Comments on: Reflections on the Deity of Christ – Confessed as God.

By: Reflections on the Deity of Christ - The Name of God « Eclectic Christian

Reflections on the Deity of Christ - The Name of God « Eclectic Christian — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:18:20 +0000

[...] As discussed in a previous post that is why it is at the name of Jesus that every knee will bow and tongue confess, just as it will bow and confess to God. [...]

By: sinaiticus

sinaiticus — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:26:03 +0000

Mike,

From your fellow Orthodox Quaker–whatever that is…

I stumbled on your blog a while back, and I was impressed with your eclectic/ecumenical tone. I also like your reflections on Jesus as “fully God and fully human.”

BTW, when Paul says that every tongue shall confess that Jesus is “Lord,” it is scandalous and confronts the error of JW’s. Here’s why: If the Hebrew for the divine name is YHWH (not Jehovah), and the Jews were cautious not to misuse his name, by time the Jewish Scriptures were translated into Greek, the lingua franca of the Mediterranean world in the centuries before Christ, they substituted “Kyrios” for YHWH. That means that when Paul said Jesus was “Kyrios,” he was equating him with YHWH in the OT!!! That means that Jesus IS Jehovah, and, therefore, God.

Keep up the good work.

By: Reflections on the Deity of Christ - Worthy of Worship « Eclectic Christian

Reflections on the Deity of Christ - Worthy of Worship « Eclectic Christian — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:36:13 +0000

[...] Previously, we had looked at how Christ is confessed as God, and that every knee will bow to Christ, just as every knee will bow to God. [...]

By: Eclectic Christian

Eclectic Christian — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:23:38 +0000

Hi Cynthia,

Thanks for the comment. There are a surprising number of links that can be made like this, as I will be demonstrating over the next few weeks.

Mike Bell

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:49:41 +0000

I had never actually connected Paul’s writings in Philippians with the words of Isaiah. That was an interesting insight.

Trying to prove the deity of Christ to a JW is quite a task. They are better prepared to have a sword fight than most Christians. Doing battle with a word-warrior though, is always unnerving for them and I am sure that your accurate explanation will have stayed with him at some level.

Good post.

By: Reflections on the Deity of Christ - Introduction « Eclectic Christian

Reflections on the Deity of Christ - Introduction « Eclectic Christian — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:32:01 +0000

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