Steven Avery
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Are you saying that
over all
God
blessed for ever
have the same referent?
Thanks!
Romans 9:5 (AV)
Whose are the fathers,
and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came,
who is over all,
God blessed for ever.
Amen.
Trinitarian confusion at Romans 9:5
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Are you saying that
over all
God
blessed for ever
have the same referent?
Thanks!
Romans 9:5 (AV)
Whose are the fathers,
and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came,
who is over all,
God blessed for ever.
Amen.
if he cannot do that, then is not God!
Gryllus Maior
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I don't know why plain English isn't good enough. Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
You should never use fractions in reference to God.
The Real John Milton
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It would be enough if you would answer questions plainly. But you have a tendency to obfuscate. So people have to go out of their way to ask you clarifying y/n questions.
The Real John Milton
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I’ve got news for you. The God of the bible cannot do certain things, — like lying, dying, becoming a man or transforming himself into one , contradicting himself ( a species of lying), murdering, obfuscating, etc. I think you are mistaking the God of the Bible for some other god, specifically the lying god, aka Satan.
The Real John Milton
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I rest my case.
The Real John Milton
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You won’t even tell us if Logos was alive before becoming flesh. Instead, you are giving lame excuses which lack all substance. Enough time has been wasted on your nonsense obfuscations.
The Real John Milton
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He seems to be taking ὁ ὢν ἐπὶ πάντων ( “the one over all) and Θεὸς εὐλογητὸς εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας ( “ God blessed for ever”), as appositives to ὁ Χριστὸς τὸ κατὰ σάρκα.
But one can never be sure with him, as he does not use precise grammatical terminology for what he is doing here, perhaps for the purpose of plausible deniability.
It’s frankly annoying and not worth the energy one has to put in to try to pin him down on this score; it’s a little bit like attempting to cage the Devil, — a fool’s errand. The Lord rebuke him.
You obviously missed my John 6:63 quote, just as you missed my John 1:1a exegesis. How can the giver of life not be alive? How can what is "in the beginning" not be alive? I rest my case. Since you ignore everything I say, waste of time talking to you.
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Jesus is God
Jesus deferred to his father alone as true God Jn 17:3 and himself as the Father's Son Jn 9:35.
It seems you demand an extra-biblical faith? Otherwise prove your contention from scripture.
The Real John Milton
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You didn’t say this before ( bold above).
Ok, so we have now established that you believe the Logos was alive before becoming a human being. This is nonsense , and contradicts the biblical definition of what a human being is. According to the bible, human beings are not alive before they are conceived or created.
That is, the human beings "from below." Ὑμεῖς ἐκ τῶν κάτω ἐστέ. Christ said he was from above. So your point is irrelevant.
1 Cor 15:45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit."
If Jesus became a life giving spirit, and he suggested that he would return to his former position, (John 6:62), then this affirms he was that life giving Spirit before he became a man.
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The Real John Milton
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“Below” and “above” do not denote two different types of humans. You are eisegeting.
Quite so: they denote the same human being but with different origins. One whose soul was created out of nothing, the other whose soul wasn't created out of nothing. where the souls of both have the same form.
The Real John Milton
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If he was the “ same” human being as us, he would not have literally existed before his birth. Your Jesus is not a human being by the biblical definition. You’re just playing mindless word games at this point to try to get around this .
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Now you're just playing with words. Heaven is another dimension and another jurisdiction. On earth Jesus didn't literally exist before he was born and he was the same man as any other, as Heb 2 says. It strikes me that you cannot distinguish heaven from earth, or Spirit from flesh. What religion you are I know not.
The Real John Milton
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Nonsense. He was the same Jesus, whether on earth or in Heaven.
I've already quoted the definitive verse that says he wasn't the "same" Jesus: he was elevated to the right hand of God, which entailed, per 1 Cor 15:45 "So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit."
A "life giving Spirit" isn't a "human being" for "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable" 1 Cor 15:50.