OLAADEGBU:


@Recognise,

. . . It is significant that although Christ clearly taught that He was the unique Son of God, He most frequently referred to Himself as Son of man,

earnestly desiring that people understand His true and representative humanity.

Numbers 23:19 KJV:


God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent:

hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Psalm 8:4:


What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?"

OLAADEGBU:


Ezekiel--Son of Man
October 13, 2010

"And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee" (Ezekiel 2:1)

This is the first of more than 90 times in which the prophet Ezekiel is addressed by God as "Son of man" 

This seems quite remarkable, as this title also was Christ's favourite title (using it 80 times), always applying it to Himself.

In Christ's case, of course, it means "representative man," "perfect man," "heir of man, [and] all God's promises to man," "man as God intended man to be."

As Son of man, Jesus as perfect man could take all the sins of sinful man upon Himself and redeem man.

David was the first to use the term when he asked:

"What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" (Psalm 8:4). 

That this was revealed to him in a Messianic sense becomes clear when it is quoted in the New Testament (Hebrews 2:6-9) and applied strictly to the Lord Jesus. 

The prophet Daniel also used the title in a Messianic sense when he saw "one like the Son of man," who came to "the Ancient of days" to receive "everlasting dominion" over all men (Daniel 7:13-14).

Evidently the title as given by God to Ezekiel must also have been intended somehow in a Messianic sense, so that Ezekiel is, in effect, a type of the coming Saviour. 

Ezekiel was a godly priest and scribe, but the Lord Jesus Christ is our "great high priest, that is passed into the heavens"

—in fact, He is our "high priest for ever" (Hebrews 4:14; 6:20) and is "the Word of God" to the world (John 1:1, 14; Revelation 19:13). 

It is significant that to Ezekiel was revealed more about the primeval fall of Satan (Ezekiel 28:11-19) and the glories of the coming kingdom (Ezekiel 40-48) than to any of the other Old Testament prophets. 

Truly, God "spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets," but now, He has "spoken unto us by his Son" (Hebrews 1:1-2). HMM

For more . . . .

Numbers 23:19:


God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent:

hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Job 25:4;6 KJV:


⁴How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

⁶How much less man, that is a worm? and [U]the son of man, which is a worm[/U]?

Job35:8:


Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man

Daniel 3:25:


He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt;

and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

Daniel 7:13:


I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven,

and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

Hebrew 2:6:


But one in a certain place testified, saying, [u]What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?

Matthew 8:20:


And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head

Matthew 16:13;16:


¹³When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

¹⁶And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God

Matthew 18:11:


For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

Joagbaje:


I've not  read very detail on this thread yet. I may be repeating what someone else has posted probably .

The serpernt is a symbol of wisdom, health ,sin, and the devil.

Symbol of Satan
It is true that the serpent stands out among every other animal.

It was created to be a four legged animal and full of wisdom.

Until Satan used it's body as a medium that led to mans fall. So it became an object synonymous with Satan .

OLAADEGBU:


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[li]Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the snake and the snake didn't have a leg to stand on [/li]

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Joagbaje:


Revelation 12:9
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Genesis 3:1
1 The snake was more clever than all the wild animals the LORD God had made.

Symbol of evil and darkness

Luke 10:19
19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 

The serpent really stands out among animals.

In the new earth, the curses upon our earth and man and animals will be removed.

It's worthy to know that the only animal that will not be redeemed is THE SERPENT. The curse will follow it to the new earth.

Isaiah 65:17;25

17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind----
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust [shall be] the serpent's meat

Genesis 2:7 KJV:


And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground,

and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul

Genesis 3:14 KJV:


And the LORD God said unto the serpent,

Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field;

upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

Genesis 3:17; 19 KJV:


¹⁷And unto Adam he said,

Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it:

cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;

¹⁹In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground;

for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return

Isaiah 65:25:


The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust [shall be] the serpent's meat.

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

nuclearboy:


. . . The quotes you've highlighted from the "Talmud" seem to me to be the exact reason why we ought to read them.

That way, any supposed Christian leader who uses ideas rooted in them however insidiously will be better easily recognised by the listeners ability to reference the source of information . . .

the Talmud:

Baba Mezia 24a . If a Jew finds an object lost by a gentile ("heathen" it does not have to be returned.

Sanhedrin 57a . When a Jew murders a gentile, there will be no death penalty. What a Jew steals from a gentile he may keep.

Yebamoth 98a. All gentile children are animals.

Abodah Zarah 36b. Gentile girls are in a state of niddah (filth) from birth.

Abodah Zarah 22a-22b . Gentiles prefer sex with cows.

Moed Kattan 17a: If a Jew is tempted to do evil he should go to a city where he is not known and do the evil there

Baba Mezia 59b. A rabbi debates God and defeats Him. God admits the rabbi won the debate.

Menahoth 43b-44a. A Jewish man is obligated to say the following prayer every day: "Thank you God for not making me a gentile, a woman or a slave."

Aletheia:


I would beg to disagree with you sir.

The altar in Athens had the inscription: "To an Unknown God".

The operative word here being "Unknown", no name was given.

Certain Paul did not use the name Zeus to preach!

Part of why Israel had to go into exile was because they substituted Baal for YHWH.

Psalm 124:8  Our help is in the name of the LORD (YHWH), Who made heaven and earth.

Is that name Allah?

Acts 17:20-28 CEV:


²²So Paul stood up in front of the council and said:

  People of Athens, I see that you are very religious.

²³As I was going through your city and looking at the things you worship,

I found an altar with the words, "To an Unknown God."

You worship this God, but you don't really know him. So I want to tell you about him.

²⁴This God made the world and everything in it.

He is Lord of heaven and earth, and he doesn't live in temples built by human hands.

²⁵He doesn't need help from anyone. He gives life, breath, and everything else to all people.

²⁶From one person God made all nations who live on earth, and he decided when and where every nation would be.

²⁷God has done all this, so that we will look for him and reach out and find him. He isn't far from any of us,

²⁸and he gives us the power to live, to move, and to be who we are. "We are his children," just as some of your poets have said.

Akered on December 27, 2009, 02:53 PM:


The First Suicide Bomber Is In The Bible!

His name is called SAMSON!!!!!!

All hard-line bible thumpers should emulate him!!!!!

Rom 5:12 KJV:


Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Aishabee:


From yahoo.news

– The Gospel of Luke records that, as he was dying on the cross, Jesus showed his boundless mercy by praying for his killers this way:

"Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."

Not so fast, say contributors to the Conservative Bible Project.

The project, an online effort to create a Bible suitable for contemporary conservative sensibilities, claims Jesus' quote is a disputed addition abetted by liberal biblical scholars, even if it appears in some form in almost every translation of the Bible.

The project's authors argue that contemporary scholars have inserted liberal views and ahistorical passages into the Bible, turning Jesus into little more than a well-meaning social worker with a store of watered-down platitudes . . .

. . . "There's a little Italian proverb, 'Every translator is a traitor,'" Matera said. "Most Bible translations are usually done by a group of scholars, precisely so they can balance out each other. It's not something that everybody can do."

Abu Zola:


, you are a joker,

do you know that Jesus didn't want to die, read Luke 22 vs 42,

do you know that Jesus cried while dying, lmbo what a miracle 

Isaiah 53:1-12 Contemporary English Version (CEV):


¹Has anyone believed us

or seen the mighty power of the LORD in action?

²Like a young plant or a root that sprouts in dry ground,

the servant grew up obeying the LORD.

He wasn't some handsome king.

Nothing about the way he looked made him attractive to us.

³He was hated and rejected; his life was filled with sorrow and terrible suffering.

No one wanted to look at him.

We despised him and said,"He is a nobody!"

⁴He suffered and endured great pain for us,

but we thought his suffering was punishment from God.

⁵He was wounded and crushed because of our sins;

by taking our punishment, he made us completely well.

⁶All of us were like sheep that had wandered off. We had each gone our own way,

but the LORD gave him the punishment we deserved.

⁷He was painfully abused, but he did not complain.

He was silent like a lamb being led to the butcher,

as quiet as a sheep having its wool cut off.

⁸He was condemned to death without a fair trial.
   
Who could have imagined what would happen to him?

His life was taken away because of the sinful things my people had done.

⁹He wasn't dishonest or violent, but he was buried in a tomb of cruel and rich people.

¹⁰The LORD decided his servant would suffer as a sacrifice

to take away the sin and guilt of others.

Now the servant will live

to see his own descendants.

He did everything the LORD had planned.

¹¹By suffering, the servant will learn the true meaning of obeying the LORD.

Although he is innocent, he will take the punishment for the sins of others,

so that many of them will no longer be guilty.

¹²The LORD will reward him with honor and power for sacrificing his life.

Others thought he was a sinner, but he suffered for our sins

and asked God to forgive us.

Abu Zola:


The bottomline is 'he died', a true God never die,

an eight years old girl died and resurrected in two days, you can google it and see numerous of its kind. Eh eh eh

Abu Zola:


I hear new comedy each day, so Jesus does not have power over death, incredible

The_Seeker:


Suicide is not a new thing in Christianity. Afterall our dear God Jesus committed suicide to cleanse the sins of the world

Lady 234:


Why do pentecostals like commiting idolatry.

Deuteronomy 5:8 says

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,
or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth

But pentecostals usually have on their signboard an image of their pastor and his wife which is clearly a breaking of the 2nd commandment.

There are so many errors in pentecostal churches of which the above is one.

Deuteronomy 5:6-10 Contemporary English Version (CEV):


⁶I am the LORD your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt where you were slaves.

⁷Do not worship any god except me.

⁸Do not make idols that look like anything in the sky or on earth or in the ocean under the earth.

⁹Don't bow down and worship idols. I am the LORD your God, and I demand all your love. If you reject me and worship idols, I will punish your families for three or four generations.

¹⁰But if you love me and obey my laws, I will be kind to your families for thousands of generations.

¹¹Do not misuse my name. I am the LORD your God, and I will punish anyone who misuses my name.

ancel:


@Recognise:

LOL Yeah! You need a good antivirus and a capable firewall!!

So many viruses and trojans in today's world, targetting the peccant windows OS! 

iice:


[u]P[/u]ole

michelin89:


Filmography:

Obalende:


These questions are irrelevant.

What I am saying is that God violated my free will by creating me when I did NOT want to created nor did I want to exist.

He makes me prone to sin, temptations, evil spirit influence, and then He sends me to Hell for it;

He even appears to you to appoint as a servant knowing from day 1 you cant make it, then punishes you for it all in Hell.

A mean God if you ask me.

DreaShola:


H[/u]onk

SeanT21:


Wats his name and what church??

Recognise:


[u]M[/u]ock

Agathamari:


So because God said there was death they automaticaly understood? 

Have you ever tried to explain death to someone who has never experienced it? 
(in modern times that would only be small children and people who have lived in exile thier whole lives)

It is extremly difficult and they usualy dont get it until after someone has passed on and even then it can take weeks before they really get it.