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Was Jesus Truly The Creator? Full Explanations You Need To Consider

Was Jesus Truly The Creator? Full Explanations You Need To Consider

Continued from Part 11 Nevertheless, Barnes believes that Jesus is himself the uncreated and eternal Creator.  However, he does not base his belief on Revelation 3:14.  Of this verse he says: If it were demonstrated from other sources that Christ was, in fact, a created being, and the first that God had made, it cannot be denied that this language would appropriately express that fact.  But it cannot be made out from the mere use of the language here; and as the language is susceptible of othe
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
What You Need To Understand When Jesus Was Represented As Subordinate

What You Need To Understand When Jesus Was Represented As Subordinate

Continued from Part 14 Subordination and subjection Wherever the relationship of Jesus to God is treated in the New Testament, Jesus is always represented in a subordinate position.  This subordinate role can be seen in the fact that Jesus views himself as a messenger:  “He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives Him who sent me” (Matthew 10:40; see also John 5:36).  Jesus acknowledges his subordination and subjection to God when he declares that God is greater than he is
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
The Impossibility of Jesus And God Forming Two Thirds of A Deity

The Impossibility of Jesus And God Forming Two Thirds of A Deity

Continued from Part 15 The New Testament Jesus:  A distinct supernatural agent Despite the distinctiveness with which God and Jesus are regarded in the New Testament, most Christians are under the misconception that God and Jesus form two-thirds of a triune deity. Partial responsibility for this error goes to the New Testament authors because a number of designations for Jesus in the New Testament are the same as those given to God in the Jewish Scriptures.  The resulting confusion as to whet
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
The Correct Reference of Alpha and Omega With God

The Correct Reference of Alpha and Omega With God

Continued from Part 18 In Revelation, the title the Alpha and the Omega is applied in different verses to refer to either God or Jesus in their own respective ways.  Therefore, the title can be applied to either one of them or to both of them. It is unnecessary to make the two of them into “one God” in order to explain this phrase.  In the New Testament, the titles “Lord,” “Savior,” and “King of kings and Lord of lords” apply to both God and Jesus respectively (cf. 1 Timothy 6:14-16 where the
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
How The Spirit Terms Is Used Improperly In The Gospels

How The Spirit Terms Is Used Improperly In The Gospels

Continued from Part 32 Paul writes that “The spirit intercedes for us” (Romans 8:26), but also identifies who this spirit is in the context of this passage:  “Christ Jesus . . . intercedes for us” (Romans 8:34).   He also writes:  “But whenever a man turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.  Now the Lord is spirit, and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2 Corinthians 3:16-17).  The veil is a reference to Exodus 34:34, “But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him,
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
The Ultimate Question If Jesus Was Truly God

The Ultimate Question If Jesus Was Truly God

Continued from Part 34 Is the Trinity Doctrine a New Testament teaching? Paul, speaking of Jesus says, “for in him all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form” (Colossians 2:9).  Whether Paul is teaching a form of dualism or that this supposed supernatural power that has indwelled Jesus has become God’s unique representative to mankind is a dispute for Christian commentators to ponder. Suffice it for us to ask, if God was in the incarnate Jesus and was one with Jesus ontologically why is
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Christian Proof-Texting

Christian Proof-Texting

Misquoting Texts – What does Tanach really say? The claim of Paul and the New Testament authors is that Jesus fulfilled many prophecies connected to the Hebrew Scriptures (so-called Old Testament) and a true believer will easily be able to see them. The gospel according to Matthew, in particular, attempts to cross-reference the miraculous birth, deeds, and proclamations attributed to Jesus with relevant passages found in Tanach. What are the differences in Christianity vs Judaism? Closer scrut
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Chapter 13 - OF MIRACLE WORKERS AND PROPHETS

Chapter 13 - OF MIRACLE WORKERS AND PROPHETS

Continued from Chapter 12 (Deuteronomy 13:2-4) The New Testament claim that Jesus performed miracles is one more exaggeration on the part of early Christians seeking to impress would-be converts. But the assertion that Jesus performed miracles is irrelevant as far as proving anything concerning his being the Messiah. Deuteronomy 13:2-4 declares: If there arise in the midst of you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, wh
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz