Christ is the flaming sword that guards tree of life in the Garden of Eden.

God bless you and your day. Going to work. I'm not going to argue with you anymore

Mark 12:29-31 King James Version (KJV)
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Tim, we worship different Gods.

It's your opinion my friend. What matters is your life and how you affect people around you. Only God knows my heart. It's between Him and me. Bible talks about love all the time for a reason. You can be the best preacher in the world, but if you have no love, you know nothing about God, because He is love.

1 Corinthians 13 English Standard Version (ESV)
The Way of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Man, there is one God, the Father, and one Mediator between God and men, Jesus.

My God is the Father.

Your God is the Mediator between my God and the Mediator between me and my God.

You don't seem to be aware at all of God Himself.

Your God is the Mediator between me and my God.****

I'm not going there anymore. Not afraid of anything in my life, except God. Have a blessed day, g2g.

Well its something you're going to have to acknowledge.. there is another person beside Jesus, who is "the One True God", who you aren't even aware of. Jesus comes from Him, He doesn't come from Himself.

And what did Jesus say? Those who I love I discipline and reprove????

Proverbs 3:12
for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

John 8:18
I am One who testifies about Myself, and the Father, who sent Me, also testifies about Me."

Matthew 11:27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

There are two distinct persons involved in salvation...

You said before that you like to drink beer. Alcohol changes your mind, I know because I was drinking all the time before I found God. Try to stay away from alcohol for some time, and see how it affects your mood and feelings. There is only one God, God who is love. It is not possible for us to understand God, because we are human beings. Only way to know God is Jesus. It is easier for us to understand a human being, that's why God sent Jesus to show us The Way how to live our lives.

Malachi 2:10
10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?

John 20:17
17 I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

1 Corinthians 8:6
6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things,

God bless you again, leaving now. I love your thread because you always post Bible verses. I'm not going to argue or prove anything to you.

Matthew 7:7-8 King James Version (KJV)
7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

2 eternal persons

John 15:5-6
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

Like what? I love the music you post..

Stuff like this,

I've been in love with Coltrane since middle school. But you're right. Whenever I put on his avant-garde stuff, I'm usually asked to turn it off. Same people who ask me to turn it off will then turn around and listen to stuff like Merzbow. Go figure.

You should post more music :) If not here, in one of the music threads.

I've pretty much just been listening to jazz for a couple months now. I get obsessive and hyperfocused lol

Same!

A whole album! Nice. Thanks for sharing

I've never listened to much of Tiny Tim before. Seems like I should.

He's amazing.

Nerd. (I mean that as a compliment of the highest order)

Getting back to being obsessive and hyperfocused. I was looking scripture on the incarnation today.

But first, where we left off. We noted the following passages where Jesus denies Mary is His mother and that birthing Him makes her blessed or significant:

(Mark3:31-35)
Then Jesus’ mother and brothers came and stood outside. They sent someone in to summon Him, and a crowd was sitting around Him. “Look,” He was told, “Your mother and brothers are outside, asking for You But Jesus replied, “Who are My mother and My brothers?” Looking at those seated in a circle around Him, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”

(Luke 11:27-28)
As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You.” But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

Then, we also have that key verse in Hebrews telling us Jesus is without mother or father:

(Hebrews 7:3)
Without father or mother or genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God, he remains a priest for all time.

Okay. So, today I was reading verses where Jesus talks about coming from the Father and being sent into the world. I also had a look at the Greek to assess the translations. Take the following verse, for instance.

John 8:42
Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would have loved Me, for I came forth from God and am here; for not even have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.

The key words and their meanings:

Exerchomai - to come out of

Ek - from, suggesting from the interior outwards (out of the depths of the source and extending to its impact on the object)

Apostelló – to send forth

There are numerous verses where Jesus uses this same language in explaining his origins. And the language is clear. Jesus comes from within the Father and extends out into the world. This is not describing the creation of a new being whose essential nature is merely derivative and subordinate like that of a man.