Mike, T, and all;Quote This would have the same meaning but a different emphasis than the previous list item. This version would put the emphasis on the Word rather than on the nature he possessed. According to Phillip Harner the correct interpretation of John 1:1 is that the Word possessed the nature of God in the beginning. So applying the…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ April 28 2013,00:28)Quote (jammin @ April 26 2013,18:25)Quote (mikeboll64 @ April 27 2013,09:15)Quote (jammin @ April 25 2013,21:12)that is just your excuse. i already answered lots of your questions but you ignore my questions. ill repeat boydo you agree that being also means nature? yes or no?>I agree with the following uses…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ April 28 2013,00:47)Quote (Gene Balthrop @ April 27 2013,10:40)Mike…… Yes please do ask them………….Now what was,said was   our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against human beings who are being effected by those darken spirits working in them causing them to do the things they do, and this applies also…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ April 28 2013,01:02)Quote (Gene Balthrop @ April 27 2013,10:04)The WORD CHRISTOS does mean .”THE ANOINTED” or MESSIAH, which is a representative of GOD'S PRESENCE with a BEING , HUMAN or ANGEL.Gene,I agree with you that “christos” means “anointed” – not “anointing”.In other words, “christos” applies to someone that God anointed…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ April 28 2013,01:02)Quote (Gene Balthrop @ April 27 2013,10:04)The WORD CHRISTOS does mean .”THE ANOINTED” or MESSIAH, which is a representative of GOD'S PRESENCE with a BEING , HUMAN or ANGEL.Gene,I agree with you that “christos” means “anointed” – not “anointing”.In other words, “christos” applies to someone that God anointed…[Read more]

Quote (jammin @ April 27 2013,07:02)Quote (kerwin @ April 27 2013,10:44)Quote (jammin @ April 26 2013,09:08)Quote (mikeboll64 @ April 26 2013,10:43)Quote (jammin @ April 24 2013,22:28)Paul said this Rock that went along with moses and to his people is Christ!Actually, Paul said they were all baptized into MOSES in the wilderness, and that the rock…[Read more]

Quote (jammin @ April 27 2013,07:16)Quote (mikeboll64 @ April 27 2013,10:21)Quote (jammin @ April 25 2013,21:08)what about the commentary?  what did they say about 1 cor 10.4? do they agree that the Rock is Christ himself?BTW, I'm not even arguing that the rock WASN'T Jesus Christ. .therefore you also believe that the Rock in 1 cor 10.4 is Christ…[Read more]

Quote (terraricca @ April 27 2013,06:50)Quote (kerwin @ April 27 2013,03:40)Quote (kerwin @ April 26 2013,11:59)Quote (mikeboll64 @ April 26 2013,07:22)Hey Kerwin,I was looking for something to help me in a post to jammin, and came upon this from the JWs:The apostle John writes: “God is love.” (1Jo 4:8) He is the very personification of love, whi…[Read more]

Quote (jammin @ April 26 2013,09:08)Quote (mikeboll64 @ April 26 2013,10:43)Quote (jammin @ April 24 2013,22:28)Paul said this Rock that went along with moses and to his people is Christ!Actually, Paul said they were all baptized into MOSES in the wilderness, and that the rock was “christ”.  He didn't specifically say it was JESUS christ.  (God h…[Read more]

Quote (david @ April 26 2013,13:14)Quote Babylon is a consumer of merchant goods.  It sounds more like a country than anything else. Aren't 1/4 of all purchases done for Christmas (a religious holiday).David,You may be correct but though Christmas might undergo a name change I do not see it being abolished as it makes money. Maybe zealots , who…[Read more]

Quote (david @ April 26 2013,13:12)So, kerwin thinks Babylon the great is a country.  (We are to “flee” from Babylon the great.  I wonder which country)T8, is he right?  And, are you a true teacher or is he?(This has to be one of those basic things that a true teacher would know and teach.  We are given the command to “flee” from Babylon, and not…[Read more]

Quote (Gene Balthrop @ April 25 2013,19:57)Jammin………..I gave you verses and Scriptures but you just ignored them , So what are the SEVEN SPIRITs of GOD that go out into “ALL” the EARTH, if those Sprit are not in all of God's CREATION> Then what do they do?Your problem is like most, you have no idea what a SPIRIT, REALLY, “IS” Boy.  IMOpeace…[Read more]

Quote (kerwin @ April 26 2013,11:59)Quote (mikeboll64 @ April 26 2013,07:22)Hey Kerwin,I was looking for something to help me in a post to jammin, and came upon this from the JWs:The apostle John writes: “God is love.” (1Jo 4:8) He is the very personification of love, which is his dominant quality. The converse is not true, however, that ‘lo…[Read more]

Quote (t8 @ April 25 2013,18:33)John 1:1http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/sbrandt/john1_1.htmAs it reads, this verse seems to be a contradiction. How can the Word be God and yet also be with God? Many try and suggest that John is expressing a paradox here, but this is not the case. The translation “the Word was God” loses an aspect of the…[Read more]

Quote (david @ April 26 2013,09:58)The science people say there have been 1-4 billion species during earths existence, with about 50 million species existing today.These numbers might be exaggerated.David,What is a species?The competing definitions of science are at times absurd and at other time arbitrary.This dragonfly is sexually attracted to…[Read more]

Quote (david @ April 26 2013,07:40)Ed, here is where we are.  T8 (and maybe others on here) believe that “true teachers” (or true Christians for that matter) are scattered among denominations–presumably among and inside of these religions. Yet, I wonder how such ones can be “true teachers” and yet support false religion.  The proclamation to “…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ April 26 2013,07:22)Hey Kerwin,I was looking for something to help me in a post to jammin, and came upon this from the JWs:The apostle John writes: “God is love.” (1Jo 4:8) He is the very personification of love, which is his dominant quality. The converse is not true, however, that ‘love (the abstract quality) is God.’ He reve…[Read more]

Quote (carmel @ April 26 2013,02:00)Quote I am pretty sure that is NOT what John 16 is about. Why would His Father, GOD, need to give Jesus anything if in fact Jesus is GOD???Jb2uREFLECT:J:     JESUS'        the word, the triune God, God in fleshB:     BODY         was2:     TWO           full separate persons, son of God and Son of man  glori…[Read more]

Quote (Lightenup @ April 26 2013,01:58)Mike,Did you watch the video about what 'being' meant?LU,The video cannot be cross examined. Its spirit can be tested against the definitions of being in dictionaries. We can use lexicons for the original languages. I just use the dictionaries and lexicons and cut out the middleman.If you find his argument…[Read more]

Quote (t8 @ April 25 2013,19:26)Kerwin, the point is that there are plenty of fossils for the first and last. But the in between ones are basically a jaw bone here, a thigh bone there. That alone should make you think about this hypothesis.T8,Fossils are preserved under rare circumstances which means lack of evidence does not prove much except…[Read more]