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2024-09-13 05:49:18

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Yes, we strive for perfection. However we will never reach it this side of our resurrection.

2024-09-13 05:40:14

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I think we also need to know that we are sinners incapable of living up to His standard and yet He provided a way for us to live with Him for eternity regardless of our failings.

2024-09-13 05:09:13

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It wasn't actually a Talmudic doctrine. It was held by the Israelites all the way back into the first temple period. But I agree, we can set it aside.
And I agree. The primary message of the Bible does not depend on Trinitarian doctrines. However I do believe it to be important for deeper understanding of our creator. But we will have all of eternity to get to know Him better and I guarantee we will all be wrong about something and will learn better when we see Him face to face.

2024-09-13 04:53:40

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I did not intend to imply you leaving it out intentionally. However I do agree that verse 14 is clarified by the previous verses, which makes it even more apparent that John is declaring clearly that Jesus is divine and is Himself God. Whether you want to say it is Trinitarian or not we could discuss a different time. However I would say this is clearly referring to the Jewish 2 powers in Heaven doctrine which describes God as 2 persons.

2024-09-13 04:44:46

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I have been considering this a lot recently. What is the minimum requirement for salvation? I see a lot of gatekeeping on all sides of the discussion so I've been trying to get to the bottom of what the Bible says is necessary for salvation. Looking at examples of people in both the Old and New Testaments. Take Rahab for example, she basically only knew that God had been destroying other nations and she and her family were saved. In the New Testament we have examples like the Ethiopian eunuch who it says was taught starting in Isaiah about who the Christ is and what He did. And I keep coming back to 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 where Paul describes the Gospel as he proclaimed it to the Corinthians.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version, (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), 1 Co 15:1–11.
I think the conclusion that I have tentatively come to is that the foundation of the Gospel of Jesus the Christ is that we are dead in our sin with no hope, Jesus came and lived a perfect life, He was killed as a payment for our sin, and He rose again defeating death and giving us hope for the resurrection. Now there are other things besides these that I see as important, however I am currently reluctant to call someone an unbeliever so long as they hold to these foundational doctrines.

2024-09-13 04:17:50

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I find it interesting that in your analysis of John 1 you stop right before the verses which clearly identify the Word from verse 1 as Jesus the Christ. I'll post in the KJV since it seems to be your preferred version.
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,) full of grace and truth. 15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. 16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Jn 1:14–17.

2024-08-23 19:05:19

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I have only ever been summoned once and was looking forward to it but didn't get selected for the case.

2023-08-06 04:47:10

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Hi All. I started listening to Jack in 2009 and participated in a few other communities such as Zello and was involved in PermaEthos. Kinda took a break from all podcasts for the last couple years but started listening again recently.