Posted on 01/24/2015 3:23:43 PM PST by NYer
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.....Human nature had no independent substance of its own. As the human nature came into existence from the beginning, it was joined to a Divine person, it never had an independent existence.
Matthew 26:39 (NKJV)
He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”
Here we see the human will crying out. Jesus’ divine will is one with the Father. God’s will was His will.
You can do it for Kentucky and Indiana, too; but for MOST of the border, you'd be under water!!
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We will never completely understand it in this life, but we are to know what has been revealed.
Romans 1:3-4
...” concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of ‘the seed of David according to the flesh’, and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.
don-o:And you know that how?
1 Corinthians 15:35-55 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
So tell us, is the body we have now capable of walking through walls and appearing and disappearing on command?
Fr. Mitch Pacwa clears up caller's confusion about the Holy Eucharist.
Bancroft writes,
“The union of two natures in one person is necessary to constitute Jesus Christ a proper mediator between man and God. His twofold nature gives Him fellowship with both parties, since it involves an ‘equal dignity with God’ and at the same time ‘perfect sympathy with man’:
Hebrews 2:17-18
Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.
Hebrews 4:15-16
For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
This twofold nature, moreover, enables Him to present to both God and man proper terms of reconciliation. Being man, He can make atonement for man; being God, His atonement has infinite value.”
As man, He knows experientially what you’re going through and as God, He can get you through it.
One can do that on the KY/IN border; too; but most of the border would have you underwater.
Well; she’s REALLY not THAT sinless...
Interesting...
Webster, the 19th-century statesman, once dined in Boston with several eminent literary figures... Soon the conversation turned to Christianity.... Webster, a convinced Christian, confessed his belief in Christ and His atoning work.... A Unitarian minister at the table responded,.... “Mr. Webster, can you comprehend how Jesus Christ could be both God and Man?”
“No, sir, I cannot understand it,” replied Webster, “and I would be ashamed to acknowledge Christ as my Saviour if I could comprehend it.... He could be no greater than myself, and such is my conviction of accountability to God, my sense of sinfulness before Him, and my knowledge of my own incapacity to recover myself,... that I feel I need a superhuman Saviour.”
Martin Luther was forced to admit that the union could not be explained..
“Reason cannot comprehend this. But we believer it; and this is also the testimony of Scripture: that Christ is true God and that He also became a man.”
It’s been said the Christian should not be troubled by the presence of mystery in his faith... Wherever God and man meet, there is mystery. ....We should accept the doctrine of the unique God-man in the same way that we accept the Trinity— ‘by faith in God’s Word’, the Bible.
C.S. Lewis, in his book, “Miracles” in the chapter: “The Grand Miracle”, draws some analogies to the incarnation—
God becoming man. He says,....
... “In the Christian story God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity; down further still, down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He had created....
.... But He goes down to come up again and bring the whole ruined world up with Him. One has the picture of a strong man stooping lower and lower to get himself underneath some great complicated burden.... He must stoop in order to lift, he must almost disappear under the load before he incredibly straightens his back and marches off with the whole mass-swaying on his shoulders.
... Or one may think of a diver, first reducing himself to nakedness, then glancing in mid-air, then gone with a splash, vanished, rushing down through green and warm water into black and cold water, down through increasing pressure into the deathlike region of ooze and slime and old decay; then up again, back to colour and light, his lungs almost bursting, till suddenly he breaks surface again, holding in his hand the dripping, precious thing that he went down to recover.... He and it are both coloured now that they have come up into the light: ...down below, where it lay colourless in the dark, he lost his colour too.”
That is a good picture of the Kenosis.
The Bible does NOTsay, "Pray to dead people."
15 But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother.
16 And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand.
17 And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican.
Then WHY are some of you guys so RABID about it?
Another case of DISAGREEING with what the POPE says???
That makes it ok then.
There never was a time when Jesus Christ was not... He knows no past nor future.... The Jews at the feast well knew that Jesus claimed to be eternal God,... look at their response:
John 8:59 ... Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
His enemies knew that He claimed to be God. There are many today who claim to be Christians who don’t even know what Jesus’s enemies knew— He claimed to be God.
John 5:18 ..... Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.
You ask a Jehovah Witness or a Mormon, “Is Jesus Christ the Son of God?” ....They will say, “Yes.” ...They don’t understand that the biblical designation... “son” means equality. ....If you ask them if Jesus Christ is God of very God, they will say, “NO.”
John 10:33 .... The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.”.
This is the corner stone of Christianity—
Jesus Christ is God!
It appears that PAUL said that; not GOD.
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