B.W. wrote:First off, the bible clearly teaches that it is Jesus who was faithful unto death
Yes, it is Jesus who was faithful unto death, the Spirit that ruled in Him is the reason why He was faithful unto death, and it is precisely this same Spirit that must rule in us if we are going to be trusted to live and serve God and creation forever. Only when this Spirit lives and rules in us will our old corrupt spirit of lies and delusion be put to death.
B.W. wrote:as Heb 12:2 and Rev 1:5,6 reveals as does much of the New Testament clearly teach. No where does the bible say - the pure and faithful Spirit was faithful to love unto death. How can such a spirit actually die and pay for our sins? Are you aware how your very words end up make a mockery of Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection?
I am aware that right now the Spirit of truth is not ruling in you B.W.
B.W. wrote:You mentioned that the spirit will not deceive or offend any of us. You pit the words deceive against the word offend in order to hide the identity of the spirit whom you speak. The true third person of God's essence, the Holy Spirit, will tell the truth, that is true.
Can you explain why you believe the one you call “the Holy Spirit” is telling you the truth?
B.W. wrote:However, the True Holy Spirit of the Godhead does indeed offend as it is written in John 16:7,8,9,10,11, Jude 1:14,15 and elsewhere reveals that God the Holy Spirit indeed offends by conviction, pricking ones conscience, offend folks for their sins and offences, etc. Therefore, the one whom you speak is not the True living Holy Spirit of the Godhead. What you are doing, most likely not aware of it until now, is that your doctrine seeks to pit God's own attributes against each other such as his love against offending.
Next is a fact read it: "And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie..." 2 Th 2:11
Then add to this these verses: Isaiah 66:4 NKJV, Psalms 81:11-12, Psalms 109:17, Rom 1:21-25, Rom 1:28... God does indeed send delusions due to the sin within a persons heart in order to offend them and awake them to their sense, if they do not awaken, judgment comes. You said said God does not deceives (sends delusions), yet, the bible says He does.
You are taking my words out of context and I should have made myself more clear to you.
Let me repeat what I said earlier but make myself more clear.
Only the pure and faithful Spirit that is faithful to love us unto death
(that was revealed in the Lord Jesus when He ministered and died on earth) will have no reason to deceive and offend
(by“offend” I mean offend so that we be harmed and offended eternally) any of us, such is the Spirit that is revealed by His true followers.
B.W. wrote:Why, to reveal truth in order to reveal the true state of a person's heart either sealing it for eternal punishment or coming to ones senses for His salvafic work. Again, your statements goes contrary to the principles found in the bible on the subject of truth and how God hardens the heart by sending strong delusions...
This Jesus could not have lied because in His Spirit revealed throughout His life and death on earth and through the lives and deaths of many of His true followers throughout history, there can be seen no reason to lie.
B.W. wrote:Next, we already discussed earlier that Jesus Christ is not a created being who came into being due to being a mere a thought in the eternal mind of God. That idea you have is decidedly Gnostic and presents another Jesus, not the true Jesus, but another jesus. Wake up oldman...
I have woken up to the true Jesus, the Son of God, the Son of reason.
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In the beginning was the Word” (In the beginning the eternal Son existed only in the eternal thoughts of the Father as a spiritual embryo.) “
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (This Word, this embryo became a facsimile of the Father, not a creation as such but another part of the Father. This 2nd mind became another person like the Father, the Father's Son before creation began.) “
He was with God in the beginning. All things were made through Him,” (through the Father and the Son's pure and perfect love for each other they began creating everything whilst giving that love to all who they created.) “
without him nothing was made that has been made.” John 1:1-3.
As the eternal Son existed and grew within the eternal Father before creation began, so the eternal Spirit of truth existed and grew with the Son in the eternal Father also.
To deny the Son came from His Father by the will of His Father in eternity before creation began, as false teachers often do, is to deny the true meaning of the words “Father” and “Son” that were used by God to describe the 1st and 2nd person in the Godhead.
By denying the Son came from His Father before creation began, false teachers seek to lead others to deny the bond of perfect love that only a perfect Father and Son can give to each other.
False teachers seek to lead men to ignore and reject the unique Father and Son relationship that gave us the Spirit of truth.
The 1st and 2nd person of the Godhead were not revealed to us as “Father” and “Son” for nothing, as many false teachers would have us believe.
B.W. wrote:Next you tout the glories of love, wisdom, not condemning and then call many of us here hypocrites, malicious liars and antichrists, well, not very loving and anti-offending is it?
I am speaking the truth.
B.W. wrote:In fact your claim that the pure and faithful Spirit ... have no reason to deceive and offend any of us.. is well proven false by your own actions and words here on this forum.
When have I deceived you?
B.W. wrote:As a matter of fact, we have let you post here a constant dribble of Gnostic ideas. At times, we had to call you out and stop this, not to bring you to ruin, but rather in a tuff love fashion to jar you to your senses and return to actually become Born Again by God's true Holy Spirit. It is we who extend grace to you and you keep abusing it, as you do God's grace, in order to remain harden toward the True Lord of All. You do present another gospel and another jesus that is not found in the bible but rather in your own mind. I have, by demonstrating from the word of God, that what you have been constantly quoting is great error and great deception.
When have I deceived you?
B.W. wrote:Acts 17:30 does apply to you: Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent... NKJV
Then repent of your evil nature
B.W. wrote:Your eternal destiny is at stake. Cannot you see how your doctrine makes a mockery of God's way, truth, love, faithfulness?
Only the pure and faithful Spirit
that has proved faithful to love us unto death, will have no reason to deceive and
“offend” any of us, such is the Spirit that is revealed by the Lord Jesus and by His true followers. This Jesus could not have lied because in His Spirit there can be seen no reason to lie. Recorded history tells us the faithful followers who witnessed the ministry and finished work of Jesus were in the end prepared to be persecuted to death, even tortured to death rather than live a lie and deny who they believed in or what they had witnessed: His commandments and doctrine, the love and wisdom, the miracles, the promises, the crucifixion and the resurrected Jesus Christ. Despite all the efforts of hypocrites, malicious liars and antichrists, this Spirit lives on in all His true followers still.
By reason, this Spirit is the only proven conveyor of truth, simply because there is no reasonable alternative in which we all can trust.
I have faith in the God of reason, to believe in Him is to believe in reason. By reason alone He exists, by reason He is our only reasonable hope.
When the Son of God suffered and died for us taking our punishment He also revealed His self sacrificing Spirit of perfect love: faithful to love unto death and the only way to overcome our old corrupt spirit of lies and delusion. By His finished work He has revealed in full the essence and character of His Spirit that we must have faith in if we care to be saved. Through His finished work His Spirit and way of salvation is now known. But if we refuse to forsake our old offensive and corrupt spirit and see it dead when it rears its ugly head then our faith is dead, we are not being governed by the Holy Spirit and neither are we being made worthy to live with God forever:
“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it” (Matthew 16:25).
He poured out His life for us and we will be ready to do the same for His sake if we are born again. And what is His “sake” if it is not the glory of His love and endless joy in free and endless creation? We who have a living faith in Him will see our old corrupt selves dead and see His promised paradise where the free and infinite imagination of the Spirit of truth is the infinite realm of everything. We who are being saved will see and know the endless joy in free and endless creation.
And your eternal destiny is at stake friend.
None are so lost as those who ignore and reject reason.
None are so blind as those who cannot see reason.
From the Father and the Son comes their perfect and eternal love for each other. Their love is their endless joy in their pure and perfect caring, sharing and giving to each other all that they are and all that they care to create. The Son came from the Father in eternity before creation began and He naturally looks up to His Father, but without the Father's only eternal child there would be no possibility for an eternal God known as "love", "God is love", as Scripture clearly proclaims, and this love cannot exist with one person alone. This love, this God called love, needs at least two free thinking reasoning minds, and through the eternal Son the Father became the eternal giver of joy in perfect caring and sharing, and through the eternal Father His Son became the eternal receiver and giver of this same Spirit. Without the eternal Son there would be no such Spirit of pure and perfect eternal love; and it is this eternal Spirit that comes through the Father and the Son, and with the Father and the Son, all creation is governed. This Spirit naturally embraces all knowledge and wisdom and would mean nothing without being the heart or the innermost ruling character of a person.
The finished work of Jesus Christ reveals in full His Spirit faithful to love unto death. This Spirit is the heart of God's personality. This Spirit is what governs His reasoning and all creation. Only the Spirit that has proved faithful to love us unto death can have no reason to deceive and "offend" any of us, this is obvious to all who can see.
All who are given faith in this Spirit will naturally have faith in the Son. All who are of God have faith in this Spirit. Whoever will not have faith in this Spirit will remain a liar.