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Noose

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What don't you get? That Jesus was God incarnate? That's scripture.
That Jesus prayed to God? That's evidence He was a flesh and bone man ministering among fellow Jews for whom prayer was a form of worship. If Jesus didn't pray, as was expected of Him, His fellow Jews would have thought something was off given during His ministry He clearly proved He served with the power of the Father within Him.
Same thing believers do according to Peter:

2 Pet 1:4Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

Does the above mean we shall be God also? what does divine nature mean?

My idea is that everything came from within God and God reconciles everything back to Himself through Christ, including stones. I don't get your view of Christ.
 

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Same thing believers do according to Peter:

2 Pet 1:4Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

Does the above mean we shall be God also? what does divine nature mean?

My idea is that everything came from within God and God reconciles everything back to Himself through Christ, including stones. I don't get your view of Christ.
The redeemed in Christ have the seed of the divine within us, indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God. Our sin nature is overcome by the leading of the divine nature we now carry.
As to your last question, all of creation is of and from God the creator of all things in and of Himself. See the Book of Colossians chapter 1 verse 16
 

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What is the idea of a pure language . How would that apply to woman being silent or Philip and the man on the chariot as some sort of dead language?
It doesn't apply to women being silent, except at that juncture a translational argument was being made, and in order to elevate one translation above another (which I'm not 100% against) I think certain guidelines need to be followed. Of course, I'm not the only one on earth so that's why agreement is critical...

the man on the chariot I had thought would be fairly clear. Where he is reading in Isaiah and he doesn't understand and Phillip preaches the gospel to him and his eyes are opened to the truth and he receives it.

That's a biblical example of someone reading in the NT and having no idea what they were reading in the flesh. Where it seemed to be genuine error, and something a bit different than the way the pharisees did things. There are plenty of sincere people that don't understand a passage and are trying to.

Certainly much discussion can be had (and has been here) about other elements of this passage

I can imagine a different scene with phillip if he had just walked according to the flesh, I won't post it, but if you care to ruminate on that (and I have heard sermons preached in what if land, not a big fan, but sometimes useful it seems).

Originally this was in response to a mini-KJV debate (Post 333)


Pure language was also in reference to a reply to someone. I'm trying not to twist words on what he was communicating because as I go on, more comes up, but anyway. The idea that people spoke "pure" Hebrew prior to the tower of Babel.

Defining what "pure" means is what is seriously debatable. My assertion was that a dead language even if it were more "full" when it was alive cannot be understood without the Lord and is useless to an extent. Take into consideration that spoken word with all the nuances of sarcasm, humor, etc. Can be entirely missed in text by someone that doesn't speak that language.

I was basing this off my understanding of ancient languages that others have said as not having been heard spoken and therefore cannot be known how it is pronounced. So this changes how it is read. That without the Lord opening up our eyes to something, we are blind to its meaning.

I did take Latin in high school and had an issue with oral exams for this reason. I was told by the professor that they did not know for sure.

Oh and I do think we can read scripture and understand it in our fleshly mind even regenerated because we are still maturing and overcoming. My views were very literalist when I was a child, I just held a lot of knowledge intellectually. Like reading an instruction manual...as I matured, I read deeper and deeper. Sometimes, you can go too deep I think, and see things that probably aren't there. Even if they were, you probably wouldn't know what they were yet. Something like knowing how to operate a motor vehicle but not knowing the rules of the road and thinking you were ready because you understood the mechanical aspects and could drive efficiently as you understood without additional variables present.

Is that too vague?
 

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You're misrepresenting the true words in the KJV Bible. A bishop is not a deacon.
A Bishop is a presiding official or overseer. The word is equivalent in use to Elder. Bishops were teachers and preachers as well as overseers and were charged with guarding the church against doctrinal error. Deacons were subordinate to Bishops and handled the more mundane tasks of church administration. The Greek word for Deacon means “one who serves.” [source]

1 Timothy 3 King James Version
1This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Tinkerbell you may disagree as you wish, however the scripture proves you are disagreeing with what actually appears in the KJV Bible, and that you have misrepresented all this time in your argument that Deacons must be married men per the KJV.

How many times do I have to post this verse?

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

1 Timothy 3:12 KJV
 

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How many times do I have to post this verse?

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

1 Timothy 3:12 KJV
That verse, when I was referring to verse 2, in verse 12 doesn't say they must be married. It says, let them be husband of one wife. Not that they must be husband to one wife.
What is your fixation that Deacon's must be married? Do you not realize that single people serve the offices of the church as well?
 
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The Word became flesh. (That was Jesus)
Yet you say: "Jesus was not the word of God." Now you say Jesus is the word of God. So you contradict yourself. Jesus is, He was and He shall forever be.
 

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Yet you say: "Jesus was not the word of God." Now you say Jesus is the word of God. So you contradict yourself. Jesus is, He was and He shall forever be.
I said: The Word became flesh. (That was Jesus)

It's a grammar thing. The difference between "of" and "the" , word of God.
 

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That verse, when I was referring to verse 2, in verse 12 doesn't say they must be married. It says, let them be husband of one wife. Not that they must be husband to one wife.
What is your fixation that Deacon's must be married? Do you not realize that single people serve the offices of the church as well?

I am not against singles serving in the Church. Faithful servants are encouraged in Church. But Paul has a reason for saying that church leaders or people with authority (power) in church like bishop, overseers, elders, pastors, deacons, shepherds, should be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and own houses well. If you want to know Paul's reason, study the Scriptures deeper. I believe the answer is in the Scriptures, not in a christian forum.
 

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I am not against singles serving in the Church. Faithful servants are encouraged in Church. But Paul has a reason for saying that church leaders or people with authority (power) in church like bishop, overseers, elders, pastors, deacons, shepherds, should be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and own houses well. If you want to know Paul's reason, study the Scriptures deeper. I believe the answer is in the Scriptures, not in a christian forum.
Are you married?
 

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How many times do I have to post this verse?

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

1 Timothy 3:12 KJV
As Phoebe was a deacon, this verse cannot be taken as exclusive. How many times do you need to be told that?
 

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Tinkerbell, you can keep disagreeing, but you have no evidence to refute the truth of Scripture. Better that you conform your understanding to Scripture.
 

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Tinkerbell, you can keep disagreeing, but you have no evidence to refute the truth of Scripture. Better that you conform your understanding to Scripture.
I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

Romans 16:1 KJV

I conform with scripture. Phoebe was a servant not a deacon.
 

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I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

Romans 16:1 KJV

I conform with scripture. Phoebe was a servant not a deacon.
The Greek says deacon. Deal with it. :)
 

Tinkerbell725

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The Greek says deacon. Deal with it. :)
Greek is ancient and limited. Phoebe was commended for excellent service. But it does not mean she actually held an office as deacon which is only for males with wife and children. KJV translated it correctly so that it will not contradict with the qualification mentioned. That is what I believe, so you don't have to agree with me.
 

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The redeemed in Christ have the seed of the divine within us, indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God. Our sin nature is overcome by the leading of the divine nature we now carry.
As to your last question, all of creation is of and from God the creator of all things in and of Himself. See the Book of Colossians chapter 1 verse 16
That is exactly what Jesus was; having the seed of the divine within Him/ indwelt by the Holy spirit/ Glorious over sin

Rev 3:21To the one who is victorious, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
 
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It's a grammar thing. The difference between "of" and "the" , word of God.
I have been to Bible College and taught the whole context thing. We know what words mean in the Bible based on our understanding of the letters that make up the words. The context just verifies what we already know from our Study of the Original language of the Bible.
 

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I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

Romans 16:1 KJV

I conform with scripture. Phoebe was a servant not a deacon.

In the KJV, the word "deacon(s)" only appears five times, that is, at Philippians 1:1, 1 Timothy 3:8, 10, 12 and 13. In each occurrence, the word "deacon" is used because it is obvious that the office of a deacon is in view, not any particular individual.

διακονον appeared 27 times in the Bible and was translated as servant, minister and deacon. In the NIV 1984, Phoebe was also described as servant. What happened to NIV translators? Why did they suddenly refer to Phoebe as deacon?

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Greek is ancient and limited. Phoebe was commended for excellent service. But it does not mean she actually held an office as deacon which is only for males with wife and children. KJV translated it correctly so that it will not contradict with the qualification mentioned. That is what I believe, so you don't have to agree with me.
I would agree, only for males with wife and children. A established family affair.

Phoebe like Paul a servant that plants the gospel seed and waters it with the water of the word .The doctrines of God that fall like rain (inspired from above).

Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
 

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Deborah is probably the highest-ranking woman in the Bible, in terms of having a career outside the home.
And she was a judge and prophet, not a pastor or king.

She was comparable to a Supreme Court Justice of her day, arguably a higher position than a pastor at church.
Since when have the affairs of man been higher than the affairs of God? Therefore, the office of pastor is higher than that of Supreme Court Justice.

We also have Joan of Arc, although Catholic and not listed in the Bible, who was a single woman and military leader.
And look how that ended.

There are other women leaders in the Bible (Priscilla, Phoebe, Elect Lady, and Chloe, Lydia, Nympha, and Mark's mother appear to have their own church houses in the NT).
None of these were elders/pastors.

Jesus valued women so highly that the first witnesses of his resurrection were women (Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susanna) and the first people to preach the "Good News" (to men).
To say "a woman can't be a pastor" is not saying a woman is not valuable, anymore than stating "a man cannot give birth" is stating a man is not valuable.

That Paul would say that women should be silent in church seems contrary to what Jesus would do, and so leads me to believe, as there are no contradictions in the Bible, that Paul was addressing one particular congregation (where the women were being noisy, etc.).
Doesn't this view introduce a contradiction, rather than resolve one?