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Hello faithfullservent, First I want to say how nice it is to see someone putting in some time to research a subject in the Bible. I would also like to agree with you that, the Bible does speak of the holy spirit as a “helper” and spoke of such helper as ‘teaching,’ ‘bearing witness,’...

Greetings tishrei5736 To start with I would like to say that I fully agree with you on the following… That is why I feel that understanding John 1:1 is very important. What is the original writer saying, who were his audience, what did he believe and what did his audience believe. What...

Greetings lunamoth This quote seems to bother you.. It would seem that you feel that the fire might refer to the "fires of hell" (by the way I do not belive in a fiery hell) but here is another explanation for you to consider... Fire and salt were associated with the sacrifices offered at...

Hi Sacredstar Personally I would not like to judge what God might think of other people. I do have personal thoughts but I feel that to name what person or group of people that might include makes me a judge and that is one responsability I do not want. I have not had time to reaserch the...

G'day faithfulservant from down under, I would just like to say that you have done a lot of homework, and I appreciate that. Unfortunately none of those texts proves a Trinity Ben

Hello tishrei, I am sorry that I did not complete my last post properly. I should have added that NO Bible is without some form of theological bias. If we are serious about understanding the Bible we should not stay with just one translation. I use and compare about 25 different versions...

Hello tidhrei5736 I did not mean to step on toes I should have added a little more to my post that NO English Bible is without theological bias. I was wanting to point out that we as individuals must decide if we accept a grammaticl translation or a theological translation of the texts we...

Greetings tishrei5736 You are absolutly correct in the rendition you give in that the literal rendering is ..... "and god was the word". The problem is in the second word "god" Most Bibles render it with a capital "G". (eg The Word was God) This makes it definate and is assigning identity to...

Hi Blue, The the best of the reaserch I have done, the Gospel of Thomas is a Gnostic work dated some time after the 1st centry, and many of its contents are not in harmony with the other four. It seems according to histoey, the other four "Gosples" were accepted by the end of the second...

Hello Faithfulservant[ The Hebrew word translated "Spirit" here and throughot the hebrew scriptures accually means wind. So it was the wind of God that moved over the waters. The Bibles that say that the "Word was God" are not translated acording to grammer but theological bias. The contexts...

Hello Friend To your direct question.... You are correct, the word Gospel means "good news". So your question is, what good news did Jesus preach? The message of Jesus as "good news" was the "kingdom of God" You will see that phrase all the way through the teachings of Jesus...

Hello Blue, To start, I want to get on a common ground. I agree with what you said… I just thought that I would let you know I do not celebrate Christmas or Easter. I put the birth of Jesus as Sep/October 2 bce I acknowledge the death of Jesus on Nisan 14 the Passover day and do not...

Greetings from the land down under. Thank you for responding. may I assure you I have not been upset by anything you have said. I also agree that our thinking should be rational and objective. It is very hard in a forum like this to present all information at one time so my last post was an...

Hello Sacredstar I just finished reading through the previous posts as you sugest. There is a lot of informnation that goes beyond this thread and several Bible texts quoted out of context, and, or, with out understanding of the original words and phrases used. (eg the ones that refered to...

Hello Sacredstar, Thank you for replying. I assume from the two texts you quote thatah you see a contradivtion. Isaiah says new heavens and new earth and Matt. does not mention such. I am well aware of those texts. You seem to think the Bible is full of "mythology". Am I right in...

I have not read all the replies to this question so I hope I am not repeating something already said or am about to step on someones toes. Yes Adam gave us death by sinning, Jesus sacrificed not only his life but the life of any family he may have had. His death was an attonment for the sin...

I am glad that someone has found that article I posted interesting and thought provocing. I would have liked to have seen some more replies especially from any one that actually beleives in the Trinity as to how that article affected them. Ben57

Greetings bananabrain, and peace be with you I understand that the Jewish way of thinking is a matter of interst to Christians, because Jesus was a Jew and did keep the Jewish Law as it was in the Orginal Torah and not the oral traditions of his time. That was partly his dispute with the...

When we first read a text in the Bible it seems our natural inclination is to rake it at face value. However the context of a text is important as well as some other background information. Bellow is some insight into the relationships of first born sons and background information that might...

I would like to hear from anyone that thinks that Paul is out of step with the teachings of Jesus. Personally I do not think so. Personaly I have never encounted any thing from the writtings of Paul that suggests he was out of step with Jesus