Harlin said:
Hi 2ducklow,
Who says that the modern day bibles are a more "literal and faithful reflection of the original text?, the scholars? well I don't believe they don't have a religious agenda of their own. Who actually has these "original texts" are they available to anybody who is searching? Who is to say they are telling the truth even, when they say they are better translations. Why so many conflicting ideas amongst the translators? Bible study should be easy and beneficial, not on a par with a University assignment as some would have it be.
Who says the KJV scholars are more honest than modern day translators?where are the manuscripts the KJV scholars used? I believe some people are honest and some are not honest in any day including today, and includeing the 17th century and including the kjv scholars, the proof is not in who they are or when they lived but in their words and the facts that either back up their words or don't.
The kjv conflicted with the geneva bible , with the tyndale bible. those were popular bibles of the day and people then rejected the kjv for those reasons. however roughly 75 percent of the tyndale bible is used in the KJV.
harlin said:
Of course the main problem with the jw bible to you, would be the subsituteing of Jehovah for theos, this makes it possible to prove that Jesus is God according to the jw bible.
my objection to using jehovah for theos is that is not what theos means. it has nothing to do with my doctrine about the humanity of Jesus.
harlin said:
+You say I am using an outdated bible, but you only look for translations that suit what you want to believe. Whenever they don't you label them incorrect translations. That is nonsensical.
It would be wrong to only look for translations that support ones views. but I don't do that. what is one to do when one has several bibles that all say something slightly different on a particular verse? your solution appparently is to take the kjv and forget the rest. my solution is to examine the evedince through greek interliniars, concordances, commentaries, greek dicitonaries, etc and then determine as best I can which is correct. My solution is therefore not nonsensical. your accusation is based on the assumption that I do no research. I don't do what you acccuse me of doing.
harlin said:
The Word became flesh, just what the bible says.
It doesn't say that it says 'the word was made flesh'.
harlin said:
understand this as He dwelt among us as a human, with like flesh. It is not that hard to understand, it is you that makes everything nonsensical trying to make sense of it.
It is nonsensical to say gods word is a he. just as it would be nonsensical to say my words are a he. God's word did not turn into a 2 cell fetus, that in my book is nonsense supreme. you accuse me of being nonsensical but offer no examples.
harlin said:
Now your saying I am interpreting it to mean the word became a clump of flesh????...A literal clump.
No, I said a literal translation of the verse would result in the word of godbeing made a clump of flesh. because flesh without bone to support it would fall into a clump. I used that to prove that you take john 1:14 figuratively, in that you take flesh as a syncedoche for Jesus. a synecdoche is a figure of speech whereby the lesser stands in for the greater, in this case, flesh the lesser stands in for Jesus the greater.
harlin said:
I agree with Timothy on this one. "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory" 1 Tim 3:16
God manifest in the flesh seems like one of the mysteries of godliness to me. I am not for a moment going to try to understand what God deems to be a mystery.
bad translation therefore your conclusions are founded on falsitys.
here is what god actually said.
1ti 3:16
kai; oJmologoumevnwß mevga ejsti;n to; th'ß eujsebeivaß [[musthvrion: J;oßejfanerwvqh ejn sarkiv, ejdikaiwvqh ejn pneuvmati, w~fqh ajggevloiß, ejkhruvcqh ejn e~qnesin, ejpisteuvqh ejn kovsmw/, ajnelhvmfqh ejn dovxh/
The greek word translated incorrectly as god is
strongs said:
[size=+1]o&ß [/size]Hos (hos);
Word Origin: Greek, , Strong #: 3739
- who, which, what, that
Wigram's count is 1309 not 1393.
so it should be either 'who was manifest in the flesh' or 'which was manifest in the flesh'.
It makes perfect sense to me, I never said that Jesus and the Father were two Gods but just one, Never. What I did say however, was that the Father is the one true God, and seeing as Jesus came forth from the Father, he too is God by virtue of his coming forth or birth. (And I am not talking about the human birth here) There is a difference, not that hard to understand though.
You contradict yourself. first you say Jesus and the father aren't 2 gods, then you say the father is god and Jesus too (also, and ) is god.
harlin said:
Jesus has been exalted to equal with the Father, (Phil 2:6), that is not hard to understand either. We have one true God, the Father, and Jesus His Son, also God because He is His Son, just like my son is human, because he came forth from me and I am human. This doesn't however make my son the parent, only human. Not that hard to understand either. I am not wrong just because you say so.
Philippians 2:6 who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,ASV
This verse shows that Jesus considered it a no no to calim equality with god, It doesn't show that Jesus is equal to god.
harlin said:
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Are you able to mediate between God and man the way Jesus does?. Are you our great High Priest?. The bible doesn't say there are many mediators between God and man, it say one, the man Christ Jesus. There were many prophets of old, did they mediate like Jesus?. Did any of them die for our sins?..........Could you die for our sins?...........it's a whole package deal with Jesus, not just speaking the words of the Father alone.
Hebrews 1:1-2 compares Jesus to the prophets of old, both are said to have had god speak in them.the prophets of old are not mediators , Jesus is. that is a different subject. Jesus being created doesn't negate himi from having the ability to be a mediator between man (1st adam) and god. the second adam is mediating between the first adam and god.
harlin said:
No, you didn't. If you can mediate like Jesus, well then yes you did, until you can, No you didn't.
God speaks through me and in me just as he did in prophets of old and just as he did in Jesus. Do you not remember the verse that says 'we shall be like him and see him as he is'', or the verse that says
"greater things than these shall ye do for I go to my father."?
harlin said:
Sorry, don't understand how the above scripture is talking about Mary's conception. Perhaps a typo.
Jeremiah 31:22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
Mary went around a man or compassed a man to get the thing (male seed) that God created. No man fertilized her egg, god did. If marys egg wasn't used then she isn't the mother of JEsus.
harlin said:
Sorry, that is what I thought you were saying. I too believe that Jesus is the second Adam. I believe He is also the Son of God as well, Adam wasn't, Adam was always completely human.
You believe that because he is the son of god he has to descend in some way from god . I believe the fact that god created a male seed andused this creation of his to fertilize Mary's egg makes him the father of Jesus. You apparently can't see how this makes him the son of god. to me it is plain as day.
harlin said:
I never said God had to procreate to form a Son. Limiting God to be bound by the laws of humanity takes away His creative attribute. You believe that He can create human seed to fertilize Mary's egg, but, you can't believe that He can form a divine Son from His own substance. Who says He can't?.
well I reject your solution based on jer 31:22 and that god is a spirit and to form Jesus a man of body soul and spirit outof spirit doesn't make sense, plus it would mean god took a part of his spirit and morphed it into flesh. which is nonsensical to me.
harlin said:
"Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 11. I, even I, am the LORD: and beside me there is no Saviour" Isaiah 43:10-11
John 5:26 "For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself"
This is the Father speaking through the Son to tell the disciples that He has given His Son life in himself. Life in oneself is an attribute of divinity. The Son does not rely on the Father for His life, like created beings do. This is how the Son can resurrect the righteous and the wicked at the resurrections. How else could Jesus declare that He was the resurrection and the life.
God was in christ and will be in christ resurecting the dead. so to say christ resurects the dead means god resurects the dead because as Jesus said his father does the work not jesus. jesus can't do anything so he can't resurect the dead.
John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself:
but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
The father that dwelleth in Jesus doeth the resurection. God dwelleth in Jesus and Jesus isn't the one who indwells him. you can't be the one you're in. water isn't the glass it is in.
harlin said:
The Son has the same attributes as the Father, these have all been given to Him. You want to make the Son of God, a human only.
God Bless
Harlin
I say Jesus is the son of god, the second adam the glorified son of god who sits at the right hand of the father in heaven. that is not 'just a man'.