Can some one clarify these,
There are more I will send you guys.
As long as you are asking about who God is, it’s on topic.
And don’t spam by sending many of them at once.
But questions about who went to the tomb, and the father of Joseph aren’t about God. This is last I’ll answer that kind of question here.
EXO 15:3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
ROM 15:33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
In Romans 15:31, St. Paul makes it clear he’s in a genocidal/ideological warzone; See also Acts 9:23-24. That’s the context.
Your language skills are an issue, so I’ll belabor the point.
Here are two true statements that appear to contradict, like yours APPEAR to:
God the Father is “God of Israel”. ( An Israeli’s God )
God the Father is “God of Christians”. (A Christian’s God)
If you ask, Is it “God of Israel”
OR “God of Christians”:
The answer is: He is the God of Israel,
AND the God of Christians;
Because he is our God does not mean we control him; If I say “The Muslim’s Allah” or the “Allah of Muslims” – I don’t mean you are greater than Allah, but you would agree with me that Allah rules over you. Riiiiiiiiiight?
Therefore: When you ask: Is it the “God of war”
OR the “God of peace”;
I say: HE IS the
“God of war” AND the “God of peace”.
Wars must submit to God; Peace, too, must obey God.
Neither war nor peace
controls God – but rather – it is the same God who rules over both war and peace.
St. Paul wants God to change his environment full of war into one where he can find peace. That’s why he mentions the God of peace.
The bible is very clear on God’s authority over war and peace, both.
As it says:
usccb.org/bible/ecclesiastes/3
1
* There is an appointed time for everything,
and a time for every affair under the heavens.
…
8 A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war, and a time of peace.
…
11**(“
http://www.usccb.org/bible/ecclesiastes/3#25003011-b”)
God has made everything appropriate to its time, but has put the timeless
* into their hearts so they cannot find out, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.
Who is the father of Joseph?
MAT 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph…
LUK 3:23 … being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli.
I am surprised you would ask that; am I wrong in assuming you have middle-eastern family roots?
The words brother, father, mother, and sister can refer to all kids of people related more or less closely when talking with peoples of the middle east and Palestine. A brother could be a child sucked at the same breast as another, but it could also be a cousin with totally different mothers.
I mean – ISN"T IT OBVIOUS that when Jews say, “Our father Abraham”, they don’t mean their immediate biological father but a man who lived 1000’s of years before? Or, (Gasp), when some Moslems in my religion class said that they claimed Abraham as their Father through Ishmael, that they too meant a man of centuries ago? Or am I wrong, are Abraham and Ishmael common Moslem names today? (eg: Like Mary was in Jesus’s day…?)
As long as it could potentially reconcile, you have no proof of a contradiction; just proof of ignorance of an irrelevant point. This kind of question is really off topic.
Who was at the Empty Tomb? Is it:
MAT 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
MAR 16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
JOH 20:1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
They all agree; what’s the problem?
There are (at least) two women named Mary who go to the tomb on Easter Sunday; John does not
deny that another Mary went to the tomb on that day; he just doesn’t mention her.
Is Jesus equal to or lesser than?
JOH 10:30 I and my Father are one.
JOH 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
What do you mean by “Greater” ?
Do you think two men equal if they have the ability to do exactly the same things if they want to?
Do you think one is really greater if their reputation exceeds another’s?
What do you think if their abilities are IDENTICAL, but one of them is more popular?
I mean, my Father is greater than I in age, and
always will be.
So, I can say he is “greater” in one way.
(AND I think that’s true of
any bilogical father (eg: not adoptive.) )
There are ways, though, that my Father is not as good as I am; but even then, he is still my Father, without whom I never would have come into being.
Please clarify what you mean by greater so I can answer you
FULLY.
And while you do that, here is some more contradiction fuel for you…
ENJOY!
1Corinthians 8:5-6, and John 5:19.
usccb.org/bible/john/5
usccb.org/bible/1corinthians/8
Bring it on!
