Okay, I will let you have the last word though so you will be happy. Feel free to make a post and put the words ‘last word’ in it.

Jesus is revealed as OF God as you point out. OF has a specific meaning that relate to the words like ‘derive’ or ‘from’.

My son is not me, although he has my nature. Simple really. Two humans, but one humanity. Two persons, one nature.

God is not a nature but primarily an identity or life who has a nature. But God is not nature first, but has a…[Read more]

Then there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels.

Does this mean:

Then there was terrorism in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels.

T8,

Your story makes sense indeed, but only if Thomas said thank you God. He did NOT, though 🙂

He said to Jesus “My Lord” and also “My God”. Not thank you God.

Once again, you clearly have twisted the Scripture and given it meaning that is not there….

I really hope you can see that your position is full of twisting the Scripture instead o…

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T8,

Your story makes sense indeed, but only if Thomas said thank you God. He did NOT, though 🙂

He said to Jesus “My Lord” and also “My God”. Not thank you God.

Once again, you clearly have twisted the Scripture and given it meaning that is not there….

I really hope you can see that your position is full of twisting the Scripture instead o…

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Of course you don’t have to vote if it is not mandatory I shouldn’t even have to elaborate on that. But if it were law, then perhaps so. Paying tax is mandatory under the laws of the world and Jesus said to obey that. For me, if a leader arose and one of his or her policies was to make abortion illegal, then instead of me praying about this…[Read more]

John sent seven churches a message that existed in that day. It doesn’t say that it was all the Churches or some of them and it doesn’t matter. The letters were addressed to specific locations that existed. But you say this doesn’t matter as it is all an allegory.  Thus he might as well have sent a message/letter to the Church of the moon b…[Read more]

This video does a good job at refuting the interpretation of some of these so-called Trinity proof verses.

Good post Jael.

Are you that dumb? Sorry, I don’t mean to insult you. Nobody’s saying that! Of course you or Thomas could give thanks to God, even when you are talking to Jesus, but that verse DOES NOT say that. That verse clearly says that Thomas answered Jesus or Thomas said to Jesus, and so whatever he said there, he was addressing Jesus.

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Brian, I cannot neither confirm or deny what you have said regarding the Hebrew paradigm due to lack of time, but it is certainly something I will look into when I have finished reading your post. But there are scriptures written in Greek that say that only the righteous will inherit eternal life while the wicked will eternally perish. These…[Read more]

I know that Jesus wouldn’t have broken the law because he said to render to Caesar what was his. Would Jesus pay his taxes? If he practiced what he preaches then yes he likely did. If voting was not mandatory, then he may or may not vote because either way wouldn’t be breaking the law. I do not know what Jesus would do, but I know he would follow…[Read more]

Besides scripture I can learn from the past from what I myself observe. For example, if a place had a majority of Muslims then Sharia Law is likely to exist to a greater extent. This would mean greater persecution for followers of the way. Thus I could easily reason that by letting millions of Muslims into a certain country or region would…[Read more]

Besides scripture I can learn from the past from what I myself observe. For example, if a place had a majority of Muslims then Sharia Law is likely to exist to a greater extent. This would mean greater persecution for followers of the way. Thus I could easily reason that by letting millions of Muslims into a certain country or region would…[Read more]

That seems like a different and unrelated point you are making.

Back to the allegory. Because something is an allegory, it doesn’t rule out that it is not actually the case either.

You have no proof that Satan doesn’t have an actual throne, so I can only go by what scripture says.

To the angel of the church in Pergamum write:
‘I know where y…[Read more]