According to Scripture we're all at different stages of growth.
"Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God...
Hi there, I was wondering if anyone has had their views change through any of the discussions and debates on these forums? And not necessarily a change in Religion, it could be a change in a particular belief within your religion or you have changed your view about someone else's religion...
Hi there, I'm not convinced the Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is a separate entity to Christ. My understanding for the justification of this belief is when Jesus says:
"And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;" John 14:16...
Kinda reminds me of what the New Testaments says:
"But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen...
Absolutely! And what I shared was not at all intended to negate this fact. This is the same objection my mum initially had, mentioning that some people believe that because He was God in the flesh He couldn't feel pain, temptation or sorrow. This is not at all what I believe, despite...
Chur, a few kiwis on here I see. ;)
I think the best place to start finding the answers is within the New Testament itself. And I think a good study of the Acts of the Apostles is a good place to start. It kinda fills us in on the many problems the Apostles and early disciples in Christ were...
My mum posed the same questions to me when I shared this with her. And look I could be wrong and am willing to be wrong but I'm not sure that I am. In some way His flesh seems different to ours, and maybe that difference is that His flesh was clothed with the Spirit of God like the First...
Hi there, you seem to be picking up on the prophetic picture of the Old & New Man that the Apostle Paul speaks about in His letters. And the Apostle Peter seems to allude to in 1 Peter 3:18-22:
"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to...
So true. Your post was so inspiring that I shared it with my mum and she reminded me of that verse that we all know very well. And that is the Word that was with God and was God, became flesh and dwelt among us. So even the Flesh body itself was God. (John 1:1 & 14) It was something I had...
Wow, amazing! I have never heard such a perfect description as this. Was exciting to read and made me a little weepy at the same time. Thanks for sharing it. I'm gonna save it to my computer so I don't lose it. Truly beautiful.
Yeah, me too. :) Although I also noticed something else about the Holy Spirit. When Jesus was talking to His disciples at the end of John. Things he says that suggest that He was the Holy Spirit as well. Let me just find them...
"I will not leave you comfortless (G3737 orphanos): I will...
I can relate and do not believe in the traditional interpretation of Hell. I'm what's known as a believer in Universal Reconciliation.
The Bible itself doesn't even support this. The best example I can give is Romans 11:30-33:
"For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now...
Maybe because the Knowledge of Good and Evil doesn't produce in the eater the fruit of the Spirit being:
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." Galatians 5:22-23
Note too that the...
Hi there,
The Greek word for Messiah is Χριστός which is Christ and I can prove this. Ya know the verse from Daniel which mentions the Messiah? Daniel 9:25 says:
"Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah...