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LOL there is absolutely no connection between "ego eimi" and YHWH.
Why did they pick up stones if they misunderstood Him?
They knew what He said, and He slipped away from them - but they wanted to stone Him for 'making Himself' God - of which He didnt recant.
Actually, the name of God YHWH when translated is not "I AM", but "I AM THAT I AM" or "I WILL BE THAT WHICH I WILL BE". To say the phrase "ego eimi" corresponds to YHWH is an error to say the least.
"St" John basically plagiarized that from Philo of Alexandria, a Jewish philosopher.
And why does Jesus have to die to open the gates of heaven? God doesn't have to die to do anything. He merely wills it to happen and it does.
Look disobedience and
'agreement to sin against God' makes humanity impure. Adam and Eve collectively betrayed God, they obviously didnt trust Him, they disobeyed Him directly and they choose the serpent [satan] over God Who gave them EVERYTHING...instead believing lies about Him.
That wasnt so nice, now was it?
Especially to be in His Benevolent Presense and feel His awesomeness.
So God knew - since He is All powerful and Loving that
HE and only HE could show us the brutality of that sin and take it upon Himself to bear the weight of it.
Can He erase our nature after we knew good from bad?
Not unless He would remove all traces of our free will.
And
if removed our free will, then the creation of man to return love back to Him would be totally
moot point.
No one else on earth can ever surpass His love, and His generosity, and His willingness to show us the depth of His love -
a Perfect Being taking on our sins because we never could.
Not only because we wouldnt be able to bear it, but also we are tainted with the first sin of all humanity that led to the seperation from God - since no sin can enter in the Presense of Heaven.
With sin, we could never make such a sacrifice. Animals would never be a pure sacrifice..only God Himself could sacrifice Himself to maintain our free will, while giving us the option to believe in Him and go to Heaven to BE with HIM eternally.
The name Emmanu-El means God with us, and it is actually referring to someone else, (read the context about Isaiah), I'll explain this later, inshaa Allaah. Similarly, possessing this kind of name does not make one God. These type of names are common in Hebrew. For example, look at the name of Elijah in Hebrew, which is Eliyahu, which basically means "El is Yah", or God is the Lord. Yet no one suggests from Elijah's name that he himself is God.
Listen...Jesus is God..
Yeshua [Jesus] is the Hebrew (
Yehoshua) or Hebrew-Aramaic (
Yeshua),
meaning "YHWH (Yahweh) rescues"; while
Yahweh is an extention of the Tetragrammaton YHWH used by early Hebrew writers to signify the "unpronouncable" name of God.
Yahweh said;
My spirit that is upon thee, and
my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed, saith Yahweh, from henceforth and for ever. Isaiah 59:21
And the spirit of Yahweh shall
rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh; Isa 11:2
"Father, Son and Spirit - Immanuel"
And I know that his commandment is life everlasting:
whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. Jn 12:50
The Apostle John wrote, "Whosoever shall confess that Yosef is the Son of Elohim, Elohim dwelleth in him" (1Jn 4:15).
Ge 2:7 And Yahweh Elohim formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
Ge 3:19 For dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.
Yosef, the Son of Elohim, however, is an exception to this. He didn't come into existence through the means of procreation as given to Adam and Eve. He was conceived in the womb of Mary, a virgin, by the Holy Spirit. Though His flesh body was made of the woman, Mary, the life within Him didn't come from Adam.
Jn 3:13
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, [even] the Son of man
Jn 16:27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out* from Yahweh. 28 I came forth* from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
Yosef was born a man 100% ,
1 John 4:3
And every spirit that
confesseth not that Yosef is come in the flesh is not of Elohim:
and this is that spirit of Antimessiah , whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
2 John 1:7
For
many deceivers are entered into the world,
who confess not that Yosef Messiah is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an Antimessiah .
Yahshua became Immanuel when the Holy Spirit descend on Him as a Dove.
Immanuel - Elohim with us. And, take a good look at that verse ,it says the Spirit of Yahweh remained on him!!!
It is Yahweh that is Yahshua who is the Savior, for its the Holy Spirit who saved us.
We are told
we will call him Immanuel - Elohim with us,it did not say Immanuel was his name.
Show me as many as you want, I will show you to be wrong in each and every case.
Of course, incense is part of worship, thus its only to be for God. Yet Christians burn incense to Virgin Mary, I have a picture of the previous Pope burning incense to a statue of Virgin Mary, if you don't believe me I'll post it for you (though I think there's no point since most people know its a common Catholic practice).
The Pope seeks her assistance to Her Son...and burning insense pleases GOD....
I dont know why you dont get that...
Mary is the messenger [MOTHER - FRIEND - HELPER] to the Son Who is God.
And no one gets to the Father except thru the Son.