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To: Alamo-Girl; DelphiUser; reaganaut; greyfoxx39
As I recall, we went down this same road on the other thread. And my position remains that the issue of "Who God IS" cannot be dismissed with a hand wave.

Most likely AG, along with lots of mormon obfuscation. However, the bible is clear, the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob is NOT the 'god' mormonism refers to. Who God IS cannot be dismissed.

1,406 posted on 01/04/2011 8:21:16 AM PST by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: Godzilla; DelphiUser; reaganaut; greyfoxx39; Syncro; restornu; Cronos; Sontagged; ...
Who God IS cannot be dismissed.

Indeed.

Legerdemain is for magicians not preachers.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or [if] ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with [him]. - 2 Cor 11:3-4

If we were to take all of Creation - both physical and spiritual - and raise it to the power of infinity, it would not compare with the Creator of it.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. - Hebrews 11:3

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. – John 1:1-4

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he might have the preeminence. For it pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, [I say], whether [they be] things in earth, or things in heaven.– Colossians 1:15-20

YHwH means "He IS." And is often translated in the Old Testament to "The Lord."

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. – Exodus 3:14

Remember the former things of old: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else; [I am] God, and [there is] none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: - Isaiah 46:9-10

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. - John 8:58

As soon then as he had said unto them, I am [he], they went backward, and fell to the ground. – John 18:6

Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and [that] no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. –I Corinthians 12:3

God's Name is I AM.

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. - Revelation 1:7-8

"Hallowed be thy Name..." And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. - Deuteronomy 12:3-4

Incidentally, that is why the Jews type "G_d" instead of "God" - so they will not even accidentally erase a Name of God.

1,427 posted on 01/04/2011 9:27:17 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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