Quote 2beescriptures do not say THAT THE SON HIS THEHOLY SPIRIT ONLY MEN DO INTERPRET ITTHAT WAY ;SO I WILL STICK TO THESCRIPTURES THE WORD OF GOD ,NOT THEWORD OF MENTerrarica, wrong. Shepherd was canon. They took it out at the council of nicea. But the earliest church read it out loud in church. That is a fact. Nobody had a problem with its…[Read more]

Quote (terraricca @ Oct. 22 2013,09:04)Ps 118:19 Open for me the gates of righteousness; I will enter and give thanks to the LORD. Ps 118:20 This is the gate of the LORD through which the righteous may enter. Ps 118:21 I will give you thanks, for you answered me; you have become my salvation. Ps 118:22 The stone the builders rejected has become…[Read more]

Quote (terraricca @ Oct. 22 2013,09:04)Mt 21:33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey. Mt 21:34 When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to c…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Oct. 21 2013,12:43)Quote (2besee @ Oct. 20 2013,16:55)Quote (mikeboll64 @ Oct. 21 2013,11:47)Quote (2besee @ Oct. 20 2013,16:10)But you know what I believe, Mike. And I know what you believe.Who do you think the “US” is in Gen 1:26, 2B?  I wonder who Irenaeus thought the “US” was.God and his spirit, and his spoken word.Your…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Oct. 21 2013,11:47)Quote (2besee @ Oct. 20 2013,16:10)But you know what I believe, Mike. And I know what you believe.Who do you think the “US” is in Gen 1:26, 2B?  I wonder who Irenaeus thought the “US” was.God and his spirit, and his spoken word.

Mike, This is what I was going to post on the other page as 'wondering' but I cannot find posts there, so I will put it here instead, as my reply.Mike, you know, I do not agree with most of the trinitarians in full, though I do in part. I also agree with part of what arians say but a big part I do not. I am however closer now to trinitarians and…[Read more]

Quote t8 “Mike, I am glad that you are asking this conversation to be shifted away from hatred of JWs which exists to looking at
the scripture.
We can only show people the scripture and it is up to them to accept or reject.
But we can’t force anyone to love other people.” Unquote.

Why do you say “hatred towards other people”? Dislike of a p…[Read more]

I mean I’m just learning.

Something is not right about my post to you the other day…

(The one about the oneness).

Jesus said he and his Father are one.

I’m going to pray about that.

Becky,

Children need teaching.

“Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.”

Adults led by the spirit do not.

1 John 2:27 “As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you do not need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all…[Read more]

Becky,
My thoughts for today:

I really do not believe that any man should be a teacher to a called out person.
Why I say “called out person” is because I think there is a place for teachers, and that is with the foundation.
So, we have Sunday school teachers, teaching children, or people teaching the new seekers to truth, and that is good.…[Read more]

Becky, sorry, I’ve been too tired to post the last couple days, and my two posts were made with a tired mind. So when I’m more alert, I’ll post more.

Becky,
Addendum:

God through the eternal spirit spoke through the mouth of the son of man and worked through his body, so in this way they were as one, the son of God.

That is the way I see, though I am only learning.

.Becky,
Yes I agree.
I’m a spirit christologist.
I don’t believe the son of man was God, but man.
The Holy Spirit and God are one though.

Mike,

You seem to be misunderstanding what is meant by the reading of books, it has nothing to do with the scriptures. God reveals things to us by the scriptures, but we do not rely on our own understanding. We do not rely on men. We trust in him, we trust in God, and God will show us all things.

“First of all you must understand
this, that…[Read more]

Mike,
(I’m not a trinitarian as such).

You say that God cannot possibly be the word that he is with.

Firstly: Word (logos) = God’s own spoken word.

So let’s look at that with other scriptures; from Mike’s point of view:

God cannot have love with him, and also be love… (scripture says that God is love)
God cannot have light with…[Read more]

Apologies about double posting and not posting in the correct places, it’s this phone I’m using.

T8, So, the Holy Spirit is to you….. who or what?

T8,
So, what do you believe the Holy Spirit is?

Becky, Yes.
I’m just reading Wikipedia about them.

“However, I still do not understand your comments about mereading too many books and other silly assertions”

I honestly was just writing as it came to me with that short post. So, how do you not know it was not inspired, and rather than hear, you were upset by it. I’m not saying it definitely was – but you never know. Plus: it is in…[Read more]