Hi Kathi,Read it again. The things foretold that would happen by God bareing His holy arm are the exact things that Cyrus fulfilled for Him. That's why I put the Ezra quotes in the post. (The holy instruments of the temple being returned and such.)I'm convinced I will find more as I continue reading through the prophets.peace and love,mike

Quote (WorshippingJesus @ May 08 2010,03:04)Neither have we, but we have had to pick and choose what we have time for because we are out numbered for one and secondly because we also have lives.So your accusations are totally false and uncalled for.Hi WJ,It's the ones that you pick and choose that bother me sometimes. You pick and choose the…[Read more]

Quote (WorshippingJesus @ May 08 2010,03:02)The Spirit of Jesus reveals to man who God is and without that revelation men will die in their sins.Hi WJ,And not only his spirit, but the very words he taught with. Words like “the Father is greater” and the Father is “the only true God”. Doesn't the fact that our God is his God tell you…[Read more]

Quote MikeQuit running off at the mouth with false claims like this and give us an example of this!WJHi WJ,How about this post of yours as an example.  I have asked you what exactly Matt 28:19 means to you.  You played word games and said I have a comprehension problem.  So I clarified my question as plain as I possibly could have, and what do yo…[Read more]

Quote (Is 1:18 @ May 07 2010,15:24)No. As I explain in my last post to you on the Hebrews 1 topic I have other commitments at present.Hi Paul,Yet you have time for useless insults to my IQ and the fullness of my life?The record on HN bears that I have never run from a question put forth by anyone. I have been wrong, and I'm sure I have missed…[Read more]

Hi JA,I contend that nobody ever in the history of mankind read the Bible and came up with a trinity concept. Even the inventors of it were influenced by wanting to fit in with the pagan triad gods of their day. I guess they thought, “Well if their god is three, then so must ours be.”The confusion of the trinity has to be taught – and even then…[Read more]

Hi WJ,Continued.Quote Matthew 5:19 “Least in the kingdom of heaven” changed to “least in relation to the kingdom of the heaven.” The passage indicates that a disobedient believer who sins can still find forgiveness and eternal life. The JWs believe heaven is reserved for only 144,000 specially designated servants of God. The revision suggests more…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ May 06 2010,16:33)Hi MB, Teaching the unteachable is futility and offering morsels to mockers worse.. Teaching is the work of the Spirit from the Word. We just shareHi Nick,Some of us just share more openly and to the point than others. I try not to judge, but I am only an imperfect human.peace and love,mike

Quote (Is 1:18 @ May 06 2010,17:35)Quote (mikeboll64 @ May 06 2010,16:17)I, on the other hand, want to lead them to the exact Scripture and use logic that says, for instance, the trinity doctrine basically implies that Jesus WAS God, then WASN'T, now IS God again, and later WON'T be again.I don't think anyone here (besides you) believes that. Nor…[Read more]

Quote (Is 1:18 @ May 06 2010,19:18)Quote (mikeboll64 @ May 05 2010,13:35)I don't have a comprehension problem until it comes to you and Jack, and even Paul skirting the issue.  Don't try the “run around” stuff on me, because I won't stop until your backed into a wall and have no choice but to answer with a real answer.  And I will continue to u…[Read more]

Hi WJ,I challenged you in another thread a month or two ago to debate the NWT's version of the Scriptures.  I said you should start a thread so others could join in.  I said, “Who knows, maybe I'll end up eating crow.”  At that time you balked.  You response was something like, “I don't have the time to waste on it”, or something to that eff…[Read more]

Hi Nick,I agree, but isn't there something inside you that makes you want to teach in a way others can understand?Don't you ever have the urge to explain how a certain interpretation doesn't align with the rest of Scripture?You, it seems, are happy with saying, “The Lord is the Spirit, read 1 Cor.”I, on the other hand, want to lead them to the…[Read more]

Hi Nick,Less relevant for you maybe.  When I'm out talking about God and am confronted with a trinitarian who is Scripturally knowledgable, I want to always be prepared to have an answer to defend my faith that God is one.I use this site to learn every out of context Scripture and twisted definition that they can throw at me.  That way I can h…[Read more]

Quote (RokkaMan @ May 02 2010,20:18)God doesn't care if you believe Jesus is him manifested in flesh.Hi RM,I think the God who said, “I will share my praise and glory with no other”, and “who is my equal”, and “I am Jehovah, besides me there is no other God” would disagree with your statement.By worshipping Jesus as God Almighty Himself, the…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ May 06 2010,13:20)Hi MB, God has shown His strength and power.It has never been another godHe uses all sorts of vessels.Hi Nick,You are preaching to the choir. I agree. I am trying to get Kathi to understand that “outstrectched arm” is a way of saying what “tool” God used for that particular purpose, not a synonym for Jesus…[Read more]

Hi Thinker,Online Bible Study Tools has “kurios” in Jude 5.  It says:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance , though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.JUpomnh'sai {V-AAN} de; {CONJ} uJma'? {P-2AP} bouvlomai, {V-PNI-1S} eijdovta? {V-RAP-APM} uJma'?…[Read more]

Quote (Lightenup @ May 05 2010,16:50)Mike, you have researched the Outstretched Arm and have come up with no evidence that the outstretched arm applied to anyone other than the Son of God.  The only passage you mentioned was equating a man as a tool, not as an outstretched arm.Hi Kathi,YET.  I said I hadn't come up with anything “yet”.  But I mi…[Read more]

Quote (Lightenup @ May 05 2010,15:06)JA,John 17:11-12Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are. 12 “While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be…[Read more]

Quote (Gene Balthrop @ May 05 2010,03:11)JA……….Jesus does indeed have a Kingdom to rule over, He even said to him that overcomes i shall grant to sit with me in (MY) Kingdom , even as i have overcome and an sit down in my fathers Kingdom. So there does appear to be two Kingdoms one of Christ and one of GOD the Father.  But the question here…[Read more]

Hi Kathi,You said:Quote So, since Gen 18:3 has the #113 (Adown) Lord in it, then it shouldn't have been changed to Jehovah. I'm not sure you're clear on the translation question.  Nobody “changed” Lord to Jehovah.  The oldest MSS already have Jehovah in those 134 places.  Why the scribes changed some of the “Jehovahs” to adown and some to ad…[Read more]