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LOL...I'm trying to tell you what it truly says. Neither verse refers to a future advent. Do you have any Greek study tools? If not, I can provide a host of them for you. All free of charge, of course.
Those who have ears to hear.
And you are correct, I am not a novice. Also, I'll let the Kabbalist comment slide for now, since it is way off topic, but I would not lump them in with Gnostics at any stretch of the imagination. The early Jewish Kabbalists are among the greatest Torah scholars this world has ever known, and will know IMHO.
Yea, the certain comment you would avoid I agree with but the point was that those terms are now used, (with modern redefinitions) simply to label and ostracize a perceived "opponent" as opposed to having any truth to them. Moving forward then if the passage in question truly is in the past tense, and it is because the foundational teaching is Golgotha where Yeshua gave his body, blood, and poured out his soul unto death on the stake in the physical world, then what of the following statement which Paul puts forth to the Corinthians?
2 Corinthians 5:14-17 ASV
14. For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;
15. and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.
16. Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
17. Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
"Wherefore henceforth [apo-tou-nun, 'from the present', 'from right now forward'] we know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Messiah after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more."
Why is this understanding never taught anywhere in the modern pulpits? If this be true, and it is, then perhaps the following is so much more important to doctrine than what most appear to realize:
1 John 4:1 ASV
1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove [test] the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Matthew 24:5
5. For many shall [have] come in my name, saying, "I am of the Messiah!" and many shall be deceived.
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