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Originally Posted by Drake
Brother awareness,
You'll need to take that up with the NT authors.
John 1:1 "The Word became flesh...
I Corinthians 14:45 "The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit"
Use whatever description and term you prefer but these are divine facts that you should regard soberly.
Drake
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Divine facts brought in by NT authors:
Paul: "That makes us all liars because we said that God raised Christ from the dead. But God did not raise Christ from the dead if the dead do not come to life again."
"God raised Christ from the dead"
Peter: "But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him."
It says, "God raised him (Christ)" not "God was processed". You can have your logic trains, creating your concepts and terms; I'll have the Bible's terminology. But thanks, nonetheless. I'll stick with "God raised him from the dead". Don't need a special vision to get it. Either it happened or it didn't. I believe it did.
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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Why is it dangerous to look at the word from a different angle?
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No danger whatsoever. I have already said, that without Paul, we'd likely not be discussing Peter or James. Christianity would have ended as a going concern when Jerusalem fell.
What I am warning against is extracting "concepts", which concepts then can be read back upon the rest of the text, suborning it to say what it is not saying. Even if one can't mush the Bible down to fit one's preconceived boxes, one then can dismiss it as either "low" or "fallen human concepts". Which I never saw the NT authors doing. Jesus said, "Scripture must be fulfilled"; he didn't say, "Scripture that alludes to high peaks must be fulfilled, the rest is low concepts and can be safely ignored or dismissed as soon as the Deputy God arrives twenty centuries hence, with the right decoder ring".