“You keep referring to that scripture to prove what I feel men use”
Well of course I keep using it, and there are many others where it came from, and they all say quite clearly “Jesus is God.” What do I care if Bob, a mere man, denies the meaning of words? It makes the rest of your post utterly irrelevant.
“You posted scripture to prove it but I believe you did not answer the question I posed.”
I did answer it. I told you that Christ is fully man and fully God, and therefore there is no contradiction. I’ll add, however, that the inability of the depraved criminal to not commit crimes does not save him from the penalty of the law.
I don’t post very often but when I do, I believe I try to answer questions in context. I believe you have not.
I have no problem with you calling me a mere man if you will call the men who decided the Doctrine of the Trinity 300+ years after the Christ’s death between opposing views with a majority vote. After the vote, they told the others they were heretics and couldn’t be a member of their church unless they believed it as well. Sounds like a cult to me. Unless you can prove their writings and church councils are on par with scripture, they are of mere men as well.
I have lived long enough to see how good a deceiver the god of this world is. When I was in grade school, we had the Ten Commandments on the wall and Bibles in the classrooms. We said the pledge of allegiance and a prayer every morning and blessed our food as a class at noon.
We had Christmas and Easter vacation. A Christmas tree and gave gifts. Sang carols and were taught what Easter represented. We were taught the Pilgrims gave thanks to God at Thanksgiving, not to the Indians. Nativity scenes were allowed any where you wanted to put them, public or private..
I was taught the United Sates was based on Judeo-Christian principles. Freedom of Religion meant everyone could practice their Christian sect’s beliefs. Today, for all practical purposes, it means you can practice any religion other than Christianity.
The only business that I can remember that did not respect the Sabbath was a steel mill that had to run 24 7 because of the furnaces. Police, fire and a hospital for similar reasons. The workers got premium pay to work on the Sabbath.
Sport competition between schools was after school hours on week days. The only sport competition outside of school was Little League and Pony League baseball. They were played after school and some Saturdays. Nothing was scheduled for Sundays because we were in Sunday school and/or church as a family.
The definition in Webster’s dictionary for homosexual was; “A man who has unnatural perverted sex with another man.”
We were taught manners and etiquette. Boys and men opened doors for woman and those older than they. We called all adults Mr, or Mrs. Single women were called Miss. We sinned, but when we did, we knew God knew we did it, even in the dark.
Thirty years ago a liberal could not win the presidency. Now we have reelected a Marxist who won mainly by class warfare because more than 51 percent of the people have never learned or understand; “Do not covet your neighbor’s possessions”.
This is the reason I don’t care what the Church Fathers wrote about traditions and beliefs of the church in their day. I have seen how ‘traditions’ evolved in my lifetime. The tradition of the church today would have to include Homosexual bishops, churches marrying men to men, women to women and homosexual priests molesting boys. Would the Christ consider that His Church, I think not.
I posted most of this to show why I don’t trust man’s interpretation of scripture. The Christ said He would ask His Father to send us His spirit to lead us in truth. I make no claim that I get it right.
I find nowhere in scripture that says a man has to interpret scripture for me. If you know of such scripture, I would appreciate you showing me where it is.
Now I will try one more time to have you answer what I feel should be a simple yes or no answer.
Do you think a righteous God could punish you if He could not prove a man can live a sinless life?
I all ready believe you think the Christ is God. I do not believe that is a yes or no answer to my question.
Giving more reasons why God thinks we are sinners is not a yes or no answer. I believe I have disobeyed all of God’s Thou shall nots with the possible exception of, Thou shall not murder. Because of my thoughts about a neighbor, He could say I have already done it in my heart. I could be guilty of that as well.
It confounds me as to why I feel you are reluctant to give a yes or no answer with several chances.
Would you please give a yes or no answer to the question?
If you don’t want to, I won’t ask again. I will put your name in the have not given a yes or no answer at this time column.
May God the Father lead us to his truth, BVB