Jesus

[enoob57]

1 hour ago, Jostler said:

You know about the Lord enoob...a lot.

Does He know you?

 

The Lord knows His Word and if I am filled with the essence of Scripture taught me by Holy Spirit empowered teachers then His Word becomes who I am in thought and deed  
Fulling the promise of God 
 

2 Tim 3:15-17

15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
KJV

any knowledge claimed outside of the Scriptures is gnostic in essence....

[Jostler]

1 minute ago, enoob57 said:

The Lord knows His Word and if I am filled with the essence of Scripture taught me by Holy Spirit empowered teachers then His Word becomes who I am in thought and deed  
Fulling the promise of God 
 

2 Tim 3:15-17

15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
KJV

any knowledge claimed outside of the Scriptures is gnostic in essence....

yet the question remains....in spite of artful dodges

[enoob57]

1 minute ago, Jostler said:

yet the question remains....in spite of artful dodges

I did answer ... there was no dodging  

[other one]

3 hours ago, FresnoJoe said:

Who is Jesus Christ to you?

He is my Lord,   My Savior,  My Brother and my Friend     He, The Father and the Holy Spirit together as one, is to me what most people consider as God.

[JohnD]

3 hours ago, FresnoJoe said:

Who is Jesus Christ to you?

The short answer, my Savior and my God.

[dhchristian]

1 minute ago, Jostler said:

yet the question remains....in spite of artful dodges

The error of textualism is not doctrinal. It is far more subtle than that and much more difficult to discover, but its effects are just as deadly. Not its theological beliefs are at fault, but its assumptions.

It assumes, for instance, that if we have the word for a thing we have the thing itself. If it is in the Bible, it is in us. If we have the doctrine, we have the experience. If something was true of Paul it is of necessity true of us because we accept Paul's epistles as divinely inspired. The Bible tells us how to be saved, but textualism goes on to make it tell us that we are saved, something which in the very nature of things it cannot do. Assurance of individual salvation is thus no more than a logical conclusion drawn from doctrinal premises, and the resultant experience wholly mental.

A.W.Tozer: http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=19117&forum=36

[dhchristian]

[JohnD]

Who is Jesus... in general...?

(If this is derailing, then I would gladly have it moved to another threat even as a starter).

Jesus is the LONE CREATOR in the beginning (Isaiah 44:24, John 1:1-3, Colossians 1:13-16, Hebrews 1:1-2).

He was in company with the Father (1 John 1:1-2) and the Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:1-2) but acted alone / by himself (again, Isaiah 44:24).

Jesus* and Adam** are the answers to the Proverbial question:

Proverbs 30:4 (AV)
4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name*, and what is his son’s name**, if thou canst tell?

Reference to:

Luke 3:38 (AV)
38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

With the full revelation of scripture we see that this is to be understood as:

Luke 3:38 (AV)
38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God the Word.

As is:

Genesis 1:1 (AV)
1 In the beginning God the Word created the heaven and the earth.

The so-called Apostle's Creed gets it wrong from the first tenet:

"I believe in God the Father, creator of heaven and Earth..."

God the Word created all things created in the beginning by himself all alone (John 1:3, Colossians 1:16 Isaiah 44:24).

The Father created the body of the Son (Hebrews 10:5 / Hebrews 1:5) who God the Word would become (John 1:14) continuing to be

God (Philippians 2:6 in the Greek "morphe theos huparchon").

Also according to John 1:14, this is the only thing the Father created.

John 1:14 (AV)
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

John 3:16–18 (AV)
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Here and elsewhere in scripture.

Jesus is as human as we are in his flesh. But he is our Creator and the Father is his Creator† 

which gives greater insight as to his sinless human nature. In 1 Corinthians 15, he is said to be the second / last Adam (prototype). He is his own human race, population: Jesus.

† this also answers how Jesus (as a man) who is God the Word incarnate could also refer to the Father as his God

More... as the Lord permits.

[JustPassingThru]

1 hour ago, enoob57 said:

The Lord knows His Word and if I am filled with the essence of Scripture taught me by Holy Spirit empowered teachers then His Word becomes who I am in thought and deed

May i ask a question, ...what is the "essence" of Scripture?

[enoob57]

2 hours ago, JustPassingThru said:

May i ask a question, ...what is the "essence" of Scripture?

Truth
 

John 17:17

17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
KJV