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    GOD in the OT and GOD in the NT

    Look up everything Jesus says and does in the Old Testament. Everything He does is attributed to Yah Havah in the Old Testament. This was His own Testimony, that He did only the Father’s works. Every reference to Jesus is a reference to Yah Havah and there is no verse in which Jesus calls the...
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    1 John 3:9 - Is it cannot "practice" sin, or cannot "commit" sin?

    Ever notice how some people ask questions, but don't want answers?
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    1 John 3:9 - Is it cannot "practice" sin, or cannot "commit" sin?

    No I don't. I need to listen to the Holy Spirit when reading His word, which is how I'm taught by God. These posts question Christ's faithfulness, first they question God's election and power to save, then they question His faithfulness in committing to fulfill His covenant through us. How do...
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    1 John 3:9 - Is it cannot "practice" sin, or cannot "commit" sin?

    You are confused in the extreme. Jews were not "unbelievers" but in a covenant with God given through Moses. They just weren't born again, nor were all taught by God. Those taught by God received Christ. He said so. However they received His words, not His Spirit, because the Holy Spirit was...
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    1 John 3:9 - Is it cannot "practice" sin, or cannot "commit" sin?

    You didn't read my post or didn't comprehend what I said. The Pharisees were very outwardly righteous men. Their behavior was at times impeccable as in Paul's personal testimony, but the Pharisees were not born again individuals. Jesus addressed Jews before His Spirit was given at Pentacost and...
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    1 John 3:9 - Is it cannot "practice" sin, or cannot "commit" sin?

    In context, Jesus warned Jews and unregenerate souls, not the born again. If you're not born again then that warning applies to you, but not to those with His Spirit.
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    1 John 3:9 - Is it cannot "practice" sin, or cannot "commit" sin?

    That isn't what Jesus meant at all. You can mimic holiness and feign righteousness. That's what the Pharisees did. Jesus taught that we needed a greater righteousness than the Pharisees and if you know anything about their practices, they were outwardly righteous in the extreme. The greater...
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    1 John 3:9 - Is it cannot "practice" sin, or cannot "commit" sin?

    Since "all have sinned" and sin is condemning, we receive Christ's righteousness in receiving Him. We aren't saved by being sinless, but receive mercy and grace. I'm 66 and have yet to meet a sinless person other than Christ Himself. Sin lives in the nature of the flesh, but we receive a 2nd...
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    Unanswered Question Concerning Jesus' Deity

    "The word became flesh and dwelt among us" The "word" here is the Greek "logos" which has a broad definition, but refers to communication or something spoken. So, before His incarnation Jesus was God speaking to His creation, not an angel or some created entity, but God’s interaction with...
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    This Makes More Sense To Me Now

    The Lord hasn't taught me about the passage, but some people believe that Jesus lead old testament saints like Samuel and David out of "Abraham's bosom'" to fulfill the prophecy of psalm 68:18: "18You have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive; You have received gifts among men, Even...
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    What's Going To Happen in the Next 4 Years

    Death and taxes are a temporal given. They're axiomatic.
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    Where did they invent that I AM is some name of God?

    To date, no one has actually won a spiritual argument with a dead person. No matter how many words are spoken, it's really a one sided conversation. (And just a disingenuous ploy.)
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    Where did they invent that I AM is some name of God?

    Actually, the name was written without vowels in the oldest manuscripts because the Jews didn't want the covenant name of God spoken out loud. Don't worry about offending any Jews with Jehovah though, that's not the pronunciation but an anglicized corruption. But regardless, God raised the name...
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    Where did they invent that I AM is some name of God?

    That would be the scribes, the priests, and the pharisees of Jesus day. Before then it would be difficult to say beyond, the scribes, the priests, and the kings of Judah. In response to your question, I read scripture, I read history, and God teaches me.
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    Where did they invent that I AM is some name of God?

    ElieG12 is clearly trying to make more of God's covenant name than that of Jesus, going on about its many appearances in scripture, yet like all JWs, is unconcerned with the many uses of El, Elohe, and Elohim, nor with the contracted form "Yah" as in Yah Havah or Yah shuah. The on line...
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    Where did they invent that I AM is some name of God?

    Perhaps people don't understand what it means to be eternal and self existent, but there was no one to name God but God Himself, and so He identified Himself by many names, but gave one name above all names in the person of His Son, so that He might be glorified among men through our Lord Jesus...
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    1Peter 3:18

    While Christians don't dispute the bodily resurrection of our Lord, Paul taught that the resurrected body is not the same as the original and it couldn't be so and also be incorruptible. The natural body doesn't pass through walls, suddenly appear and disappear, etc. If Jesus is the "first...
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    Where did they invent that I AM is some name of God?

    The Jews who studied scripture understood God to be self existent and eternal from their reading of scripture. That's how scripture describes "the only God". No one but God can make that claim, everyone else, including the inhabitants of heaven, can honestly say that. The implication of "I Am"...
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    The Final Gentile Global Leader.

    “For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. Matthew 24 :5 Many modern Jews are still waiting for the appearing of the Messiah. I don't know if any modern Jew can trace their ancestry past the destruction of the temple in 70AD, but a charismatic leader from...
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    What happens at Death?

    The scriptures say that no one has seen God, so what God did the old testament saints like Abraham, Moses, and the wife of Manoah see?