civic
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The Person who gave His life is God- Acts 20:28- Gods blood
Why I don’t believe or accept the trinity.
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Never once seen anyone worship Jesus. He would have stopped them is they were worshipping him if the sense as being Yahweh… because it would have been against the law… to worship another God…
Even Yeshua states his Father is greater than I…
I never said Jesus was not the Word of God.
civic
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Read the references. Read Revelation chapter 5. He is being worshiped as we speak right now .
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I’ve only see holy holy holy Lord God Almighty worshiped…
I think you ran out of resources to go and by and do. It’s because only the trinity doesn’t exist… and you eventually run out of things to share that but forth the idea of it’s existence when it didn’t exist.
To me the Lord God Almighty is the combination of Yahweh and his Word, together again, known as a new title here and only here once… however Yahwehs Word is not above him…
That’s why continued to follow through with Yeshua and his prayer to his Father in his Yeshua name… is the prayer most people tend to have…
That’s why continued to follow through with Yeshua and his prayer to his Father in his Yeshua name… is the prayer most people tend to have…
Johann
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Stay off my back.
Behold
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In this verse Jesus is talking about the Apostles.
Johann
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Correct-
Occasion/Purpose of Galatians
Bruce has a nice summary:
When, as we are told in Acts 15:1, Judaean visitors came to Syrian Antioch and started to teach the Christians there that those who were not circumcised in accordance with the law of Moses could not be saved, it is antecedently probable that others who wished to press the same line visited the recently formed daughter-churches of Antioch, not only in Syria and Cilicia, as the apostolic letter indicates (Acts 15:23), but also in South Galatia. If so, then the letter to the Galatians was written as soon as Paul got news of what was afoot, on the even of the Jerusalem meeting described in Acts 15:6ff. This, it is suggested, would yield the most satisfactory correlation of the data of Galatians and Acts and the most satisfactory dating of Galatians. It must be conceded that, if this is so, Galatians is the earliest among the extant letters of Paul. 21
The purpose of this letter was obviously, then, to refute the Judaizers’ false gospel—a gospel in which these Jewish Christians felt that circumcision was essential to salvation—and to remind the Galatians of the real basis of their salvation. It was the urgency of the situation which moved Paul to write even before the Jerusalem Council convened, for the churches of Galatia were at stake. 22
E. Theme
Galatians has been called “the Magna Carta of the Reformation” and Luther’s “Katie von Bora.” It is the book on which the Protestant Reformation was founded. The key to this epistle is seen in 2:16: “Know that a man is not justified on the basis of the works of the Law, but on the basis of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified on the basis of Christ’s faithfulness, and not on the basis of the works of the Law—for no flesh will be justified on the basis of the works of the Law.” Paul thus links Christ’s complete faithfulness to the old covenant as grounds for the abolition of the old covenant and as the basis for our salvation. In a nutshell, we are justified by faith in Christ because Christ was faithful.
II. Argument
Paul begins his letter to the Galatians in a manner different from all his other canonical epistles: although there is a short greeting (1:1-5), there is no thanksgiving to God for the Galatians. Instead, what follows is a denunciation of the Galatians for having deserted the grace of Christ and following after a false gospel (1:6-10).
The body of the epistle deals with three things: (1) a defense of Paul’s apostleship (1:11–2:21), since the very message of his gospel was at stake; (2) a defense of what that message entails in terms of justification by faith (3:1–4:31), since the Galatians’s standing before God is at stake; and (3) a defense of Christian liberty—which grows out of justification by faith (5:1–6:10), since the Galatians’ walk with God is at stake.
In the first section (1:11–2:21) Paul defends his apostleship in two ways. First, it was received by revelation (1:11-12). Thus its source was divine, not human. Second, it was independent of the Jerusalem apostles (1:13–2:21)—again, stressing its divine roots. Paul elaborates on this second point by taking pains to show that he never even consulted with any other apostles in the first three years after his conversion (1:13-17), and even when he did first visit Jerusalem, the visit was brief and only included time logged with Peter (1:18-24). Finally, when Paul did consult with the apostles (2:1-10) they both required nothing of Titus as to circumcision (2:1-5) and gave hearty approval to Paul’s gospel (2:6-10).
So strong was this approval, in fact, that Paul later felt the freedom to rebuke the chief of the Jerusalem apostles, Peter himself, when the two were in Antioch (2:11-21). The recording of such a rebuke 23 should prove that truth was on Paul’s side, and hence his gospel was from God. (Most likely, the Judaizers had given a biased report of this incident to the Galatians, using it in support of their “gospel”.) Paul’s rebuke was not concerning Peter’s gospel, but concerning his inconsistent behavior with it, for out of fear Peter himself had tacitly agreed with the position of the Judaizers, to the harm of Gentile converts (2:11-13). For this hypocrisy, Paul rebuked Peter (2:14). The basis for the rebuke is then given (though it is unclear whether Paul is quoting himself when he confronted Peter or is now turning to the readers) 24 (2:15-21): in essence, to add law to grace is to destroy grace and to make a mockery of the cross (cf. 2:21).
The second major section (3:1–4:31) is really the heart of this epistle, for Paul clearly sets forth what justification by faith really meant and why it was true. He begins with a justification of justification (3:1-18). The basic gist of his argument was that (1) the Spirit was received by faith, not by works of the Law (3:1-5); (2) the example of Abraham illustrates that one is justified by faith, not by works of the Law (3:6-14); and (3) the Law, which came 430 years after God’s covenant with Abraham, cannot invalidate the promise (3:15-18).
But such vindication of justification by faith raises a problem: why then was the Law given (3:19)? If the same God gave the promise, why would he add the Law? Paul answers this question (3:19–4:6) with two responses: (1) it was temporary in nature, given to remind/warn the nation of Israel that a works-righteousness was thoroughly inadequate, though its standard of perfection anticipated the coming of the Messiah (3:19-25); and (2) it had an inferior status, effectively enslaving those who would be sons (3:26–4:7). Thus the Law had its place, viz., to point out to the nation of Israel its need for Christ.
The apostle now turns to his readers with a direct appeal (4:8-31). Having just demonstrated that the Law enslaved, he points out that the Galatians, too, had experienced slavery as pagans worshipping false gods (4:8-9). By accepting the Judaizers’ message, they would simply replace one kind of slavery with another (4:10-11)! Not only this, but the effect that the Judaizers’ message was having on the Galatians (4:12-20) was not only to alienate them from Paul (4:17), but also to rob them of their joy in Christ (4:15). Paul concludes his appeal employing Hagar and Sarah as an allegory for law and grace (4:21-31).
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Behold
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Paul explains why the law was given, the most important reason.. in Galatians 3
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ = , that we might be justified by faith.
Behold
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The one that claimed the verse was "KJV", as i stated.
Johann
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Don't reiterate what was already explained.
Behold
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The verse i posted, explains why the law was given, as Paul explains.
Your post, that is "cut and paste"... this writer didn't literally post the most important verse.
Im not surprised that you dont realize it., so i posted it for you.
Johann
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Don't regurgitate of what was already given.
Behold
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Don't pretend to be a teacher when all you do is use other "men's" material, *Cut and Paste".
Remember, it was not long ago that you were a Calvinist..
So, what are you now?
And what will you be tomorrow.. /?????? //// /?????????
Even you don't know that answer., as it all "depends". @Johann
My hope for you, is that you one day get a firm spiritual and theological foundation that is only this..
Paul said.>"follow me, as i follow Christ". "be a follower of me, as i follow Christ".
Johann
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You make me smile-nothing has changed, you are still the same.
Behold
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And so are you.
See, when you met me on CBoard, i was teaching Pauline Theology.
I still do.
So, Are you still trying to prove that Water baptism is required for salvation?
Still on that one?
And, Are you still trying to prove that if you are not doing works, you are not really saved?
Still on that one?
And if you were really paying attention, you would realize that when i posted the Galatians verse that is Paul explaining why the Law was given, you would have taken it in a different light.
Okay everyone take a deep breath. Maybe walk outside get some fresh air. Then calm down before we do any more posting on this thread please. Just help me out and keep things Civil.
