Recent content by Aaron56

I was speaking to a young woman regarding authority. She had military experience. As a woman in service she went through all kinds of garbage for simply being female. The word "authority" was a pejorative, and a sound to immediately defend oneself. I had her consider that, for the U.S...

If you hover over the hotlinks you can see that it is from the ESV.

Interesting. Thank you.

Yeah, when all authority is given to you in heaven and in earth, really, what can prevent your dominion? :cool: Consider that heaven was also created so it is not eternal. Before creation, God was, the Word was, and the Spirit was. Heaven was required only "in the beginning" where "the...

Yeah. For example as an infant, He was vulnerable like all infants were vulnerable. He was not some super-infant with mutant powers. He required guardians (Mary and Joseph) just like all human babies. What set Him apart was his calling: to be the Messiah. Not just a deliverer from worldly...

My wife is a black belt in Hapkido. We get along really well.

:D Thank you sister! A partial answer is below. I will expand this if there are questions about the nuances of Christ the eternal Spirit and Jesus the son of man / Son of God. “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only."...

Yes, so the presence of a father necessitates the existence of a son. So, when Paul said to the Corinthians "for though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel." he's not talking about...

If you read it in Tony Soprano's voice it has more punch.

Unless a son is neither male nor female. :cool:

Right. I was commenting on the quote. The Roman church calls Mary the "mother of God". She and Joseph reared Him and watched over Him when He was a child, there is no doubt. But, since God is spirit, no part of her spirit was used to form Jesus. Jesus was her son in the flesh but He was the...

If I recall correctly, Lewis said he needed a break after writing the book because it was difficult to write essentially a playbook of how the enemy opposes believers.

Our calling is irrevocable. It is determined by the Lord. Had Mary not consented she would have become inconsequential and another would have taken her place. And Mary is not the mother of God. That’s Roman idolatry. She was the vessel through whom Jesus would come into the earth. Jesus was God...

This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness. Read them and enjoyed them. CS Lewi wrote The Screwtape Letters. Similar topic but from the demons’ POV.

He knows the end from the beginning. That’s part of His nature.