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Squeakybro said:you said
It still is orthodoxy.
I said
Again I ask do you know what orthodox means?
After seeing the way you ask questions I would also like to know if you had a bad childhood. Do you hate your parents?
Squeakybro said:And you never did answer my question "Do you hate your parents?
Squeakybro said:Sorry free but orthodox means traditional.
And why havent you answered my other question?
The question isnt that hard, do you hate your mother and father?
Sorry free but orthodox means traditional.
Squeakybro said:I have answered this question many times without hesitation. Real Christains dont mind.
1 Pet 3:15
15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;
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The Word is God - in John:
John 1:14 The Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We observed His glory, the glory as the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John never uses the expression, hO LOGOS, the Word, outside of the prologue, the 1st 18 vss. of John. Why is that? In the Prologue we are looking at the pre-existent Son of God. In vs.14 the Son of God becomes flesh. The Word is now Jesus of Nazareth.)
John 1:18 “No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.â€Â
John 1:34 “I have both seen and testified that this one is the Son of God.â€Â
John 1:49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel!â€Â
John 3:13 “No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heavenâ€â€the Son of Manâ€Â
John 3:31 “The one who comes from above is superior to all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to all.â€Â
John 5:18 For this reason the Jewish authorities were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.
John 6:31-33 “Our ancestors ate the manna in the desert, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’†Then Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the worldâ€Â
John 6:38 “For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent meâ€Â
John 6:47-51 I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, and they died. This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.†…
John 6:58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like your ancestors ate and died. The one who eats this bread will live foreverâ€Â
John 7:28-29 Then Jesus shouted out while teaching in the temple, “You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him, 29 but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent meâ€Â
John 8:14 Jesus answered, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am goingâ€Â
John 8:23 Jesus replied, “You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this worldâ€Â
John 8:40-42 But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this! You people are doing the deeds of your father.†Then they said to Jesus, “We were not born as a result of sexual immorality! We have only one Father, God himself. Jesus replied, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent meâ€Â
John 8:56-59 Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.†Then the Jewish people who had been listening to Him replied, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?†Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, before Abraham came into existence, I am!†Then they picked upstones to throw at Him,but Jesus hid Himself and went out from the temple area. (The fact that the Jews tried to stone Jesus makes it clear that they understood that He was claiming to be God.)
John 9:16 Then some of the Pharisees began to say, “This man is not from God, because He does not observe the Sabbath.†But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?†So there was a division among them
John 9:29-30 We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!†The man replied, “This is a remarkable thing, that you do not know where He comes from, and yet He caused me to see!â€Â
John 9:33 “If this man were not from God, He could do nothingâ€Â
John 13:1-3 Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come for him to depart from this world to the Father. He had loved his own who were in the world, and now He loved them to the end. The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, that he should betray Jesus. Jesus, because He knew that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going back to God…
John 14:1 “Do not let not your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in Meâ€Â
John 14:9 “He who has seen Me has seen the Father …â€Â
John 16:30 “Now we know that You know everything and do not need anyone to ask You anything. Because of this we believe that You have come from Godâ€Â
John 17:7-8 “Now they understand that everything You have given Me is from You, because I have given them the words You have given Me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from You, and believed that You sent Me.â€Â
John 19:7 The Jewish religious leaders replied, “We have a law, and according to our law He ought to die, because He claimed to be the Son of God!â€Â
John 20:28 Thomas replied to Him, “My Lord and my God!â€Â
John 20:30, 31 Now Jesus performed many other miraculous signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
SB,Squeakybro said:I have a son and he is not me. I dont know how you people come up with the comparison. I do know this that you are calling Jesus a liar.
Because Jesus said the Father is the only true God.
John 17:1-3
1 Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You,
2 "as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him.
3 "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
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John 17:4, 5 I have glorified You on the earth by completing the work You gave Me to do. Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with that glory I had with You before the world existed.
vss. 11, 12 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name that You have given Me, so that they may be one just as We are. 12 While I was with them I was protecting them by Your name that You have given Me. I guarded them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture may be fulfilled.
vss. 24, 25 Father, I desire those You have given Me to be with Me where I am. Then they may see My glory, which You have given Me because You loved Me before the world's foundation. 25 Righteous Father! The world has not known You. However, I have known You, and these have known that You sent Me.
What conclusions can we make from the above verses?John 14:6-9 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. 7 "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him." 8 Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us." 9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, `Show us the Father'?