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Yes He is. Thank you for your tireless enthusiasm, its very edifying.
Yes, amen.Thank you brother...
Praise God that He enters the picture....
It's not "me" per se....
it's Him hahaaa
Well He IS rather DELIGHTFUL, isn't He?
"Where did Jesus (as one who was taught by his father) get what he said to Nicodemous that as a master in Israel he should have known? And how many forms of this can you see?"
You have come up with one form it can be seen in.
I do not hear voices in my head. Nor do I hear voices with my ears that nobody else can hear.Do you hear the Shepherds voice?
Ezekiel 36:25-27
Not sure what you mean by "how many forms"?
Born again is a very broad term, words that were not used by anyone in the IT to describe a new beginning. So what you see in Abraham's journey over a son, you can see in Israel's journey collectively as a son. The thing about the OT is that the pattern of this keeps on being repeated over and over in ways to numerous to count, like a dove never do ding rest for the soul of HER (very important) feet, until you see Jesus coming up out of the waters of baptism.
Baptism is a word that has much depth of meaning when looked upon in the vernacular of that time. Most anyone I know looks upon Baptism as the ritual we all know so well. The word derives from the Greek "baptizo", a transitive verb "I wash" used in Jewish text for ritual washing. Greek meaning to wash, to cleanse or purify by washing, to dip, immerse...
Luke 11:38, the Jews were quite distressed that Jesus failed to 'baptize' his hands before eating. Mark 7:4 talks about "baptizing" food. Mark 10:38 Jesus speaks deeply about his baptism to yet be completed, as in Luke 12:49
The Jews that Jesus took the gospel to had a very different understanding of what baptism truly meant, as it pertained to being 'unclean' or 'defiled'.
I understand what you are getting at, now! Yes! Many examples in the OT. The OT was all there was for scripture for the disciples...which pointed to Christ.Born again is a very broad term, words that were not used by anyone in the IT to describe a new beginning. So what you see in Abraham's journey over a son, you can see in Israel's journey collectively as a son. The thing about the OT is that the pattern of this keeps on being repeated over and over in ways to numerous to count, like a dove never do ding rest for the soul of HER (very important) feet, until you see Jesus coming up out of the waters of baptism.
Words (specifically God's Word/words) and as you have no doubt experienced by him) change as to what they mean to us as they begin to grow in us; like the word tree. If you have seen only one kind of tree (not to mention if you be only heard by the hearing of the ear), that will be all it means to you, but if you have seen all the forests, groves, and orchards of the earth, with their seasons, complied by their years, and how they react to each other through understanding, the word tree to you becomes the sum of all that you have seen and know up to this point (though even in this there is an I die daily).
I wasn't referring to audible voices. I was referring to the spirit who guides our hearts and minds, as we meditate on the word.I do not hear voices in my head. Nor do I hear voices with my ears that nobody else can hear.
Every Christian would believe that God guides by the scriptures and by the Holy Spirit. Not every Christian is willing to say they hear the voice of God.I wasn't referring to audible voices. I was referring to the spirit who guides our hearts and minds, as we meditate on the word.
I wasn't referring to audible voices. I was referring to the spirit who guides our hearts and minds, as we meditate on the word.
Ahhh, blessed rest. His promises are true.What a wondrous thing to find your soul and enter into the gates of the/her city; where all of our thoughts/children find their rest by being gathered together into one.
God chooses the way He speaks. I have no control over it, but im grateful that i do hear His voice. Its like a communion within. No need for words because i have the word inside, i.e. His written word. I feel His love too, thats a language all its own.Every Christian would believe that God guides by the scriptures and by the Holy Spirit. Not every Christian is willing to say they hear the voice of God.
Seeing, yes, that sounds like what im trying to say. The Lord said blessed are those who hear and see.I've actually a few times have heard it audible, and more times then I can count inside my head, yet this is not the only way I have heard, most of the time I hear by seeing.