Think Outside the Boxes

When it comes to God and Jesus Christ, there is a reason why the Bible calls one the Father and the other the Son, and that is because it is exactly what their relationship is, a father to a son.  A father and a son are two distinctly different individuals. A father does not have to share life; he chooses to share life. A father gives life to his son; a son does not give life to the father. A father does not need a son to live. A son owes his life to the father. A father teaches his son; a son does not teach his father. Therefore, a father is greater than a son in every way. A father possesses the ultimate power to choose whether to share life or not to share life.  God the Father had no beginning, the Son, who was called the Word and became Jesus Christ, is the firstborn of creation and had a beginning. The Word lives because his Father decided to share life and he was God's first creation.  Don't take my word for it, listen to the words of Jesus Christ, God the Father's...

Why do religious leaders insist Jesus was executed on a cross, when he was not? It is either they do not know what they should know, or they are complicit with promoting an untruth.  When reading the Bible it must be pointed out, it was not written in English, it was translated into English from Hebrew and Greek. The two Greek words used by the writers of the New Testament to describe the instrument upon which Jesus was executed were "stauros" and "xylon". All reputable Biblical historians agree (footnote), the Greek word "stauros signified a stake, an upright pole, or piece of paling." The Greek word xylon meant "tree". In fact, KJ, RS, JB, and Dy translations recognize "xylon" to mean "tree" as written in Galatians 3:13, where it says, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree..." Acts 5:30 concurs, "The God of o...

My question is, why do Christian denominations refuse to use or say God's name? God is just a title not a name, and quite impersonal. Jesus prayed on the last night of his life, lifting up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."  Jesus clearly says his Father is "the only true God". As Jesus concluded his prayer, he said, "And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it..." Jesus clearly states his Father, "the only true God", has a name, and he made it known. What is Jesus' Father's name?  God's name in the Bible is the Hebrew Tetragrammaton represented by the four consonants YHWH. It is recognized as Yahweh in Hebrew or in Engli...

While Daniel was praying, the angel Gabriel came to him with a prophecy. Gabriel, to start said, "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times." Daniel recorded the full prophecy in his book at Daniel 9:24-27. Gabriel said. "Seventy weeks are determined..." He was not speaking of a literal 70 weeks because we know the Messiah did appear during the Persian Empire's rule. It is a prophetic 70 weeks. According to the Bible, the prophetic standard is "each day for a year....

According to the King James Version as recorded at Luke 23:43, Jesus said to the evildoer, "Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Was Jesus promising the evildoer he would be in paradise with him that particular day? From appearances, that would seem to be the case. However, appearances can be deceiving. If this version of the original scripture were true, it would imply Jesus was in paradise immediately after his death. If that were true, why would he need to be resurrected? However, other scriptures say otherwise. The King James Version, as well as other versions of the holy scriptures, have mistakenly placed the comma in Jesus' statement in regard to the word "today" in the wrong place. The translator's mistake was a result of the false belief they held concerning the idea people go to heaven after death. A false idea influenced by the mistaken doctrine of the immortal soul. (Ezekiel 18:4,20) (Ecclesiastes 9:5,10) (Psalm 146:3...