starting his Gospel with “in the beginning” and the Word of God was something that was given to many men:

    John 10:35
    If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

    Once you place everything in context you get a clearer picture. So the Word of God is exactly what it is “The Word of God” it is not Jesus directly it is the message of John that the Word of God was made flesh so look:

    John 14:24
    He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me

    Now remember that to whom the word is given?

    John 10:34-36New King James Version (NKJV)

    34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”’?[a] 35 If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), 36 do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

    The Word of God was sanctified and sent into the world not Jesus per se, Jesus was the instrument:

    Acts 2:22
    “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know—

    So the biggest mistake is when people link John 1:1 with Genesis 1:1 these are totally different things:

    Please understand the difference it will help the conversation develop so here is more proof:

    1 John 2:24
    Let     what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.

    Can you see that this is John and his usage of the term “the beginning” obviously he is not talking about the beginning that is genesis….look:

    2 John 1:6
    And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

    It is a writing style to him life begins from the Gospel so “In the beginning” refers to the start of the Gospel

    John 14:10
    Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

    March 12, 2015 at 5:25 pm#790511
    Ed J
    Participant

    Hi DavidL, (part 1)

    I don’t believe precisely as what Christian denominationalists label as “The Trinity”.
    But God *IS* revealed to everyone through Past, Present, and Future realities.

    For example: “YHVH is God” and it’s “The Father” that is our ever present “GOD”.
    It was Jesus Christ who revealed “God The Father” to us in the past and it’s the
    HolySpirit that is revealing “the Father” to all future-words. (ref. Psalms 48:14)

    “For this God (the HolySpirit) is our God for ever and ever:
    he will be our guide even unto death.” (Psalms 48:14)

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    God bless
    Ed J (Joshua 22:34)
    http://www.holycitybiblecode.org _________________________________________________________________________________________________________
    ”Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” – JEHOVAH GOD

    March 12, 2015 at 5:26 pm#790512
    Ed J
    Participant

    (part 2)

    But to suggest that the idea for “The Trinity” did not come from the bible is unwarranted.
    For example: there are “FIVE” Major Prophetic Books in the bible. They are:
    (and the meanings of these words are actually quite profound)

    1. Isaiah means: ……………. “YA is Salvation”
    2. Jeremiah means: …………. “YHVH is High”
    3. Ezekiel means: …….. “EL (God) will strengthen”
    4. Lamentations means: …….. what, where, how.
    5. Daniel means: …………. “GOD (EL) is Judge”

    Now if we take closer look at the first THREE, a pattern of
    “The Trinity” (which is encoded in Scripture) clearly emerges.

    Isaiah represents Jesus because YA-shua (Jesus Hebrew name) means the same as Isaiah: “YA is Salvation” (ref. Isaiah 12:2)
    And the name Jeremiah would represent JEHOVAH because JEHOVAH *IS* the most high over all the earth. (ref. Psalms 83:18)
    And the name Ezekiel would represent the HolySpirit, because the HolySpirit strengthens all us believers in God. (ref. Isaiah 26:4)
    And in case you think this idea is all washed up, this idea is CONFIRMED using “Gematria” (a numerical encoding system)

    Isaiah=47
    Jeremiah=69 JEHOVAH=69 – “JEHOVAH is High” is what Jeremiah’s name means (Note: same Gematria value)
    Ezekiel=73

    YHVH is (יהוה) God’s name transliterated directly into English and YHVH has a Gematria value of 63. Well guess what
    47+69+73= 63×3 – or YHVH x3, or YHVH represented as “The Trinity”. DavidL, I hope you like these bible FACTS.

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    God bless
    Ed J (Joshua 22:34)
    http://www.holycitybiblecode.org _________________________________________________________________________________________________________
    ”Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” – JEHOVAH GOD

    March 12, 2015 at 9:58 pm#790551
    kerwin
    Participant

    DavidL,

    Trinitarianism is clearly an illogical teaching.  In other words it is what Jesus calls broken.  A logos argument cannot support it so what remains is either an ethos or pathos.  The first does not work with me as I am not prone to go for appeals to my emotion and second one depends and I just do not truth others that much.

    The bottom line is that I am neither going to accuse God of being tempted by evil nor am I going to deny Jesus was tempted even as is common to man in General.

    Scripture teaches is a human because he came to save humanity.  He does not need to be God as God does not need saving any more than the angels of God do.

    March 12, 2015 at 10:21 pm#790554
    Miia
    Participant

    ie. do you think it should read, the Word was god, or a god…etc, etc..???

     

    The word WAS God, not “a god”

    March 13, 2015 at 5:58 am#790555
    kerwin
    Participant

    miia,
    Technically it is the word is god as there is one case in Koine Greek. It also does not have a corresponding word to “a”. They accomplish the same thing in other ways.

    The translators are the ones who make the decision whether it is correct to put an “a” there and to emphasize any word by capitalizing it. As far as I can tell it is purely a subjective call. The verse itself is open to interpretation because it has a cultural dependency. Jews are neither trinitarians nor do they believe the Messiah to come is an angel. John’s audience was the Jews of that age that believed the same things on those issue that the Jews today do.

    I agree with you as I believe that the word that comes out of God’s mouth has all the qualities of Yahweh even though it is not Yahweh. I do not believe the Christ is being called the Word in John 1 though I do believe he is later called by the name of the word of God as he has all the qualities of the Word of God.

    When did Jesus first take on the qualities of the Word of God? It clearly occurs when the Word of God takes on the qualities of flesh.

    March 13, 2015 at 7:22 am#790557
    bodhitharta
    Participant

    I believe that once a person actually understands how people used a certain language it can help them from constantly utilizing that language from a self determined context to fit their theological leanings

    http://newtestamentresearch.com/NT%20Research-Mk%202/Son%20of%20God.htm

    2. Old Testament and Jewish Sonship

    On the other hand, the concept of sonship in Hebrew family life, which underlies all OT and Jewish thought on the subject, is that a son is one designated or acknowledged as such by a father, without the Hellenistic emphasis upon relationship by procreation. Thus the father-son relationship is not primarily physical but rather an interpersonal one created by a sovereign act of the father. The son is to be obedient to, submissive to an dependent upon his father. The perfect son then is the incarnation and extension of his father’s will and character, and he points to his father, not to himself. If he is the Son of God in the unique sense that the NT claims for Jesus, then he will incarnate the demands of God’s righteousness, and he will present the demand for discipleship, the demand for obedience, obedience however not to the Son as such but to God the Father, that is, to the Father’s will as made manifest by the Son. Thus the concept of Son of God on OT-Jewish lines is basically moral, interpersonal and theocentric.

    Apart from the angels as sons of God, it is clear that all the OT and intertestamental Jewish use of the term, whether applied to Israel, the King, righteous men, or the Messiah, presupposes that this sonship is within the Covenant – it is not something apart from the Covenant.

    March 13, 2015 at 10:04 pm#790574
    Miia
    Participant

    Hi Kerwin.

    So Jesus is the mouthpiece of God (as the Son of God), God’s word made flesh?

    I believe (as I am guessing you do) that God’s Spirit reveals John 1:1 to be “In the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God.”

    Adding the “a” (as the JW “New World Translation” does) and turning the subject (The only true God and His spoken word) into a second smaller god seems wrong somehow. Since when is someones spoken word a separate being? Just as the Spirit.

     

     

     

    March 13, 2015 at 10:08 pm#790575
    Miia
    Participant

    Bod, you don’t believe Jesus is the Son of God, because Islam states “God has no son”.  Or have you changed your mind 🙂

    March 13, 2015 at 10:14 pm#790576
    Miia
    Participant

    so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
    it shall not return to me empty,
    but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
    and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. (Isaiah 55)

    March 13, 2015 at 10:39 pm#790582
    kerwin
    Participant

    Miia,

    It is technically wrong and the JW’s and others doe because it is favorable to their interpretation but the bottom line is even if it said a god it still does not mean that the Christ is an angel. Jews are know the call ideas archangels and know that they are talking about ideas. Philo is an example of a Jew that has done that.

    Jesus did not come to create a new religion he came to establish a new covenant. He stated very few teachings, if any, that are not taught among the Jews of today.

    March 14, 2015 at 11:20 am#790592
    Ed J
    Participant

    so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
    it shall not return to me empty,
    but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
    and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. (Isaiah 55)

    Hi Miia

    Just because God’s word accomplishes what he wants it to,
    it does NOT make his word his son; did you somehow think it does?

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    God bless
    Ed J (Joshua 22:34)
    http://www.holycitybiblecode.org _________________________________________________________________________________________________________
    ”Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” – JEHOVAH GOD

    March 14, 2015 at 11:50 am#790593
    Proclaimer
    Participant

    @edj

    Could you keep your 5-fold doctrine out of this topic and leave it in one of the dedicated topics instead. I think it will only confuse things here and force people off topic. Thanks.

    March 14, 2015 at 12:11 pm#790594
    Proclaimer
    Participant

    @Miia & others

    Adding the “a” (as the JW “New World Translation” does) and turning the subject (The only true God and His spoken word) into a second smaller god seems wrong somehow. Since when is someones spoken word a separate being? Just as the Spirit.

    An error is made on both sides of the argument.

    • JWs say: ‘a god’
    • Trinitarians basically say ‘the God’.

    In other words, JWS see the Word as another god next to the main God and Trinitarians see the Word as God himself.

    There are problems with both interpretations and both have to add in ‘THE’ or ‘A’ (in their understanding) which is not actually in the original text.

    The JW argument implies that there are multiple gods which we actually do read about. e.g., “Although there are so-called gods, for us there is One God…” & “ye are god, ye are all sons of the Most High God”. So I cannot completely write off their view. But it is still assumes that it is talking about one other god that is with the main God, and doesn’t take into account the qualitative use of god/theos/elohim which we see legitimately used in other passages.

    The Trinitarian argument is even more flawed because reading the text as if it is talking about the one true God, then Jesus is God to the exclusion of the Father. When you say that Obama is THE president, then that means that no one else is. It would have to say “and the Father and the Word were God” to include both as God. The Trinitarian view is further flawed in that John 1:1 does not mention at all their 3rd member of their Trinity. So in the beginning was a Binity is all they can argue with their logic which is flawed anyway.

    The Trinity has been drummed into Catholics for centuries as it is the foundation of their faith. They persecuted and killed those who denied their foundation over the centuries. Is it any surprise that today in the world, most who call themselves ‘Christian’ believe this doctrine without question. The doctrine has over a thousand years of establishment and enforcement.

    What our view is should be as follows:
    For the wise and those who seek however, we should test all things and not accept things without checking the whole counsel of scripture. John said that the whole world is under the sway of the evil one and Jesus said that the wide path (mainstream) leads to destruction. Do not be surprised at the level of deception that is possible in this world. There are many lies but one truth. That truth is obtainable by anyone if they search for it. It is extremely valuable and trading truth for doctrines of demons or men is tantamount to being ripped off.

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