Biblical Teachings - Equal Footing?

[Willa]

21 hours ago, Behold said:

Let me give you a reason to believe that Paul was the person who wrote most of the New Testament.   Its because He did.

So, you have to think, and realize, that God caused this.....and for a reason.   

There is also the fact that it was only Paul who Jesus took aside and revealed "justification by faith" as the GOSPEL that is not Acts 2:38, but rather its "justification by faith", "The GIFT of righteousness". So, WE PREACH The Gospel of the Grace of God and not "repent and be baptized", BECAUSE Paul is the one who updated the body of Christ regarding the "GOSPEL" that he refers to as "my Gospel".

Also, Paul told YOU, to "be a follower of ME, as I follow Christ"...... and no other apostle ever told you that... So, if God didn't want that to be so, then God would not have that in His New Testament.

Act 26:19  "Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

Act 26:20  but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.

Paul claimed that he also preached repentance.

[Behold]

2 hours ago, Willa said:

 

Paul claimed that he also preached repentance.

Sista.....So did John the Baptist.

I think we have one of those on the forum recently....

Paul als0 said that "Christ sent me not to water baptize"......but i bet you are water baptized, same as me.    

So, its the context of these verses, that are the core doctrine.  

To "Repent" in the NT sense,.... means to "change your mind".  The Catholics teach this falsely as "doing penance".....So, we see that there is a big difference between hearing the Gospel, and changing your mind so that you agree that you are a sinner, (repent) and  THEN turning to the Christ on the Cross, .....vs, trying to do works, as the idea of "penance", or teaching that repenting and lifestyle is how to be saved.

You can be a religious person, and feel guilty that because you had an affair with your neighbor that was discovered by your husband, you now repent of this and stop, but that is not going to save you.

Salvation is not to repent, its to be born again.     As Jesus said...>"you must be born again"..... John 3:7

People repent every time they are caught.   But the repenting that is related to the Holy Spirit's conviction ,is to realize that you are a sinner......its THAT recognition that shows you that you are LOST.

That is the Godly repentance that Leads you to trust in Christ that gives God the FAITH that He accepts to then SAVE YOU thru the Blood of Jesus.

Edited April 19, 2020 by Behold

[Willa]

15 minutes ago, NotAllThere said:

I love how the French Bible translates Adonia. "L'Eternal". Conveys rather more of the meaning than the English: "The Lord". 

Perhaps it is not Adonia Lord but instead is LORD meaning YHVH/Jehovah.

Many translations including KJV explain in the preface that the YHVH is translated LORD in capitals.  In Exodus 3 God explains that He is "I AM".  

Exo 3:14 NKJV  And God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.' "

Exo 3:15  Moreover God said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: 'The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.'

Exo 3:14  Young's Literal Translation:  And God saith unto Moses, 'I AM THAT WHICH I AM;' He saith also, 'Thus dost thou say to the sons of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.'

Exo 3:15  And God saith again unto Moses, 'Thus dost thou say unto the sons of Israel, Jehovah, God of your fathers, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; this is My name—to the age, and this My memorial, to generation—generation.

LORD=YHVH=Jehovah, and they all may mean I AM.  Jesus calls Himself I AM in John 8 when he said "Before Abraham was, I AM."     I AM is the  state of being verb conjugated: I am, you are, he she it is.  So God is saying He just IS'.  Much the same idea as Alpha and Omega, beginning and end, or eternal  

[Eddy Crocker]

15 minutes ago, appy said:

This is the entire sentence.  I'm asking you to clarify this.  As well as saying Jesus' body was sinful.

Philippians 2:7 

⁷ But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.

Isaiah 53:4-6 King James Version (KJV)

⁴ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

In the New Testament, the Massacre of the Innocents is the incident in the nativity narrativeof the Gospel of Matthew (2:16-18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem.

Matthew 2:13

¹³ When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”

I just quoted the reality of what these scriptures tells us. I said he came in the likeness of sinful flesh but didn’t say he sinned.

Scripture says the Lord (Yahweh) laid upon him the iniquity of us all. Remember Jesus was under a death decree just like we were before knowing Christ. That is the Adamic nature we inherited. Jesus is the second Adam or last Adam. 

The second Adam picked up where the first Adam left off. The first Adam when he sinned died in his consciousness or head. This was why Jesus died in the hill of Golgotha where he picks up where Adam left off. The first Adam brought death to all mankind but the second Adam brings eternal life to all mankind without sin. The meaning of Golgotha is skull.
 

Jesus brings life to our skull (consciousness) by and through the Holy Spirit that has written spirit law on our hearts and minds.

Hope this helps you understand where I’m coming from. God bless 

[appy]

[Eddy Crocker]

41 minutes ago, Justin Adams said:

Monogenes and shown to be incorrect by later Greek writings. It means the ONLY UNIQUE ONE and is not 'begotten' by anyone.

The Nicene creed is misleading..

 

Psalm 2:7

I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

 

[Eddy Crocker]

15 minutes ago, Eddy Crocker said:

Psalm 2:7

I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

Hebrews 1:5-6

For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

 

[Eddy Crocker]

1 hour ago, NotAllThere said:

Ignorant, arrogant nonsense. 

I live in a country where English is not an official language. Instead we use German or French translations, made from the original Greek. Since I can read English, French, German and Greek, I'm able to tell you there are absolutely no significant differences between the translations (at least so far as the New Testament is concerned).

I love how the French Bible translates Adonia. "L'Eternal". Conveys rather more of the meaning than the English: "The Lord". 

This is an example of who the church calls Jesus and how our understanding is darkened by tradition.

Jesus (Yahshua) says in..

Mark 7:13 

¹³ Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye

The letter J didn’t exist In the English language until the 1600 hundreds. So it’s impossible for his name to be Jesus.

Look in the 1611 King James Version. Mathew 1:25 calls his name Iesus.  The Bible’s that we use today was the 1656 edition. This was when the letter “I” got grew a tale which became the letter “J”  The letter “J” is only a 400 year old tradition. 
This is what darkens the word of God true meaning is traditions of (Men). 
It also says in,

Exodus 20:7

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

we are guilty of taking his name in vain and bringing it to none effect through our traditions of men, when Jesus isn’t really his true name.

John 5:43

⁴³ I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive

This is why in Mathew 1:25 The angel says to Mary you shall call his name Yahshua because he shall save his people from their sins.

You don’t or cannot understand the true significance of the Angel telling Mary to call his name Yahshua for the express purpose of showing he’s coming in the father’s name as the Yah and the purpose of why he came was for shua which means salvation. 

You don’t get this meaning in the name of Jesus. There’s no masculine and feminine in that name to show us how we are created in the image of Yahweh (Lord) male and female. Also where’s the shua (salvation ) in the name of Jesus.

It does matter to be accurate to get a full understanding of the Bible. I don’t care what anyone says but tradition is like putting a bushel over the light who is Jesus (yahshua)
Mathew 5:15 Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.

I could go on and on but I rest my case.

[Eddy Crocker]

2 hours ago, Justin Adams said:

Monogenes and shown to be incorrect by later Greek writings. It means the ONLY UNIQUE ONE and is not 'begotten' by anyone.

The Nicene creed is misleading..

 

That is only a half truth. Of course the Son was not begotten because he always existed in the Father Yahweh.

It was the state of the son that was begotten as the women coming out of the man (Yahweh) which is    (God ), the  Weh or the feminine aspect of Yahweh.

This state was only begotten for the sake of creating. Through the state of the son (God) all of creation was formed and created.

[NotAllThere]

2 hours ago, Eddy Crocker said:

That is only a half truth. Of course the Son was not begotten because he always existed in the Father Yahweh.

It was the state of the son that was begotten as the women coming out of the man (Yahweh) which is    (God ), the  Weh or the feminine aspect of Yahweh.

This state was only begotten for the sake of creating. Through the state of the son (God) all of creation was formed and created.

"Begotten not created". But the really important bit is "Oh come let us adore him".