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God Is Three
Grace to You.org ^ | 1997 | John MacArthur, Grace Community Church

Posted on 02/05/2016 4:09:36 AM PST by metmom

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To: one Lord one faith one baptism
The Church is the Body of Christ.

The Church Jesus established is Spiritual, not an institution. The body of Christ is made up of those in whom God has placed the earnest of their inheritance as the spark of the Holy Spirit. That placement CANNOT BE DONE BY MAN, and no one can snatch such a born from above member of Christ's body from God's hands.

Our Lord made it very plain to Nicodemus (John 3), you must be born again by the Grace of God in Christ. Jesus also made it very plain just how that happens: John 6:28 They said therefore unto him, ‘What may we do that we may work the works of God?’ 29 Jesus answered and said to them, ‘This is the work of God, that ye may believe in him whom He did send.’

God made it so simple, yet religions such as catholiciism will empower themselves at the expense of souls, because the catholic hierarchy teaches their sincere followers to strive for eventual Salvation. But one cannot earn Eternal life, for it is a being Whom comes into the dead human spirit, making the person alive in Christ, not the institutional church.

181 posted on 02/07/2016 7:37:12 PM PST by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: DouglasKC
1 John 5:7 KJV For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

Who is confused, you, or John? Did the Angel tell Mary the eventual Mother of Jesus 'Who' would be upon her and she conceive in her womb? Luke 1:34 And Mary said unto the messenger, ‘How shall this be, seeing a husband I do not know?’ the messenger answering said to her, ‘The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also the holy-begotten thing shall be called Son of God;

182 posted on 02/07/2016 7:44:10 PM PST by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: MHGinTN

1 John 5:7 is considered by Scholars to be of spurious origin and that it was inserted into the text many years following the actual writing. When older texts have been inspected, that verse is simply not found.


183 posted on 02/07/2016 7:57:20 PM PST by Radix ("..Democrats are holding a meeting today to decide whether to overturn the results of the election.")
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To: Radix

1 John 5
8 There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree.

RSV


184 posted on 02/07/2016 8:24:40 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: MHGinTN

Lol, I love it when someone purports to tell me what “Catholiciism” teaches.

Nice try though.


185 posted on 02/07/2016 8:38:07 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism

Your reading comprehension difficulties are showing ...


186 posted on 02/07/2016 8:58:41 PM PST by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: metmom

Funny though, we can tell you what day Jesus died and what day he rose.

Asking you that was like trying to nail jello to a wall.

But I understand why you didn’t want to answer.


187 posted on 02/07/2016 9:05:35 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: John Leland 1789

Jesus was buried prior to sunset or else the Sabbath would have been violated.

A Wednesday crucifixion is impossible. Sunday is the 5th day from Wednesday and we know Jesus rose on the third day ( Luke 9:22 )

What Christians have believed for 2,000 years is the truth. Jesus died on Friday and rose on the third day, Sunday.

Jesus shows us how to count days in Luke 13:32.
The third day is always the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow is always the day after the event you are counting from.


188 posted on 02/07/2016 9:11:39 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: MHGinTN

Really?

Care to explain?


189 posted on 02/07/2016 9:12:36 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism

No way to get three days and THREE NIGHTS between friday afternoon and Sunday morning. The “three days” and “third day” also have to be consistent with “three days and three nights” (Matthew 12:40).


190 posted on 02/07/2016 9:23:06 PM PST by John Leland 1789
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To: John Leland 1789

Do you even know what three days and three nights means?

To a first century Jew it is a idiomatic expression meaning 3 days. Jews counted any part of a day as the whole day. Look up inclusive reckoning.

To a westerner in 21st century, it means 72 hours.

We must take the meaning in the first century, not 21st.


191 posted on 02/07/2016 9:31:10 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: metmom
Judaism, worshiping the one true G-d centuries before other gods existed.

No

required.

192 posted on 02/07/2016 10:14:03 PM PST by Mr. M.J.B.
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism

Yes, any part of a day was counted as a day, UNLESS is is more particularly specified. Three days AND three nights means . . . . three days AND three nights.


193 posted on 02/07/2016 10:15:27 PM PST by John Leland 1789
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism
If someone rejects the Church and the Faith she has been commissioned by Jesus to teach, well, see the first two sentences above.

Thank GOD for AND!


It's like salvation...

Mark 16:16
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Some organizations like to use the first part to PROVE one MUST be baptized to be saved; while ignoring the last part.

However; it does NOT say...


...but he that believeth is baptized not shall be damned.

194 posted on 02/08/2016 4:23:19 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism
The Church is the Body of Christ.

Oh??



1 Corinthians 12:27-28 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 28 And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues.

195 posted on 02/08/2016 4:26:29 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DouglasKC

A lot of ‘coulds’ in your statement.


196 posted on 02/08/2016 4:45:02 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: delchiante
I will start with 30...

What ever happened to the use of the word fortnight?

197 posted on 02/08/2016 4:46:07 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DouglasKC
Oh?

It appears you are selective in your 'love'.

198 posted on 02/08/2016 4:46:51 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DouglasKC

It’s nice to know YOUR contention; but I asked about your church’s.


199 posted on 02/08/2016 4:47:35 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DouglasKC
Or you don't know what Paul was talking about or teaching.


We humans occasionally tend to hear something and then understand it wrongly.
 
 
How many, as a child,  sang the old hymn,
“The Consummated Cross I Bear” as
“The Constipated Cross-eyed Bear”?

I guess both are worthy of prayer.
 
 

 
How many youngsters  have heard, in the Hail Mary, “a monk swimming”; with the actual phrase being “……and blessed art Thou “amongst women”.
 
Ah, to see and hear the world as a five year old!

200 posted on 02/08/2016 4:48:10 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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