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    How do we testify to this word of the Lord?

    I would believe what God says rather than what other people say. How does your post answer mine? God's word, not other people, tells us that Jesus said to Thomas, "Because you have seen Me you have believed." God's word does not say that Jesus said to Thomas, "Because you have seen My power you...
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    How do we testify to this word of the Lord?

    But nobody alive today has seen Jesus Christ physically. He is in heaven, seated at the right hand of His Father. This is clear evidence that your understanding of God’s Word is limited to the literal and physical sense. Therefore, your understanding does not correspond to the truth. Even...
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    How do we testify to this word of the Lord?

    But that is not what Jesus said to Thomas. He didn't say, "Because you have seen My power you have believed," but "Because you have seen Me you have believed." Because you do not recognize the one true God, the Lord does not reveal to you the spiritual message contained in His Word. Therefore...
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    How do we testify to this word of the Lord?

    Certainly when we come to Jesus we must do so humbly. We must recognise, as Thomas did, that He is Lord and God. What would be your answer to this example? Suppose the object you see is white. If you ask different people what color it is, they all answer that it is white. But when God comes...
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    How do we testify to this word of the Lord?

    What you are saying does not correspond to the truth. If it were true that the revelation of the Lord Jesus is already clearly found in the text, then the different groups within Christianity today who have studied the Holy Scriptures for five to ten years should have reached the same...
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    How do we testify to this word of the Lord?

    JOHN 20:29 29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. In our discussion of John 20:29, we can compare the two examples presented by the Lord. Although the man who was healed of leprosy recognized the...
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    What does Jesus mean about mansions?

    May I ask why you brought up the bride and groom in our discussion of John 14:2? How did this idea come to your mind, and what made you connect the verse with the bride and groom?
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    What does Jesus mean about mansions?

    In God’s message in His Word: #1 Literal meaning. It clearly refers to a house—a place where people live. A mansion, on the other hand, is a huge and very spacious house. This is why people become overwhelmed with joy when they are taught that they will have a dwelling place in heaven. #2...
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    How do we testify to this word of the Lord?

    In our question to the Lord in John 20:29, who is He referring to when He says, “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed”? If what people understand in the words of God from the clear and literal perspective of human understanding, this refers to those who read and believe in...
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    What does Jesus mean about mansions?

    Why don’t we apply to John 14:2 what the Lord revealed through the three messages in His Word? The letter or the literal meaning: This is the clear meaning that people can understand from the words of God. The physical meaning: It is perceived through the senses. In other words, it can be...
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    What does Jesus mean about mansions?

    What you said is very beautiful. It goes back to the relationship between the groom and the bride, who in the future will become husband and wife. God has revealed something about this, and perhaps it can be applied to our question about God in John 14:2.
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    What does Jesus mean about mansions?

    I would like to bring the question back to God once again: Why did the Lord Jesus say that in His Father’s house there are many mansions? This is a well-known passage that is widely preached to people. We can hear their shouts of joy and excitement as they celebrate while this passage is...
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    How do we testify to this word of the Lord?

    We are those who have come to know the one true God. We acknowledge that the Lord speaks in parables or dark sayings. One example is when He said, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (John 2:19). The Lord said these words while they were in the temple. Therefore, the...
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    How do preachers or teachers explain this?

    What God desires in His Word is both knowledge and wisdom. We cannot have knowledge alone without wisdom. Knowledge is what we have learned, whereas wisdom is the application of the knowledge we have gained. It is possible to have knowledge without wisdom. However, you cannot have wisdom...
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    How do preachers or teachers explain this?

    I cannot leave out the statement, “We who have come to know the one true God,” because it is the truth. This is how we testify to the truth expressed in Ecclesiastes 1:9 and Matthew 24:35. What you are saying now is no different from what the Jews were saying to the Lord Jesus. "Please stop...
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    How do preachers or teachers explain this?

    The issue we are discussing is clear. Because Judas fell away, he needed to be replaced so that the number of apostles could once again be twelve. You were the one who said that two more became apostles, Matthias and Paul. That is why I said it could not be two, because only one person was...
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    How do preachers or teachers explain this?

    What we are discussing is Ephesians 4:11. The question is: Who appoints or chooses the people mentioned in this verse—the human beings, or the Lord Jesus? Although the word “apostle” is not explicitly mentioned in the passages you cited regarding those whom the Lord chose, Andrew, Thomas...
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    How do we testify to this word of the Lord?

    What the Lord declared in John 20:29 reveals an important truth concerning human understanding, which is often limited to what can be seen and understood in a literal and physical sense. Thus, when the Lord said, “Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed,” He was referring to...
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    How do preachers or teachers explain this?

    If that is the case, then the one appointed by the Lord to replace Judas was Paul, while Matthias was rejected because it was men who appointed him, not the Lord. GALATIANS 1:1 1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the...
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    How do preachers or teachers explain this?

    Do not say that there were two replacements when it is very clear that there was only one, because the person being replaced was Judas alone.