Quote (Gene @ Mar. 03 2009,11:05)Lu………thats only if you assume the word (WORD) is referring to Jesus , Ask you self this question If John meant Jesus why didn't He simply say Jesus. He know who Jesus was all the time. He didn't put Jesus there because his wasn't talking about Jesus. This is what man has deduced, but the wording  does not…[Read more]

Quote Nick…..The servant of God do not plant the seed they cast it out into the field, but the Good soil is the soil God prepared before hand and they recieve the seed into good soil, which God has prepared(Note:  casting into the field is “sowing” or a form pf planting)Quote Seeking……….. Jesus and the Apostles planted the words of GOD.…[Read more]

Quote (Gene Balthrop @ July 28 2008,21:01)Nick…..The servant of God do not plant1Co 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 1Co 3:7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

Quote (thethinker @ Mar. 03 2009,03:46)Quote I never said that Paul took the faith alone gospel to the Gentiles. That is your belief. Paul ministered only to the nations of Israel and all His epistles are addressed to them only. The taking of the faith alone gospel to the Gentiles was by the post-apostolic church. All the remnant of israel from…[Read more]

Hello Nick,It is wonderful that He allows us to participate in the process!Mk. 4:26 And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. Mar 4:27 He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how.

Hi folks,As some suspected, Heaven.net folks aren't much on Encouragement; giving it or needing it.  Perhaps this will lift someone today!It is only a tiny rosebud,A flower of God's design;But I cannot unfold the petalsWith these clumsy hands of mine.The secret of unfolding flowersIs not known to such as I.GOD opens this flower so sweetly,When in…[Read more]

Quote Thinker – Quote Jesus said:Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter into the city of the Samaritans. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Matt. 10:5-6)If they went to Gentiles in the book of Acts then they were disobedient to their Lord.Here is historical fact from the book of Acts:Act 1:8  But you will…[Read more]

Quoting Thinker -Barnes gives John 7:35 as a reference to the point tha there were two classes of Jews, the one called “Hebrews” and the other called “Greeks”.  Yet you have been saying that the the term “Greeks” refers to non-Jews.Now you attribute the rest of what Barnes said to what  I  said.  For the last time, here is Barnes on the matter – n…[Read more]

Quote (thethinker @ Mar. 01 2009,16:22)Thinker,I am ending discussion with you on this matter here. This post has been most revealing to me. You act like you are quoting me and deliberately omit part of my post. Here is the part you conviently omitted:Gentiles – In the original, Greeks.All those who were not Jews were called Greeks , because…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Mar. 01 2009,14:05)Hi S, And sin in the flesh knew that it's time was up.Matthew 8:29And they cried out, saying, ” What business do we have with each other, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?”Mark 1:24saying, ” What business do we have with each other, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us?…[Read more]

Quote (thethinker @ Mar. 01 2009,13:19)Quote Seeking,You are taking Barnes out of context.Of course! I should have known.Quote But you don't seem to care about that part of it. You just jump to the lines that follow and ignore line upon line. This seems to be your approach to Scripture.Here are Barnes notes. No line jumping, which you would…[Read more]

Quote (theodorej @ Mar. 01 2009,08:49)You've got me confused friend. Where does my post infer that there are those who, Quote …..Are there really carnal individuals who actually embody all the gifts of the spirit and live a sin free existance….For we all short of the glory of God and for that reason we need a savior..My post does talk of the…[Read more]

Gene,Then is your answer to my question that he was vulnerable and could have sinned, yes?My question was – Quote So He “emptied Himself” as the text states.  But “emptied” he was not vulnerable?Gene writes – Quote Seeking ………Jesus even now takes the form of a man even in the heavenly realm, He still is presented as a Man not a GOD. In the…[Read more]

Quote (Gene @ Mar. 01 2009,09:15) Quote seeking……….You said ….> For it is impossible for bulls and Goats to take away Sin, then you added or obedience to the law written in nature or on your Heart. Why would you say that , when scripture plainly shows GOD wrote the Law on the Hearts and minds of the gentiles.Gene,Why would I say that?…[Read more]

Quote (Gene @ Feb. 28 2009,21:47)Thinker…… Phi 2:6…> Who being or existing (at this time) in the form of God, thought not to rob God to be equal with GOD. Jesus Know he had a special relationship with God , but Because he had that He did not use it to try to be equal with God, but made His self be like all men.  Jesus did this also when He…[Read more]

Quote (thethinker @ Mar. 01 2009,03:54)Quote In the time when the gospel was preached there were two classes of jews-those who remained in Palestine, who used thehebrew language, and who were appropriately called Hebrews; and those who used in their synagogues the Greek translation of the old testament, called the Septuagint. These were called…[Read more]

Quote (Gene @ Feb. 28 2009,16:18)Seeking……….Show were the other Apostles had Paul's understanding about the law, that Paul did, and where others apostles had the level of revelations as Paul, even Peter acknowledged that fact, Some of the unlearned twist Paul's word because of the hard to understand teachings of Paul. The apostles Know full…[Read more]

Quote (thethinker @ Feb. 28 2009,15:12)Gentiles could not be saved until all the remnant of Israel of that generation came in to salvation first.So then justification did not equal salvation? You said Paul said they were justified by keeping the lawshown in nature.Why bother them with anything else if that was provong sufficient for them?

Quote (thethinker @ Feb. 28 2009,17:39)Seeking,I said “may be” to show myself cordial. So I will re-state it the way it actually was historically. A “hellenist” in the book of Acts was a Greek speaking Jew. The Unger's Bible Dictionary says,Hellenist a term employed of a person who spoke Greek but was not racially of the Greek nation. The…[Read more]

Quote (thethinker @ Feb. 28 2009,15:17)Gene,Philippians 2 says that Jesus “emptied” Himself of all His divine authority and rights for our salvation. It's really not difficult to understand.thinkerBecause the body which Jesus took put limitations on Him.These statements of yours, being true, why wouldn't he be capable of sin?