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2 Corinthians 13:14 14 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

I think Jesus was always eternally the Son of God, the Logos, the Word of God. Christian orthodoxy maintains that Jesus is the first born of all creation, meaning the foremost, not first thing created in a time series. It has also declared Jesus to be eternally begotten of God the Father. Thus...

I think Jesus was always eternally the Son of God, the Logos, the Word of God. As John 5:26 states, “For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.” In the context of John, “this claim to divine aseity [i.e., life in himself] must refer to the...

Logos was eternally the Son of God before incarnation. Logos became a human at the incarnation as Jesus Christ. Logos was made flesh, thus Jesus had a human body and human mind. Yet He was fully God and fully man.

So salvation does not happen by us having faith, but by God putting faith into us?

But how can I know that God has credited my faith as righteousness, so I am reborn and headed for heaven? If a person was 100% sincere, even fanatical, for while, witnessing to people, loving God, eagerly studying the Bible, etc. then backslides all the way into brief atheism, then recovers...

Did Jesus have a human mind? That is the issue in Apollonarianism. Here is another point that is controversial. When Jesus died, did His spirit go to hades? Or to paradise? Did Jesus say to the thief on the cross “I say to thee today, thou shalt be with me in paradise”…or “I say to thee...

Thank you for relieving my gloom. I feel so horrible seeing missiles hitting Tel Aviv. I pray that this war will end soon, with minimal civilian deaths.

This Iran war is starting to smell like the Afghanistan war, Iraq war, and Vietnam war. Wars we could not win. What is different is that we are protecting Israel. Iran chanted death to America, death to Israel. Iran was close to nuclear weapons. But it seems impossible to win permanently. I...

Well then, what kind of faith is NOT credited as righteousness to a person? Dead faith that is never expressed in good works? Partially dead faith that has manifested some good works? Faith that is really just an ecstatic feeling at one point in life? Faith that was strong and sincere for a...

Yes. Jesus was fully human and fully God. So, He had a human mind and body. But He subjected His human mind to His Father’s will. To say He did not have a human mind means Jesus was only partially human, which is the assertion of Apollonarianism.

This is another murky topic that deserves careful consideration. How Jesus was both God and man has been investigated, pondered, and debated by theologians for many centuries. Each of us must do biblical research and come to some at least tentative conclusion. It is similar to the question...

4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; NOTE: We should also be grateful to God for the unearned divine favor given to our loved ones by Jesus Christ, from whom all blessings come. 5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all...

Which type of tree am I? Matthew 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Folks, Jesus was fully human, not partially human. Either we believe orthodox Christianity or we believe heresy. Either scripture or philosophy. Jesus was fully God and fully man. No Baptist would dare to dispute this. To believe Jesus did not have a human mind is not Baptist theology. It is...

You keep confusing “mind”, “soul”, and “spirit”. Apollonarianism stated that Jesus did not have a human mind. Scripture does not support this view that Jesus was only partially human, as you suggest. John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us… To be made flesh means to have a...

Why would intelligent design cause investigation to stop, with “God did it, isn’t He amazing?”? The identification of the source of phenomena does not explain the inner workings of them. Intelligent design states that God is the first cause and director, rather than spontaneous autonomous...

Apollonarianism, the theory that Jesus did not have a human mind, was rejected as heresy at the Council of Constantinople in 381 because it meant Jesus was not fully human. John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not...

If the mind of Jesus was not human, He could not be tempted. A human body on its own cannot be tempted. Because His mind was human, it had to grow in wisdom. Luke 2:52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. The human mind of Jesus had its own will, separate...