Quote (2besee @ Dec. 24 2012,15:05)Quote (kerwin @ Dec. 24 2012,11:10)Gene,The light is God's righteousness.The life of humanity is salvation.It is written that those that love darkness(wickedness) do not come out into the light(God's righteousness).We know that those that seek the light (God's righteousness) will inherit the life of…[Read more]

Quote (2besee @ Dec. 24 2012,16:03)Quote (mikeboll64 @ Dec. 24 2012,04:22)Quote (2besee @ Dec. 23 2012,04:07)The Word of God is GOD, the Holy Spirit is God.Obviously, you haven't done the test I asked you to do.If the word OF actually God IS God, then we should be able to swap out “word of God” for “God Himself” in ANY scripture, right?  Can…[Read more]

To all,John 20:28 does not say “you are my Lord and my God”. does not say “Thomas responded and called him my Lord and my God.” does not say “Thomas responded and exclaimed my Lord and my God.”I find it strange that certain people will discard “exclaimed” because it is not literally written and accept “called him”…[Read more]

Quote (jammin @ Dec. 24 2012,09:49)Quote (Gene Balthrop @ Dec. 24 2012,08:44)Mike……….No to your perceptions of what  3&4 are sayingJohn 1:3…..All things were made by him “it” (is the word of God) and without him “it” ( the word of God) was not any thing made that was made, ( and that includes Jesus ) scripture says Jesus was made a…[Read more]

Quote (Lightenup @ Dec. 20 2012,08:51)The Father and the Son together with their Spirit have always been one in the corporate sense.Kathi,You confuse me on what you mean.  I know that Yawheh, the Father and one true God, dwells in Jesus, the human and one true King, by the Spirit.  This does not make Jesus,  Yawheh.If you understand that Yawheh ca…[Read more]

Gene,The light is God's righteousness.The life of humanity is salvation.It is written that those that love darkness(wickedness) do not come out into the light(God's righteousness).We know that those that seek the light (God's righteousness) will inherit the life of humanity(salvation).I liked your true point that Jesus was created by God's…

Quote (kerwin @ Dec. 20 2012,22:58)2beesee,John is most likely speaking about the actual Word of God; though he personalizes it as you hypothesize.  The Word is the things of God and God “embodies” those things and reveals them through the Spirit.The Word is God as he “embodies” it.  The Word is with God since his Spirit that is with him reveals i…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Dec. 23 2012,21:47)Quote (Wakeup @ Dec. 22 2012,20:33)Kerwin.Well done,I agree.You agree with what, Wakeup?  That the effects attributed to demons in the NT weren't really caused by demons, like scripture says, but were really caused by known afflictions such as epilepsy?   I'll stick with what the scriptures say.  If the sc…[Read more]

Quote (david @ Dec. 22 2012,05:54)Why does cognitive behavioural therapy work so well?If these talk therapy's work, to remove the (mental illness / demon) why would we think it is a demon?Is it just the demon playing along some times?David,The negative thinking results when a person takes to heart the words of a demon. When a person resists these…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Dec. 22 2012,22:09)Quote (david @ Dec. 19 2012,23:01)Does everyone here believe that mental illness is actually demon possession?I believe there's no way for you to know every single cause of every single case of “mental illness”.I believe demons still play an active part in messing with God's creation – namely: man.Like I've…[Read more]

John 5:26For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.The word “granted” or “he gave” teaches us that the Son was given to have live in himself.In John 1:14 we are told that the Word, and the life therein, was made flesh.It seems that the Son that Jesus speaks of in the third person is actually himself…[Read more]

Quote (terraricca @ Dec. 21 2012,00:13)Quote (kerwin @ Dec. 20 2012,20:42)Quote (terraricca @ Dec. 20 2012,18:30)Quote (kerwin @ Dec. 20 2012,12:16)T,The temptations of Jesus and Eve are examples of temptation.  How do you perceive James words as fitting in with those temptations?Ktell me first how do you come to the conclusion that the…[Read more]

Quote (2besee @ Dec. 20 2012,14:15)Quote (kerwin @ Dec. 20 2012,17:27)The Spirit is the Son of God in the same way Wisdom is said to be his Daughter.  Scripture uses personification in teaching and once personified both the Spirit and Wisdom can be said to be sired by God because they come from him.Hi Kerwin. So when it says in parts of scripture…[Read more]

Quote (terraricca @ Dec. 20 2012,18:30)Quote (kerwin @ Dec. 20 2012,12:16)T,The temptations of Jesus and Eve are examples of temptation.  How do you perceive James words as fitting in with those temptations?Ktell me first how do you come to the conclusion that the temptation of Jesus was equal to what  Eve ad???T,It is written that Jesus was t…[Read more]

T,The temptations of Jesus and Eve are examples of temptation. How do you perceive James words as fitting in with those temptations?

David,Demons dwell in people through their desires, of which depression is one. If that desire of depression can be “cured” by doctrine then the demon has nowhere to dwell.According to Scripture Jesus was accused of having a demon and being manic by those that hoped to undermine his creditability.Jesus is never said to cure any type of mental…[Read more]

T,I believe a demon uses the evil principle that influences a person's behavior to own the person and so control him.I am not saying the demon is a spirit being that jumps into a person as that point is not important to a demon's ability to dwell in a person through that person's evil principle.Scripture only speaks of God dwelling in humans but…[Read more]

Quote (2besee @ Dec. 20 2012,09:28)Hi KERWIN. I don't know where the thread is — but in one thread, you were speaking about the Holy Spirit being also called the Son (or something to that effect)…..I was editing a site the other day and just happened to be editing something called the Shepherd. It was (apparently) one of the most important…[Read more]

Mike,Quote 9 The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.Still talking about the Word, right?No, it is not.John 1:4King James Version (KJV)4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.The true Light is in the Word, and is not the Word.

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Dec. 20 2012,07:42)Quote (kerwin @ Dec. 18 2012,18:26)Quote (mikeboll64 @ Dec. 19 2012,05:17)So Jesus commanded the Asperger syndrome to “shut up and come out of him”?  Mike,……..I would hypothesize that the demon struck the man with Asperger's.  Once struck the demon came on the man………………Hi Kerwin,Why would y…[Read more]