Quote (mikeboll64 @ Sep. 19 2011,19:39)Quote (Lightenup @ Sep. 18 2011,22:35)Quote Who did Jesus claim to be?I AMActually, he claimed to be the SON OF “I AM”.Ok Mike,Show us what verse tells you this, ya know, where He said that He was the Son of I AM.

Quote (Pastry @ Sep. 19 2011,19:53)Kathi!  Just reading back what you said to me, to look atIsa 44:24 ¶ Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I the LORD that maketh all ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; And John 1:1 well it was God Himself that created all, j…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Sep. 19 2011,20:24)Quote (Is 1:18 @ Sep. 19 2011,01:42)I agree with you, many times Yeshua applied the “I AM” title to Himself and the significance was not lost on his listeners (e.g. John 8:59).John 8:24 NIVI told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in…[Read more]

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Sep. 19 2011,19:58)Quote (Lightenup @ Sep. 19 2011,14:00)So barley,I was wondering…could you say this:”Before my grandfather was born, I AM?”didn't think so.  I don't think any of us existed before our grandfathers, Kathi.  So we couldn't imply that before them, we had existed.Jesus DID exist before Abraham, so could t…[Read more]

Mike,This should help:Imperfect TenseThe imperfect tense shows continuous or linear type of action just like the present tense. It always indicates an action continually or repeatedly happening in past time. It portrays the action as going on for some extended period of time in the past.The idea of continual action in the past does not apply when…[Read more]

Shimmer,I follow the words on the overhead. God knows the heart…they have shown us many different names that apply to them.

barley,Let me know when you want to have a respectful conversation, until then I am going to choose to pass…sorry. I have no time for this type of behavior.

Quote (barley @ Sep. 19 2011,15:28)Quote (Lightenup @ Sep. 13 2011,10:59)And what does the name 'Jesus' mean…Jehovah our Righteousness.And God would not name his only begotten son by his own name?Did you give your children a different last name than your own?May be you gave them the last name “lizard”?or the name of your first boyfriend? To…[Read more]

Clearly barley,You have no grasp on the active voice of the Greek words. Learn about it and then learn how you actually have to be existing before you can say 'I am' in the active voice.Also, Abraham lives…Let scripture speak:26“But regarding the fact that the dead rise again, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the b…[Read more]

Quote (Is 1:18 @ Sep. 19 2011,02:42)You're doing a great job in this thread Kathi. I agree with you, many times Yeshua applied the “I AM” title to Himself and the significance was not lost on his listeners (e.g. John 8:59). The important point, which seems to escape t8 every time, is when He applies “ego eimi” to Himself it is unpredicated. So…[Read more]

So barley,I was wondering…could you say this:”Before my grandfather was born, I AM?”didn't think so.

Paladin,Quote You are correct, in that spirit is genitive. I've got to stop posting when I get tired.The nominative neuter singular relative pronoun “o” replaces spirit which is genitive neuter singular, not sword which is accusative feminine singular.It does not throw off my understanding of the verse because I was not even aware I was stating…[Read more]

So Jesus told them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own authority. Instead, I speak only what the Father has taught me.Summing Himself up as I AM is brilliant. It is such a simple, yet profound statement. It is such an undefined and non-limiting name that Jesus is relating…[Read more]

Quote Who did Jesus claim to be?I AM

Actually, if you feel the need to substitute I AM for the Hebrew word, you would use 'eh yeh. His name is 'eh yeh according to Exodus 3:14.That would look like this:John 8:28 So Jesus told them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that 'eh yeh, and that I do nothing on my own authority. Instead, I speak only what the…[Read more]

Quote (Paladin @ Sep. 18 2011,08:17)Quote (kerwin @ Sep. 18 2011,11:27)Quote (Paladin @ Sep. 18 2011,05:49)Quote (Ed J @ Sep. 18 2011,10:40)Quote (Paladin @ Sep. 17 2011,01:12)John 1:1 does not say anything about “in the beginning was pre-existant Jesus, pirit.and pre-existant Jesus was with God, and pre-existant Jesus was God;” and John 1:14 does…[Read more]

Mike,Who is the Lord in this verse?Matthew 11:25 (NASB) 25 At that time Jesus said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants. And who is the 'God' in this verse:Hebrews 1:8But of the Son He says, "YOUR THRONE, O GOD, IS FOREVER AND EVER, AND…[Read more]

Mike,Quote Yet for US, there is only ONE God………….THE FATHER. And one Lord…………Jesus Christ.That makes two that are deity for millions of those of us who have faith in the deity of the Father and the Son.

Mike,I'm still researching this but you can cross off Nebuchadnezzar and Artaxerxes. Neither of them are kings of kings. They are both singular, i.e. king of kings according to the morphology that is in my new study tool.

Quote (mikeboll64 @ Sep. 12 2011,20:40)Kathi,How many θεοὶ are mentioned in John 1:1?  (θεοὶ is the plural form of theos)none. But there are two who are theos in John 1:1 and they are not the same person.