Towerwatchman
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Sorry, without any scriptural support this is your imagination. And following your standard for what passes for truth, it fails because the author did not write explicitly that it was about Abraham's vision.False, but rather the conversation is about Abraham seeing a vision of Jesus when he would come and stand before his descendants in the first person present tense and it was the Jews who twisted his words to mean that he saw Abraham and which would have to do with his age and you are as blind as a bat if you cannot see this.
If that is the case, what would have triggered the question in vs. 57 Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”Jesus in verse 56 never said any such thing as him seeing Abraham or of him being older than Abraham but only that Abraham had seen his day and which means the day which they were witnessing in their present tense when he said this.
Again, you need to proof read your material.
Again more imagination. You should start your statements with 'Once upon a time."Therefore whether you like it or not, Jesus never moved from speaking of that vision that was given to Abraham of his coming and which vision went back well before Abraham ever existed.
In fact, Abraham only existed to serve God's purpose that he had for his Son and not the other way around and this was also the point in what Jesus was saying, for in verse 53 I believe, they asked him "are you greater than our father Abraham and the prophets who have died"?
Who knows? Where does it state that the author penned the conversation word for word? Obviously seeing Abraham was discussed, vs 57 "and have You seen Abraham?”And where did Jesus ever say that he saw Abraham?
Another attempt to save face. Care to explain how you came to this conclusion based on scripture, or is it more imagination.The Jews twisted his words to find a fault in him worthy of death and therefore God allowed them to continue to be confused, for he had because of their wickedness, to give them over to their own desires in order to fulfill his will for his Son to become the sacrifice for the sins of all men.
Dumb. Your laughing out loud while you write circular reasoning, "he was speaking of God's vision and plan, because that is what he was speaking of". Real smart.LOL but yes he was speaking of God's vision and plan, because that is what he was speaking of when he revealed to them that Abraham saw that vision and plan of God, that day when Jesus would finally come to his descendants and therefore he was speaking of Abraham seeing Jesus from God's foreknownledge.
That foreknowledge of Jesus was before Abraham or any other human being was ever in God's conscious thought also.
???? What does this have to do with the price of tea in China.1 Peter 1:20 "Who truly was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was in these last days made manifest unto you".
If Jesus existed before the foundation of the world and Peter believed this about Jesus, then why didn't he just say that instead of his being "foreknown"?
See the difference between you and me. When I state that you are confused and post dumb things I show you where you failed, and give you the explanationLOL, but rather it is quite obvious that you are the one who is confused about these verses instead.,
Rather illogical to state that Jesus created all things, and then state that Jesus began to exist within the creation He brought about.For parents often already have the name that they want their babies to have while they have begun to exist in the womb and this is where Jesus also began to exist as well and by the way, it was instructed that his name would be Jesus Christ when he began to exist already in the womb but never before this.
For unto us a Child is born,Like you said "reading is fundamental and as I said, so is honesty when one is reading, so I would suggest you read about his birth again, for no one picks out names for their children until those would be children are already conceived in the womb which is where their life begins also.
Unto us a Son is given;
And the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Seems God did.
One begins to exist when one is named. Foolish.Show me anywhere in the scripture where the name and Title of Jesus Christ was given before Jesus was actually conceived in the womb, you are not going to find it and you know it also.