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  1. Brian2

    Life From Dirt?

    So have you got a way to determine if things in nature are designed or not? I just assume design because that is what it looks like. How do you do it? I did not say scientists are making an argument from incredulity. Where did you get that idea from?
  2. Brian2

    Life From Dirt?

    The people who became the ones we know as Hebrews existed back then. No, Moses would not have known the language of the Hebrews as an infant. I don't think that is known. The book of Maat came from around 3000 BC and hopefully any laws made by humans would reflect something of what humans...
  3. Brian2

    Life From Dirt?

    According to the evidence the gospels were written not long enough after Jesus to account for the addition of embellishments. Witnesses of the events would still have been alive when the synoptic gospels were written. Most agree that the resurrection story was proclaimed from the start of the...
  4. Brian2

    Jesus - First Born?

    Yes Logos means "word" and in John 1:1, "The Logos" indicates a person who was with The God and who was completely like The God He was with, iow having the same essence and nature. So that means that the Logos was not a thing.
  5. Brian2

    Jesus - First Born?

    Yes it includes those who believe in Father, Son and Holy Spirit as one God,,,,,,,, with the Son having always been with/in His Father and His Father being the source of life for the Son. Yes the 2 are one thing. At a guess I would say that they combine to make the one God. That does not mean...
  6. Brian2

    What if it was created by God to evolve?

    It makes a difference imo. It is true that "all" in other places in the OT does not actually mean "every single one, bar none". It's true, "all" does not always mean "all". ANYWAY with this particular passage: I am going to bring floodwaters on the land to destroy all life under the heavens...
  7. Brian2

    Jesus - First Born?

    YHWH sent His messenger to prepare the way for Himself. John cried out in the wilderness, "make straight the way of YHWH". Now this does not "prove" that Jesus was God but it helps and certainly is more accurate than what you were quoting. Mark 1:2 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet,[b]...
  8. Brian2

    Jesus - First Born?

    The Word of God tells us that the universe that will perish is the work of the hands of Jesus. (Heb 1:10-12) I justify it logically by saying for a start that Jesus (the pre human Jesus) was in heaven with God before coming to earth. This of course is told to us 101 times in the New Testament...
  9. Brian2

    Jesus - First Born?

    When Jesus said, "I and the Father are one", since the "one" is in the neuter gender that means that He was meaning, "I and the Father are one thing". Sure we and Jesus would want us to be in harmony with Himself and the Father, but that is not what is meant in the scriptures when it says that...
  10. Brian2

    Jesus - First Born?

    I guess that means you don't know how all things were created through Jesus, the Son, because for you Jesus did not exist at the creation.
  11. Brian2

    Jesus - First Born?

    Jesus said a few times that He was praying that His disciples would be one, and you seem to be saying that He was praying that He and the Father and the disciples would be one. Is that true or am I misreading what you are saying?
  12. Brian2

    Jesus - First Born?

    Through whom, or by means of whom were all things created? Do you think that Jesus was one of those created things? What do you think of what @amazing grace says-- That these passages are referring to the new creation?
  13. Brian2

    Jesus - First Born?

    The scriptures does not say that Christians will be one with the Father and with Jesus. Jesus is one with the Father and Christians are to be one with each other in Christ. We are one body with the Spirit of Christ in us, uniting us and joining us to Christ in spirit and making us adopted...
  14. Brian2

    Jesus - First Born?

    So YHWH was sending His messenger to prepare the way for Him. What are you telling us Soapy? Does this mean that the Messiah is YHWH? BTW, not Amazing Angel. John the Baptist is an interesting person. He said that he was not Elijah John 1:21“Then who are you?” they inquired. “Are you...
  15. Brian2

    What if it was created by God to evolve?

    I suppose there are professional church singers somewhere. I never thought that way about church singers. Which church was that? How did you think about God and how did you change your mind?
  16. Brian2

    What if it was created by God to evolve?

    All this time and you don't understand that the Hebrew can legitimately be translated to show a local flood. The word that translated as "mountain" can also mean "hill". The word that translates "earth" and that we read in our head to mean "globe", can also be translated "land". And there are...
  17. Brian2

    What if it was created by God to evolve?

    NT scrolls of the various gospels that were copied and passed down.
  18. Brian2

    Jesus - First Born?

    I read what I wrote and should have asked rhetorically "Was the pre human Jesus one of those things that have been created through the pre human Jesus?" But putting that aside, I would have to say that I don't think God has 2 Spirits. There is one Spirit says Ephesians 4:4. In this one Spirit is...
  19. Brian2

    Life From Dirt?

    I don't think that being a professor means that your opinion is always going to be right. There are historians and archaeologists who disagree with Joel S. Baden? As I said, imo the evidence points to the truth of the Exodus.
  20. Brian2

    Life From Dirt?

    No the article is not on the side of scholarly consensus. And really there is no straining to concoct reasons for Exodus happening as the Bible story says. Imo the evidence points straight at the Exodus happening at the time the Bible tells us (about 1450 BC) and how the Bible tells us, and...
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