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Read Col 1:18 again. It says he is the beginning BECAUSE he is the firstborn from the dead. Jesus Christ is the God MAN. He is a tripartite man from his physical birth, body, soul, and Spirit. The purpose of the coming of Jesus Christ and dying for the whole world is to regenerate the family of...

The emphasis on the cornerstone is the nature and the placement. It is buried. It is the beginning of the building. It holds the foundation which holds the building upon which it is built. It is a NEW testament with the emphasis on new. It is for new creatures to dwell in. It is under...

Words are actions. How would men know you were a scrorner without words? How did Peter know in Acts 8 that Simon was guily of bad thoughts? Here is what Jesus said about a tree. a metaphor for a man. 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are...

There are not two sins, one when you think it and one when you do it. You imagine it in your mind and in that stage you can cast it down. It is in the drawing away from the right thinking stage and the conception stage but the finish stage is the doing it that brings forth death. It will be the...

I quoted verses that tells us that judgement is based on the deeds done in the body, the works of the flesh. If one casts down the imagination before it becomes a deed then a man is not guilty of carrying the deed to it's end, which is sin. James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye...

Romans 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Because that is the lust that is conceived and one cannot help that but whether it is finished is in our hands, according to James, and now Paul. The deed...

Here is where every sinner who is not redeemed by the blood of the Lamb will stand and notice the wording in the text. I will highlight the words I think you should consider particularly. Re 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the...

Defining when a thought becomes a sin according to the scriptures. It is defined very clearly in James 1. 12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 13 Let no man say when he is...

See, I am not sure what you believe about the church. You and I may not be defining it the same way. I am left guessing. You may be thinking in terms of local congregations of believers with each manifesting all these gifts at all times. I am thinking in terms of the one body and that is the...

I am making my conclusions on the basis that apostles and prophets and pastor teachers had particular ministry credentials. The evangelist had none. Philip was definitely not the apostle Philip, otherwise it would render as insane the reasoning for appointing him as a helper with the widows when...

I believe there are only three God ordained offices in the New Testament era thus maintaining the trinitarian fingerprint of God on the church. They are apostles, prophets, and pastors. It is not hard to see that the main calling for the apostle and prophet was evangelism and church planting...

What we learn from the New Testament epistles is that they are given for the purpose of explaining the history of the Acts, the beginning of a new age. The Acts is a bridge to transition us across from OT economies to the NT economy. The Acts notes differences but does not necessarily attempt to...

It is not good wisdom to take the most obscure passages of scripture to interpret the most clear passages, IMO. At the end of the day, so to speak, there are only 12 apostles in this apostolic group and a fixed number for eternity. What would be expected that Luke would called this group of 12...

Just a couple more thoughts here on the use of the word apostle. How does the text make this clear? This book of Acts is primarily a history book. It is what happened, what is said. Luke mentions two men as apostles. One of them is not in doubt as an actual apostle. The Holy Ghost calls out...

I do not think I am assuming anything. I am reading the word apostle from the scriptures. It is used in a certain context in the scriptures. Certain powers and spiritual gifts are associated with this office that are not associated with other believers. They are kingdom signs because apostle is...

If you would have shown that everyone whom God has sent forth for a purpose is commonly called in the scripture record an apostle, or if you could quote anywhere the word apostle was used as you suggest you would have a stronger argument, but you didn't, and there is a reason you didn't, it is...

It is reasonable to believe that John ministered to the same people and in the same area after the destruction of Jerusalem and dispersion of Israel from the land in AD 70 that he had before, which included Ephesus. There would have been no one for an apostle to preach to in Israel. John wrote...

It seems to me that none of the apostles went west with Paul who is uniquely the "apostle to the gentiles." Silas, a prophet and one of the 70 elders was chosen to accompany him. God would send Paul to Europe with the gospel but it was established in the first missionary trip Paul and Barnabas...

Here are excerpts from Ps 90 praying to Adonay, who is elohym 1. A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. (this tells me there is more than one generation) Next , he says God is eternal, from everlasting to everlasting and not restricted by...

This response is much too vague to gender a response at this time except to say that Jesus said to the woman at the well that "salvation is of the Jews." Acts 2:25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed...