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    Can someone explain the Trinity please...

    John 1:14: "And the "Word" was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) [the Son, Jesus Christ] full of grace and truth."... based on this verse which is John's direct reference to Jesus Christ, I think your interpretation is...
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    Can someone explain the Trinity please...

    There are multiple references in scripture which should be consulted. The Jews of Christ's day wanted to stone Jesus for claiming to be equal with God... John 5:18: "Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, [in their mind] but said also that...
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    The bible and gays

    That isn't what I said. Gay couples do have the same legal protections. That is a done deal. What I was talking about (as if I didn't make myself clear enough) was gays wanting moral acceptance and while demanding it, they want to say as justification that they think God is ok with their...
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    The bible and gays

    Homosexuality should be a private act except that homosexuals themselves do not want it to be private. All of this clamoring about marriage is really about the desire for acceptance and recognition. The desire is to suggest that God sanctions that activity when the scriptures explicitly say He...
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    Can someone explain the Trinity please...

    If by "Trinity" is meant the concept of three-in-one, I can't explain it since it makes no sense to me either. My understanding of the "God Head" is outlined in our first article of faith: "We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost." These are...
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    Isn't Lucifer the Good Guy?

    Your whole point is to say that Christ is fallen. One has to wonder why you would want to put forward such an idea. You are either an atheist or some else who is anti-Christ and has an axe to grind. I believe your reasoning and subsequent interpretation not only to be faulty, but just plain...
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    Isn't Lucifer the Good Guy?

    KJV... and the translation doesn't matter. The correlation you are wanting to establish does not exist. You are deliberately telling a lie in equating Lucifer to Christ. But, you can take it up with Christ when you see Him.
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    Isn't Lucifer the Good Guy?

    Your deliberate misrepresentation is egregious. Isaiah 14:12: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!" Revelations 22:19: "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take...
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    Isn't Lucifer the Good Guy?

    You cited Revelations. Chapter & verse?
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    How God is a God of Love

    Not that it matters to you, but all of what your friend in his web site says, stems from a temporal point of view rather than an eternal one. What God sanctions on this earth has to do with the original purpose of the earth. With the point of view that this mortality is all there is, your...
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    How God is a God of Love

    Very true. But that is not the whole story. Repentance is required, but so are a couple of minimal ordinances as is mentioned in John 3:5; Jesus is speaking to Nicodemus: "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the...
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    How God is a God of Love

    While I disagree that the burning is a metaphor, I do agree with the last of what you wrote. "You will end up alongside people that think and feel like you do." That should not (I think) be the goal. We should want to return to our Heavenly Father.
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    How God is a God of Love

    If one is looking for validity in prophecy, then one need look no further than the return of Israel to the promised land.
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    How God is a God of Love

    I accept the correction. I should have said "one of the primary reasons". With regard to comparison to other deities, I can only offer my reasons for choosing mine. All we can know about any deity is what that deity chooses to reveal. We already know that deity cannot be discovered by...
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    How God is a God of Love

    May I say that I admire your grit. I realize I do not have it as bad as you, but I do have health issues as well and I too must endure. Not for purposes of comparison, but just to let you know that on some small level I can relate. I too have arthritis... in my hips. I deal with pain there...
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    How God is a God of Love

    Yes, there is that. I merely considered to reason I gave as 'one' of the reasons there are and so I attempted to explain that one. The reason you give is indeed a bit more difficult to deal with. As you may have read in other places, my usual response to that argument is that the existence of...
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    How God is a God of Love

    When you say "advocates". What event or events are you referring to? Please see my response to "Thief" :) Quite the contrary. He set us up to succeed. Since we are free agents we have the choice to succeed by following God's commands. If we fail, it is our own fault for not following the...
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    How God is a God of Love

    The only thing I want to respond to here are your comments about the flood and Sodom and Gomorrah as well as the idea that there is indeed greater "damnation" ahead. As I hope was evident in what I said, we are here in mortality on probation. If and when it becomes evident that a people have...
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    How God is a God of Love

    I guess the primary reason atheist have for rejecting God is that they see all of the horror in the world and ask... why, if God, exists, would He allow it all to happen? I offer the following as my point of view and my explanation to the above question. It is a bit long so I hope you will not...
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    Do you have free will or not?

    I believe I have free will. No, I do not believe my life is predestined. And, yes, I believe that God knows the outcomes of my choices. I must hasten to add that I do not believe that God's foreknowledge has anything to do with causation. For example, let us say that another person knows...
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