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He said... That being has a body, i.e., flesh,, and a spirit. All other animals are souls, living beings.
When the Bible says, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them" (Gen 1:27), the spirit of man is that which is created in God's own image. It is that spirit in God's own image that separates man from the rest of the animals. Among other things it is the spirit of man that gives him a conscious awareness of his own being, whatever that entails. It is what gives man the ability to learn and know the difference between right and wrong.
Bothy. but it takes a little study and knowledge of the original languages.
So show me the verse from Gods Word! God does not need you to interpret His word for HIm. He is far more intelligent than all of us combined. He knows how to inspire people to write what He wants them to!
Well, from everything I have ever read or studied on this subject you and I are going to disagree.
Be careful with that one, I do not believe that the spiritually dead no longer has the ability or inclination to know the ways of God. Did Adam and Eve, once they had sinned, no longer have the ability or inclination to know what God was saying to them or what He wanted them to do? I think they did.
Because, as is recorded, Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil". They knew then that they had done wrong. But there is no indication whatsoever that they had lost their ability to know and understand fully what God was saying to them.
Where do you read anything about God providing a sacrifice for them?
There is nothing that indicates that God told them anything about Christ, or grace through faith.
That is strictly a New Covenant circumstance.
That is simply not true. There is nothing in the Bible that tells you that. That is your own eisegesis. That is hinted at first by John the Baptist; and even then it took Peter's sermon on Pentecost to spell that out. The old covenant was a covenant of animal sacrifice and faith that God would accept them. Rom 4:3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness."
I quasi -agree with this.
Well first of all killing the animals for the hides is not a sacrifice. Second, God doesn't sacrifice to himself. Third, God wouldn't even need to kill an animal to provide skins for cover. He could simply make the skins. But at any rate none of that is anything more than making some form of clothing for Adam and E
I understand that many find in Genesis 3:15 some prophecy concerning Christ on the cross. I personally think that is a real stretch. God has just said that same creature would go on his belly and would eat dust.
Here again, I think it is a real stretch to connect Romans 16:20 to Genesis 3:15.
Not even the disciples who lived and walked with Jesus throughout His ministry on earth understood the prophecies concernng Jesus as the Messiah. They had to be divinely inspired at Pentecost to really understand any of it.
Where in the world to you read that Abraham was told anything about the Gospel of Christ? You are truly reading a lot more into the Scriptures than what is actually there. That is not good.
You highlighted the wrong words. What God said to Abraham was "In you shall all the nations be blessed." That is what God told Abraham. Paul is telling us thousands of years after Abraham that blessing would accrue to those of faith.
But under the Old Covenant, all they had were the animal sacrifices. They knew nothing about Jesus Christ. The only messiah they knew was God. We now recognize, after the fact, the many prophecies in the OT Scriptures leading to Jesus Christ as the messiah. Read again the account of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8). The key is in the Eunuch's response to Philip's question if he understood what he was reading which was, "How can I, unless someone guides me?" Remember, that not even Philip knew anything about that until after Jesus died and rose again and established His church at Pentecost.
Ain't that the truth. Challenging. Even more so when one tries to tie a Revelation verse into speculating what one reads , for that is where you find slain from the foundation of the world.
I once heard someone basically say that the only thing involved in coming to saving faith in Christ is paper, ink and human intelligence as if they mustered up faith within themselves apart from God drawing and enabling them to believe. (John 6:44,65) Luke says “the Lord opened Lydia’s heart to believe.” This is similar to Luke 24:45 in which Jesus opens the hearts of his disciples so that they could understand the scripture. Lydia believes because the Lord enables her to understand and accept the Gospel as Paul preached it. The gospel does not come to us in word only but also in power and in the Holy Spirit.. (1 Thessalonians 1:5)
And how, exactly, do you think that happens? Do you believe that God talks to you directly? That is not what 1 Thessalonians 1:5 is saying. Paul is once again affirming his own divine revelation, It has nothing to do with you, personally. When he stated in the last part of that verse, "You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake", the "we" is not you, but is the editorial "we" of the apostles and prophets of Jesus Christ to whom divine inspiration was given.
And you have done it again. You have changed the meaning of the word faith as it is used in scripture. "Muster up faith in Christ thereby believing Him" ? ? ? That is a completely nonsensical statement. Faith in Christ IS believing Him. But it is more than just believing Christ, it is believing IN Christ. Faith in Christ is believing in Christ. That is the definition. And that, we are told, "comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ" (Rom 10:17).
