an idea for a bible study .. Maybe? Perhaps? One of our gentleman might start it ?

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I had a pen pal online and we did something I had never done before...
He lead me through the chapter of john...
Beginning in John 1... He did a verse by verse study ...
Wrote the verse and he wrote one verse then below it what God revealed to Him ... I added what god revealed to me in it ... We made no comments about eachothers revelation in it ... But I saw things I might have never seen had we done it another way... I was wondering what it might be like if we did a bible study like this ... Maybe one if the gentlemen in the forum might like to start a study like this ... Start a chapter and we walk through it together to see what god puts in our hearts about it... perhaps giving others a view of their relationship with God without making comments about or towards them... maybe? Perhaps? We might see something we've never seen before ... Perhaps the commentator could post the chapter and the first verse ... his view first , then others chime in writing what god speaks to them in it... It would take cooperation and self control to allow others to learn and perhaps see Gog in a different view ... with tue commentator ending the viewing of the verse in a prayer ... I was just wondering what this might be like on a grander scale with more than just two people ... it was an amazing study with my pen pal and there was no judgement or jarraddmeny in it ...I learned so much in this and saw god in different light ad we walked all the way through the first chapter if John like this ... No arguing , just sharing, no correcting , but learning ... My relationship with God was strengthened a lot from it... So I'm tossing the idea up and if one of the gentlemen would start , I would definitely hop on board ....
 
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John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

From this we learn that the Word was God and verse 14 reveals to us that the word was made flesh i.e. God incarnate. (Hallelujah)

Verse 14 "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."
 
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1 John 5:6-8

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6 This is He who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. 7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness on earth:[a] the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one.
 
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Joh 1:2 "The same was in the beginning with God."

Verse 2 is important because it tells us that Jesus is not a created being as the cults would have, but he was there in the beginning.
 
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Joh 1:2 "The same was in the beginning with God."

Verse 2 is important because it tells us that Jesus is not a created being as the cults would have, but he was there in the beginning.
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AND WHEN READING IN THE BEGINNING GENESIS YOU SEE THAT JESUS IS THE TREE OF LIFE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN THAT GOD KEPT HIDDEN UNTIL THE NEW COVENANT WAS TO BE PUT IN PLACE, THERE WERE ANGELS WITH FLAMING SWORDS BLOCKING THE ENTRANCE BACK INTO THE GARDEN SO THAT AT THAT TIME NO ONE COULD GET IN AND EAT FROM THE TREE OF LIFE AND LIVE FOREVER IN SIN
 
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AND WHEN READING IN THE BEGINNING GENESIS YOU SEE THAT JESUS IS THE TREE OF LIFE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN THAT GOD KEPT HIDDEN UNTIL THE NEW COVENANT WAS TO BE PUT IN PLACE, THERE WERE ANGELS WITH FLAMING SWORDS BLOCKING THE ENTRANCE BACK INTO THE GARDEN SO THAT AT THAT TIME NO ONE COULD GET IN AND EAT FROM THE TREE OF LIFE AND LIVE FOREVER IN SIN
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That's right. Joh 1:3 tells us, "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

This is confirmed in Col 1:16 that tells us "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."

When Adam and Eve walked and talked in the Garden with God, they were talking to Jesus! There he is right in the beginning who as the Spirit of God covered to waters in verse 2 of Genesis 1 right there at the beginning of the Bible giving us the three aspects of the One God.
 
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AND WHEN READING IN THE BEGINNING GENESIS YOU SEE THAT JESUS IS THE TREE OF LIFE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN THAT GOD KEPT HIDDEN UNTIL THE NEW COVENANT WAS TO BE PUT IN PLACE, THERE WERE ANGELS WITH FLAMING SWORDS BLOCKING THE ENTRANCE BACK INTO THE GARDEN SO THAT AT THAT TIME NO ONE COULD GET IN AND EAT FROM THE TREE OF LIFE AND LIVE FOREVER IN SIN
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What you have posted makes a lot of sense, and I love the idea relating it to eating His Flesh and drinking His Blood. It is a beautiful thought. Now, not to monkey with your words, please relate to me how the following quote from Revelation would fit into this teaching. I know for us all Jesus certainly is the source of life, the Tree perhaps? May Yahweh, God, bless you wholly and keep you always close, amen......

Rev 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

I await your understanding, please, and thank you.
 
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Giving my own thoughts John 3:34 tells us "For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure." (ESV)

Continuing with John 1:4 we read, "In him was life, and the life was the light of men." (Which is Salvation proclaimed by the churches in Revelation.)
 
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What you have posted makes a lot of sense, and I love the idea relating it to eating His Flesh and drinking His Blood. It is a beautiful thought. Now, not to monkey with your words, please relate to me how the following quote from Revelation would fit into this teaching. I know for us all Jesus certainly is the source of life, the Tree perhaps? May Yahweh, God, bless you wholly and keep you always close, amen......

Rev 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

I await your understanding, please, and thank you.
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The verse in Revelation 2:7 fits right back to the beginning and shows that no one can enter and eat until they have overcome. So the ? is how do I overcome, and you and you? by being stripped of one's flesh. It was flesh made aware of nakedness and adam and eve hid for they knew death was at the door. And all man kind is aware of this in their own dead Spirit, desiring to get back to paradise as it was when there was no awareness of the flesh. And this is how most are deceived by living by the flesh which can only masquerade as being good, instead of the Spirit which is truth for life everlasting from God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, it is a free gift one either receives this and appreciates this or takes it for granted and never does come to life, living sinfully behind closed doors and acting as if they got it together. Therefore we are to die to flesh, the selfish desires of it and come alive in the risen savior of one's soul back to the garden of eden before the fall and eat from the tree of life, being free here and now today for we are only in this world no longer of it. But only God can do this for you, me or anyone that wants to know God personally, and then you will be made an ambassador representing the love, joy, peace and righteousness in the Holy Ghost, for you will then see you are a citizen of heaven, and are a part of the Ecclesia, which means the called out ones
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Thank you, Homewardbound, let us keep trekking with God lighting the Way, amen.
 
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Thank you, Homewardbound, let us keep trekking with God lighting the Way, amen.
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I agree let us all make God our life period. no longer first, for I found if I make God first then family second and work third, I ended up with mixing the flesh and Spirit, but not ever really knowing him as my personal savior
For I would serve in Church and then attend to my family in a mean spirited way for I already did my duty and went to church, then trying to make my family see all things my way and this was not love this was and is selfish. Then go to work and try to get converts to my place of worship, and read the bible trying to figure out how to get converts. What a mess this did and does to anyone's life, maybe you all can concur to this and amybe not but each of you know the truth for it is the Spirit of God that testifies to your Spirit and you and the Spirit of truth know what is truth, this is where the repentance comes into play either you believe God or you do not, this is and was the only thing Christ never died for which is unbelief. Noiw once one believes he continuously goes before the throne of grace and asks God the Father for truth and how to sayno to unrighteousness without any pride and God teaches you in your soul where you have past tense already been made alive in Christ. this is why Paul addressed the Corinthians, Romans, Galatians, Ephesians and the rest as Saints in Christ even though they were messing up for Paul knew that God who has received them will himself carry on the good work that he by and through your belief God himseklf carries this unto perfection in you even though you are already pure from the first day of belief 1John 3. You are actually working out your own salvation with fear and trembling, but rememeber it is God that worketh within you according to his good pleasure, so quit fearing anything of this world and fear God only who can destroy both body and soul, and is the only one that can, now if you believe God will carry on the good work God began in you that started the first day you believed
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Continuing with John 1:4 we read, "In him was life, and the life was the light of men."
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aaaaaahhhhh .... we're on verse 4 already?

2 Peter 1:19 And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;

Revelation 22
16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”
 
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What happened to the Bible study?
 
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let's go, ariangel, post the next verse, please :D

Oh, wait, that's psGodlovesU's job :)
 
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"the same was in the begining with god " " In the begining was the word" The word "beginning Implies a start thus not eternal. There are other scriptures that speak of Christ as eternal , several, but beginning implies a start and not eternal. Jesus was eternal as other scripture states .this may seem unimportant ,but is if a person sees it in light with other scripture ."without father or mother," everlasting , Begotten not made, all reflect the lords eternal nature ,but begining implies space and time which were created
 
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let's go, ariangel, post the next verse, please :D

Oh, wait, that's psGodlovesU's job :)
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I was going to pass because it was veering away from the word of God and into the word of man, myself included, and as far as I am aware this thread was intended to be uplifting and bring glory to God. Anyway lets see what happens. :)

In verse 4 we read that there is life in Jesus and the life was the light of men. We know from other scriptures that Jesus is life and life eternal, for example in John 11:25 we read, "Jesus said unto her, I am the Resurrection, and the Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he Live." This tells us us something important about Jesus and who he is without coming straight out and saying it, so instead, in the next verse John contents himself by saying "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." I wonder what it is that we don't comprehend?
 
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I think it is God himself the darkness comprehended not. " darkness was on the face of the deep,... The light shines also into our hearts,The light reveals things,the truth,and God is the truth, the ungodly don't come to the light because there deeds are evil,
 
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I was going to pass because it was veering away from the word of God and into the word of man, myself included, and as far as I am aware this thread was intended to be uplifting and bring glory to God. Anyway lets see what happens. :)

In verse 4 we read that there is life in Jesus and the life was the light of men. We know from other scriptures that Jesus is life and life eternal, for example in John 11:25 we read, "Jesus said unto her, I am the Resurrection, and the Life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he Live." This tells us us something important about Jesus and who he is without coming straight out and saying it, so instead, in the next verse John contents himself by saying "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." I wonder what it is that we don't comprehend?
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He that beleiveth in me, though he were dead (this is how everyone is born alive in the flesh, born of the water when the womass sack breaks, and is DEAD to the SPIRIT OF GOD) Yet shall he (the believer) live. And the light (God) shineth in darkness, the darkness comprehend it not. It is our flesh that we all are originally born with that takes control of one's dead Spirit that we are born with and need to come alive to God, but the flesh (darkness) comprehend it not.We are all creatures of habit and what we all have learned in the flesh is not easily unlearned and so we strive to do what is right by the law and cannot understand, comprehend the war between flesh and Spirit, for the flesh wants its way and will do just abut anything to get its way, unless one agrees with God to put to death your flesh and the light (God) overcomes the darkness (flesh)
This happened to Saul and what did Saul after he became Paul say in Phillipians 3

3 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. For me to write the same things to you is not tedious, but for you it is safe.

2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilation! 3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, 4 though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6 concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
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god created darkness , it can not be without light .. and his light being in us casts out the darkness ... He brought is here from eternal darkness to work Hos
Light in ( the whole essence of tue gospel is not to get man into heaven but to get Jesus , the "light" of the world into tjat darkness " man" Wich departed from his relationship with God ... To restore it as it was in the beginning... Before the time man new Tje difference between light and darkness ... The time Wich he only knew Gods light ...
So brethren , love the lord with all your heart with all your soul and all your might ...as it was in the beginning ...where only light exists ... Now we being in christ who is This light , over rides the old man, (flesh nature) the light comprehends it not ... As the darkness comprehends not the light ... as it is in eternity, light reveals things hidden in the dark.. Bringing to light all matters of the truth ..for light and darkness are as one and one can not exist without the other.. And god spoke as it was
and is now in the beginning ... love one another in full unity .... as he is the creator over all of It....the spirit hovered over and with darkness,, Before he " spoke light " into existence ...
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1*In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2*Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
 
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