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To: spunkets
A prophet, where?

Matthew 13
57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

Luke 13
33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem

What prophet does God have that raises the dead?

Act 2:22
Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:

Paul seems to think that YHWH performed miracles and wonders through the MAN named Jesus. So, guess I'd say G-d raised the dead, not Jesus.

173 posted on 01/15/2005 4:33:49 PM PST by ET(end tyranny) (Isa:59:20-And a redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob....)
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To: ET(end tyranny)
Re:prophet, Matt 13:57

Background: After Jesus taught about Himself and His Kingdom, here is what was written: Matt 34-35, "Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.” The reference is too God Himself.

Matt 13:53-58, "When Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from there. Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?” they asked. “Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? Aren't all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?” And they took offense at him.

But Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor.”

And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith."

The statement means they threated Him as they did the prophets before Him. He(God) now stands before them and is rejected as they were as in your Luke 13 cut. Notice the mention of lack of faith.

prophets, Luke 13

read the next sentence. Luke 13:34“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

There is only one who gathers the children of Jerusalem, that's God Himself.

"Paul seems to think that YHWH performed miracles and wonders through the MAN named Jesus."

Paul never said, "I and the Father are one." Paul said all have sinned. The words of the One he called Lord reign supreme. Paul is not God's teacher, nor does he know God as God does. Jesus said, I raise them up."

Romans 11:34-36
“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”(Isaiah 40-13) “Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?”(Job 41:11) For from him and through him and to him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.

God is one. There is no other that knows the mind of God, except God. Paul speaks of God through Jesus Christ, the Temple. He calls Him Lord as God was refered to throughout the OT. It is actually the Holy Spirit he is focusing on.

177 posted on 01/15/2005 6:08:56 PM PST by spunkets
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