The context "born again" of Jesus' discussion with Nicodemus refers to seeing and entering the kingdom of God.
When will a person both see and enter the kingdom of God?
I think that a person who is baptized into Christ and remains faithful will be born again from the grave with an immortal...
Right. A flesh and bone body that never dies. They will be partakers of the divine nature just like Jesus.
Is man's own spirit another person other than himself? No.
Is God's own spirit another person other than himself? No.
As I understand it. The passage is not speaking of Jesus before he...
A Roman Catholic scholar told me that God died on the cross.
An Orthodox Presbyterian scholar told me that God could never die and it was only the body Jesus inhabited that died.
Are they the same religion?
2Sa 24:14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
2Sa 24:15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the...
Eze 21:8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
Eze 21:10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth...
Mine started out with the idea that God could possibly help me in certain areas of my life.
That's still true today, many years later, along with the added belief in His promise of eternal life. That keeps me.
I would think so too.
I put my religion as "Scripture" because there are many thousand Christian denominations who can't seem to agree on what the Scripture says and teaches even though they have the same Scriptures and base their religion on those same Scriptures. :eek:
To say that Jesus created all things is to say that the Word created all things. the Word which created all things is God. If God did not have a powerful Spirit by which all things are created then He could not create all things.
But God does have a powerful Spirit by which all things are...
A body which has been glorified, made immortal and incorruptible, is a body which differs in nature to that of the glory of the natural and mortal corruptible body. IOW, it is changed from one type of body to another.
If Jesus always had the divine nature, then his body (when born of Mary)...
Jesus came back to life with a spiritual body. The natural body he first came with was mortal. Made mortal by the first man, Adam.
The body he now has is no longer under death's dominion. He has taken on the divine nature. And so too will those whom he raises to life eternal partake of the...
If it wasn't for his death, God could not have condemned the sin in the flesh. Which Paul says for that reason there in now no condemnation for those in Christ. (Rom 8:1-3)
And if he was not raised from the dead then faith is worthless. And so is hope. (1 Cor 15:16-18)
I happen to like the KJV. It's the Bible I started reading many years ago and I kind of got attached to it. But I also use the other 20 versions I have. I have the NWT too.