wotsup
You say you are an upfront man.
I have 4 questions for you.
Show us you are upfront, if/when you give us the answers to 4 questions.
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You say on the other thread, you use KJV & Gospel of Thomas
Q1
a.Which part of the more than 100 sayins in G.of Thomas do you believe in or agree with, and what
parts do you disagree with?
b.Why? Why not?
In plain simple English (without quoting Bible verses) please give us an answer to this question:
In you belief, knowledge or opinion:
Q2
'Who is the historical Jesus Christ , as recorded in the Gospel of John"
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I am upfront to say I agree and happy to adopt www.FICM.org Statement of faith as Biblical Christianity and my personal statement of faith.
Q3
What's is your personal Statement of Faith.
(Can you put in down in simple English,without quoting Bible verses.
How about in 100 or 200 words, is up to you)
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Epistles of 1 John, 2John, 3 John, written around 85-90 AD, same tine as John Gospel.
From Amplified Bible, excerpt from the introductions of each book;
John Gospel
"Among the four Gospels the book of John is a class of its own....
....Jesus is introduced as the Word, or *Logos.
In this way Jesus is identified as the essence of God's revelation as He lived in this world.
As the " Lamb of God" Jesus provides salvation for "whoever" believes in (trusts in, adheres to, relies on) Him.
The fact that Jesus is the Son of God in s repeatedly indicated.
At the he same time, the humanity of Jesus is reflected in statements that He was weary, impatient, sorrowful, appreciative and loving (see 4:6-7, 6:26-27, 8:44, 11:35;12:7,27; 13:1; 18:8,23)
In contrast to the prophets, who repeatedly asserted " Thus says the Lod", Jesus was unique in asserting
" I AM" the:
Bread of Life (6:35),
Light of the world (8:12, 9:5),
Door (10:7),
Good Shepherd (10:11,14),
Resurrection and the Life (11:25),
Way and the Truth and the Life (14:6),
True Vine (15:1).
Evidence points to John as the author of this Gospel. The book itself seems to reflect repeatedly that the author was an eyewitness to and a participant in many of the events which he records......"
((Amplified Bible
The last time I checked, Amplified Bible is translated by over 60 Biblibal experts , including theologians, pastors, scholars who include those with PhDs in Biblical Hebrews and Greek.
Re
Ecodus 3:14,
"And God said to Moses, "I AM who I AM"......" ))
1John
"..1John indicates that the readers were confronted with the error of Gnosticism which became a more serious problem in the second century. As a philosophy of religion, it held that matter is evil and spirit is good.
The solution to the tension between these two was knowledge, or *gnos, through which man rose from the mundane to the spiritual. In the Gospel message this led to to two false theories concerning the person of Christ
-Docetism, regarding the human Jesus as a ghost (that is, the view that Christ only seemed to have a body)' and
-Cerinthianism, making Jesus a dual personality, at times human and at times divine.."
2John
"...Emphasis is given to the importance of the doctrine that Jesus is God's Son in bodily for and that the readers should continue in Good d's love and reject false doctrine..."
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Q4
a. Do you agree or disagree with Gnostic philosophy?
(Or in another words, do you believe in or practise this philosophy)
b.Why? Why not?
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Look forward to you four answers, to my four simple questions, in plain simple English.
