I was thinking that Luke had contact with John and Jesus's mother whom John was looking after and that could explain the depth of personal history recorded by Luke in his Gospel. ???? Why do you think that ? The first 2 chapters of Luke for instance are very precise in their telling by Luke who was...

I was thinking that Luke had contact with John and Jesus's mother whom John was looking after and that could explain the depth of personal history recorded by Luke in his Gospel. ???? Why do you think that ? The first 2 chapters of Luke for instance are very precise in their telling by Luke who was...

I was thinking that Luke had contact with John and Jesus's mother whom John was looking after and that could explain the depth of personal history recorded by Luke in his Gospel. ???? Why do you think that ? The first 2 chapters of Luke for instance are very precise in their telling by Luke who was...

macca wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 3:08 am I was thinking that Luke had contact with John and Jesus's mother whom John was looking after and that could explain the depth of personal history recorded by Luke in his Gospel.
????

Why do you think that ?

In Isaiah Ch 6:8; Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying. "Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?" So, who is the Us Jesus is reffering to ? I have at least 4 choices.... The Trinity Verse 8. I... us—The change of number indicates the Trinity (compare Gen 1:26; Gen 11:7). Though no...

macca wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:36 am In Isaiah Ch 6:8; Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying.
"Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?"

So, who is the Us Jesus is reffering to ?

Going by the context, the asker is God, and the 'we' are God and the seraphims

Mark. 16:15-16; And Jesus said to them, Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believes not shall be damned. Jesus states very clearly in verse 16 that water baptism has nothing to do with being born-again, Yo...

1 Timothy. 6:13-16; I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed a good confession before Pontius Pilate. That you keep this commandment without spot blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ's appearing. Which He will manifest in His own time, He w...

But the Comforter, which is The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you. How many reading this have taken this statement of Jesus as their own and declared it to be true in their lives ...

macca wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2024 11:18 pm It could be that the translaters believed that Jesus before His birth from Mary, was the eternal Son of God from eternity past to eternity future.
Which is still a common belief to this day.

Yeah, many can't grasp that Jesus used to be the Word.
They think Jesus has always been Jesus.