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Magenta

Magenta

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Aaron56 said:
So common the Jews wanted to stone Jesus after He said it. :unsure:

“Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!” 59 At this, they picked up stones to stone him…”
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notso has been very much so banned. Just an FYI...
 
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GWH

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Aaron56 said:
”For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.”

Being eternal is part of the fullness of the Godhead.
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Yes, eternal life is part of what fullness may mean, but it is more specifically associated with complete love
or sinlessness, as in Col. 2:1-12 & Eph. 3:16-19, 4:13.
 
cv5

cv5

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GWH said:
Yes, eternal life is part of what fullness may mean, but it is more specifically associated with complete love
or sinlessness, as in Col. 2:1-12 & Eph. 3:16-19, 4:13.
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Furthermore, eternal life this that which Jesus-God defines as life.
And when Jesus speaks about death, He is usually speaking about eternal death.

Eternal life is eternal fellowship with God.
Eternal death is eternal separation from God.
 
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cv5 said:
Furthermore, eternal life this that which Jesus-God defines as life.
And when Jesus speaks about death, He is usually speaking about eternal death.

Eternal life is eternal fellowship with God.
Eternal death is eternal separation from God.
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Yes, The Spirit of God is good: love, peace and joy (Gal. 5:22-23). Therefore, whoever rejects the Lord is spiritually separated from Him (Isa. 59:2) and thereby chooses the evil or satanic spirit of hatred, strife and misery and reaps the just consequence called “hell” in the afterlife (Gal. 6:7-9, Heb. 9:27-28).

MFW only exists when there is the possibility of choosing between two qualitatively opposite moral options that we call good and evil. These options are opposites because of essentially different consequences for choosing them. Choosing good results in blessing, life and heaven; and choosing evil results in cursing, death and hell. This is why hell as well as heaven exists. It is the just consequence for choosing evil rather than God. These options were presented by Moses to the Israelites (Deut. 30:19), and Jesus referred to this fundamental choice in terms of a fish or egg versus a snake or scorpion (Luke 11:11-13). Life… or Curse? (Gen. 3:24, Rev. 22:1-2)

God created theoretical evil or the possibility of rejecting Him as an option that actualizes MFW/free human personality. As such it is necessary and even good (Gen. 1:31). Of course, it was wrong for Satan (1John 3:8) and humanity (Rom. 5:12) to make evil actual by choosing to Sin or reject Faith in God’s Lordship. Sin: ignoring God/God’s Word.
 
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