I'm not here - I've been out for the
evening.
I don't agree with your reasoning Bill. Jesus has
already said why the Pharisees could not understand
or hear His Word. It is because they had a
different father than he did.
By the way, Judy, the reason the
Pharisees could not answer Jesus' question was because they were
denying his divinity: that he was God. My question for you is, What's keeping
you from answering it?
Bill
While the Pharisees
were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, "What do you think
about the Christ? Whose Son is He?" They said to Him, "The Son of
David." He said to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call Him
'Lord,' saying: 'The LORD said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool" '? "If David then calls Him
'Lord,' how is He his Son?"
Oh, and you know the question that you and
the Pharisees can't answer: "If David then calls him 'Lord,' how is he his
son?" Well, since Jesus is both God and man, he is both David's
Lord (God) and his son (man). That's what Peter is saying in Acts 2.36:
"Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made
this Jesus, whom you crucified, both LORD and Christ
(Son of David)."
Bill
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006
2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Jesus ,
neither God nor Man
I explained this the other day, Judy; in
fact you may return to my post on Acts 3.36 if you like. This is a
statement -- and strong affirmation on the part of David -- in
regards to Jesus' divine nature. We have been discussing his human
nature. Where you confuse the two, I do not. Hence it is not a problem
for me to believe that the deity of Jesus predated David, just like it
predated Abraham, while later his humanity received their
Seed. The one needs not cancel out the other, unless one confuses the
two -- but then, of course, one is no longer speaking of
Christ.
Work on the following passage, Judy; it
should help you with your unbelief:
"For David says concerning him: 'I foresaw the LORD
always before my face, For He is at my right hand, that I may not be
shaken. Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad;
Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope. For You will not leave
my soul in Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see
corruption. You have made known to me the ways of life; You will
make me full of joy in Your presence.' Men and brethren,
let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is
both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this
day. Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn
with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the
flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, he,
foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that
His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see
corruption. This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all
witnesses. Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and
having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He
poured out this which you now see and hear. For David did not
ascend into the heavens, but he says himself: 'The LORD said to my
Lord, "Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your
footstool.'" Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that
God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both LORD and
Christ."
Bill
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006
8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Jesus ,
neither God nor Man
Jesus Himself and I agree with Him rather
than with "orthodoxy"... ie:
"While the Pharisees were
gathered together Jesus asked them, saying "What think ye of Christ?
Whose son is he?" They say unto him. The son of David. He
saith unto them.
"How then doth David in spirit
call him Lord saying The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my
right
hand till I make thine enemies thy
footstool?" If David then call him Lord, how is he his
son?
Looks like you are stuck in the same rut as
the Pharisees of that day were Bill .... (Matt 22:42-46)
What person among us
indwelt with the Holy Spirit could deny that Jesus Christ was born
with David's blood
running through his
veins?
"I, Jesus, have sent My angel to
testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the
Offspring of David,
the Bright and Morning Star." -- Rev
22.16
"Men
and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the
patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb
is with us to this day. Therefore, being a prophet, and
knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the
fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up
the Christ to sit on his throne," (Acts 2.29-30).
Although it was by way of his adoption by
Joseph that he was qualified to sit on the thrown, it was
not by way of adoption that Jesus became the Seed of David: that
came to him "according to the flesh":
"Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes
from the seed (sperma) of David and from the town of Bethlehem,
where David was?" (Joh 7.42).
"... concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who
was born of the seed (sperma) of David according to the flesh,"
(Rom 1.3).
"Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed (sperma)
of David, was raised from the dead according to my gospel,"
(2Tim 2.8).
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, January 16,
2006 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk]
Jesus , neither God nor Man
Are you saying, Judy, that Mary
is not of David's lineage? You had better think this through,
as Jesus absolutely must be of the Seed of Abraham, which
passes through David on its way to the fulfillment of the
promise in Christ. "Now to Abraham and his Seed were the
promises made. He does not say, 'And to seeds,' as of many,
but as of one, 'And to your Seed,' who is Christ" (Gal 2.16).
And it is not by way of adoption that Abraham's Seed finds
fulfillment in Christ. That would be a blasphemous
thought: "What purpose then does the law serve?
It was added because of transgressions, till the
Seed should come to whom the promise was
made" (Gal 2.19).
You know, Judy, you always say
"Show me in Scripture." Well, you have been shown. Now, is
that all smoke, or are you going to live by your
words?
Bill
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, January
16, 2006 7:06 PM
Subject: Re:
[TruthTalk] Jesus , neither God nor Man
Luke writes that Jesus was born of the fruit of
David's genitals (Act 2.30):
Not exactly Bill "David being a prophet and
knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him,
that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he
would raise up Christ to sit on his
throne."
Right, so in Matt we have a genealogy that shows
Joseph is in David's lineage but he is
hardly the biological father of Jesus is
he? Even though Jesus is born in his
lineage.
hence he was not some kind of new
humanity, freshly brewed with new
material, unrelated to fallen humankind;
No, he is human like David was human, born on our
side of the fall.
He did not come to this earth through procreation
Bill. He did not have a human father - He may have
been
born on this side of the fall but
he was most definitely not born fallen. One can not be
fallen and holy ATST
And to the naysayers Jesus said,
"Before Abraham was, I AM"; hence Jesus pre-dated even
Abraham, David' predecessor. But it was not his humanity
which pre-dated David; it was his divinity. And
notice: he did not say that his Father was the I
AM, and that he was copying him. No, Jesus said
that he (and this before his glorification) is
I AM; that is, Yahweh, the LORD who covenants
with Abraham.
So?? Noone here
disputes his heritage.
Jesus is FULLY GOD and fully man,
two realities in one person, united -- but
make him anything less than God or
anything more than man and you are courting a
demon, who is powerless to save you.
Either that or you are
courting religious spirits who are filling your head
with the doctrines they have been promoting for thousands of years. He
doesn't have to be fully anything. He is who the Word of
God
says He is - which is
the Word made flesh.
Bill
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