Ed,

I read I addressed but not all your posts.

Nick,

No one has ever been saved by the works of the Law.

God did suffer both the Jews and Gentiles to frustrations until the time of Christ.

Jesus was doomed to be the Author of the truth by being the first to receive and walk according to the ways of the Spirit.

He walked by the Spirit from the day he gained the ability to choose between…[Read more]

Ed J,

The prince of this world is not Muhammad but is instead Satan as his place is now this world, which he rules. Scripture also calls him the God of this world. Muhammad was but one of many of his subjects.

Latter Day Saints also claim an angel brought them their doctrine.

Both of their teachings are of the devil.

The Antichrist and the…[Read more]

Ed,

The bible does not teach Islam is the Antichrist other than to the point that it is just another false teaching and all false teachings are against Christ, even those that claim to be for him.

Miia,

That’s just my view. May be right, may be wrong.

Your words make it look like you doubt.

Any reasonable person who reads your words knows they are your opinion so you do not need to tell them that.

What you need to do is test what you understand in order to be more confident it comes from God and not you.

I agree with your o…[Read more]

Ed,

The Spirit of Christ is not Jesus Christ. It is not person in any way of form but instead has many roles one of which is as a “the activating or essential principle influencing a person” as one definition at Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary said but God’s Spirit is more than that as it communicates his word to and through a prophet,…[Read more]

Nick,

Your argument that Jesus received the Spirit and the Jordan implies he did not have it to live by previous to the Jordon.

If he did not have the Spirit then he could not walk by it and only had the flesh to walk according to. Those that walk according to the flesh are servants of sin.

Jesus was never a servant of sin as he did not sin…[Read more]

Nick,

Yes!

Terarica,

The fruit of the Spirit is love as love sums up both positive and negative commandments of God.

All sin is a hate and hate is the work of the flesh.

Terraricca,

To illustrate Nick’s point I show Scriptures and what has it accomplished?

miia,

As of this time the shoot down of that jet is a rumor.

miia,

As of this time the shoot down of that is a rumor.

Terrarica,

You are clearly losing this discussion because what you believe does not come from Scripture that are interpreted according to the principle of God. Instead you prefer to understand Scriptures that are interpreted according to the principles of humanity.

It is very simple the word means “the expressed or manifested mind and will of…[Read more]

To whomever it concerns,

“there will be wars and rumors of wars”

Terrarica,

I assume you are claiming that one of Jesus’ titles in Scripture is “the word” but you have not presented a case that is true.

The words “(‘THE WORD’) was with God in the beginning” are talking of the words God’s speak which Scripture teaches us come from God and were with him in the beginning of creation for by them all things were…[Read more]

Terrarica,

1Jn 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning “THE WORD”of life

Be careful not to be presumptuous about what you hear from scripture. The “apostles” proclaim the word of God and not the person of Jesus…[Read more]

Terrarica,

The only proper name God gave to Jesus is translated “God is Salvation”.

Nick is correct that Scripture teaches us Jesus is a human being and human beings do not physically come from heaven.

The word comes out of God’s mouth and since God is in heaven and therefore it comes from heaven.

I find dictionaries and there equivalent…[Read more]

Terrarica,

No man can redeem the life of another
or give to God a ransom for him—
Ps 49:8 the ransom for a life is costly,
no payment is ever enough—
Ps 49:9 that he should live on forever
and not see decay.

That passage need verse 6 included as it is part of the sentence.

Psalm 49:6-9Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

6
They tha…

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Terrartica,

Koine Greek is like French, Italian, and a number of other languages where the pronouns take on the gender of the noun they replace. I believe you are well aware of this as I think you are literate in more than one language.

So John 1:12-13 could be translated in one of three ways.

Option 1:

Yet to all who received him, to those…

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Terrarica,

Except for the biased choice of the “male” pronouns in the translations of John 1:1-13 is there any thing else that convinces you the word is a person?