Quote (mikeboll64 @ Aug. 16 2010,06:10)Hi All,I would like to bring this out in the open.  Jack claimed that the Septuagint has Is 45 saying, “There was no God formed before me, and there will be no god begotten after me”.I then pasted the actual LXX and showed that that is NOT what it says.Then I posted this to Jack about things he has been…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Aug. 16 2010,06:10)Hi All,I would like to bring this out in the open.  Jack claimed that the Septuagint has Is 45 saying, “There was no God formed before me, and there will be no god begotten after me”.I then pasted the actual LXX and showed that that is NOT what it says.Then I posted this to Jack about things he has been…[Read more]

Mike said:Quote And my point is the same that I made about prophesies about the Christ being peppered in with more immediate prophesies about the Israelites.In other words, just read into scripture anything you want. Mike:Quote The wisdom/Son of God metaphor is peppered in among other observations.You mean “wisdom/Daughter of God metaphor” for…[Read more]

Mike said:Quote And my point is the same that I made about prophesies about the Christ being peppered in with more immediate prophesies about the Israelites.In other words, just read into scripture anything you want. Mike:Quote The wisdom/Son of God metaphor is peppered in among other observations.You mean “wisdom/Daughter of God metaphor” for…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Aug. 16 2010,04:52)Jack said:Quote Shimmer,Don't buy Mike's polytheism. He has departed from the NWT on which he was brought up and which he also endorses. It says,Before me there was no God formed, and after me there continued to be none.There it is! The NWT which Mike himself endorses says that there continued to be no god…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Aug. 16 2010,04:52)Jack said:Quote Shimmer,Don't buy Mike's polytheism. He has departed from the NWT on which he was brought up and which he also endorses. It says,Before me there was no God formed, and after me there continued to be none.There it is! The NWT which Mike himself endorses says that there continued to be no god…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Aug. 16 2010,04:45)Quote (Kangaroo Jack @ Aug. 16 2010,04:19)No Mike! This is how you do. You quote people out of context. I also gave chapter 9 in that post and in a post to Georg before that. Wisdom is personified as a virtous woman in 8-9.the RooSo your point is that since it was likened to a virtuous woman, wisdom can never…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Aug. 16 2010,04:45)Quote (Kangaroo Jack @ Aug. 16 2010,04:19)No Mike! This is how you do. You quote people out of context. I also gave chapter 9 in that post and in a post to Georg before that. Wisdom is personified as a virtous woman in 8-9.the RooSo your point is that since it was likened to a virtuous woman, wisdom can never…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Aug. 16 2010,04:15)Quote (Kangaroo Jack @ Aug. 15 2010,22:16)Georg,Your remark is typical of the uneducated.Proverbs 9, “Wisdom has built HER house. SHE has hewn out HER seven pillars; SHE has slaughtered HER meat, SHE has mixed HER wine, SHE has also furnished HER table….”Hi Jack,This is how you always do.  You find one…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Aug. 16 2010,04:15)Quote (Kangaroo Jack @ Aug. 15 2010,22:16)Georg,Your remark is typical of the uneducated.Proverbs 9, “Wisdom has built HER house. SHE has hewn out HER seven pillars; SHE has slaughtered HER meat, SHE has mixed HER wine, SHE has also furnished HER table….”Hi Jack,This is how you always do.  You find one…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Aug. 16 2010,04:09)Quote (shimmer @ Aug. 15 2010,23:14)Mike,Quote The Literal Translation is unusual in that, as the name implies, it is a strictly literal translation of the original Hebrew and Greek texts. The Preface to the Second Edition states,If a translation gives a present tense when the original gives a past, or a past…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Aug. 16 2010,04:09)Quote (shimmer @ Aug. 15 2010,23:14)Mike,Quote The Literal Translation is unusual in that, as the name implies, it is a strictly literal translation of the original Hebrew and Greek texts. The Preface to the Second Edition states,If a translation gives a present tense when the original gives a past, or a past…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Aug. 16 2010,03:47)Quote (Lightenup @ Aug. 15 2010,16:23)Mike all those other gods were created and so they were made.We can only worship the unbegotten God through the begotten God.Hi Kathi,Very good.  So just make sure you only worship the One THROUGH the other, not “worship the other”.mikeThis is quite a curious statement…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Aug. 16 2010,03:47)Quote (Lightenup @ Aug. 15 2010,16:23)Mike all those other gods were created and so they were made.We can only worship the unbegotten God through the begotten God.Hi Kathi,Very good.  So just make sure you only worship the One THROUGH the other, not “worship the other”.mikeThis is quite a curious statement…[Read more]

Irene said:Quote Uneducated, if you knew my Husbands mind, you would not say that.  Even though He did not go to a College, I truly believe He knows more that life has taught Him, then a man that has all the education they could get….. God's Holy Spirit is what reveals the truth and not a College Degree…Again we are getting personal which I…[Read more]

Irene said:Quote Uneducated, if you knew my Husbands mind, you would not say that.  Even though He did not go to a College, I truly believe He knows more that life has taught Him, then a man that has all the education they could get….. God's Holy Spirit is what reveals the truth and not a College Degree…Again we are getting personal which I…[Read more]

Quote (shimmer @ Aug. 15 2010,23:45)KangarooJack, thanks,Didn't they find old scripture in some caves and it matched the older versions of what we have today, the Jehovah's Witnesses also have their own translation I think with changes made to fit their own doctrines. Polytheistic ?Shimmer,Wallace taught that no other translation was the pure word…[Read more]

Quote (shimmer @ Aug. 15 2010,23:45)KangarooJack, thanks,Didn't they find old scripture in some caves and it matched the older versions of what we have today, the Jehovah's Witnesses also have their own translation I think with changes made to fit their own doctrines. Polytheistic ?Shimmer,Wallace taught that no other translation was the pure word…[Read more]

Quote (shimmer @ Aug. 15 2010,23:01)Mike, what is the Net Bible ? The best source for anything has to be something like Young's literal Translation, I have The Jerusalem Bible, It has things in it not found in other's such as the book of Wisdom. I also have the Revised Standard Version (RSV) which is pretty good. For online searches I use…[Read more]

Quote (shimmer @ Aug. 15 2010,23:01)Mike, what is the Net Bible ? The best source for anything has to be something like Young's literal Translation, I have The Jerusalem Bible, It has things in it not found in other's such as the book of Wisdom. I also have the Revised Standard Version (RSV) which is pretty good. For online searches I use…[Read more]