Tigger,

theos is the same word as the theou and theon so any noun whose form ends with “s” may requite the definite article.

AndrewAD,

I do not believe that power corrupts. I instead believe than humanity is corrupted be eating the fruit and Jesus lived, died, was resurrected, and ascended to heaven that we may be set free.

Andrew,

Those who live by the Spirit cannot sin as sin is the work of the flesh.

I know that God cannot be tempted by evil and so do not hold to the teaching of those ignorant and corrupt humans that teach he can.

The very Spirit of God cries out against such corrupt teachings.

AndrewAD,

When you live by the Spirit of God it is impossible to sin because sin is the works of the flesh and the two do not mix.

God did not create evil but he does create evil times and events.

The wise man by the name of Job tells us “What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?”

Job is not saying God…[Read more]

Andrew,

Scripture tells me that an angel cannot save me by sacrificing himself on the cross for me and yet according God whom is greater than them did. The only way we are saved is that one of us lived by Spirit, even to the point of death. In doing so he showed that there is salvation for human beings. He did not reveal to God whom already…[Read more]

AndrewAd,

God is not the author of sin as being so is against his nature. He allows sin to exist and because his intelligence he is able to use it to advance righteousness. Satan is the author of sin as he is the first rebel against righteousness.

Nick,

Scripture is designed so that only those reborn from above can understand it

They alone can see the kingdom.Jn3

I agree as for example those that believe in the one true and Jesus Christ will not believe God was tempted by Satan in the desert but will believe Jesus was tempted by sin even as we are.

AndrewAD,

I am not foolish enough to claim God was tempted by sin even as we are. There is no one who sincerely believes in the one true God that will believe he is tempted by sin even as we are.

Some of those who claim Jesus is the one true God deny Jesus was tempted by sin even as we are and in doing so they deny the Son in order not to…[Read more]

AndrewAD,

I am not foolish enough to claim God was tempted by sin even as we are. There is no one who sincerely believes in the one true God that will believe he is tempted by sin even as we are.

Some of those who claim Jesus is the one true God deny Jesus was tempted by sin even as we are and so deny the Son in order not to blaspheme God.

tigger and Umb5,

John 1:6 uses theou without the ho to mean God.

T8,

Sabellius was a modalist and that teaching is broken in many of the same places as Trinitarianism. Modalist find the concept of three persons in one individual as absurd and so rejected that broken tenet but that still blaspheme the name of God by claiming Jesus is the one true God.

tigger,

So, we find in John 10:33 that John has used the form for ‘God’ (or a ‘god’ in some translations) which is used as a direct object (theoN) not the theoS form that needs to be examined throughout John’s writings.

Some Trinitarians are fine with the translation of “a god” as all they do is capitalize the word God so it become “a God” a…[Read more]

Umb5 and tigger2,

It is the modern custom to call God by the name God but I am not sure if that custom existed in the first century. In John 1:1 and in other passages of the NT the word ho should have been translated to a English definite instead of dropped so it is more like “The Word is with the God and the Word is God …” or “The Word is…[Read more]

DavidH,

However Gabriel, answering marys question told her “the Holy ghost shall come upon her and the power of the most high will overshadow you.”

That is also what happened in the time of creation as the Spirit hovered over the waters.

Tigger2,

John 10:33Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

The indefinite article is arbitrary.

The clause “that thou, being man, makest thyself God” works perfectly well.

If I continue to look I…[Read more]

EdJ,

Nick said:

Hi ED,

The serpent was already in the garden before the arrival of Adam.

You replied:

Scripture please

Animals were created before human beings.

Angels also game first and celebrated when God laid the foundations of the earth.

David,

If you are interested about what they believed may have caused the increase decreases of homicide this historic study of it by New York Times.

I read it but I am a skeptic by nature as I have a firm believer that vast majority of humans live according to their flesh nature and not according to the Spirit of God.

Nick,

Hi KW,

So scripture does not say what you say.

Scripture says it but you may not understand it.

I think you will if you meditate on it.

You tell me what you hear when Jesus says “First clean the inside of the cup, so that its outside may also be clean.”

Carmel,

John 6:68 And he said: Therefore did I say to you, that no man can come to me, unless it be given him by my Father.

Those that hunger and thirst to be righteous as God is righteous go to the human Jesus Christ.

Nick,

Hi KW,

Stopping sinning is the inevitable result of being led by the Spirit.

The sons of God are led by the Spirit of God.

I agree with that