If God’s love is unconditional, it would seem appropriate that we see the results of God’s unconditional love.

How about if we ask, “why are not all men saved?”   If God’s lov…[Read more]

For instance, both words and actions convey information.  Both communicate.

Logos is therefore not limited to person or thing, but is both person and words.

God is the source of all light and k…[Read more]

“even the law of commandments contained in ordinances;”

The law, though holy, was given to hold the believers in check, so to speak, until grace by Jesus Christ was made available.

We now have the responsibility and privilege to live by grace, not the law of Moses.

“even the law of commandments contained in ordinances;”

The law, though holy, was given to hold the believers in check, so to speak, until grace by Jesus Christ was made available.

We now have the responsibility and privilege to live by grace, not the law of Moses.

“even the law of commandments contained in ordinances;”

The law, though holy, was given to hold the believers in check, so to speak, until grace by Jesus Christ was made available.

We now have the responsibility and privilege to live by grace, not the law of Moses.

God, in order to fulfill his desire and plan for creation and purpose for mankind, had to communicate His will via words or the word.

He did so by Himself or via His son or via the written word (as far as a permanent…[Read more]

God created everthing by himself

However, He did create all things with His only begotten son in mind, even as a loving married couple will prepare for a child

That was replaced by the baptism in holy spirit, the gift from God who is the Holy Spirit.

The original outpouring of the gift from the Holy Spirit, which is holy spirit, is the baptism of or in holy spirit, but that progressed to being referred to as baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, which has nothing to do…[Read more]

evidently, there is to be one anti christ in particular

but likewise many people are anti christ in principle

Romans 12:1-3

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,…[Read more]

The word “birth” is gennesis in the Greek…[Read more]

The word, or logos is defined by a message not emphasizing the actual words or means used to communicate the message but the intent of the message sender.   Another Greek word, rhema, emphasizes the actual words used to communicate the message.  Both are important.

Logos is the message, the intended idea or…[Read more]

1.  Peter, James and John.

2.  Body, soul and spirit I Thessalonians 5:23

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

3.  Joseph and Mary…[Read more]

Yes or no?

Politically, I consider myself a conservative, but do not consider abortion to be murder as “pro lifers” do.

My reason is Genesis 2:7 and other verses.

So for the person who considers conservatism to be pro life would reject me as a conservative.

Does that person believe…[Read more]

Are Muslims skeptical about believing in Jesus Christ as the son of God?

A popular example of that  type of question is, “are you still beating your wife?”

If or since, you never beat your wife, answering either yes or no indicates that either you did or continue to do so.

Either answer for you would be wrong, thus making honesty impossible.

This brings in the issue of God’s gift of free will, ie, our ability to choose, into play.

Since God gave us free will, as well as to spirit beings, h…[Read more]

I thessalonians 4:13-18

Of course God foreknew him but foreknowledge is not someone else’s existence

However, man was not designed to be mere, he was designed to have dominion over the earth.

Indeed, Adam took that and gave it away, but Jesus Christ, the man, the son of God,showed that man in his rightful place, by believing God, was well equipped to have dominion…[Read more]

Then everything being is God’s son because he created them ALL

Instead of telling God, my Father, what truth is, you should humble yourself before God and find out from him what truth is.

Humble yourself and you shall be exalted, exalt yourself and you shall be humbled

Since God is referred to as Father in His word, He is the Father to all those who are His sons and daughters.

The OT sons and daughters were not sons by seed but by adoption.

The angels are referred to as sons of God because God created them.

We are sons of God by seed, incorruptible seed. I Peter 1:23

If…[Read more]

Jesus Christ would be their lord.

We are saved because of the works of Jesus Christ.

We receive the gift of salvation by doing Romans 10:9-10

Jesus did not make himself.

Knowing that God designed life so that all things are after its own kind, we cannot afford to miss that truth in learning who Jesus is.

God is spirit, John 4:24. Jesus is human. The two are not of the same kind.

God, choosing to have a son, should have had a son that was…[Read more]

God was neither a spectator nor a bench warmer, He did the creating, the speaking, the dividing, the making, the setting, etc.

God’s work until he formed and made and created man was good, but His “crowning” achievement was man and…[Read more]

Plurality of God? or the many magnificent facets of God?

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake,

God speaks of those which be not as though they were. Romans 4:17

(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom…[Read more]

No, it is not an indication of more than one person talking.

It is a figure of speech called heterosis of number or majestic plural or plural of intensity.

Much like the Queen of England states, “We, the queen of England…”

She states “we” to intensify the majesty of…[Read more]

Good post.

We might ask ourselves,  who was Jesus referring to when he said, “I am” in John 8:58?

John 8:40 gives us a plain answer.  He is a man who is telling the truth.   Not a God who is telling the truth.

Of whom did he hear this truth?  Himself?  No,  the man, not God, who heard the truth heard it from God, not himself.

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Who are these gods?  Are they all good or are they all bad or some good some bad?

Certainly, God gives the title of god to men.  He even speaks of He making Moses a god to Pharaoh.  Exodus 7:1

the word “god” or elohim or theos when defined as being a title not a name of one being only cl…[Read more]

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Can you explain to me in your view how Jesus was rich and became poor?

2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.

Can you explain how he existed in the form of God, but emptied himself, taking the…

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The teaching is that no matter how cushy our current position in life is, we should be willing to empty ourselves of that high position, and give up everything for the will of God, and the good of others. (Matt 19:16-22)

You’ll notice in verse 22, that man did NOT have the mind of Jesus in him – for Jesus indeed DID empty himself of the cus…

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