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I agree that it's about the kingdom. Are you volunteering as a person who believes that Jesus is our Master and Lord as in John 13:13? (later) Oh! Agreement on those points, at least the first two. I'll need to immerse myself in the gospels again for the third.

Now I don't know how I thought that a relationship with a story about a master teacher could be like a relationship with a Master teacher. Then again, I'm not sure that it can't. It needs a community, but that's exactly what I'm hoping for here. Of course, trying to do it online rather than in...

However all that may be, I think that I'm in agreement with the bishops who signed one of the creeds, that the essence that makes them one is not physical. (later) and with the Cappadocian fathers.

Yeah, I'm not sure this can really go anywhere, but I want to give it a try anyway.

I've been studying the apostle Paul's response in 1 Corinthians to disciples dividing into camps. He starts with Christ crucified, which might be to break everyone's pride. The one who saves you was a promised king executed like a common criminal, mocked and humiliated.

Thomas, Faithfulservant, walter, If you believe that the Jesus whose story is told in the gospels is our Master and our Lord, like He says He is, I'm hoping for you to post in this thread: Master and Lord

Maybe what I'm hoping for in this thread is to find people who think that there really was a person like Jesus in the gospels, teaching when and where the stories say He did, and who believe that He is our Master and our Lord, by the will of God. Whatever they believe or don't believe about God...

There's more that I want to say about my concerns, but first I want to talk about possible responses. These will just be some random thoughts that come to mind, before I've done much thinking about it. When I say "we" in this thread, I'm not saying that as a Christian to other Christians. I'm...

In John 13:13 (KJV), Jesus says “Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.” I don’t call myself a Christian because I don’t have all the same beliefs as any Christians, but I think of Jesus as my Master and Lord, and this is for anyone else who thinks of Him that way. These are...

Isn't there anyone online who can stop it?

Sorry for the antagonism in some of my posts.

Probably some do and some don't. Also it depends on what you mean by "the Trinity." It means very different things to different people. For some people, it means exactly what the Bible says. For others, it just means that they can substitute God in the place of Jesus as the one who suffered on...

There might be some confusion here about who "they" are. :D Some people are promoting actual Trinitarian teachings. Others are just using "the Trinity" as a prop for substituting God in the place of Jesus to explain how a few hours of Him suffering can equal the punishment that all people all...

Good point. :D (later) My theory is that they don't really believe in the Trinity doctrine, or even know what it actually says. For them it's just to prop up equating Jesus with God so that a few hours of Him suffering far less than multitudes of people do every day can be multiplied by...

Those are all showing that the Father and the Son are not the same person, which is exactly what Trinity doctrine says. Incidentally, I don't agree with mining Bible verses to make a point. I was just pointing out that you weren't actually doing what you said you were doing.

I don't think that any real understanding of the Bible comes from mining the Bible for verses that agree with what some church teaches, and taking them out of context to prove or illustrate some belief about God and Jesus. I think that whatever can be learned from God by reading the Bible would...

I'm curious about what both of you would think about how I'm thinking about it. First, as I said before, I think that what people need to know most of all is that Jesus has all the power, authority, knowledge and wisdom of God, and everything else that is God in the world. That's how I can agree...

That looks to me like a description of plagiarism.

Maybe our disagreement is about what AI chatbots actually do and how.

My bot offered to fill in my story about Jesus, Capernaum and Christianity. Bot: