Q. When is a Jew, not a Jew?
A. When he is a Benjaminite. [a Two-Kingdom joke]
A. When SHE is a Moabitess. [A grandmother of King David, joke]
A. When he is Abraham [a "promise" of God joke].
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I officially declare you void of any sense of humor.A Jew is one eternally as born again of the Spirit of Christ. If any man has not the powerful Spirit of Christ then they simply are not born again from above .
Romans 8:But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Born again Israel .Not all of Israel are born agin .Just like the new name (Christin the Father named to bride to represent of the nations of the world ,
Not all that say they are Christian are. Jew is not one outwardly
There were some outward jew who thought they could smeak hoping there flesh could profit for something .even hearing the Son of man Jesu saying of his own dying flesh it profits for zero
Revelation 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
No power is attributed to dying flesh and blood under the judgement of Christ. DNA has no value in reconciling the spiritual unseen things of God .
Jesus was born of a Jewish girl, lived a life in perfect obedience to the Old Covenant, and was fully God (as well as a man) ... so I might disagree with this statement. Jesus (God the Son) was the only perfect Jewish Man!God is not a Jewish man.
LOL Sorry I am slow at some humorI officially declare you void of any sense of humor.
Thanks again I would agree.In Christ, I am also a "perfect Jewish man" in the sight of God. [Free from an Old Covenant that I was NEVER under]. That cwhole hypostatic union is really hard to completely wrap my mind around
No they don't.Gentile Christians take an inordinate pride....
The word translated "devil" in John 6:70-71 is an adjective, and it is "traducer" according to Strong.Yes, there are no Christians of the lamb of God that was slain during the first 6 days the Holy Father did work. Christian are delivered from death.
You are placing honor where none exists. Jesus never said his friend is the devil
John 6:70-71 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
He did not chose him the be a friend (other gospel)
Error. Where do you get all this error?No tribe of Dan listed in Revelation.12 is the number
The spirit assigned to Dan declared Judas a false apostle false prophet is eliminated .The number to represent the whole is 12 not 13
Those that came to arrest Jesus are His enemies and fell backward but not Judas. Judas is a Friend of Jesus and Christ makes this very clear. Friends of God and of His Christ do not suffer judgment, especially since at the PASSOVER meal Jesus said His body and blood are broken and shed "FOR YOU" (the twelve.)The judgment of Judas falling off his high horse slain in the spirit fell backward. Falling back has to do with coming under the judgment of God throughout the bible.
Genesis 49:16-18King James Version16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
It is used in one of I Am the Lord speaking giving words to His prophet Jesus .Words of life and death. fall back break neck
John 18 :5-9 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.
The tongue of I AM has the power of life or death using Judas as a perfect example of throes who fall back slain in the Spirit.
Yes. Just heed the warning.Violent?
Mock if you must. Just heed the warning.Yes, I'm bleeding.
Call a doctor.
Ask me. I have all the perfect answers.I officially declare you void of any sense of humor.
Jesus was born of a Jewish girl, lived a life in perfect obedience to the Old Covenant, and was fully God (as well as a man) ... so I might disagree with this statement. Jesus (God the Son) was the only perfect Jewish Man!
In Christ, I am also a "perfect Jewish man" in the sight of God. [Free from an Old Covenant that I was NEVER under]. That whole hypostatic union is really hard to completely wrap my mind around.![]()
Ask me. I have all the perfect answers.
But not everyone is at my depth and level of understanding, and that's not pride. It's facts. I don't think myself more highly than I ought. But soberly within my present measure of faith.
Tomorrow my faith will have increased.
Despite your understanding my answers go ahead and ask me the secrets of this "so-great salvation."
The basis of my statement is knowing my call, my place in the Body, and my spiritual gifts to accomplish that callOne only feels it necessary to inform people of such things from pride and because they think more highly of themselves than they ought. It would be e basis of my statement comes fexpected then that all they said came with arrogance, and lots of it.
Sure, as a former math major … 100% man + 100% God = 200% … which is not allowed when speaking of ONE BEING (hypostatic Union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ). So how is someone 200% of something? [it is as annoying as when person asks for a 110% effort … are you really expecting people to do 10% more than the most they are capable of?]Ask me. I have all the perfect answers.
But not everyone is at my depth and level of understanding, and that's not pride. It's facts. I don't think myself more highly than I ought. But soberly within my present measure of faith.
Tomorrow my faith will have increased.
Despite your understanding my answers go ahead and ask me the secrets of this "so-great salvation."
Of course, it was. He was tempted to turn the stones into bread. He was hungered. The flesh, or human nature of the hypostasis was tested, and the human nature triumphed when He rested on Scripture. Same as us.Sure, as a former math major … 100% man + 100% God = 200% … which is not allowed when speaking of ONE BEING (hypostatic Union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ). So how is someone 200% of something? [it is as annoying as when person asks for a 110% effort … are you really expecting people to do 10% more than the most they are capable of?]
So how can FULLY GOD really know what it is to be a man? If Jesus could not sin, because of His God nature, then was the struggle with temptation really real?
God is Spirit. Even the Logos.How can GOD be eternally unchanging if from 4 BC to AD 33 (plus or minus) God existed in time and had a corruptible body of flesh - and a glorified body from His resurrection until eternity future? Did Jesus (God the Son) have a body in eternity past?
We all know in part. But some things we master with regard to understanding this "so-great salvation."Like I said, I have lots of trouble wrapping my head around the details of this whole “fully God - fully man” thing.
Is that then a denial of "fully God" ... making Jesus a "perfect Man" in His incarnation? Truly a "second Adam"!Of course, it was. He was tempted to turn the stones into bread. He was hungered. The flesh, or human nature of the hypostasis was tested, and the human nature triumphed when He rested on Scripture. Same as us.
Welcome to my world of "more questions than answers".God is Spirit. Even the Logos.
What I have difficulty understanding is that "a lamb was slain from [before] the foundation (creation) of the world." I may not fully understand it but I accept it as happened and true. There is some significance and I believe "it" (lamb slain) allowed a Righteous God to create an unrighteous being - man.
It is this that compels my understanding to accept that God created man sinful ("missing the mark" [of the glory of God].)
I enjoy discussing with people that I disagree with. I may be one of the few people in America that was happy when the JW came to the door ... they were always willing to debate something.We all know in part. But some things we master with regard to understanding this "so-great salvation."
We all know in part. Your part joined with my part and brother so-so's part and sister so-so's part we see the whole, don't you think?
I do.
And places where discussion is allowed free rein without men's rules that limit the exercise of our gifts - even online - is where our parts come together. Too bad not everyone is in the body of Christ in such places - fake brethren.
Besides that, not everyone is on the same level of knowledge and understanding.
And some even have true issues with flesh and pride. These haven't submitted themselves to God but are like ships on the sea without a rudder. I find tongue-talkers to be more disciplined and have learned obedience to the Lord more than those who haven't spoken in tongues.
Ask me. I have all the perfect answers.
But not everyone is at my depth and level of understanding, and that's not pride. It's facts. I don't think myself more highly than I ought. But soberly within my present measure of faith.
Tomorrow my faith will have increased.
Despite your understanding my answers go ahead and ask me the secrets of this "so-great salvation."
The human nature of Jesus the man was never separate from the Logos. We can never come to appreciate fully what it's like to have two natures. But we can look at the Scripture and understand only that which is revealed about the Son of God. One thing I see in the temptation is that it says He was hungered. This would apply to His human nature. His flesh.Is that then a denial of "fully God" ... making Jesus a "perfect Man" in His incarnation? Truly a "second Adam"!
How was "fully God" capable of sin and thus actually "tempted as we are" ... to face temptation with no ABILITY to fail is not really "as we are". What does God know (experientally) of being a man? [Not an accusation, but an honest question of one seeking to understand the mystery and paradox.]
God is Immutable. God does not change. Who He was in eternity within Himself remains as He was in TIME. Taking upon Himself flesh does not change the Deity that is God. There is no 'change' because the two natures are not mixed but remain two distinct natures in One Person.Welcome to my world of "more questions than answers".Sorry for dragging you here.
Your answer implies CHANGE which itself creates new problems. If "Logos" was spirit in eternity past and is "Glorified Body" in eternity future, then there WAS a change from one to the other. Was Logos/Christ more perfect before the change or after? Either way creates a crisis in the very definition of God. God is not unchanging perfection if even God changed and became more (or less) perfect. [Perfect by definition cannot change without becoming less perfect, or it was not perfect before the change.]
The Logos never had a body. God is Spirit.From "logic", this suggests that God the Son ALWAYS had a body ... that was His perfect form. From this, one can posit that activities in the OT that require a body are likely performed by God the Son. Forming Clay into a man suggests "hands" to form - God the Son. A fourth man walking in the fire - God the Son.
It just may be a "thought" of God and not His total Mind that became flesh. That is what Logos means, doesn't it?It is not God the Son with a Glorified Body that is problematic for me to visualize ... God is eternal (outside of the TIME which He created) ... it is how INFINITE merged with finite corruptible flesh to become fully man that snaps my suspenders.Like you, I don't NEED to understand to accept ... but I do keep picking at it to try and understand.
My studies are private. I don't do group study. I love the quietness to contemplate and listen to the Voice of God. Too many voices drown His out. And keep in mind that the doctrines the Gentile Church hold today once began as a minor, private thought in study. The revelations Paul says he received in Galatians is only him, the Scriptures and the Holy Spirit. We do in studying of Scripture what He did in studying the Scripture. Same method. I've had dreams and visions, but they are meant for me, not others. Not yet. Paul's revelations are merely seeing in Scripture what is there and at the appointed time to understand. No difference than us today.Is it we hear your private interpretations a personal commentaries of what you think God's word is teaching . Is that the secret of the great salvation? The depth of your great understanding?
By the time of the creation of man the angels that sinned were already locked up. The womans temptations came from within not from without, and definitely not from an angel that sinned that had been locked up for one year before man was created or one million years before man was created. The point being that James said this:Making the devil in a friend of God That old but it connect with the wrong god the god of this world The god that said "surely of will not die" I will be your friend to the end
Let me put it like this and show me your Christianity in your response:The friend to all that have not been born again from above God . . is not a friend.
Abraham was a friend to God who worked in Abraham just as he is to us yoked with his labor of love.
But not Judas who sold out God for 30 pieces of silver is clearly the enemy.
James 2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he(not Judas) was called the Friend of God.