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Featured Who Is the Giver of Life By KJV Scripture?

Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by Hark, Feb 3, 2021.

  1. SavedByGrace

    SavedByGrace Well-Known Member

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    agree, the only to understand the Greek of verse 17, first part, is that the second article is retrospective, with reference to The Spirit mentioned in verse 6. Again, too many people are hung up on the KJV for being 100% right!
     
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    The Spirit of the Lord searches even the very mind of God, so not same person there either...
     
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    sorry, but you don't understand much about "subjects" in a passage like 2 Cor 3. There is no way in this chapter, that Jesus Christ is the main thought!
     
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    Can you prove that you are not hung up on the KJV being wrong?

    I think you are relying on education rather than the Lord Jesus Christ for understanding what is written.

    Can you clarify why you think that Jesus Christ & the Spirit are One Person because that sounds more like Oneness Pentecostalism to me. You are listed as Baptist.
     
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    Can you clarify why you think that Jesus Christ & the Spirit are One Person because that sounds more like Oneness Pentecostalism to me.
     
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    I believe you are missing the forest for all the trees since Spirit of the Lord & Spirit of the living God is referring to the Lord Jesus Christ, but it is on God to help you see that truth as the Spirit of Truth is the same as the Spirit of Christ in representing the Son..
     
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    I am using the Greek of about 15 different editions!
     
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    you cannot see that you are wrong
     
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    Can you provide scripture for that is how we, the believers, are to get to the truth in His words for each Bible version?

    Here is scripture saying otherwise;

    1 John 2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. 27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. KJV

    Since scripture do not go against scripture & again scripture testifies Who scripture is to testify about.

    John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. 40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. KJV

    The same for the Holy Spirt as to Who He is to testify about thru us.

    John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: 27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. KJV

    So the Holy Spirit in the authors of the New Testament will testify of the Son as the Old Testaments had done also. That is how you know to remove all doubt when it comes to testimonies in the New Testament that you think is there to glorify the Hoy Spirit by, when it is not but to glorify the Son & by Him, God the Father.
     
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    Then we agree to disagree since you refuse to address how scripture has testified to the Son as giving life & that the Holy Spirit seeks to testify of the Son to glorify the Son & that includes giving Him the title as the Giver of Life as scripture does.
     
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    I read that the Spirit quickeneth. The Nicene Creed got it right.
     
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    John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

    John 13:16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.


    So the Holy Ghost's role is compared to that of a servant relative to the Father, as was Eliezer with Abraham and Isaac, the trio prefiguring the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

    Of course, the three are equal in essence and glory, and are one in essence, but there is a subordination of roles in the Godhead, hence, my Father is greater than I, etc.
     
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    this was said during the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, Who also said, "I and the Father are one", in Life-Giver, Power, Authority and Purpose, as the context says. See John 17:5, Hebrews 2:7-9
     
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    Read it again, otherwise you are saying the Spirit is plural and not One Spirit.

    John 6:.63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. ~ KJV

    Jesus was denouncing the false notion that they had to literally eat His flesh & drink His blood to be saved when in actuality, they were not hearing His words on how to be saved which is by believing in Him thru out that chapter.

    Jesus linked the quickening of the spirit to His words. So one can argue that it is a mental disposition or a vital principle, but He cannot be referring to the Person of the Holy Spirit. Therefore most modern Bibles have it wrong whereas KJV & a few modern Bibles has it right.

    That also means the Nicene creed got it wrong.
     
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    I suggest that you learn Greek grammar
     
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    I agree & glad that you acknowledge scripture proving this to be the truth.


    Equal in essence as the Three are of the One God, but there is no scripture citing the glory of the Holy Ghost to be with the Father & the Son. I do see the judgment of God citing the Father's will in how the Father specifically wished to be honored by.

    John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. ~ KJV

    The Holy Spirit is not directly mentioned to be honored but the Holy Spirit has been "indirectly" mentioned as excluded in order to honor the Father because the latter part of verse 23 states that he that honor not the Son, honor not the Father that has sent Him. That means when a saved believer is honoring the Holy Spirit, that is not honoring the Son nor the Father.

    Those led by the Spirit will do the Father's will since the Holy Spirit is leading believers to testify of the Son in seeking His glory & not of Himself in seeking His own glory.

    John 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: 27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. ~ KJV

    John 16:14 He shall glorify me...... ~ KJV

    Is God confined to His words on what a true witness is?

    John 5:31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. ~ KJV

    Jesus said that so what applies to men, God will do.

    John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. ~ KJV

    The Holy Spirit is the Perfect Witness. He will not step outside of the role He has been sent to do which is to testify of the Son to glorify the Son. Now how can the Holy Spirit accomplish this other than through us?

    It is man's assumption outside of scripture that the Holy Spirit being God also, is to be worshiped with the Father & the Son.

    Since sinners in the world worship spirits and the spirits behind the idols, God will call them away from those spirits to a personal reconciled relationship with God the Father through His Son. That is the only way the churches will know that the sinner has repented of the practice of seeking spirits & their presence with signs & wonders when our bodies is the temple of the Holy Ghost & that Jesus Christ is in us. Jesus is the Bridegroom. We are the bride. Jesus is how we are married to God the Father by. We have His seal of adoption, the Holy Spirit, for why Heavenward, our worship is on honoring the Son to glorify Him and thereby honoring & glorifying God the Father.

    The glory of God rests on His Son Whom the Holy Spirit seeks to lead us to testify of to glorify God by.

    John 13:31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. ~ KJV

    It all boils down to heeding His words in John 5:22-23 as verse 22 cites how we will be judged & verse 23 cites the only way to honor the father is by honoring the Son as the judgment is committed unto the Son per verse 22.

    John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. ~ KJV

    This is why no one can defend the modified Nicene creed of 381 A.D. because scripture cannot support each line given in Nicene creed. There is a web site that lists scriptural references for each line, but nobody bothered to look them up because Matthew 3:16-17 does not teach the practice of the worship of the Holy Spirit with the Father & the Son, but is only referring to the 2 Witnesses from Heaven about Jesus as His Son at His water baptism.

    Neither does Genesis 1:2 teaches about the Holy Spirit being the Giver of life & so I call every believer to prove all things with Him by His words everything the churches teaches us, assuming it to be scriptural when it is not, because God is coming soon to judge His House as to whether or not they have been abiding in His words rather than outside of His words.

    John 15:1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

    4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

    8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. ~ KJV

    May God cause the increase.
     
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    I still do not see any scripture or even prophetic ones informing believers that they need to understand the Greek in order to understand His words.

    1 John 2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. 27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. ~ KJV

    James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. ~ KJV
     
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    I suggest you quote a verse in support of that humanistic claim. One would think God would have covered that apparently uber-important issue.
     
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    I am stating that they are NOT the same person!
     
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    The Holy Spirit is also fully God!
     
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