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Bob Bobber
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Message 166 of 478 (775457)
01-02-2016 1:13 AM
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01-02-2016 12:53 AM


Re: misrepresentation
Just a thought about that word 'word', that word 'word' should be 'wisdom'. When these four gospels are harmonized, here is where John comes into play in the overall context of the story being told. Remember Satan has his chance at tempting the second Adam, the first Adam failed. This wisdom is not logos.
Then Satan left Yeshua; and lo, angels came, and ministered to him. Wisdom was in the beginning, and that very wisdom was with Yahweh, and Yahweh was that wisdom. Wisdom was in the beginning with Yahweh. Everything came to be by Yahweh’s hand; and without Yahweh, not even one thing that was created came to be. The life is in Yahweh, that life is the light of men.

Wisdom was indeed in the beginning with Yahweh, Proverbs 8:22-26. Wisdom recounts her creation and her presence during the creation of the world. She was the very first of God’s creations. ‘Created me’ wisdom existed from eternity and was coeval with God. Some Christian groups identified wisdom with the Logos, which was in turn identified with The Christ. It is , however clear from v.23 that wisdom is a created being. Wisdom declares that she was present when God produced the inhabited world. This wisdom is a cool research.

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Message 167 of 478 (775460)
01-02-2016 2:04 AM
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01-02-2016 12:53 AM


Re: misrepresentation
lbertschel writes:
Both. Jesus is the LIVING Word of God and Scripture is the WRITTEN Word of God.
Then why are they in disagreement? I'll agree that the Bible is the word of God to the extent that we can learn about Him, and have our hearts touched by Him through the words of the Bible, but not when we read it the way you do.
IMHO your method of understanding scripture provides a warped view of God. Jesus was a Jew who taught His followers through the words of the Hebrew Scriptures, correcting them when necessary but focusing on the aspects that reflected God's true nature which is always loving, kind, just and merciful but never cruel and certainly never genocidal. So yes, we need the OT to understand Jesus in His culture but we need Jesus to separate what is of God and what isn't in the OT.
kbertsche writes:
I agree that there is some tension here, but not that the issue is "irreconcilable". There are a number of approaches to reconciling these things.
But there are none that justify genocide. If it can be justified then how do we know that it isn't God's will that we should nuke into oblivion Islamic countries today? It is because of Jesus that we know it is wrong but with an inerrant Bible we can't know as God was like that then so He very well could be like that again now.
The differences are irreconcilable.
kbertsche writes:
If God really is God, He knows and understands much more than we do. Some of His actions may be difficult for us to understand, and may even seem "wrong". But if we know and trust Him, we can trust that He knows what He's doing here, too.
It isn't God that you are know and trust. Your trust is in an inerrant Bible. IMHO you have made an idol out of the Bible, and again IMHO if you believe that God is capable of genocide and public stonings then I would also humbly suggest that you don't know Him at all.

He has told you, O man, what is good ; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8

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Message 168 of 478 (775462)
01-02-2016 2:09 AM
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01-01-2016 11:26 PM


The Story Of How Bobber Came To Believe
BB writes:
It kinda sounds like God is your buddy in the sky, my friend would never do anything evil. Yahweh has done nothing evil, Satan keeps attacking his creation? When it comes to these abnormal beings running around on God’s planet, he has promises he made and Satan will not win the war. Gen. 3:15, this story is written is the stars.
If this is true, why doesn't everyone see it? Also explain to me how you personally know that God is real, how you came to this conclusion in your life(time&place) and what your 3 top sources of inspiration are...
We challenge each other and ask each other questions like this quite often here at EvC>

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Message 169 of 478 (775463)
01-02-2016 2:16 AM
Reply to: Message 162 by Bob Bobber
01-01-2016 11:26 PM


Re: misrepresentation
Bob Bobber writes:
Turn the other cheek, love your neighbor, cool sayings, but why was Jesus saying those things? You fail to take into account that when it came to Israel’s promised earthly kingdom and the forgiveness of sins by the earthly King of that promised earthly kingdom, what was absolutely essential to that forgiveness being granted? It’s always been the issue of faith down through out history. 

You keep wanting to put things in neat little boxes. Yes it is about faith, but not simply faith in a particular set of doctrines. Read the sermon on the mount or Matthew 25. It is about faith in all that is good so that our hearts respond to love and goodness and ultimately so that is reflected in our lives.
Bob Bobber writes:
It kinda sounds like God is your buddy in the sky, my friend would never do anything evil. Yahweh has done nothing evil, Satan keeps attacking his creation? When it comes to these abnormal beings running around on God’s planet, he has promises he made and Satan will not win the war. Gen. 3:15, this story is written is the stars.
If you want to worship a sometimes genocidal and sometimes cruel god then you are obviously free to do so. What that says to me is that you have turned Christianity inside out and made it all about you. You will worship Him, even though He is capable of evil as it will get you on His good side.
It is actually very similar to the situation with the pagan gods of Jesus' time. People would worship them just because they believed they were god and weren't really concerned with the nature of any of their gods but it was in their best interest to be on the right side of them.

He has told you, O man, what is good ; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8

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Bob Bobber
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Message 170 of 478 (775466)
01-02-2016 2:21 AM
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01-02-2016 2:09 AM


I grew up in Cheyenne WY, just up the road from you. Spent over 30 trying to harmonize the four gospels, this writing needs work, but I forgot the password and cannot get back into it to work on it.
The Tree Of Life

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Bob Bobber
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Message 171 of 478 (775467)
01-02-2016 2:37 AM
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01-02-2016 2:09 AM


Re: The Story Of How Bobber Came To Believe
Here are some interesting points, these mighty men, the men of renown. The explanation of the origin of the Greek mythology, that mythology was no mere invention of the human brain. But it grew out of the traditions, and memories, and legends of the doings of that mighty race of beings, and was gradually evolved out of the ‘heroes’ of Gen. 6:4. There are huge building under water off the coast of Japan.

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Bob Bobber
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Message 172 of 478 (775471)
01-02-2016 2:50 AM
Reply to: Message 169 by GDR
01-02-2016 2:16 AM


Re: misrepresentation
Those boxes are overall context, contexts that should be understood? Israel walk by sight, the way that faith work for them is not the faith of the age of grace. In the age of grace we walk by faith, because what the last Adam accomplished is a done deal when a person is sealed in the last Adam. Sounds like you are trying to do good works?

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Hyroglyphx
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Message 173 of 478 (775476)
01-02-2016 3:36 AM
Reply to: Message 152 by GDR
01-01-2016 5:31 PM


Re: Can't have it both ways
I have not said that I don't believe that God knows everything, whatever everything even means in this case.
I'm saying that I believe that in general the future is unknowable even to God. It is my contention that He has created a world where the future is open.
If that's the case then how do you reconcile prophecies? If God doesn't know the future because it's open, then how is it that there are also prophecies all throughout the bible that would have to mean that the future is known to God?

"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine

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Bob Bobber
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Message 174 of 478 (775478)
01-02-2016 3:44 AM
Reply to: Message 173 by Hyroglyphx
01-02-2016 3:36 AM


Re: Can't have it both ways
Just a thought, Yahweh was not identified with nature, Yahweh transcended nature; and Yahweh wasn’t known through nature or natural phenomena. Yahweh was known through history, events and a particular relationship with a man, which Yahweh formed from the dust of the earth.

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Hyroglyphx
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Message 175 of 478 (775479)
01-02-2016 3:56 AM
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01-02-2016 3:44 AM


Re: Can't have it both ways
Just a thought, Yahweh was not identified with nature, Yahweh transcended nature; and Yahweh wasn’t known through nature or natural phenomena. Yahweh was known through history, events and a particular relationship with a man, which Yahweh formed from the dust of the earth.
How does that vague mysticism answer my question?

"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" -- Thomas Paine

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Bob Bobber
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Message 176 of 478 (775481)
01-02-2016 4:02 AM
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01-02-2016 3:56 AM


Re: Can't have it both ways
The story was written in the stars about what is going to happen, and it started with the first Adam. Sorry, misread your question.

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kbertsche
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Message 177 of 478 (775491)
01-02-2016 6:26 AM
Reply to: Message 167 by GDR
01-02-2016 2:04 AM


Re: misrepresentation
GDR writes:
kbertsche writes:
I agree that there is some tension here, but not that the issue is "irreconcilable". There are a number of approaches to reconciling these things.
But there are none that justify genocide.
How can you be so sure? Have you examined all of the approaches to reconciling these issues and proven them all false?
If it can be justified then how do we know that it isn't God's will that we should nuke into oblivion Islamic countries today? It is because of Jesus that we know it is wrong but with an inerrant Bible we can't know as God was like that then so He very well could be like that again now.
We also know this is wrong from the OT command "Thou shalt not murder". God is still the same as He was in the OT.
The differences are irreconcilable.
So you say, repeatedly. But this doesn't make it true.
It is always dangerous for fallible, finite humans to make such absolute pronouncements where a perfect, infinite God is involved.
It isn't God that you are know and trust. Your trust is in an inerrant Bible.
Why do you think it must be one or the other? Why not both!
If we know and trust God, doesn't it follow that we will also trust what He says (His Word)?
IMHO you have made an idol out of the Bible,
No, this is nonsense. Trusting the Bible is not at all the same as worshiping it.
We come to know and trust God primarily through the Bible. If the Bible were not trustworthy, how would we come to a correct knowledge of God?
The OT has many, many passages which stress trustworthiness and reliability of the Word of God. The last part of Psalm 19 gives six short descriptions praising the written Word of God. Psalm 119 is a much longer composition which praises the written Word of God.
and again IMHO if you believe that God is capable of genocide and public stonings then I would also humbly suggest that you don't know Him at all.
And I would suggest that by cutting these difficult passages out of the Bible you are making God too simple and one-dimensional. You seem to know Him, but you are limiting your knowledge and understanding of Him by imposing your own short-sighted limits on Him.
Edited by kbertsche, : No reason given.

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I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives us a lot of factual information, puts all of our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously. — Erwin Schroedinger

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Phat
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Message 178 of 478 (775496)
01-02-2016 7:35 AM
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01-02-2016 2:37 AM


Re: The Story Of How Bobber Came To Believe
But you never answered my questions.
Bobber writes:
I grew up in Cheyenne WY, just up the road from you. Spent over 30 trying to harmonize the four gospels...
What for? What motivated you? What was it and IS it that you are trying to teach? (Or are you simply trying to sell your writing?) Please understand---I am not against you for being a writer. I am challenging you to explain why you believe in what you write!
Edited by Phat, : clarification

Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. —RC Sproul
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." —Mark Twain

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Message 179 of 478 (775508)
01-02-2016 11:04 AM
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01-01-2016 11:32 PM


Re: misrepresentation
Hi Bob,
The Forum Guidelines try to encourage people to accompany their links with some explanation of what is contained in the link:
  1. Bare links with no supporting discussion should be avoided. Make the argument in your own words and use links as supporting references.
Also, you could have included that YouTube video directly in the message itself with this message code: [utube=SKnF1HEUwuo]. The number is the code at the end of the YouTube link. It would have come out looking like this:
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GDR
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Message 180 of 478 (775592)
01-03-2016 2:26 AM
Reply to: Message 173 by Hyroglyphx
01-02-2016 3:36 AM


Re: Can't have it both ways
Hyroglphx writes:
If that's the case then how do you reconcile prophecies? If God doesn't know the future because it's open, then how is it that there are also prophecies all throughout the bible that would have to mean that the future is known to God?
Well, to start with as I you know I do not believe in an inerrant Bible so I allow for some imagination by the authors. Also, if God is going to do something Himself then He would know that ahead of time. Jesus often foretold the destruction of Jerusalem but that would be on the basis of He could see that would be the retribution by the Romans for the rebellion was brewing.
Many of the prophesies that we can see in the Bible are with the benefit of hind sight as well. Frankly, the Jews of that day didn't understand the prophesies the way we do now. It is clear that not even the disciples understood messiahship the way Jesus did. If Jesus had been a military leader defeating their enemies then we would be looking at other biblical verses that would prophesy that.
If God knows all that there is to know then, even though the future is unknowable, He can predict the future with a fair degree of accuracy. As I said earlier, it could easily be predicted that Jesus would be crucified as that would happen to anyone, (particularly someone who had already upset those in power), who was going to do what Jesus did when He entered into Jerusalem.

He has told you, O man, what is good ; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8

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