Ok.
By God, I am referring to EVERY SINGLE one of His attributes, not His essence.
So (although God can create oceans and electrons) God cannot become contained in a human body (or tabernacle, I suppose)…
Yes, they are, lying is in reality an absence of truthfulness. God’s attribute of truthfulness is present in every human heart. We have free will to express it or turn against it.
God created the light AND the darkness, the truthfulness AND the lying, the well-being AND the calamity.
Yes, He can, but will He. Will He remove all free will for example?
The “inkling of knowledge” that we gain is from His attributes…
Sorry Gary, I don’t think I follow your reasoning here, my bad…I just don’t understand what you are trying to share. Maybe you could re-phrase?
No, I acknowledge that the Incarnation is not pantheism
God reveals his name in Exodus 3
but they have been led astray in understanding God and his revelation to man through his Son Jesus Christ.**Lie and murder.
We just are not aware fully what He “cannot” do…do you know what God cannot do?.
What does free will accomplish in your understanding? This a new term injected, please define so we are all on the same page.
Validity of anything Mohammed is still in question in comparison to Gods attributes thus Jesus Christ and Mohammed.
What scripture we are talking many? Various opinions exist, who should we listen to Mohammed or Jesus or of course after we understand these attributes?
This is another contradiction. You’ll need to clarify all this. You said yes lying and murder are Gods attributes here.
Define light and darkness in relation to God. Is God light? Is darkness murder and lying. Can light and darkness occupy the same space.
Maybe you should also elaborate further here. Is the painting finished or not?
I don’t know your understanding as stated above.
Right which means you cannot know what God can do if He can do anything? What is it God cannot do? Lie and murder, can he do that?
Then you do not understand the Incarnation.No, I acknowledge that the Incarnation is not pantheism
I just feel that the "eternal Logos" which was existing throughout eternity is still a Created Entity. Eternal nature is created.
That is nonsensical. What is “not time” and where can I find it, since it is “created”?
I personally believe, from my understanding of reading the Word of God from the global religions is that Jesus Christ is the embodiment and Incarnation of the “eternal Logos”, meaning He is the embodiment of every Godly attribute expressed to PERFECTION.Ok.
So (although God can create oceans and electrons) God cannot become contained in a human body (or tabernacle, I suppose)…
but He can live within every human heart…and here you just mean that* love* can be present in every human heart. Is that what you mean?
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That is why you should read the Word of God from the lens of the faith which gave you the Bible.
God reveals his name in Exodus 3
13 Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses,** “I am** who I am.”[a]** And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel,** ‘I am has sent me to you.’****”
Jesus identifies himself as this same God in John 8:58
Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
Eleven of the twelve apostles and the first twenty or so Popes died as Martyrs believing Jesus was the great “I AM”. None of them believed that Jesus was anything other than God incarnate who died on the cross, rose from the dead and who appeared to them for forty days on earth before ascending to heaven in front of their eyes.
This account conflicts greatly with a man hundreds of years later who came up with a new religion, denying Christ’s divinity saying that he was only a prophet and never died on the cross. That they believe in the God of Abraham I give them a
Bhagavad Gita 10:8
BG 10.8: I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who perfectly know this engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.
The I am manifests itself in SEVERAL human bodies throughout history, and I believe they all gave rise to global religions.
Human beings are not stupid, especially on a large collective level. When they see an embodiment of the “I am” in human form, it usually results in those people foregoing their entire lives, beings, traditions and families to be with that “I am” (whether its Lord Krishna, Jesus, Muhammad, the Bab or Baha’u’llah)
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I don’t think I read anything “explicit” here, I assume its your impression also? I also notice a significant emphasis on “Word in relation to Quran” . I get this same impression when talking to some protestants as they venture out from mainline, so this with Mohammed takes on a deeper meaning?
Fair enough, but your not explicitly saying what even the first sentence is referring to. Somehow this Quran, Mohammed and private revelation are all injected into the above, and we don’t know who muslim
What is the Bahai system for resolving these 2 disparate views.I read it from the lens of God Himself, the Father
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the solution is found in the Bible
Lets DO things together.
Actually I was very clear above. This is a rhetorical perspective and its playing out before our eyes.
This is a great illustration as to why the Bible cannot be the solution: I have no idea what you mean by quoting Matthew as a solution to my question.the solution is found in the Bible
Nope.
In regards to what?
Why I wonder do some people choose to keep ignoring this, which you have repeated several times?