Hello t8, Berean, and All,

We know that all scripture connects together giving us truth of God’s word. I’d also like to acknowledge that some scriptures directly connect with other scriptures where they share the same specific truth. Furthermore I’d like to acknowledge that if one does not apply a specific truth to other passages such can very…[Read more]

Hi t8,

Great post!

Hi Berean,

YOU:

Jodi
There are several degrees to the meaning of the word “proskuneo.”
I believe that in the case of the baby Jesus, it was the highest degree.
It wasn’t just little reverence.
The text is strong:
“They fell down (to the ground)
and worship him.”

What do you think?

ME: Thanks for your reply and continuation in conversin…[Read more]

Hi Carmel,

39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

Jesus is saying directly that he is not a spirit. A spirit does not have flesh and bones. Jesus has flesh and bones thus he makes the point that he is not a spirit.

Hi Mike,

YOU:And no, I don’t believe that words that Jehovah would eventually speak through prophets were what was “with Him” before the world was created.

ME: Regardless if you believe that Jesus existed prior or not, God promised eternal life before the world was. If those words declared before the world began were not still with God durin…[Read more]

Hi Mike,

John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast SENT. 4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

The work that God gave Jesus to do was upon the Spirit resting upon him, an anointing, and from there is when Jesus was SENT,…[Read more]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your reply!

So how do you address the fact that Jesus sits on an eternal throne according to the FLESH, where David foresaw that his flesh would not see decay?

We are told that he was raised from the dead in glory, power, made incorruptible. He appeared to many and said he was not a spirit but of flesh and bones. The people…[Read more]

Hi Berean,

YOU:Jesus is the divine Son of God who was made flesh as the beloved John says.

He was with God in the beginning, and all things were made by Him and all

things remain in Him.

ME: Paul speaks against your word Berean. Can you please specifically respond to these passages directly?

1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an…[Read more]

Hi Mike,

YOU: We all agree that Jesus was a man who was foreordained by God.  Many different scriptures make it clear that Jesus existed prior to this though – and so you and I and Jodi agree on some things, but not on others.

ME: I know I have given some long posts that you may not be taking the time to read, so I will sum up what Gene and I se…[Read more]

Hi Lightenup and All,

YOU:Deuteronomy 10:17 “For the LORD your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe.

Jesus is the Lord of lords here.

ME: I hope people will read and pay close attention to what these scriptures directly teach you. 

Psalm 95:1 O co…[Read more]

Hi Berean and All,

Scripture directly tells us that Yehovah gave His word from the beginning that a man would be called to execute His purpose for the creation that He by Himself made and that purpose was to give mankind eternal salvation. 

Scripture directly tells us that God actually declared that salvation before the world even began, as He…[Read more]

Hi Gene,

Thank you as always for your support and encouragement brother! Love to you, Jodi

Hi Lightenup,

NO it does not, and is this your only passage that you have?

The LORD says that which Jesus will do, and what Jesus does are not his own works but he performs the LORD’S works so that they will trust in the LORD. Jesus does not come on his own, the people are to know that the LORD sends him, and the LORD says what he will do. By…[Read more]

Hi Berean,

YOU:Only Christ could represent the Divinity. He who had been in the presence of the Father from the beginning, He who was the very image of the invisible God, was the only one capable of accomplishing this work.

ME:

John 8:28 Then said Jesus unto them,When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and…[Read more]

Hi Berean,

YOU:

Colossians 2:8,9
Take heed that no man make you his prey by philosophy and vain deceit, relying on the tradition of men, on the rudiments of the world, and not on Christ.

2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

ME: 

Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the…[Read more]

Hi Lightenup,

YOU:I didn’t say that the two wills were perfectly united as one single will. The two wills are perfectly united to do the will of the Father acknowledging the Father as the authority. This doesn’t make the Son’s will less wise or less in anyway but demonstrates the perfect wisdom and love of the Son.

ME: Jesus, being the promi…[Read more]

Hi Lightenup,

YOU:Every father is greater in some aspects to their son. That doesn’t mean that Jesus can’t be identical to his Father in every way according to their substance.

ME: The substance of Jesus is that he is a HUMAN with eternal life and a Son of God ACCORDING to God’s Spirit by his resurrection from the dead where he is a fir…[Read more]

Hi Lightenup,

Psalms 110:1 The Yehovah said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 2 The Yehovah shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Acts 2:22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and…[Read more]

Hi Lightenup,

YOU:

You seem to only accept Jehovah as the God of gods and not also the Lord of lords. That may be what keeps you from understanding the Son as both God and man. You spend many words trying to convince us that Jesus is a man. Who is debating that here? Many of us believe that Jesus existed in another manner before he was brought…[Read more]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for replying!

YOU: Just for starters, how do you explain/deny that God created all things through Jesus?

ME: I will make this as short as I can 😉

Well for starters on my end, I do not at all deny that God created all things through Jesus. I declare it and find it to be a most profound truth, as I know that God declared the End…[Read more]