It is a sad day for the whole Church of Christ, but as what Bro. Erano Manalo, Ka Erdy always quote "To live is Christ, to die is gain". Truly, he lived a life in Christ and spending all of it in the service of God. His memories will stay in our hearts until we meet the Lord.
 

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February 19 2009 at 2:00 AM
Tom  (Login TomasSedlacek)


Response to Ex INC Ex trinity

 

John 3:16 clearly has two persons: 1. God, who sends, 2. His Son, who is sent. Whether his Son is God himself, the Bible does not make clear, because we are not supposed to know. But I think if the Son is God, he would be another person, not the Father, who is the one who sends him.

1 Tim. 3:16 has textual variants. There is evidence that some scribe misunderstood the Greek word hos 'who' as abbreviation of Theos 'God', so he wrote Theos. Therefore I think the textual variants with hos are older, and with Theos, are in error. The Bible is careful not to tell us if Jesus is God or not. So verse 16 does not have God.

At the end you are asking us if 2 Cor. 5:19 is true. My answer is yes, it is true. Note that the verse distinguishes between 2 persons, God and Christ. So I disagree with Oneness Pentecostals that the Father is Christ. There are two persons here, one God the Father, and the other Christ, who might be another person of the Godhead, we cannot know. We just cannot know everything about Christ, see Luke 10:22. And likewise we cannot know everything about God, how many persons he is, one, two, three or more than three.


 
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  1. The Word was God - tumpak on Apr 2, 8:49 PM
    1. In John 1:1, it can be translated "the word was a god". - Tom on Apr 3, 11:29 PM
      1. Questions for you Tom - tumpak on Apr 4, 1:15 AM
        1. My answers. - Tom on Apr 8, 9:12 PM
      2. No Tom, it CANNOT. The most important reason, "a" god would mean there is more - Guenter (Ex-INC Bible Student) on Sep 14, 8:59 PM
        1. Well, there is only one God, with capital G, meaning almighy God, but there are - Tomas on Sep 17, 3:40 AM
          1. well its crystal clear that there is only one Lord and the.... - SOCO on Sep 17, 8:04 PM
            1. There are many lords, even in the Bible, see for example - Tomas on Sep 19, 4:03 AM
              1. your going too far!!!!!hehehehehe - Soco on Sep 20, 6:48 AM
                1. I know it's about Jesus, I'm proving here that him being a lord - Tomas on Sep 24, 2:06 AM
          2. At least you admit there is only one God. Now tell me, if there was another God that - Guenter (Ex-INC Bible Student) on Sep 18, 8:57 PM
            1. You should start believing Jesus, he said in John 10:35 there are gods. - Tomas on Sep 19, 4:14 AM
    2. Trinity(one God) is like ( three states of matter) - roel on Jun 7, 8:32 AM
     
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