EdJ,

I am disagreeing with your though “it is better not to do wrong than to acknowledge it and try to make amends?” is true in its own right it is just not expressed in those words. Instead Jesus was teaching the Pharisees that they were washing the outside of the dish and not the inside of it but performing religious forms without loving the…[Read more]

EdJ,

I am disagreeing with your though “it is better not to do wrong than to acknowledge it and try to make amends?” is true in its own right it is just not expressed in those words. Jesus was teaching the Pharisees that they were washing the outside of the dish and not the inside of it but performing religious forms without loving their nei…[Read more]

Nick,

Yes, as he was first to live by the Spirit and mediates with God so that we may too.

Ed,

We are also taught Jesus received the Holy Spirit just as we do but he did not need to be adopted because he was never separated from God because of his sins. (Matthew 12:18)

Believers become the sons of God when they receive the Spirit. We are instructed to follow him and one of the first steps to do so is to receive the Spirit.

Ed,

Is not Jesus also saying “it is better not to do wrong than to acknowledge it and try to make amends?”

Rather he is teaching us God wants us to love as he loves and not just in religious forms, such as sacrifice is. Jesus speaks of such when he tells certain people to give their hearts as well as tithes and offerings and Paul also add…[Read more]

Ed,

Jesus quotes the verse in Matthew a couple of times and uses different sentence structure from your quote.

Gene,

I posted it because of how the posts of videos supporting the trinity were so popular.

Miia,

There were those that make sacrifice of animals and other things but did not seek to love as God loves. Jesus speaks of those that gave a 10th of their income but not their heart. In short sacrifice is a pattern of the outward show of worshiping God.

Miaa,

We have to be guided by the Spirit of God because anything else will lead us astray.

I personally believe the church is not readily available at this time but is instead still in her place and as least some of her children are scattered throughout the nations. For those children it is a trying time.

Miia,

I realize the words but the reason Jesus instructed instructed him to do that was not for him to sacrifice his possessions but rather for him to show compassion in some manner. His reaction revealed that his wealth has become an idol and thus Jesus’ words.

Paul wrote something to the affect that if we give up all of our possession and…[Read more]

Miaa,

In other words God desires compassion and not sacrifice. We are live for God as Jesus lived for God and not for himself.

Miia,

We are to worship God by living according to the Spirit and not the flesh because God is love and his worshipers will worship him with the fruits of the Spirit which are Love and Truth.

The Spirit is received through faith that Jesus is the Anointed of God and that God will give it to those whose belief in Jesus is shown by the fruit of…[Read more]

Gene,

1 Corinthians 3:3New American Standard Bible (NASB)

3 for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?
Footnotes:

1 Corinthians 3:3 Lit according to man

Does the word “according to man” mean “according to all human beings” or does it mean…[Read more]

Nick,

Jesus is the Son of David, as for his body. In other words biologically or genetically.
He is the Son of God, as of the Spirit, In other words spiritually.

The later is greater than the former.

Nick,

I assume you mean anything we do we do because of the grace of God and so we have nothing to boast about.

942767,

I have heard a Trintiarian claim that any passage that proves Jesus is God is true and any one that proves he is not is untrue. It follows that he also would accept any other interpretation of a passage he uses to support the idea that Jesus is God as not supporting that teaching.

In short the Trinitarian doctrine is so broken that…[Read more]

Gene,

I cannot criticize the way Nick wrote if he was speaking in a certain way since Scripture itself uses the word man to mean those humans without the word of God. During the age of the new covenant that means those without the Spirit and so the words “if GOD INDWELLS A MAN HE IS “NO LONGER”, A MAN” are correct.

Biologically he is still a h…[Read more]

Gene,

If you are thinking in a certain way then Nick is correct.

Miia,

Worship as in a religious act of devotion.

Adoring and loving Jesus as a human and as the Emperor of all things in heaven and earth is similar to adoring and loving your parents while God is the source of all good things.

Miia,

It is not our possessions we have give up to inherit the world to come. It is the works of the flesh. Jesus tested the young ruler’s heart by instructing him to give all he owned to those in need.

I do not know if the story about the eye of the needle being a gate is true but I do know what is impossible for man is possible with…[Read more]