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Recent content by JustAskin

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    New and confused

    There’s hope then. Better if they fixed the problem rather than us having to be frustrated and find our own way. I used to work on a system so flawed I thought I was in the wrong job cos no one else seemed to made a complaint when it went wrong. After months of wrangling with the designers I...
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    New and confused

    Thank you, Deade.
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    New and confused

    Thanks all for your responses. I’m typing on my iPhone and the whole post just disappears and there is nothing I see to bring it back. The site is so convoluted that I just give up looking and - if it was a short post - type it back again - or just don’t bother. Thanks again, I’ll just try to...
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    New and confused

    Hi All, I’m new here and have a problem when editing. At times I don’t know what I press but my whole text disappears and I can’t get it back (that I can see...!) But I notice that the system saves a draft ... how do I recover my text from draft. thanks.
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    Philippians 2:6

    You are absolutely right that Paul did not say Jesus is God. Jesus Christ, himself, did not say he was God. Jesus DENIED that he claimed to be God. Jesus Christ stated that he had only called himself, ‘The Son of God’. No disciple ever called Jesus, ‘God’. The so-called ‘Thomas affair’...
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    Philippians 2:6

    And where in scriptures does any verse suggest that Jesus Christ is ‘eternally, without beginning or end, with the Father’? This is just concocted by someone who has no idea what he is saying but feels that speaking wrongfulness gets him credits. ‘Son’ is not, contextually, an offspring of God...
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    Philippians 2:6

    I really must protest at persons who make unsubstantiated claims like in the quote above. No attempt is made to provide evidence of the claim that Jesus is Almighty nor actually could there be any evidence (hence it is not offered). No one who is ‘Almighty’ can be classed under the themes of: 1)...
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    Philippians 2:6

    Jesus is the perfect image of God. - Man was made in the Perfect image of God: Gen 1:27: “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them” Adam was made in the image of Almighty God. Being the image of Almighty God apportions him the title of ‘Son of God’ (Luke...
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    Philippians 2:6

    I find it extraordinary that anyone should mistranslated Phil 2 by way of claiming that these verses prove (or even point to claims) that Jesus is Almighty God. And notice that I say ‘Almighty’ God. Virtually no trinity based ideology uses the ‘Almighty’ title and thus makes their ideology...
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    What does blaspheming the Holy Spirit entail?

    I think there are too many people who do not understand what is meant by ‘Blaspheming the Holy Spirit’. The Holy Spirit is, among other things: The Spirit of Truth Although it might seem really bad (and it is, in truth!) bring disparaging against Jesus or Yhwh, the Father, CAN BE FORGIVEN...
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    How did the Jews come to believe that a Son is equal to his Father?

    There is no such statement in any Christian scriptures. This is only found in catholic (trinitarian, at heart) type church ideology. Jesus is ‘Servant of God’ and thus cannot be God, himself. Indeed, it is false ideology and counter, even, to trinity itself, to say that One if the trinity three...
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    How did the Jews come to believe that a Son is equal to his Father?

    The Son of a King: Is this son, a Prince, equal to his Father, the king? Is Jesus ‘King of Peace’, or only ‘Prince of Peace’? If the Son is equal to the Father, and the Father is indisputably ‘the only true God’, why does the Father ‘give unto the son’? Why does the Son only ‘become’ ruler over...
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    How did the Jews come to believe that a Son is equal to his Father?

    In John 10, Jesus admonishes the Jews who believe that he was claiming to be Almighty God because he said he was ‘The Son of God’. The premise behind this is that, supposedly, the Jews believe that a son is equal to his father! And since they rightfully believe that the ‘Father’ is God, it...
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    Philippians 2:6

    It is true that something that is “Like Something” cannot be that “Something” that it is ‘Like’... else there would be no need to say it was ‘like’... simply say, ‘it IS’. Moreover, IF Jesus were God (and ‘God’, as he/it* is defined for the context) then he could not separate himself from BEING...