Posted by Illuminait on 7/3/2009, 10:25 am, in reply to "Re: Jesus' Divinity 5"
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Amir posted:
"""As I have already demonstrated, the Bible teaches that God has appeared to humans in human form. This is well supported in the Bible. God doesn't have to change His essence to appear as a man. One of God's atributes is that He can appear within our time and space in any form He chooses at any time. This ability is part of God's essence. There is no contradiction."""
Your claim would stand if God's attributes were similar to us.Is that what u are claiming?
However If God's attribute is different from ours then there is a contradiction because according to the Bible God cannot change his attributes.
The Bible says that people have seen God in human form. I really have no inside information about God to enable me to disagree with those statements. You seem to be making a philosophical point about God's nature. To me, how you can know what God can or can not do is a mystery. It seems to be a contradiction to claim that almighty God can not appear in human form. That means that by nature we have physical attributes which God can not assume. I don't know how anyone can determine that God is limited in the way you claim.
Amir posted:
""""Actually either translation is correct. According to my research, in every instance in which Daniel used this particular aramaic word, he used it in reference to service/worship rendered to a God. In other words, all nations are worshiping/serving the son of man as a God.""""
The word "worship" means praying in a physical manner but can alos mean to serve or give great considerattion to.If both words are to be harmonise then it implies that Worship doesn t mean to pray to but simply to give respect or consideration.
I do not understand worship in the same limited sense that you describe. In my experience, worship includes prayer, but also includes any type of service to God as God. For instance, when the priest in the Old Testament performed the sacrifices, that was an act of worship.
Amir posted:
""""I absolutely believe this parable. By definition, the details in a parable differ from the actual event described.""""
This prophecy was not correctly fulfilled so i don t understand how u believe in it.
By this statement, you have destroyed your entire line of attack against Christianity relying on Biblical exegesis. You are once again engaged in the now familiar circular arguments. If you find a Bible verse which you think will confuse Christians, you use it against them. However, when a statement of Jesus works against your own beliefs, you claim that that verse is not true.
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