Nick,

The literal meaning of Jesus words is not of the future but rather of the present.

So you believe he used those present tense verbs to tell them they were ready to be joined to the vine.

Nick,

Your judgement that my words are “carnal” is itself carnal for it comes from the flesh.

I assume by your response that the answer to my question is no.

I assume by your unwillingness to address the words of Jesus in John 15:1-10 that you do not understand them. I don’t either which is why I am trying to determine what they mean.

Nick,

Are you claiming that Jesus spoke those words to his student-adherents because they were seeking to enter the kingdom of heaven and not because they already had the Spirit?

t8,

I agree that the Word has the attributes of God, aka is divine.

My disagreement with Trinitarians is they claim divine includes the “essence” of God will I say it does not.

Note: By essence Trinitarians mean the Word’s kind is God.

Nick,

Are you giving those passage your own meaning?

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit:

If you walk according to the Spirit then you bear its fruit.

Those are the words of the new covenant and not the old and yet they are from John 14.

Nick,

I am not subject God to a righteousness that is by human effort in testing your conclusions.

I asked you if you misunderstood Peter’s understanding of his dream not what Jesus told Peter earlier.

John 15:1-10Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

15 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth…

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Nick,

If He judges someone already clean by the Word then He may decide to give the blessing .

Are you interpreting that word according to what Peter stated or are you giving it a new meaning?

Acts 10:28Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

28 And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep…

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Nick,

I agree but some argue Cornelius and his household were exceptions to that rule.

Nick,

If you have faith that Jesus is the Anointed, the chief son of the living God and hear the message you will seek to obey it and so be immersed in the name of Jesus Christ.

Nick,

I agree not with might or power of man but only by walking according to the Spirit. And that is do through faith.

Nick,

Galatians 4:19 is speaking of the Spiritual likeness of Christ and that occurs only when an individual has learned to live by the Spirit at all times.

Gene,

I agree with your words.

Nick,

A very apt verse though I was thinking of 1 Peter 1:12.

Gene,

God is the one that knew Jesus was the Christ before the world not Gabriel. As far as I know angels only found out when Jesus came into the world and God instructed his angels to pay homage to them.

T8,

Technically if a person takes the beam out of their own eye then they are free to take the speck out of the other person’s eye.

God is the judge but he what he states in Scripture is also true.

Comfort claims to be a teacher before he has learned the truth of God; so instead of only sweet water coming out both sweet and follow do.

Gene,

The bottom point is that Jesus because he was miraculously conceived of a virgin but because he is the chief son God as of the Spirit.

God appointed Jesus the Christ, the Son of the living God before the world began just like he appointed Jeremiah a prophet to the nations before he was formed in his mother’s womb.

I am not sure when he…[Read more]

t8,

It is not known why Rome name the new state Syria_Palestinia but the hypothesis is that he did it to force the Jews to forget their connection to the land. He chose name of two of their enemies to name it after.

t8,

The article speaks of the forest belonging to the Devonian era and that is theorized to be a era of great disturbance in the earth that occurred about 419.2 million years ago. That is first generation of humanity is recorded as existing on earth. In order for that aging to be correct to the flood the length of years of the generations of…[Read more]

t8,

My point is that it is an assumption that the forest was alive at one time because we have found the same thing we would if it had been alive. The assumption is safe only if there is not an intelligent actor who has the ability and desire to make a forest that was never alive even though appearances are it was.

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t8,

Can you prove that that those fossils were ever alive?

This is a question based on logical reasoning not necessary the reasoning scientist use.