7/21/2022 0 Comments The Hebrew TrinityUp until A.D. Second Century, it was the Hebrews' understanding from their Bible that their God is one yet paradoxically three. Yes, they were monotheistic, meaning that they believe that there is only one true self-existent God. At the same time, many of the Hebrews who knew their Bible well were becoming Christians, because they were seeing the clear link between the mysterious appearances of "second Yahweh" in the Bible and the person of Jesus. It was only when the Jewish elders feared losing more of their congregants to the Christian faith that they declared their biblical concept of the "One yet Three" Godhead a heresy. The Hebrew Bible, what we now call the Old Testament, truly prepared the people's minds to accept the arrival of the Messiah as the arrival of God Himself.
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Psalm 2:7... Who is the son?
Hebrews 1:5... Who is the son? Psalm 45:6,7... Psalm 102:25-27... Who is this? Hebrews 1:1-13... Who is this? 6/30/2022 0 Comments The Blood controversyThis post is about the controversy of the blood of Christ.
First of all, I affirm that Jesus had to die in no other way than the way He did in order to fulfill the words of the prophets: horrible, bloody death on the cross to save His people from their sins. Dear Jonathan,
Thank you for your keen interest, and thank you for your willing to continue the interaction. To summarize what I believe about the issue of repentance and faith: God alone receives all the glory for saving a sinner from hell, from the power of sin, and eventually the presence of sin, and transforms him into a lover of God. And He does His saving work on a sinner, on whom He has pre-determined to set His love in eternity past, by bestowing him spiritual life, faith that obeys, and repentance that turns from sin toward God. A sinner who has become transformed into a new creature in the Lord and Master Jesus Christ will manifest his new nature by observable righteousness, sincere hatred of sin, unceasing hunger and thirst to become like Jesus Christ in His moral character. The doctrine of justification by faith alone is clearly presented to us in the Bible, and God reveals it to whom He wishes. At the same time according to the Bible, this faith which God grants is never alone, but is always, without exception, accompanied by evidence, fruit, or works of the Spirit of God who is residing within them, who is making them more conformed into the image of Christ. Jon,
Thank you again for your response. Please know that I take your response seriously. The Bible speaks of man's responsibility to believe, in the sense that believing the gospel is a condition to justification. [John 8:24] The Bible speaks of sinners fully responsible for their unbelief and rejection of the gospel, for which they will justly be punished in eternal hell. [Hebrews 3:19] If a person believes, it is because that person chooses to believe the gospel. If a person refuses to believe, it is because that person chooses not to believe. |
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August 2023
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