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CClear replied to the thread Notes on God in the Gospel of John.1) AUTHENTIC RELIGIOUS HISTORIANS MUST PAY ATTENTION TO THE ANCIENT LITERATURE IF THEY WANT TO UNDERSTAND ANCIENT RELIGION Thomas said...
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CClear replied to the thread I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses.Hi Walter Thank you for your efforts, but I really want to know the answer to the question I actually asked. I have already asked my...
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CClear replied to the thread I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses.Walter said: "I am sorry I could not answer your questions. The scriptures I have listed is all I have to go by, otherwise I would be...
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CClear replied to the thread I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses.Hi Walter I appreciate your desire to give me information regarding how your modern Christian movement and theology differs from...
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CClear replied to the thread I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses.Hi Walter. Thank you for the response. I am not particularly interested in WHY the Jehovahs Witnesses believe this, but instead, I am...
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CClear replied to the thread Notes on God in the Gospel of John.ANCIENT SACRED TEXTS SHOULD BE INTERPRETED IN THEIR ANCIENT SACRED CONTEXTS Clear said: “I agree that Jesus was the logos of John 1:1...
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CClear replied to the thread I converted to Jehovah's Witnesses.Clear asked in post #489: "I have been talking with a Jehovahs Witness friend who mentioned that the Jehovahs Witness theology...
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CClear replied to the thread Notes on God in the Gospel of John.I agree that Jesus was the logos of John 1:1 and I agree he was the "begotten God' of John 1:18. The difficulty lies in the concept that...
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CClear replied to the thread Thoughts about Trinity beliefs.Hi otherbrother You are correct. There is no specific word for "eternal" in greek. "αιων" (eng "eon") is an undetermined period of...
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CClear replied to the thread Notes on God in the Gospel of John.Hi Thomas Thomas said : “I see no cause of discomfort here? The Father is 'unbegotten', the Son is 'begotten'. “ Early John 1:18 does...
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CClear replied to the thread Notes on God in the Gospel of John.Hi Thomas Thomas said : “I'm not sure I accept your "3=3" henotheism as the de facto belief of the early Judeu-Christian world? You...
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CClear replied to the thread Notes on God in the Gospel of John.Hi Thomas Your quotes from Stamps and Boyarin, et al were quite insightful 1) GRAMMATICALLY JOHN 1:1C IS CLEAR. CONTEXTUALLY IT IS...
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CClear replied to the thread Two Powers in Heaven.I APOLOGIZE. THIS POST IS ACTUALLY IN THE WRONG THREAD (I HAD WRITTEN IT FOR A THREAD ON JOHN 1:1 BUT WILL LEAVE IT HERE AS IT RELATES...
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CClear replied to the thread Notes on God in the Gospel of John.Hi Thomas. Thank you for the additional clarifications and quotes from Hart. 1) HARTS THEORY AS TO WHY THE GRAMMAR OF JOHN 1:1C...
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CClear replied to the thread Notes on God in the Gospel of John.Thomas mentions in the opening post: “As Hart points out, "the article is omitted in the latter case simply because the Word theos...