Nick,

Do you not read Scripture? Did the covenant of Abraham stop because the later covenant of Moses came to be. Is God not capable of keeping all of his promises?

Nick,

They also became servants or slaves to sin as Jesus states the Son sets you truly free of being a servant or slave of sin.

Nick,

One religion two covenants though their are actually more including God’s covenant with Noah and later an additional one with Abraham.

Nick,

He gained the Spirit and gave up the world and the things of the world and yet chose to purify himself as it the custom of Jews but not of Gentiles.

One of those things is righteousness that is gained by human effort and those forgiveness of sins for their is not true righteousness under the Law of Moses.

He tells us “touching the…[Read more]

Nick,

I have already pointed out the time when Paul said “our religion” to the Jews he was speaking of as they were conversing about the way of Christ.

Acts 26:4-7Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; 5 which knew me from the…

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DavidL.

You have been but you do not see. If you saw then you would not have to be shown it.

There is but one mediator between God and humankind and it is not God but it is the human being Jesus Christ whom gave gave his life that we could be reconciled with God (1 Timothy 2:5).

Your teaching instead claims their one person of the Godhead…[Read more]

Nick,

Mankind gained the knowledge they were naked from eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil and they also were ashamed of being in the sight of God.

Nick,

Do you believe mankind did evil before they ate of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil?

Andrew & Nick,

When Adam and Eve ate the of the fruit of tree of the knowledge of good and evil they gained the knowledge of how to do both good and evil and yet not the maturity to do all that was right as they were not made fully mature in Christ. The later is granted to those of the age of Christ.

Nick,

He never stopped following the Jewish religion. All he changed is from the way of the Pharisees to the way of the Nazarene.

Nick,

They are teachings of the religion that Paul claims is the same religion he follows. He taught a different way but so did the Pharisees and the Sadducees. The Sadducee and the Pharisees had a difference of opinion about the matter. Those that follow the Way agree with the Pharisees as far as angels and the resurrection but to some…[Read more]

The bottom line is that many of the Jews of today teach that angels and spirits are separate types of beings. They also teach that spirit can either be servants of God or servant of evil. I find nothing in Scripture that disagrees with those teachings.

An interesting aside is that most spirits mentioned in Scripture are evil. The Greek word…[Read more]

Nick,

Hi KW,

The second Adam became a life giving spirit.

spirit is born of Spirit.

Do you agree that the human spirit is reborn of the Spirit of God?

After all you chose to use “spirit” instead of “Spirit”.

The old man is put to death with Jesus Christ at burial and the new man is born from the waters just as Jesus raised from the dead.

t8,

I am not sure God has a body composed if spirit because I am told God is spirit and also that God is love and I know God is love and wants his people to worship him in love and truth.

Nick,

I dropped the word “led”. The mortal body is soulish, aka natural, and therefore not led by the Spirit of God.

The Gnostics taught that a body composed of spirit was superior to a physical body and that teaching is still in the church though it has evolved over time. There is even a translation that translates the adjective form of soul,…[Read more]

942767,

Mitosis is looked at differently. The parent is the original child that became two children. In practice they are both credited with being the children of the individual who contributed the male gamete for the act of procreation.

In parthenogenesis you have much the same thing except that the female ovum has all the genetic information…[Read more]

Nick,

You are welcome.

Nick,

It is the same Koine Greek word that different translators translate differently. The AV of the KJV translates it to them in Acts 19:16 but usually it is translated both any other times it occurs in the NT.

Nick,

Interesting question as neither alludes to angels and spirits as the nor show but both could apply to all of them in some manner or just two of them.

Other versions write it as:

English Standard Version
For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

New American…

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EdJ,

You are misusing John 1:13 and Jesus is the Son of David as of blood. The will of flesh is questionable as Mary was willing to do as her God willed.

John 1:13 is speaking of those born of the Spirit.