Except of course for Jesus being quoted in Aramaic on the cross. i.e., tetelestai. Eloi, Eloi, lama sabacthani.
Glad you were there to know when the language went dead. Don't know what we'd do without you.
Since Jesus is God, you can assume he can communicate with all living, dead, organic, inorganic, spiritual, etc., beings. At will.
You have everything backwards. It's very odd. As his child, I hear his voice, and follow him, not the other way around. We do not need to seek knowledge from Jesus; the entire point of the episode preceding the Fall of Man was Man turning away from Jesus and eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, in a vain attempt to be like God. So no, we do not have to do as you say, and we do not have to accept what you say, because what you say is utter foolishness. I am not "in a state of seeking Him" because I have already found him. You don't continue looking for someone you've already found. And finally, in your mess of a post, if Jesus "turned away from evil" as you say, tell me: how does Jesus defeat evil?
All of the sins of mankind were forgiven at the cross, or they were not forgiven at all. Why ask for something that was already provided to me before I was born? Does that not indicate a profound ignorance on my part, to ask for something I already have? Every single day? Every single week? From a man in a booth who has no more power to forgive sins than I have?
Because I'm not a Jew.
>Why did they murder the prophets?
You mean "Why did they murder their prophets", and the reason was that their prophets were giving them bad news about their future, based on their disobedience. If you think you can please God by keeping God's Law, you're one in a long line of people who does not know God, or God's Law.
It's difficult discussing these matters with someone who lacks all wisdom and discernment, so you'll have to bear with me. I said the reason I did not look to the OT to seek God was because I am not a Jew. More specifically, I am not an actual Jew, living in Israel, under the Old Covenant. You may not have noticed, but every time Jesus refers to Jews he refers to them as people who say they are Jews, but lie. No, the Jews cannot rely on the Old Covenant for anything, and have not been able to, for over 2,400 years now. If they want to seek God, they must have the Son.
I am not disparaging Jews in any way, and the converted Jews I have known are the best Christians I have known, being steeped in the Law and in Truth and Grace. They are few and far between.
You are not one of them.
Lacking all wisdom and discernment, you continuously babble words without meaning, clouds without rain. And you're running out of time.
John's letter to the gnostics, who believed that they had no sin in them as they only sinned in the flesh, and not in the spirit, was not for you unless you are also a gnostic, who believes you have no sin.
If you know you are a sinner, then that verse taken woefully out of context is not for you.
Aye, and Jesus' harshest condemnations were for the most religious people who ever walked the earth.
Child, calm yourself. If you want to be saved, do what Paul wrote of in Romans 10:9-13, and be saved. Once saved, you will be given the earnest downpayment of the Holy Spirit, who will teach you what the word of God means.
I have said nothing about hating any Jews; quite the contrary, if you had the requisite reading comprehension skills I would expect of someone old enough to post here. And as Jesus is the Seed of Abraham, the Root of David, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Jewish Messiah, the King of the Jews, etc., I would be a fool indeed to claim to belong to Jesus, yet hate Jews.
You have not bent the knee to Jesus.
You must bend the knee to Jesus.
What a strange, sad little man you are.
No, it's usually the lost trying to convince other lost cultists that their gibberish is proof of their salvation.
Not only did you not write the book, you cannot apparently read, comprehend, or quote the book properly, either.
1 Corinthians 14:5
I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification.
Tongues Must Be Interpreted
6 But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you either by revelation, by knowledge, by prophesying, or by teaching?
You can keep gibbering in unintelligible languages, pretending that you have apostolic gifts, and maybe you will fool someone as unwise as yourself into thinking you are saved.
You will never convince God of that, nor is anyone who calls a born again Christian "satan" a wise man.
No, friend, I do not, as they were given to the apostles. There is a vast gulf between the Holy Spirit giving a man the gift to talk to a foreigner, and the gibberish that cults do to assure themselves that they are saved.
You are the latter, and cannot understand how the knowledge of being born again is actually gained, and actually held, and actually expressed. It is not by uttering gibberish in an unruly, confused, and out of control "Corinthian" church.
>The witness of or from God is the manifestation of speaking in tongues.
No, no it is not. Anyone can go into a fake trance and utter garbage that nobody can understand. It's actually a good trick by the devil to "convince" people that they are saved.
>Perhaps that goes on.
Perhaps? The other Anon is counting on it for "proof" of his salvation. Millions of people every month meet in charasmatic churches that lack sound doctrine, doing all sorts of foolish things to "prove" that they have the Holy Spirit.
People face Jesus, and say "did we not cast out demons in your name? did we not heal the sick in your name?" and Jesus says "Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity; I DO NOT KNOW YOU.".
So tell me, which is the "greater work"? Speaking gibberish in a charasmatic church that lacks sound doctrine, or actually casting out demons, or actually healing people?
If you cared what Paul actually said about praying in tongues, you'd note that he said only do it in private, only in your prayer closet, and speak of it to no body.
That's the proper use of the gift of tongues, outside of being supernaturally and temporarily gifted by the Holy Spirit to speak in a foreign tongue to a foreigner to tell him the gospel.
Which I have never seen, nor heard of, ever happening in an emotionally charged, doctrine-less charasmatic gibberish session.
Remember one of the signs of the end times? Delusion? This is one of those delusions. Remember other signs? People avoiding sound doctrine, gathering to themselves teachers who will tickle their ears? This is also happening itt.
Or, you could take Jesus' word for it, that the "works of God" are to believe in the One whom He has sent. Yeah, maybe that. I'll stick with what Jesus said, and you can do whatever your heart convinces you is correct.
Like babbling incoherently.
I'm a little confused on why you think your personal opinion on who is saved, which is apparently everyone, matters.
Jesus is the only savior to the world, and only saves those who choose to be saved, believe Jesus is who he says he is, confess with their mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in their heart God raised him from the dead. Jesus said that most people are lost. Most people are on the broad road that leads to destruction. Jesus says narrow is the path, and few who find it, which path leads to salvation. i.e., Jesus is The Path, just as Jesus is The Way, and The Truth, and The Life, and The Resurrection. Most people are lost. You're clinging to lies to believe that all are saved, because you know that you are lost. Just become saved. Simple. Romans 10:9-13.
Jesus was sent not to condemn the world, but to bring salvation to all who believe. Most do not believe. This is the condemnation of mankind; light entered into the world, but men preferred darkness. Most are lost. You are lost.
> specially of those that believe.
Read your own quotes closer.
Acts 2.
In Acts 10, the apostles learn for the first time that gentiles can be saved.
Acts was written chronologically.
Stop following false teachers.
No, the cross they nailed Jesus to. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins; the Lamb of God had to be perfect, blameless, spotless, to be our propitiating salvation, and he was.
You needed a reason not to hate Jews?
26: All Israel = Representational believers at the Second Coming. Most are already dead at that time.
Only believers trust in the living God.
Judah holds the sceptre; the King of Israel comes from the Tribe of Judah.
Jesus is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, of the House of David. He is the one who will take the deed to the earth, the 7 sealed scroll, and open the seals, one at a time. The first 4 are the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse; the last seal opens the trumpet judgments, just as the last trumpet judgment begins the outpouring of the bowls of God's wrath on the universe.
The Seed of Abraham, the Root of David, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the King of the Jews, the Messiah, Christ Jesus, the Second Adam, will take the earth back from satan, who procured it through lies, theft and murder from Adam.
There is, technically, and it is condemned. Nicolaitans. Victory over the common man.
He's also Lord of the Sabbath. Maybe you forgot that bit.
Covered in the bible.
Romans 14
Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things. For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him. Who are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.
For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
No, that's how he teaches the Law. The Truth is revealed as a person; that person's Spirit is given as a guide to the Truth.
No, they have not. Repent, and be saved, and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Thank you, that's very kind of you.
True, God does not lie, but you do. And you have not demonstrated that you have what is required to understand the Word of God; that is the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit that teaches men the Word of God, and transforms them into new creations.
You think you can follow God's Law, even though only God can follow God's Law, and only God, God the Son, on earth, followed God's Law.
Are you then God, that you can follow God's "pure Word"?
The bible is intended to be taken literally, first.
There’s only one true literal interpretation a verse or passage, so only one can be correct. Read it just as it was written giving every word its normal meaning. Then ask yourself who it was written to and what was it written about. This is called taking the context of the passage into consideration. According to the dictionary the context is the set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular passage. You can usually discover the context of a particular verse by looking at the surrounding verses that influence its meaning or effect. Most arguments over the interpretation of Scripture have more to do with context than anything else.
We know we shouldn’t interpret a passage literally when the Bible tells us not to. For instance parables and other obviously symbolic passages are not meant to be understood literally. A good rule of thumb is that if the literal interpretation of a passage makes sense, then we shouldn’t try to take it any other way.
In Romans 15:4 Paul wrote, “For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.”
I will continue praying for you.
Is it fair to judge you by your own words?
Is it fair to say that you demand full compliance with the Law of God?
Is it fair to say that you strive to be in full compliance with the Law of God?
Is it fair to note that only Jesus Christ ever fulfilled the law, in the only two ways the Law can be fulfilled?
It is fair to note that you are not a born again Christian, and you are in fact not only hostile to born again Christians, but to God, and to the Word of God?
Is that fair?
The New Covenant…in the broken body and spilled blood of Christ Jesus on the cross….was established in the Torah, written 1,500 years prior to the event.
Sad.
Try to leave whatever cult you're in, whether it's SDA or JW, or some other cult that is trying to crowbar you into the Old Covenant. The Old Covenant is dead; the New Covenant is still open for business.
Why do you think God needs defending?
When you say "I stand on the Word of God", what exactly do you mean?
You're exposed as an angry, hostile cult member who does not understand the bible, at all. You can choose to remain this way, or you can repent, and be saved, and enter into the New Covenant. You will never fit into the Old.
Matthew 9
No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for [e]the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
Yes, you're in a cult. A works cult that thinks its members can curry favor with God by following God's Law. Because you don't know why God gave mankind the Law, you think it is there for you to follow. And yet, you break it every day, and are frustrated with your own weakness. You try your best, but you sin every single day. Every. Single. Day. And your cult has no answers for you except to "try harder".
If you knew the Law, and if you knew why God gave mankind the Law, you would not be in the predicament you are in right now. You would be free to choose to enter into the New Covenant, or not, as you desired. Yet you have been subverted by evil men with good intentions, and think that you are defending God. Against whom?
Jesus did not give you the sword; Jesus is the sword. Read the Revelation of Jesus Christ. After you become saved, of course. No use trying to read it now, in your current state.
Still no answer as to what you think "standing on the Word of God" means, and still no understanding from you that Jesus taught the Law, and that the New Covenant was only possible after the crucifixion, and its hope entirely in the resurrection.
Not the Law. Never the Law.
How many people are saved by the torah?
No, just you.
He's not your Lord, Anon. He does not know who you are, and you do not know who He is.
There is no "Q Source"; it was a hypothetical construct without any validity whatsoever. The Nag Hamadi is thousands of years old copies of gnostic works/satanic works, that have nothing to do with Jesus at all.
Yes, and the first piece of armor is the belt of truth, which you lack. Another piece that you lack is the helm of salvation. Yet another piece that you lack is the breastplate of righteousness; you are trying to forge your own breastplate out of your own righteousness, not knowing that you forge using filthy rags before a holy God. You also lack the sword of the Spirit, and the shield of faith, so all in all, you're a naked child of the devil spouting nonsense.
You can stay like that, forever, or you can repent (change your mind), and be saved. Your call.
I understand your heart, and why you posted that, but it is simply not the case. While God will eventually transform us into new creations who can keep his Law, naturally, while we are here on earth, we have no more power to live sinless lives than before we were saved.
To understand why God gave manking his Law, you have to understand the Fall of Man. Mankind in the Garden of Eden, under ideal conditions, disbelieved and rebelled against God. In favor of what?
In favor of the lie from Satan: God lied to you; he's afraid of you becoming like he is. Eat the fruit, know good and evil, and thus be like God.
That is what the god of this world imposed on humanity the day he lied to all of mankind, stole from all of mankind, and murdered all of mankind, in an instant.
Mankind thus thought it could live by that lie from the pit of hell: know good and evil, and thus be like God. How's that working out for anyone? You have the knowledge of good and evil; are you now like God? Can you be holy? Can you speak universes into existence? Can you do all the things Jesus taught at the Sermon on the Mount, including all of the extra things you would have to do, on top of keeping the Law perfectly, which is already impossible?
No, of course not. No one can; no one but Jesus, and He is God the Son.
God gave Man the Law to show Man that even with the knowledge of good and evil, Man will never be like God on his own. Man will never "know good and evil, and thus be like God". Man will never be able to follow the law; no man ever has, and the Law has never found anyone righteous. That's not the purpose of the Law. The purpose of any law is to set up crime and punishment. It is the Law of Sin and Death; Sin, and Die.
To you cultists who think you can, or are, keeping the Law of God: you are not. But keep trying. That's what the Law is for. The Law is there to convince you that you can never be like God; that you cannot even keep the Law, which is the minimal requirement. And on top of that, you can do nothing as God does, and you will never be like God through your own efforts.
But keep trying. Dedicate yourself to it day and night, every second of every day, every one of the 613 commandments, all the time, without error, perfect, as the Father in heaven is perfect.
And when you finally convince yourself that you cannot do it, and that it is impossible, feel the depth of the despair and death that accompany knowing that you deserve to be cast into a lake of fire, forever and ever, for your failure to be like God.
Then, in your despair and brokenness, you can now approach the throne of God, to the feet of Jesus on the cross at Calvary, and beg him for mercy and grace, which you now know you need.
And which will be given to you.
Seek, and you will find.
Ask, and it will be given to you.
Knock, and the door will be opened unto you.
Believe Jesus is who he said he is, the eternal God, who died on the cross to pay the penalty for your sins, and who promises to resurrect you to eternal life. Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart God raised him from the dead, and you will be saved.
The Seed of the Woman
The Seed of Abraham
The Root of David
The Lion of the Tribe of Judah
The Jewish Messiah
The High Priest after the Order of Melchizadek
The King of the Jews
The King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords.
Yeshoshua Moshiac.
What was the JQ again?
Why are you calling Christians to arms, when it is clearly a Roman Catholic endeavor?
Did he though.
Amen. Well said.