7UP: So, you believe that God can be a man with supernatural powers right?
You are dodging the question. Did Jesus Christ, being a man, have supernatural powers?
7UP: I assume everyone who believes in the Bible does.
I am pointing out your hypocrisy. Those on this thread want to criticize Mormons for believing that God is "a man with supernatural powers."
Please answer:
Do you believe that Jesus is God?
Do you believe that Jesus is Man?
Do you believe that Jesus has supernatural powers?
7UP: One huge difference between you all and LDS is this. We believe that Colossians 2:9 is true. And you do not.
You refuse to address the issue.
7UP: If God is, by nature (as an essential characteristic), an omnipresent essence, then you cannot also believe that the FULNESS of Deity can dwell bodily within Jesus Christ.
Dodging the question again, trying to deflect or change the topic.
7UP: You have yourself another contradiction.
I am answering all of your queries, while you are avoiding truth.
"if you were to see GOD today, you would see him like a man in form–like yourselves, in all the person, image, and very form as a man; for Adam was created in the very fashion, image, and likeness of God, and received instruction from, and walked, talked, and conversed with him, as one man talks and communes with another." - Joseph Smith
We are created in "the image and likeness of God." That is the truth. Do you know the meaning of "image"? If you stand in the light, and your shape casts a shadow in the same figure ... that is what your "image" is. It merely means "a sketch, or an outline" of it's physical form.
If the ancient heathens (or even Israelites) saw an eagle, and they looked at its shape and then created a statue out of stone in that same form/shape, then they had just created an "image".
Likewise, the word "likeness" usually speaks of a visual / physical form. For example: "king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion/likeness of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof." (1 Kings 16:10).
What does the Hebrew mean when someone in the Bible said something had the "likeness of a man"? Do they mean that it sounded, acted, thought, smelled like a man? NO! It means that it looked like a man.
The Jews and the Christians had to attempt to change the interpretation of Genesis 1:26 when trying to integrate into Roman society and philosophy. The early Christians and Jews held the correct belief, however, like the LDS, were being mocked and derided for believing what the Bible taught. Upon the death of the apostles, the Christians abandoned the truth in the apostasy.
-7up
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7UP: I assume everyone who believes in the Bible does.
Originally posted by Cow Poke
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Please answer:
Do you believe that Jesus is God?
Do you believe that Jesus is Man?
Do you believe that Jesus has supernatural powers?
7UP: One huge difference between you all and LDS is this. We believe that Colossians 2:9 is true. And you do not.
Originally posted by Cow Poke
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7UP: If God is, by nature (as an essential characteristic), an omnipresent essence, then you cannot also believe that the FULNESS of Deity can dwell bodily within Jesus Christ.
Originally posted by Cow Poke
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7UP: You have yourself another contradiction.
Originally posted by Cow Poke
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"if you were to see GOD today, you would see him like a man in form–like yourselves, in all the person, image, and very form as a man; for Adam was created in the very fashion, image, and likeness of God, and received instruction from, and walked, talked, and conversed with him, as one man talks and communes with another." - Joseph Smith
We are created in "the image and likeness of God." That is the truth. Do you know the meaning of "image"? If you stand in the light, and your shape casts a shadow in the same figure ... that is what your "image" is. It merely means "a sketch, or an outline" of it's physical form.
If the ancient heathens (or even Israelites) saw an eagle, and they looked at its shape and then created a statue out of stone in that same form/shape, then they had just created an "image".
Likewise, the word "likeness" usually speaks of a visual / physical form. For example: "king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion/likeness of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof." (1 Kings 16:10).
What does the Hebrew mean when someone in the Bible said something had the "likeness of a man"? Do they mean that it sounded, acted, thought, smelled like a man? NO! It means that it looked like a man.
The Jews and the Christians had to attempt to change the interpretation of Genesis 1:26 when trying to integrate into Roman society and philosophy. The early Christians and Jews held the correct belief, however, like the LDS, were being mocked and derided for believing what the Bible taught. Upon the death of the apostles, the Christians abandoned the truth in the apostasy.
-7up
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