Preexistence

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  • #810344
    GeneBalthrop
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    miia……PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY YOU FEEL MAKING JESUS DIFFERENT THEN THE REST OF HUMANITY, IS NOT A HINDERANCE TO TRUE FAITH.

    HOW COULD ANYONE ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT WHEN JESUS SAID, ” HE THAT OVERCOMES EVEN “AS” I HAVE”, THAT THEY “ACTUALLY COULD OVERCOME, AS HE HAS , IF HE WERE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THE THEY WERE?

    peace and love to you and yours. ……gene

    #810346
    kerwin
    Participant

    miia,

    I don’t think that believing Jesus preexisted or was a superior human being is an obstacle to faith.

    It is needful to believe that Jesus was tempted even as we are in order to be created like God in true righteousness and holiness. (Hebrews 4:14)

    That is to say that we can be like him in true righteousness and holiness even as he was like God in true righteousness and holiness.

    I suppose he is superior because his faith is superior but he can teach each of us that.

    #810351
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi KW,

    So Job 25 applies also to the Son of man?

    #810362
    kerwin
    Participant

    Nick,

    I would say the words “the son of man, which is a worm” are related to Jesus’ words in Mark 10:17-18.

    The answer to the question in verse 4 is by faith. Jesus by his perfect faith in God and everyone else by their faith in Jesus Christ.

    #810363
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi KW,

    Jesus was born of a woman.gal 4

    But did he get a free pass through Job 25?

     

    #810364
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi KW,

    ..both Jews and Greeks are all under sin. Rom 3

     

    satan rules men by sin in the flesh.

     

    Jesus is an overcomer by grace not inheritance.

    He did not sin but condemned sin in the flesh

    #810374
    kerwin
    Participant

    Nick,

    A quick response.

    John the Baptist was the greatest born of a woman. Even the least in the kingdom is greater than he and God placed Jesus on the throne of the kingdom.

    #810375
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi KW,

    Yes the Son is the greatest in the kingdom.

    Those born into him who share his Spirit sit with him in heavenly realms.

    #810376
    GeneBalthrop
    Participant

    NICK…..Please explain what you mean by “born “into” him, are you saying that JESUS HIMSELF IS THE Spiit?

    peace and love to you and yours. …….gene

    #810377
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi KW,

    Gal 3.27

    For as many of you as have been baptised into Christ Jesus have put on Christ.

    Rom 6.3

    Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death.

    Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, we should walk in newness of life.

    For we have been planted together in the likeness of his death,we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection;

    Col 3.1

    If ye then be risen with Christ,seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.

    #810378
    kerwin
    Participant

    Nick,

    how can he be clean that is born of a woman

    The answer is to walk according to the ways of the Spirit and that can only be done through faith for it is written the righteous walk by faith. (Habakkuk 2:4)

    I would not say it was a free pass since faith was needed but since faith comes by grace some would say it was. (Ephesians 2:8)

    #810379
    kerwin
    Participant

    Nick,

    I have no disagreement with Gal 3.27, Rom 6.3, or Col 3.1 but I believe they were meant to be addressed to Gene and not me.

    #810380
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi KW,

    yes sorry it was for Gene who should also study what it means to become part of the Body of Christ.

    By theological theory you deny that Jesus of Nazareth was a man like us.

     

     

    #810381
    kerwin
    Participant

    Nick,

    I am convinced Jesus has always been a human being.

    I am convinced he has continuously had perfect faith and that faith came by the grace of God.

    That perfect faith is a goal to obtain by running the race.

    #810382
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi KW,

    So not a human we can follow.

    A big head start

    #810383
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi KW,

    Peter urged us to pray for grace in his second letter.

    But you think a man came always equipped with such grace?

    #810386
    kerwin
    Participant

    Nick,

    I do not know what grace Peter was asking but I do know that faith comes from grace.

    I also know that all a human being needs to do is obtain the Spirit and learn to walk according to it at all times and that is done by faith from first to last.

    I also know that some a fully mature in Christ for Scripture speaks of such. Since that is done by faith then it follows there faith has matured to be like that of Jesus Christ.

    It may be that Peter was praying that grace may be increased so that his his hearers would become fully mature in Christ. I would have to check the context to get a better idea.

    #810387
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi KW,

    Ask and you shall receive is the promise.

    Peter wrote in that vein and suggested we add

    virtue

    knowledge

    temperance

    patience

    godliness

    brotherly kindness

    and

    charity

     

    These are for those who have been reborn from above like Jesus.

    He was full of grace and truth.

     

    To only have the amount God invested in us

    is to fail the plan of God

    #810388
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi KW,

    Have you always had perfect faith-whatever that means?

    If not can you follow one who has?

    #810389
    NickHassan
    Participant

    Hi KW,

    You hope to gain perfect faith by running the race.

    Will it be too late then?

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