The Hebrew verb “to know” (yada) refers to know by experience. The Father can not “know” (yada) evil because He cannot do evil.Care to explain yourself with what you said: "Who all at one time had sinned and then been granted life eternal."
The Hebrew verb “to know” (yada) refers to know by experience. The Father can not “know” (yada) evil because He cannot do evil.Care to explain yourself with what you said: "Who all at one time had sinned and then been granted life eternal."
I did not ask for a lesson on Hebrews words and their meaning~I clearly asked you:The Hebrew verb “to know” (yada) refers to know by experience. The Father can not “know” (yada) evil because He cannot do evil.
I fully understand that God does not fellowship with evil; and it is impossible for him to sin, that is not even within the context of what you said, you said: "Who all at one time had sinned and then been granted life eternal."Care to explain yourself with what you said: "Who all at one time had sinned and then been granted life eternal."
The man has become as one of US to know (yada) good and evil. The verb yada in Hebrew refers to knowledge by experience and not knowlege in the mind.I did not ask for a lesson on Hebrews words and their meaning~I clearly asked you:
I fully understand that God does not fellowship with evil; and it is impossible for him to sin, that is not even within the context of what you said, you said: "Who all at one time had sinned and then been granted life eternal."
The scriptures said otherwise.
2nd Peter 2:4
“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;”
Need help with this scripture? Obviously you do.
2 Peter 2:4
"For if God spared not the angles that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto the judgement."
"For if God spared not the angels that sinned"~By whom are meant the devil and his angels; who are spirits created by God and as such were good; their first estate which they left was pure and holy, as well as high and honourable; they, were at first in the truth, though they abode not in it; they were once among the morning stars and sons of God, and were angels of light; their numbers are many, and therefore are here expressed in the plural number, "angels", though it cannot be said how large, a number that cannot be counted.
"God spared not"~ Notwithstanding the dignity and excellency of their nature, in strict justice, and awful severity, without any mercy, inflicted due punishment on them; wherefore it cannot be thought that false teachers, who, as they, abide not in the truth, but deny and oppose it, should escape the vengeance of God, for they will not.
"but cast them down to hell"~In what sense are we to understand the word hell as used by Peter? It cannot be understood as the lake of fire, for that is after the judgment~for which they are reserved for...which is to come, as is evident by even the angles themselves:
Matthew 8:29
"And behold they cried out saying, What have we to do with thee Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?"
They know that there is a day appointed for them to be judge and then cast into the lake of fire, or into the deep, as used by Mark and Luke.
Also, the world is full of evil spirits as is evident by many scriptures in the NT, and in the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Hell in this scripture is explain to us by Peter as he said these words:
"and delivered them into chains of darkness"~When they left their first estate, by sinning, God Almighty delivered them into chains of darkness~which means their sins left them under the guilt of sin, which is the power of darkness, and in black despair; shutting them up in unbelief, impenitence, and hardness of mind; being holden with the cords of their sins, and in the most dreadful state of bondage and captivity to their lusts, in just judgment on them; and in the most miserable and uncomfortable condition, being driven from the realms of light, deprived of the face and presence of God, in the utmost horror and trembling, and fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery indignation to consume them; and in utter darkness, without the least glimmering of light, joy, peace, and comfort; and where there is nothing but weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth; and being also under the restraints of the power and providence of God, and not able to stir or move, or do anything without divine permission; and being likewise, by the everlasting, unalterable, and inscrutable purposes and decrees of God, appointed to everlasting wrath and destruction; by which they are consigned and bound over to it, and held fast, that they cannot escape it! They are there~
"to be reserved unto judgment"~And judge they shall be! By Jesus Christ and his saints. This is the prison of hell in which they are now suffering under, there waiting for that great day of the wrath of Almighty God. This hell, they will never escape from, they are forever under this chains of darkness and deception in which they are now living under. Their final abode will be destruction in the lake of fire and brimstone. No salvation for those angels that sinned and left their first estate, contrary to what you said above.
Again, I do not need a lesson in Hebrews words, for I have the scriptures in my own native language, and can understand the scriptures without knowing the Hebrew language. No where did any of the apostles ever refer their followers on what the Hebrews meaning of words meant~they used the scriptures which they had at that time they were then handed down to them by scribes~Moses most likely even spoke a different dialect then even the apostles did, yet God was more than able to preserve his word for them just as it was first given by Moses.~no problem for Him to do so. So, you are talking to the wrong person, trying to impress me you know the scriptures by knowing the original Hebrew language.The man has become as one of US to know (yada) good and evil. The verb yada in Hebrew refers to knowledge by experience and not knowlege in the mind.
Adam gained the knowledge of good and evil by doing what was evil.
Us refers to those elect angels who did not sin. They knew evil by the very fact they witness Satan and his angels sinned and left their first estate. There are many examples of them knowing sin without sinning, just as God knows good and evil without sinning. I can come back and provide many scriptures for your consideration, but time will not allow me to do so at the present ~ I have some meetings that I must attend to first.This means that the “US” refers to ones who had experience, by doing, the same. And not just a “head” knowledge.
This is true, since Adam had never witness anyone sinning. This does not prove your wild speculation.Adam gained the knowledge of good and evil by doing what was evil.
2 Peter 2:4
"For if God spared not the angles that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto the judgement."
"For if God spared not the angels that sinned"~By whom are meant the devil and his angels; who are spirits created by God and as such were good; their first estate which they left was pure and holy, as well as high and honourable; they, were at first in the truth, though they abode not in it; they were once among the morning stars and sons of God, and were angels of light; their numbers are many, and therefore are here expressed in the plural number, "angels", though it cannot be said how large, a number that cannot be counted.
I did not say it taught the Trinity. I said it could not be used to deny the Trinity. Neither can it be used to prove the Trinity. The Trinity is revealed through further progressive revelation. We see it clearly in hind sight.What I did not find in your explanation any evidence that Deuteronomy 6:4 teaches the Trinity, or even allows the Trinity.
The Holy Spirit is identified and when we receive a revelation concerning another member of the "us" in the NT we discover Jesus also had a role in creation.
John 1:1-3
Col 1:16-17
Heb 1:2
1 Cor 8:6
The Trinity is monotheistic. It declares one God, not three, as is always suggested by those who deny the Trinity. As you do here. That is an erroneous concept of the actual doctrine. The idea that in Deut 6 God says what he does in anticipation of future "false doctrine" is nothing less than reading into the Scripture what is not there. That God is triune, Father, Son, Holy Spirit is there as a shadow of something that at that point in history, and progression of redemption, cannot be seen clearly. We are told of the actions of three that can only be God. We are told of the Holy Spirit at work in various ways and at various times. We are told of this Savior, this Messiah who would be born of a virgin and restore all things.This is monotheistic, but God who knows the end from beginning, also anticipates the erroneous doctrine of the Trinity. It is a Unitarian statement, as God is One, not three.
Great. But didn't you use it as a proof text that the "us" in creation were angels?Psalm 8 is David's Psalm of praise and it not only is a summary of Creation, but also uses the framework of the Edenic Creation and the Fall as a framework to speak of the New Creation in Christ. In effect Psalm 8:5 is a summary and commentary of Genesis 1:26-27.
Angel as a messenger sent with the gospel called apostles .I did not say it taught the Trinity. I said it could not be used to deny the Trinity. Neither can it be used to prove the Trinity. The Trinity is revealed through further progressive revelation. We see it clearly in hind sight.
The Trinity is monotheistic. It declares one God, not three, as is always suggested by those who deny the Trinity. As you do here. That is an erroneous concept of the actual doctrine. The idea that in Deut 6 God says what he does in anticipation of future "false doctrine" is nothing less than reading into the Scripture what is not there. That God is triune, Father, Son, Holy Spirit is there as a shadow of something that at that point in history, and progression of redemption, cannot be seen clearly. We are told of the actions of three that can only be God. We are told of the Holy Spirit at work in various ways and at various times. We are told of this Savior, this Messiah who would be born of a virgin and restore all things.
In the NT, with the coming of this Messiah we see Jesus, coming from the Father as one of us to do the work of redemption. We see the NT writers constantly quoting the OT, as if to say, "This is what this was pointing to. This is what that meant." As does Jesus. And we have God revealed as covenant Father adopting children through Christ, and we have the Son, going to the cross, shedding his blood to purchase them for the Father.
Great. But didn't you use it as a proof text that the "us" in creation were angels?
The One God, Yahweh, God the Father certainly did not rely upon the idol gods that were popular in Judah at the time when Isaiah wrote verses 8, 9-20. A careful examination of Genesis 1-3 will reveal that the Angels were active in the Garden of Eden and I consider that the Cherubim mentioned were also Angels. Adam and Eve would not have been allowed to see Yahweh after their sin.All of creation was done by God alone (Job 9:8; Isaiah 44:24)
Nice to interact with you again. Your forum name is familiar, but I cannot recall which forum and the extent of our discussion. I have been active on forums for over 20 years and have posted on many forums. I can no longer access my favourite forum due to a recurring program error. I am also currently banned by three forums because of my Unitarian views.You and I have went over this subject many times in the past on different forums
I do not see that this has any weight in convincing a Unitarian that the doctrine of the Trinity is correct. Perhaps you could look at the introduction to ALL the Epistles, that distinguish between the One God, God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God.There is a trinity according to each work in the redemption of God's elect. Even though there is one God, yet this God is manifest to us as three based upon the redemption of the children of God.
2nd Corinthians 13:14
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen."
Have you considered Strong's Numbers 3068 and 3069? Isaiah 50 is useful to compare these.Btw, his name is Jehovah, not Yahweh.
Yes.Great. But didn't you use it as a proof text that the "us" in creation were angels?
Exactly my first thought as well: a counter to idolatry. Just simply paying attention to context is all it takes.This OP is to counter the belief by those who deny the Trinity that God's declaration to Israel that he is the one God and there is no other, means that neither Jesus or the Holy Spirit are God.
To do this we must discover from the Scriptures themselves why he said that to them. Was he establishing that there is no Trinity as is suggested? Or was there another reason he repeatedly told the Israelites this beginning with the Exodus from Egypt?
The answer is right before our eyes if we are reading through the Bible chronologically, or if we have become familiar with the whole of Scripture. And even then, it may not register, and there may be many things we forget or have not yet been applied to the actual context. This last is often a product of our automatic thinking as we read, (or not thinking about it) as though the Israelites had the same information that we have. But they did not. They had none of what is written in our Bible at the time of the Exodus or before that time, and neither did their fathers---Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and descendants.
One of the first rules of Bible interpretation can easily be cast aside. And that is taking into account the people and culture of those we are reading about. What they were doing and the times they lived in. We have it to read, but they did not. They knew nothing of the creation story, and even with Abraham, God did reveal himself as the one true God, and Abraham believed, but his knowledge was limited to that time and that place. There were, no doubt oral historic facts that involved God, passed from Noah, but there were four hundred years between Noah and Abraham. Every culture had many gods. It was as we see in Romans 1.
In Joshua 24 we are told explicitly that even the people of Abraham (and no doubt Abraham himself) were serving many gods. 1-3 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the leaders, the heads , the judges, and the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the Father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods." 14 "Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the god's that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD."
Between these verses is a summary of the work that God did in Egypt to bring his people out and in the wilderness.
What do we see God doing in Egypt? We see him putting all other "gods", who are not gods, to shame. He is exposing them for what they are. Deaf, dumb, unable to move, unable to act in any way, as just lifeless lumps of wood, and who never do and cannot enter into creation in a personal way or control and direct anything. He reveals himself as the one who is sovereign over all that is, it does what he tells it to do. He reveals himself as God who enters into history, who enters into nature, and relationships with those things in nature, and most of all, men. He is the God who acts and speaks and hears and governs.
The Hebrews in Egypt did not know this. They had no experience with it. The Egyptians certainly did not know this.
So this is why God said that he is One and there is no god besides him. To separate them from worshiping and trusting in lumps of wood. Why they were to have no other gods. He proved what he claimed about himself and he never stopped doing so. We learn this from reading about it. They learned it from living it.
God revealing himself as One is not about his manner of being, whether or not he is triune. It is about there being no other gods but him. It is not until the NT and the coming of Christ, that his tiunity is more clearly revealed by what Christ does. And then, when we see that we see that it was there all along in the OT too, especially in the Messianic writings.
A few years back you were on Mountain Retreat, Tony Warren's site, which I have left due to Tony turning the site's management over to a man that is political driven with hatred toward Republicans (a one time conservative party in America, the only thing left close to being conservative) more than teaching the scriptures. You being a Christadelphian take a another view of not even being concern/involved with the political side of Mystery Babylon~which we teach you can do most things in moderation while living in this world.Greetings (again) Red Baker,
Nice to interact with you again. Your forum name is familiar, but I cannot recall which forum and the extent of our discussion. I have been active on forums for over 20 years and have posted on many forums. I can no longer access my favorite forum due to a recurring program error. I am also currently banned by three forums because of my Unitarian views.
Greetings again Fred,
The One God, Yahweh, God the Father certainly did not rely upon the idol gods that were popular in Judah at the time when Isaiah wrote verses 8, 9-20.
A careful examination of Genesis 1-3 will reveal that the Angels were active in the Garden of Eden
A few years back you were on Mountain Retreat, Tony Warren's site, which I have left due to Tony turning the site's management over to a man that is political driven with hatred toward Republicans (a one time conservative party in America, the only thing left close to being conservative) more than teaching the scriptures. You being a Christadelphian take a another view of not even being concern/involved with the political side of Mystery Babylon~which we teach you can do most things in moderation while living in this world.
Jeremiah 29:5
“Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;”
You were on Grace centered forum which is now: Christian Forums - Index Plus one more that I cannot remember.
I would not ban folks over certain teachings if those teachings can be discussed in a manner where the possibility of someone being converted to the truth~and done in the spirit of meekness, which you have always conducted yourself, even with our differences.
My understanding of the Trinity would fall in between you and those who teach the eternal sonship position~I teach the incarnate Sonship doctrine which to some would deny their Trinity doctrine and to folks like you, I would still hold to the Trinity. Your position is more against the scriptures than those who preach the eternal Sonship position. You folks reject the Deity of Jesus Christ being the I AM THAT I AM~God manifest in the flesh. Jesus was God, but God was not Jesus!
More later if you desire to talk on this subject.
We are interested in politics, but do not participate. I find American politics rather amusing. Our elections in Australia are over and done with in a few weeks. God decides if he allows a good or bad ruler at a particular time.You being a Christadelphian take a another view of not even being concern/involved with the political side of Mystery Babylon~which we teach you can do most things in moderation while living in this world.
I most probably still have access to that forum, but have not looked or participated for a long time.A few years back you were on Mountain Retreat, Tony Warren's site,
I endorse Tyndale's translation: "I wilbe" and the RV and RSV margin renditions. How did you get on with Strong's #3068 and 3069? Maybe I have developed a wider understanding or explanation of the subject as a whole since we last met.You folks reject the Deity of Jesus Christ being the I AM THAT I AM
Yes, we need to make America the greatest blessed by grace . The greatest nation as a political ight to all nations that other nation have model after. Other nations are following us as ridiculous childish fads. We have become the laughing standardWe are interested in politics, but do not participate. I find American politics rather amusing. Our elections in Australia are over and done with in a few weeks. God decides if he allows a good or bad ruler at a particular time.
I was Christadelphian until I spoke up against their denial that the faithful will be raised (resurrected from the dead) incorruptible.Greetings again Red Baker,
We are interested in politics, but do not participate. I find American politics rather amusing. Our elections in Australia are over and done with in a few weeks. God decides if he allows a good or bad ruler at a particular time.
I most probably still have access to that forum, but have not looked or participated for a long time.
I endorse Tyndale's translation: "I wilbe" and the RV and RSV margin renditions. How did you get on with Strong's #3068 and 3069? Maybe I have developed a wider understanding or explanation of the subject as a whole since we last met.
Kind regards
Trevor
But the Jewish mind in the time of Christ? Paul, Peter, John James etc?The Jewish mind even today cannot accept the Trinity, and a major reason is because of Deuteronomy 6:4.
I would offer .That false teaching that the blessed by the grace faithful are not raised incorruptible.I was Christadelphian until I spoke up against their denial that the faithful will be raised (resurrected from the dead) incorruptible.
I was disfellowshipped for it.
I would have left anyway because teaching that the faithful are not raised incorruptible is a false gospel.
Levi~care to share more of what they teach?I was Christadelphian until I spoke up against their denial that the faithful will be raised (resurrected from the dead) incorruptible.
I was disfellowshipped for it.
I would have left anyway because teaching that the faithful are not raised incorruptible is a false gospel.