A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches."(Proverbs 22:1)

Jesus Christ has given Christians the right and authority to use his name. This means that Christians have been given the power of attorney. Legally, power of attorney is the authority to act in another person's behalf, at their request. It is authorization given by one person (Jesus) permitting another (Christians) to take action on his (Jesus Christ's) behalf.

"And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it." (John 14:13,14)

"Whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full." (John 16:23, 24)

The name of Jesus Christ is not a magic word. The power is not even in saying words, but in understanding and believing all that the name of Jesus Christ signifies. His name represents all of His finished work on the cross, fulfilling God's plan of redemption and salvation, victory over sin, death, and over the devil's entire realm. When the name of Jesus Christ is invoked, it carries all of the power and distinction God gave to it. God raised Jesus from the dead, elevated Him to His right hand, and gave Jesus a name above "every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come." (Ephesians 1:21)

Philippians declares, "God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth." (Philippians 2:9, 10) Hebrews states, regarding Jesus, "when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they." (Hebrews 1:3, 4)

On the day of Pentecost, the people were deeply moved after Peter's powerful sermon, and asked, "What do we do?" Peter answered, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." (Acts 2:38)

One day Peter and John were going into the temple, when a lame man asked for a donation. Peter said, "Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk." Later, when interrogated about this healing miracle, Peter was bold in defending the name of Jesus and all it stands for. "Let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." (Acts 3:6, 4:10, 12)

It is by faith in this name above all names, the name of Jesus Christ, that people are saved, set free from bondage, healed of sicknesses and diseases, and made whole. There is no other name under heaven more powerful or more significant, and this is a dynamic reality that Christians can believe in and have complete confidence in.

"These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God." (1 John 5:13

Written by: Pete Miller

@Joagbaje

Many thanks

A stubborn fool considers his own way the right one, but a person who listens to advice is wise, Proverbs 12:15

@abc4lyf,

How are you? Hope you are growing more and more in the Lord! In addition to some of the above positive responses, I want you to know that, God loves you and desires that you experience Joy, Peace, and the Abundant life. This life is in God's only begotten Son, Jesus Christ Our Lord!

The Bible Says,

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believth in him should not perish, But have Everlasting Life.

John 11:25

Jesus Said unto her, I am the ressurection, and the life: He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.

John 10:10
, I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Just keep believing in him and keep your trust in him. You are on the right track my brother,

Peace

  Thanks bro. How are you doing?

Nice,

@ Mavenb0x,

But, Justcool, I have a problem with where you defined Christ's genes as a formative consequence of strengthened genes in Joseph and Mary as opposed to Mary, when the entire purpose of Christ's coming would be negated if the birth was not immaculate. I think that should read "Mary's genes" alone. Cheers.

I concur

No matter how enormous the Divine infinity is, a little part of it can be made finite and incarnated into a physical body. You are right, God in His entirety cannot descend into creation; creation will only incinerate in His presence. This part of God that was made finite and incarnated in a physical body is not God in His entirety; hence we use the expression "son of God." This is why Jesus suggested that He was not God by saying that the father is greater than Him. Jesus is dependant on the father, therefore the father is greater than him. I don't think Jesus ever called himself God, He only said that He is "the son of God"; thus a part of God. His origin is Divine, as opposed to our origin which is spirit.
I will give you an analogy:
The Atlantic ocean cannot be contained in a cup. But a small potion of the Atlantic ocean can fill a cup. This ocean filled cup is not the ocean but a part of the ocean. Eventhough small, it carries all the characteristics of the ocean. Whoever sees and understands the nature of this water in a cup, has seen and understood the nature of the ocean. Hence the biblical statement, "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father." (John14:19)
I used the Atlantic ocean to represent God, while the ocean filled cup represents Jesus.

@justcool, the above is cool, Thanks

mavenbox:

AIO and KunleOshob have missed the entire point. The fact that there are phony Nigerians does not make us all fraudsters. If there are professed Xtians who do not walk in love, then their faith without works is dead and their reward is sure. Deepsight's point is that salvation has nothing to do with the man Jesus, and if at all it does, it is only about his teachings on love.
That is what God is all about with respect to man: his son dying in our place so as to discharge and acquit us. Jesus death was not a coincidence after he taught on walking in love, as Deepsight would have us believe. THAT WAS THE PLAN FOR SALVATION. The same way Adam went from disobedience to walking in sin to death, Jesus went from obedience to walking in love to life. Its a very simple equation but it is unpalatable to those who are perishing. If one denies THAT simple spiritual equation of Jesus being the last Adam, then that one denies salvation for himself! On earth today there are two types of man with two types of life: Adam and Christ. As long as you have ever heard of Christ, the Adam project for you has been shut down, and you need to choose life or death. Your works wont count for anything until you are in Christ.
Its dead easy. Adam CHOSE to obey Satan's counsel and sin, THUS man inherited sin, Jesus CHOSE to obey God's counsel and be without sin, THUS man inherited life through him. But since all men came through Adam's choice, all men need to come through Jesus' choice too in order to be saved! It does not stop there, for Jesus also had to die in place of ALL the Adam seed. The love that we can walk in, is as a consequence of salvation. Those who walk in love before men and knew of Christ and didnt switch to that line will be judged based on Adam's sin, which they inherited.
I can explain and make it even simpler, but i dont think that is necessary because i notice its often the more intelligent people who dont understand this. Making it simpler wont help them.

Very good

@Olaadegbu,

You are very correct in your analysis. If you ask viaro whether he believes that the parting of the red sea was literal, he will tell you that it was figurative. This reminds me of the story of a young convert and a liberal minister.

A new convert was reading his Bible when he called out, "Wow! Praise the Lord!" A liberal minister heard him, and asked him what the noise was all about. The young Christian convert replied with great enthusiasm, "This is incredible. It says here that God performed a miracle of deliverance by opening up the Red Sea for the Jews to march through!"

The liberal minister replied, "Owing to tidal patterns around that time of the year, the Red Sea was a swamp that was only 3 inches deep."

Somewhat subdued, the young man continued reading, but soon exclaimed, "Wow! Praise the Lord!" "What's the matter now?" asked the minister. To which the Christian replied, "God has just drowned the whole Egyptian army in three inches of water!"

Over three thousand times, the Bible speaks of its inspiration by God. His Word is true, and you can believe every word of it.

The above summarized everything. Thanks

Beautiful piece

@Olaadegbu, please don't stress up yourself too much about this issue. You've tried your best. They perfectly understand you the first time  but chose to ignore your points because it totally contradict their own understanding.They've reduced God Almighty, the Creator, to Man (what is created).  They've forgotten the word of our Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 19:26 that says, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.". The Word of God says Noah's flood was global as you've rightly pointed out but they say no, God lied, the Noah's flood can't be global but local(because that's what science says), thereby making God a liar. Don't be surprise if these 'so called' christians come out and say, there's no proof that God actually parted the red sea etc etc.Afterall, it's not been proven scientifically. You should by now understand that, the way you are looking at the Noah's flood is different from the way they are seeing it. You are looking at it Biblically while they are looking at it scientifically. To them, anything in the Bible that contradicts science(or not been proven) is a lie.For them, some things are not just possible for God to do.

May God continue to bless and increase your knowledge as you have not withheld the TRUTH about the Word of God. Thanks

[b]If the bible says it was created yesterday, then for me it was created yesterday.[/b]Psa 138:2 I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.

May God continue to enrich you with His wisdom and understanding my brother. Many thanks to you and Olaadegbu

@olaadegbu,

Thanks for unashamedly standing for the unchanging word of God. I can't deny how much I've learned from your posts especially this particular thread. May God help us all. Thanks

"Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, "  

2 Timothy 4:2-5

Thanks once again @olaadegbu

OLAADEGBU:

The Bible has all the answers to man's questions

God has all the answers because He was and eyewitness to His creation and the revealer of it in His Holy Word, The Bible. The answers as to who created, what was created, how it was created, when it was created and how long it took for Him to create are clearly communicated in the language we can understand. These are the questions and answers:

1. Who created?------------God
2. What was created? ----All things
3. How was it created?--- By His Power
4. When was it created?—In the beginning
5. How long did it take to
Create?------------------- 6 days

Some top and highly qualified Hebrew scholars, who are called lexigraphers wrote in the most widely recognised Hebrew lexicons and dictionaries, published in the 20th century says that the creation days written in the book of Genesis are literal days.

Below is a partial list of Hebrew scholars and scientists who believe in the Bible's account of literal creation as is recorded in the book of Genesis and through their professional fields have come to the scientific conclusion that confirms the Bible's account:

Danny Faulkner Ph.D. Astronomy
John Byl Ph.D. Astronomy
Tom Greene Ph.D. Astronomy
James Dire Ph.D. Astrophysics
Dave Harrison Ph.D. Astrophysics
Steven Boyd Ph.D. Hebraic and Cognitive Studies
Floyd Nolen Jones Th.D., Ph.D. Authour of Chronology of the Old Testament
Herb Hirt Ph.D. Biblical Exposition
Robert Cole Ph.D. Semitic languages
Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon
Georgia Purdon Ph.D. Molecular Genetics
Duane Gish Ph.D. Biochemistry
David Menton Ph.D. Cell Biology
Donald Chittick Ph.D. Physical Chemistry
Tom Greene Ph.D. Astronomy
Jason Lisle Ph.D. Astrophysics
Russell Humphreys Ph.D Physics
Don DeYoung Ph.D. Physics
Terry Mortenson Ph.D. History of Geology
John baumgardner Ph.D. Geophysics
Bob Compton Ph.D. Physiology, DVM
Andy McIntosh Ph.D. Combustion Theory
John Johnson Ph.D. Mathematics
Tommy Mitchel M.D.
Andrew Snelling Ph.D. Geology
Emil Silvestre Ph.D. Geology
Esther Su Ph.D. Biochemistry
David DeWitt Ph.D. Neuroscience

And above all is the One who knows it all with absolute certainty and has recorded it with His own caligraphy:

"For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." Exodus 20:11

“For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers: all things were created by Him, and for him.” Colossians 1:16

Which is the strong foundation that makes our faith certain as it is based on the solid rock of evidence.

Thanks for this piece Sir.May God continually bless you richly in your endeavours. May He continue to enrich you with wisdom. You see, there's little you can do.You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Just try as much as possible not to waste too much of your precious time. Thank you

@mavenbox,

1. How old was Adam when he was created? Was he a helpless baby, requiring the usual nurture like infants do? Was he a young man (in today's respect), agile and full of energy; responsible enough to tend a garden and have a wife, and wise enough to attend to instruction? Or was he a middle-aged man? By today's expression of age in years, would you say he was 12 years? 25 years? 50 years? 100? Or would you say that he was ZERO years old? Herein is that limitation of time as measured by mankind once again. We want to state the age of Adam JUST before he sinned, but because time is measured between two time references and we do not know how old he was when he was made, we cannot truly tell. Or maybe Kolaxy knows?

The above is like asking: ‘How old a new born baby is? We start counting the age of a new born baby from the day it was born not how long it has been in the womb. Some babies spent over 9months in the womb while some spent under 9 months in the womb. But averagely, we all know that it’s 9months.

So also the case for Adam. We started counting his age from the day he was created just like a new born baby. Thanks

@mavenbox,

Now, I will not belabour the issue of the pre-Adamic man that you scoff right now, but there is Biblical evidence for it and maybe we may discuss that on another thread (one such is Genesis 2:5 where there was not yet a man to till the ground that God made, making it clear that man already had the role before Adam).

I don’t mean to mock or ridicule your assertion and I apologize if you feel wronged. However, I’ll like if you could briefly shed more light on the above. Thanks

Sorry,I did modify my post but I didn't change anything.Just changed the colour. Thanks

The Bible says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7) and “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10).

If one begins with an evolutionary view of history (for which there were no witnesses or written record), then this way of thinking will be used to explain the evidence that exists in the present. 

But if one begins with the biblical view of history from the written record of an eyewitness (God) to all events of history, then a totally different way of thinking, based on this, will be used to explain the same evidence.

Thanks Olaadegbu.

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[quote]Don't tell me 130 years, because that's not what the Bible says in Gen 5:3 (it says Adam gave birth to Seth AFTER 130 years of leaving the Garden)2. How much time passed AFTER the earth was created but BEFORE the first man (not Adam,[color=#990000][/color]

I can't but laugh at the above red bolded words,

HOW[b] OLD [/b] is the earth according to the Bible? The following timeline by Theodore Pederson appeared in The Christian News, March 26, 2001, page 18.

HOW OLD is the earth according to the Bible? The following timeline by Theodore Pederson appeared in The Christian News, March 26, 2001, page 18.
How old is the earth?

If we go back 500 years, we come to the time of Martin Luther (born in 1483), and Columbus, who “sailed the ocean blue in 1492.”
If we go back 1000 years, we come to the time of Leif Ericson, Christian explorer, who preached Christ to pagans. (World Book, 1983, vol.6, page 270.)
If we go back 2000 years, we come to the birth of Jesus Christ. Our calendar is dated from His birth.
If we go back 3000 years, we come to the time of David and Solomon; they ruled Israel about 1000 BC.
If we go back 4000 years, we come to the time of Abraham (2000 BC), ancestor of Arabs and Jews.
If we go back 5000 years, we come to the time of Enoch, who “walked with God 300 years … and God took him [into Heaven].”
If we go back 6000 years, we come to the time of Creation, and Adam and Eve (4004 BC). Luke, evangelist and historian, records Adam as the first man (Luke 3:38).
The earth is about 6000 years old. Let God's people rejoice in Him who made them! (Psalm 149:2)

If not, then when?
Although many people don't accept the Bible's timeline of history, they have difficulty deciding exactly when to start disagreeing with it.
• Was Jesus Christ real? The Bible says he was, and no serious historian doubts it.
• Was King David real? The Bible says he was. Again, there is no reason to doubt it.
• Was Abraham real? The Bible says he was. There seems no reason to doubt this either.
• Was Enoch real? The Bible says he was. There is no reason to think the Bible has suddenly lapsed into fiction when the other people were genuine historical figures.
• Was Adam real? Well, Enoch was a son of Cain, who was a son of Adam. So if Enoch was real there is no reason to think that his father Cain wasn't, or that his grandfather Adam wasn't. They were only two generations away.
And Adam was the first man, created in the first week of the earth's existence.

According to the Bible, he lived about 6000 years ago. So according to the Bible, the world also is about 6000 years old.
Ussher's calculation
Irish Archbishop James Ussher (1581-1656), calculated a similar date.

In his famous work The Annals of the World, Ussher used the Masoretic text of the Bible to come up with fairly precise dates for people and events mentioned in the Bible. His calculations led him to determine that God created the universe on 23 October, 4004 BC.

Other Bible historians and scholars always come up with a date not far from Ussher's, because even if you use slightly different methods for determining Bible chronology, you can't get away from the fact that the Bible will point you to a date of creation about 6000 years ago.

http://creationtips.com/earthsage.html

mavenbox:

@DeepSight:
I agree with that, which is what I also meant when I said man's means of measurement of time is essentially flawed: one can only measure time between two references of time. How do you measure time, then, when the upper limit is unbounded above?

@Kolaxy: I don't think man may be able to put a number to the age of the earth, but it is definitely greater than 6000 years. Permit my analogy, but it's like a caged bird trying to determine the size of the house in which it lives. As much as it may estimate the size of the room in which it is caged, the size of the house is an entirely different matter. Man cannot exist in time, and also attempt to use that same medium of time to estimate the age of the world in which he exists.

I agree with you to a certain extent. I'm not entirely saying that the earth is exactly 6000years. What I don't agree with is for someone to say the earth is millions or billions of years old?

Deep Sight:

Mazaje, please do not be misled by Kolaxy.

He wrote -

Remember that the activity referred to here is God's activity. Thus the "days" referred to are such periods as would be days for a transcendental being like God. We are made to understand even from the Bible that in the view of God, a thousand earth-years may be as a single day. I do not believe that this refers specifically to 1000 years on earth, but is simply metaphorical for a stupendously long period. An era, if you like. Personally, i believe that God is entirely timeless and so the "days" in question are mere parametres for recording divine activity over very long periods of time in such a manner as to be understood by humans.

That's the proper understanding.



The sabbath being on the sixth human day, is merely a human reflection of what the divine had done. Much as man himself is said to be a small reflection of God, or made in the "image and likeness" of God.

So Kolaxy - understand clearly - nothing in the bible suggests that the Earth is 6000 years old.

It is many millions of years old, and this is a fact.

If  I may ask you, how do you know that the earth is millions of years old or billions and not trillions?

KunleOshob:

The bible never stated that Adam is the first man, go and read you bible again. Infact there are several hints of a pre-Adamic man in the book of genesis. Man was created in Genesis 1: 26-27, whilst Adam was created Genesis 2:7-19

You have every right to believe whatever you want to believe

According to the above verse, God made heaven and earth (Man inclusive) in 6days. If God created heaven and earth and Man in 6days , and if the genealogy of Adam to date is roughly estimated to be 6000years, then, it is right for me to assume or say that the earth is 6000years Old. At least biblically.

Roughly 6000 years

Exodus 20:11

"For in six days the LORD made the heavens and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day.  Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it."