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In the New Testament, the word basileia can be translated as "kingship" (abstract noun), "kingdom" (concrete noun) or "reign" (action noun). the Kingdom of God lies ahead of us. It is brought near in the Word incarnate, it is proclaimed throughout the whole Gospel, and it has come in Christ's...
I forgot to mention the business-like activities that elders must perform.
Elders are members of the chair of the following bodies:
Parish council
finance committee
scripture studies
school councils for the parish
administrator with secretarial helpers of the parish's assets
coordinator for...
Titus 2:13 waiting in hope for the blessing which will come with the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Christ Jesus.
This verse is translated according to the Granville Sharp rule. That rule was mentioned in the thread about 2 Peter 1:1-2.
So is Jesus the great God and...
I think that the explanation given is incorrect. The reasoning appears to assume that Jesus and the Father are two independent beings, one being the greater (the Father, who is identified as God) and the other being the lesser (the Son, that is to say, Jesus). A better explanation is this, given...
There is evidence that the Clement of the letters is the clement mentioned in Saint Paul's letters. But many modern scholars disagree. The letters are not canonical scripture yet have had importance as a source of information about the state of the Church in Rome and the Church in Corinth in...
YouTube has many former Jehovah's witnesses who produce videos to warn prospective converts to the religion of Jehovah's witnesses and to correct perceived errors in the teachings, organisational policies, and practises of Jehovah's witnesses. And it appears that the majority of those YouTube...
Alive with Christ
1And you, when you were dead in your offences and sins, 2Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief: 3In which also we all conversed in time...
The Beginning
(John 1:1-5)
1In the beginning God created heaven, and earth. 2And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.
The First Day: Light
3And God said: Be light made. And light was made. 4And God saw...
Romans 9:5(NJB) To them belong the fathers and out of them, so far as physical descent is concerned, came Christ who is above all, God, blessed for ever. Amen.
Is this an accurate translation?
Some say no. The NAB says
And the bible produced by Jehovah's witnesses says:
In Greek it reads...
The Jews were right. Jesus being a, man, makes himself God.
Their fault was not in their reasoning.
It was in their unbelief.
They saw the man, saw the miracles he did, and rejected him and his claim.
The Jews preferred to stone him for alleged blasphemy -
Jesus' claim would be blasphemy only...
Catholic bibles contain 73 books 7 of which Protestants no longer print in their bibles and 2 of which Protestants no longer print portions.
What protestants do is their business.