Quote (karmarie @ Mar. 31 2011,15:46)So to love your neighbour you have to love yourself too, so that you can love your neighbour as yourself, and to be obediant to God….so as to do to others as you would to yourself….something I have found is that when you have a broken heart, say, often the heart needs to be fixed first with love, so that we…[Read more]

Tim Kraft,I am not going to address all your post at this time but I do feel a need to mention you wrote “totally free”.   Since you say you did not mean free from love your neighbor as yourself in that then I choose to believe you.

Karmarie,You quoted:Quote And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” …John 8:7 I can see judgement as being part of this but the main lesson I learn from the teaching is mercy.A parallel to this event is the story of the vine that would not bear fru…[Read more]

Quote (Kangaroo Jack Jr. @ Mar. 30 2011,22:49)Gene said:Quote God's Word always existed with GOD and never died brother.But death does not mean “to cease to exist.” Jesus likened His death and resurrection to Jonah's being in the belly of the whale. Er uh…Jonah was in the whale's belly ALIVE dude!As Jonah was 'dead' to the outside world but…[Read more]

Paladin.The soul is incarnate in the flesh but the soul is only part of the spiritual side of a human being.  So according to your understanding Trinitarians believe that Jesus is a human fleshly part with God spiritual part making him a half man and half God.Does that mean they do not believe he has a human spiritual part?If so it is an…[Read more]

Quote (karmarie @ Mar. 31 2011,15:12)JA would like to say; “John 1:1 says,'In the beginning was the Word and the word was with God and the Word was God'.Since we know that Jesus 'was' the Word AND John mentions neither the Father nor the Holy Spirit, please can you show how it came about that the Father is claimed to be God and the Holy Spirit…[Read more]

Wispring,I do not believe knowledge of the consequences is necessary if you know God is love.    If you know God is love then you realize that his commands are born out of that love.  For some reason they seem to have been ignorant of who he was.That may be why it was the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  They did good but did…[Read more]

Tim Kraft,I have no idea where you obtained the idea that Jesus set Christians free from the law of love your neighbor as yourself.  What he sets is people free from is slavery to sin and anyone who hates is himself and/or  another is a slave to sin.  There is one law of which all of God’s other laws are but facets and that law is love your neig…[Read more]

To all,I have no idea how you interpret obey all of Jesus’ teachings but I know it means just what it states. If Jesus teaches me to go take a dip in the pool of Siloam then I do it. I do it because I believe Jesus is King of all things in heaven and earth. One can call that a work if they wish, but that work is born of faith. If you do n…[Read more]

Quote (Wispring @ Mar. 31 2011,05:36)Hi Kerwin,   Maybe it wasn't rebellion against God, maybe it was curiosity and ignorance. Adam was there with her when she ate the fruit(accepted the knowledge) and saw she wasn't dead. Maybe he thought “Hmmm, I wonder why she isn't dead now”. Maybe it's because when God said they would die they didn't ask how…[Read more]

To all,Jesus often goes into desolate areas to pray.  He teaches us to seek to go to private places when praying.  Fasting is one way to get closer to God as is seeking desolate areas free from distraction.   The Devil just took advantage of the situation as he is known to do.Jesus demonstrated that even in a weakened state a human being can wh…[Read more]

To all,Are you stating that it is loving to judge the actions of yourself or others to determine if they are righteous or not but it is wrong to judge whether the individual is unredeemable as we do not know?

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Mar. 30 2011,09:07)Hi Wispring,Think about it in light of these scriptures.  LXX:  magnified your word over every namePhil 2:9 – Therefore God exalted to the highest place  and gave the name that is above every name, Eph 1 – he raised from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far ab…[Read more]

To all,The Holy Spirit is incarnate in true Christians thus making them the sons of God.I am going by a definition for incarnate from thefreedictionary.com; specifically “Embodied in human form; personified'Using the definition, “Invested with bodily nature and form” I would state that the spiritual nature of man is incarnate in the fleshly nature…[Read more]

Quote (Paladin @ Mar. 30 2011,13:33)Quote (mikeboll64 @ Mar. 30 2011,12:07)I assumed, for example, that because you also reference the LXX you were knowledgeable about some of the things I know about, and responded to your questions accordingly. I see now, that is not the case, and I will try to remember that you do not know some of the Septuagint…[Read more]

Worshipping Jesus,You wrote to T8:Quote t8You are right, God cannot lie and the scriptures tell us that the “Word who was God” came in the likeness of sinful flesh.He is Emmanuel which means he is God with us, but you keep saying he is not God with us.You think God cannot be seen, isn't that right?WJ God does not speak untruths but your…[Read more]

Worshipping Jesus,You wrote:Quote KerwinYet we don't have any history of any of those Fathers to reject the creeds.We have the untrustworthy testimony of Eusebius (A follower of Arius) who apparantly sighned off on the Trinity as accepting it yet all along he rejected it.WJ From what I have heard the tenet of trinitarianism was not seddled until a…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Mar. 29 2011,06:31)Quote (WorshippingJesus @ Mar. 28 2011,13:51)KerwinYet we don't have any history of any of those Fathers to reject the creeds.We have the untrustworthy testimony of Eusebius (A follower of Arius) who apparantly sighned off on the Trinity as accepting it yet all along he rejected it.WJHey Kerwin,The 325…[Read more]

Irene:You wrote:Quote Kerwin!  Gene always disagrees with the preexisting of Jesus, but never gives Scriptures why he thinks so.  And I also ask you to give Scriptures of why YOU don;t believe so.  Anybody can say I don't believe.  But they have no credibility if they give no Scriptures what soever.  Peace Irene I believen Gene assumes you know…[Read more]

Irene,I agree that a person's emotions and sinful desires can be extremely overpowering at times but even then they are common to man.  It may not be the exact same emottion but you have felt in such strength but you have felt an emotion in strenth and you have felt the emotion that a particular person felt so you can both emphasize and…[Read more]