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Does Calling the Son "Theos" prove his Prexistence and his Deity?
As Nigel's excellent comment points out, some of the Greek text used for our translations today has been tampered with. The word "son" was exchanged for "God" in the Greek, and ...
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Does John 14:6 and John 6:44 seem paradoxical ? Who do we seek first: the Father or Son?
We seek Jesus first according to John 14:6. John 6:44 does not say we seek the Father and then come to Jesus. It says the Father draws us to Jesus. So, yes, the first thing we do is to seek Jesus but ...
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Does John 14:6 and John 6:44 seem paradoxical ? Who do we seek first: the Father or Son?
We just need to combine the two statements to see our movement path.
We are passive recipients of being drawn by the Father, so that isn't a choice we need to make. (ch6)
Having been drawn by the ...
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How do we reconcile Deuteronomy 22:5 with John 7:24?
The judgment, Deuteronomy 2:5, was already given by God to Moses. That decreed judgment is to be carried out.
Enforcing God's judgment is not personally judging. There is no contradiction here.
If ...
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Exegesis - Paraclete as the antichrist or Satan?
I do not intend to take the space here to demonstrate that exegetes in every age have shown a decided tendency to interpret prophecy to be fulfilled in their own time. Muhammad and his teacher/pastor,...
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Difference between eternal & everlasting life
The phrase in both John 3:16 and 12:25 is identical in both cases: ζωὴν αἰώνιον = "life eternal". Most English versions will render this as "eternal life", or, "everlasting ...
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Difference between eternal & everlasting life
There is absolutely no difference in the meaning of “eternal life” and “everlasting life”. The King James Version (1611) translates both phrases from the same Greek phrase, ζωὴν αἰώνιον, even within a ...
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Does Matt. 5:8 also tell us that willing unrepentant sin causes doubt?
Purity in heart is something that no sinner has. "The heart is deceitful above all, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart" (Jeremiah 17:9-10 KJV). Further, the ...
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Is “will of God” inferred or is it just “of God” John 1:13
It does not grammatically follow that the word θελήματος (“will”) is omitted by ellipsis.
οἳ οὐκ ἐξ αἱμάτων οὐδὲ ἐκ θελήματος σαρκὸς οὐδὲ ἐκ θελήματος ἀνδρὸς ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ θεοῦ ἐγεννήθησαν
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John 3:36 whoever does "not believe" or disobeys?
The Greek of the English translations is the same as for the Latin Vulgate of Jarome, from which Douay Rheims is translated. There are a number of versions correcting the Latin influence (unbelief) ...
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How to understand John 1:1 in light of Hebrews 7:3?
The opening of the Gospel of John is a midrash of Genesis 1:1. Bereshit bara Elohim - "when God started to create the heaven and the earth". "In the begining" in both texts does ...
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Did John 4:27 mean to say " that woman " of the Samaritan lady?
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Here in verse 9 it ...
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Why does John the Evangelist not mention the Transfiguration?
Why does John the Evangelist not mention the Transfiguration?
St. John’s Gospel was the last one written. He might not wanted repeat what was already written by the other Evangelists.
Although ...
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Why did the Pharisees connect baptism to the coming of Christ?
This is a good question, because there is no particular connection between baptism and the coming of the Messiah in the OT. I think the Essene tradition had something to do with it (see below).
In ...
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Why was the Praetorium an unclean place?
The Praetorium was part of Pilate's Jerusalem residence and headquarters in the former Palace of Herod I. The concern here was not that Pilate was a Gentile per se, but has to do with special Passover ...
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What does "on the Son of Man" mean in John 1:51?
The phrase "on the Son of Man" in John 1:51 is a direct allusion to the dream of Jacob's ladder described in Gen 28:12 -
And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with ...
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Does 'the foundation of the world' refer to the creation of the universe or something else at John 17:24?
The Greek word καταβολή (katabolé = "foundation") occurs 11 times in the NT, 10 of these are in the phrase, ἀπὸ/πρὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου = "from/since foundation/creation of the world/...
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How to discount this self contradictory statement in the Bible?
The way to reconcile these two verses is to understand that "the world" as James uses the term refers to what we now call the the evil world that opposes God's values. John uses "the ...
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What does John 1:4 mean?
The Psalmist declares of God, “For with You is the fountain of life, and in Your light, we shall see light”.1 Philo wrote, “God is the cause of life”2 and “the ever-flowing fountain of living”.3
To ...
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Does it follow from John 17:3 that knowing God alone cannot give eternal life? What then is the need for the adjectives "The only true"?
There is only one true God. That is a theme throughout the Bible. It's in the Ten Commandments--the worship of any other god breaks the first commandment. It's in the Shema. It's in Jesus' own ...
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How to understand Luke 17:20-21 in light of John 3:3 and Mark 9:1?
The three verses are all saying something related but still distinct.
Luke 17:20, 21
Barnes makes the most helpful remarks here:
for behold, the kingdom of God is within you — It is an internal, ...
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Moses the accuser
Moses wrote down that a prophet like him would come later. The people were to listen to him:
"The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of
thee, of thy brethren, like ...
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How do we reconcile Deuteronomy 22:5 with John 7:24?
This is not an isolated problem - the NT appears equivocal about the matter of whether we judge anything - see appendix below.
In the particular case at hand, we have two different situations:
Deut ...
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Is Jesus God's apostle?
Let there be no doubt that the Father sent Jesus, the Son, according to the frequent testimony of the Son:
John 5:23 - so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not ...
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How could Nicodemeus anoint Jesus body with spices after the women left, if the stone was already in place?
Unless we assume the Gospel accounts always list every person who is in attendance at every event (not a great assumption -- imagine the feeding of the 5000!) the Gospel accounts present a simple, ...
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How to understand John 1:1 in light of Hebrews 7:3?
John 1:1 does not say the word began (γενεσθαι). It says the Word was (ἠν). Hebrews 7:3 supports the interpretation of the eternal existence of the Word in John 1:1.
Was (ἠν [ēn]). Three times in ...
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Did John 4:27 mean to say " that woman " of the Samaritan lady?
Its 'a woman'.
There are two issues here.
This was Samaria and the woman was a Samaritan, i.e. she was from Northern Israel and Jews, i.e. Israelites from tribe Benjamin and Judah, would consider ...
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Were Verses 22-42 of John 10 originally part of a separate Chapter?
First, and most importantly, the original Bible text, including the gospel of John, originally had no chapter divisions and verse divisions These all came centuries later.
Second, all the earliest ...
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Isn't reason a better translation of the Logos of John 1 than Word?
Translators almost universally use "word" in John 1:1. None that I know of use "reason" although some (rather tendentiously IMO) use "voice" or "Christ." It is ...
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Difference between eternal & everlasting life
A simple examination of the word, "eternal", and the words "forever and ever" will reveal their original Greek roots and their meanings. "Eternal" is an unfortunate ...
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