Tigger,

I doubt it is pure whim. It may be it is used for a slight emphasis or more likely for another reason as it is rather common.

Wikipedia says about Modern Greek use of the definitive:

The definite article is used frequently in Greek, such as before proper names and nouns used in an abstract sense.

Umb5,

Whether you make the same scriptural connections as they do…they use these scriptures as their reasoning…not because some man told them.. SMH. Maybe it is you that should seek confirmation of their ideas before making presumptuous statements.

They make the connections because of what their ears want to hear. If the love the light the…[Read more]

Nick,

People make subconscious decisions that they are not aware of. It cushions them from things they find hard to deal with so they can consciously function while subconscious trying to resolve the issue. Some will be unable to resolve it. In other cases just is not important to them.

Nick,

Luke 13:24New King James Version (NKJV)

24 “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

You sound like you disagree with Jesus’ instructions in this passages. Are you being affected by teachings that are based on human principles.

Nick,

The Faith of Abraham was attributed to him as righteousness.

He did not have as it was “attributed” to him but now something greater than he had. That is why he looked forward to the time of Christ. We are in that time. We can now obtain what he hoped for.

Don’t you remember that Jesus told us that John the Baptist was greater than…[Read more]

Nick,

Both advocates are teachers and they advocate by teaching us to bear fruit.

Nick,

Both advocates are teachers and they advocate by teaching us.

Nick,

A starving man is obsessed with food so why do you think a man that hungers and thirsts for righteousness is not obsessed with sin.

Ii is extremely important to learn how to live by the Spirit and even more important to do so.

Nick,

Many people understand it takes faith to overcome sins though they put their faith in false Gods and so they do not overcome all their sins.

God may allow them to overcome some in order to test their hearts.

It is John’s voice at that point and he simply quotes “The Lords God” according to some text or just “the Lord” according to other texts. The latter is vague enough that is is uncertain whom he is quoting but the version you chose is less vague in it attributes the quote to the Lord God. In the quote the Lord God speaks in the first person while…[Read more]

David,

Jesus states in Revelation 1:8 -“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

No, John says that as part of his introduction. He does talk about Jesus is the previous verse as Jesus is the most important one that comes in the clouds.

DavidL and whomever else is interested,

The only definition I can find in Scripture for the clause image of God is to me like in true righteousness and holiness.

Colossians 3:10
and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

Ephesians 4:24New King James Version (NKJV)

24 and that…

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AndrewAD & T8,

Whomever does not believe that Jesus is the chief son of God’s Spirit as those that believe in him are the sons of God’s spirit does not believe he is the Son of God.

David L,

I see prefer the reasoning based on human principles instead of the word of God because we are taught that Jesus Christ is united with the one true God in the unity of the Spirit and Jesus teaches us that when he says “I and the Father” are one.

Notice that unlike yours, my interpretation comes straight from Scripture. To be precise…[Read more]

T8,

When I hear spiritual body I do not think of a body composed of spirit but rather I think of a body by the Spirit of God.

Nick,

I agree as they have to misinterpret a number of passages and make connection where no connections are in order to get that nineteenth century idea. I can name at least three religions that came about in the 19th Century or the beginning of the 20th that have some variation of the teaching that the Archangel Michael is Jesus Christ. They…[Read more]

Tigger and Umb5,

In John 1:1c the word theos is emphasized in Koine Greek. You can tell that because it is shifted left. John 1:1a & b use the neutral order which tells us that unlike the English translators John did not emphasize either logos or theos.

Note: He may or may not be emphasizing them in other ways than word order.

In John 18:13…[Read more]

I know that Jesus is the human being that mediates between God and humanity and I will not say or imply he is not human. He is also the Son of God.

Tigger,

There is no preposition in the sentence that applies to the high priest clause.

Even English translations do not use a preposition.

John 18:13New King James Version (NKJV)

13 And they led Him away to Annas first, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was high priest that year.

Tigger,

John 18:13 does not correspond to John 1:1c. First, John 1:1c has en ho logos not en theos.

I gave the English order of the words. In Koine Greek it is theos ēn ho logos.

ēn is translated to was and so I looked up other cases that said x was y and I made sure y is the same form as theos is in John 1:1. The one discrepancy I s…[Read more]