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To: Momaw Nadon
BIBLICAL COSMOLOGY according to Qx:

[ONE] IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD . . . I JOHN 1:1

KJV:
John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

MSG:

John 1


The Life-Light
1The Word was first,
the Word present to God,
God present to the Word.
The Word was God,
2in readiness for God from day one.

3Everything was created through him;
nothing--not one thing!-
came into being without him.
4What came into existence was Life,
and the Life was Light to live by.
5The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness;
the darkness couldn't put it out.

AMPLIFIED:
John 1
1IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word ([1] Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God [2] Himself.(1)
2He was present originally with God.
3All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being.
4In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men.
5And the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it [put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it, and is unreceptive to it].

NIV:
John 1


The Word Became Flesh

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.
3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood[1] it.
6There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. 7He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. 8He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. 9The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.[2]
10He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God-- 13children born not of natural descent,[3] nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,[4] who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

[I like the KJV here as well as the Amplified. The MSG adds some flavor that can be enhancing, I think.

[TWO]
John 14:6
Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me.
(Whole Chapter: John 14 In context: John 14:5-7)

[AM IN A RUSH to get off to church. I'd probably add a few basic doctrine things and especially]:

[THREE]
PROPHECIES PREDICTING AND THE FACTS OF HIS LIFE, CRUCIFIXION; DEATH, RESURRECTION.

ET's will likely put forth a more or less NEW AGE cosmology as well as declare that they created Jesus, Buddha etc for social engineering purposes. They may even purport to show a 'historical' holographic video 'proving' the miracles of the NT false.

FOLKS WILL NEED TO KNOW BECAUSE THEY KNOW BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT JESUS IS REAL INSIDE THEM, WALKING WITH THEM; THAT HE WILL NEVER FORSAKE THEM.

Because the 'reality' around them in this time space dimension is set to get twisted every which way as evil tries in a dying gasp to throw the last bits of sand it can into God's face and HIS prize creation.


100 posted on 05/02/2004 8:10:08 AM PDT by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: Quix
Thank you Quix
101 posted on 05/02/2004 8:14:58 AM PDT by Momaw Nadon (Goals for 2004: Re-elect President Bush, over 60 Republicans in the Senate, and a Republican House.)
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