Teacher and Rabbi are similar.
Lord and master are synonymous.
But all 4 terms are not synonymous
They would seem to point to one unseen... all are used in as one in Mathew 23
Mathew 23:7-10 King James..And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men
, Rabbi, Rabbi. But be not ye called
Rabbi: for one is your
Master, even
Christ; and all ye are
brethren.And call no man your
father upon the earth: for one is your
Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called
masters: for one is your
Master, even
Christ.
Mathew 23:8-10 ERV “But you must not be called
‘Teacher.’ You are all equal as brothers and sisters. You have only one
Teacher. And don’t call anyone on earth
‘Father.’ You have one
Father. He is in heaven. And you should not be called
‘Master.’ You have only
one Master, the
Messiah.
Sure we can. We are told in the N.T. to serve our earthly master with a good attitude even if they mistreat us, for this is the will of God: That we respect our masters because "ll authority is established by God.
Yes and like Jesus with respect to the unseen master Hid father who works in us. He can develop good attitudes in his children
(Can you please stop saying "seen" and "unseen" in the middle of all your sentences? We know what is seen and unseen, you don't have to point it out every all the time.
I read the works of dead theologians all the time. Their writing is easier to read that yours. The way you write doesn't sound classic or like old-English, you are just using bad grammar. It...is....so....annoying. If you MUST use those for necessary clarification, then at least do it in a grammatically correct way. Please and thank you.
Sorry. . I will try .Dead works do not benefit. Its that it would seem many have a difficult time understanding the importance of the word "faith" or why it must be mixed with the historical as a parable and on how it (faith) helps us with the mysteries.
More of a reminder who it is that does bring to our minds the he has taught us so that we do not become lukewarm in a search of the mysteries hidden from the foundation of the world . We must beware of familiarity it can breed contempt hatred and death. God is not a man as us. Our focus is the invisible things of God. . the gospel
Historical understanding has its place. But without parables Christ spoke not, hiding the signified understanding from those who do not use the tools he has given us.
2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which
are seen are temporal; but the
things which are not seen are
eternal.
I agree with much of what you are saying, but you still haven't demonstrated where the Bible says "we cannot serve two teaching masters". The Bible says that there are in fact "masters" of wisdom, and we are to heed their leadership and teaching.
Then you have leaned towards His leadership
Solomon was chosen by God to build the temple. He only didn't allow David because David had blood on his hands. God wanted someone with clean hands to build His temple.
“He said to me, ‘Your son Solomon is the one who shall build My house and My courts; for I have chosen him to be a son to Me, and I will be a father to him.” (1 Chronicles 28:6)
Solomon failed to keep the covenant . the trial was over David remains the person used to signify the Son of man
Regardless of who built it it was still something evil that God had given over the faithless Jews that had become jealous of the foundation of the pagan nations (out of sight out of mind) .
That period of time used as a parable had come to end. The time of reformation restoring the government of God had come . The veil was rent exposing the abomination of desolation .
The believers that were in the wilderness where the temple having the power of Christ in them he moved them over and over for forty years as a sign to the world a picture of us entering the promised land using the temporal to reveal the eternal .
In that land There is no temple .The glory of God will be the light as it was before it departed on the third day God saw pride in the heart of Satan. The letter of the law performed its work of death again the glory departed.
And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.Revelation 21: 22;25
Why do you think that the existence of a physical temple means that we are somehow serving someone other than God?
God does not live in temples made with human hands he lives in newly created human hearts. . would you think different.?
Also, as I said before, the events of the Abomination and the little horn spoken of by Daniel are not events in heaven.
What do you have to say about that?
I think they are events on earth the temple that speak of the unseen heavenly events . The corrupted earthly thing siting in the glorious place of the heavenly . a replay of the garden of Eden. Identity theft at the highest level . Plagiarism. Blasphemy . A violation of the first commandment all rolled into one.
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