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In Acts 4:24-27 Jesus isn't God, the Creator, or the Sovereign Lord. John and Peter prayed together referring to Jesus as a servant. They demonstrated they don't believe Jesus is God. That's why Colossians 1:15 refers to Jesus as the "image" of the invisible God. An image is not the original but...

Why is pointing that out silly?

The Creator in this passage is God. For example, if you will look at verses 8-9, it says the true Light cometh into the world referring to the present tense and John the Baptist was bearing witness of this. John and Jesus were the same age, give or take a few months, making them both...

Your interpretation raises more questions than it answers. Why is Jesus not God throughout the New Testament and not the word of God either? That's why I am inclined to seek an alternative interpretation or translation of that. There are many valid interpretations and translations that actually...

What do you think happened at Jesus water baptism? In John 1:31, John the Baptist confirms that one of the primary reasons he was water baptizing in the first place was so that the Messiah be revealed by Jesus' own reception of the Holy Spirit. Jesus did not have the Holy Spirit until his water...

Sure. In Acts 1, Jesus referred to that as the gift the Father promised. It came from the Father, not Jesus. Acts 1 4And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss. 5For John baptized...

Amen! What about them though? What do you think they mean?

I mean, the Bible doesn't record every time they had to scratch their head or clear their throat. We know it happened even if it wasn't written about. Jesus made a precedent about the Advocate being something he needed to ask God to send. Since Jesus made a precedent out of this, it follows, at...

That's correct and Jesus had to ask God to do that. John 14 16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever— 17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and...

I see you are providing your opinion, but not seeing any scripture. I ask because I have already read the Bible and can't find what you're saying. Thanks.

Good morning, care you provide any evidence for your claims? Thanks.

Neither Jesus nor I created all things. That's the point I am making One was not supposed to get the wrong idea that a human being like Jesus created all things. I am sure Paul did not intend for any person to think that. As Paul pointed out in Colossians 1:15, Jesus isn't the invisible God...

The Father is never called the image of God or the exact representation of God. The easiest way to say someone is God is to just come right out and say it, which is something Paul avoiding saying about Jesus on many occasions. In the beginning, did God create or did the image of God create? Do...

In most of the Septuagint and New Testament, arche is translated as a beginning point. The odds aren’t in your favor. Revelation 3:14 is compatible with scripture about Jesus being created. He’s a human after all. Decades later they kept calling him a man after he was resurrected and taken to...

Elohim, though a plural word, doesn't necessarily refer to a plurality of beings or a compound god. I went over this several posts back, perhaps a few pages ago by now, giving Biblical examples where elohim is used to refer to singular individuals. Matthew 11:25 identifies the Father as the...

Same thing applies to regular Christians. Ephesians 3 19of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

If this is said of Jesus "For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily..." (Col. 2:9) and this is said of Christians "that you may be filled with all the fullness of God..." (Eph. 3:19) then what's the difference in your perspective?

I associate with Biblical Unitarians. When I tell people that they sometimes think that Biblical Unitarians are Unitarian Universalists and they aren't the same thing or even remotely close to one other. So I just wanted to say that. The Biblical Unitarians share a lot of similar beliefs with...

Jesus was part of creation. We can take John 5:26 where the Son talks about how the Father granted him to have life. So it follows that at one point or another, whether at some point pre-existing his physical birth as a human, or as a human, eventually a time came where the Father granted the...

Yes you're right, but this is where it gets interesting because in Exodus 22:20 lā·’ĕ·lō·hîm, though plural, is translated to refer to a singular god. Same thing in Judges 6:31 where Baal is ’ĕ·lō·hîm, yet a singular god. We don't make a doctrine about Baal being a plurality of gods though...