The Narrow Path Ministries

Hello, gentlemen, Thank you for your responses. Paidion: The Son of God will retain nothing for Himself. He always was subject to the Father, was subject to Him while He lived here on earth, is subject to Him in His present resurrected state, and will be subject to Him in that great and glorious day...

Hello, Homer, Matthew 19:16-17 (New King James Version) 16 Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” 17 So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the...

Hello, Paidion, Paidion: Isaiah 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." If Jesus is "the Everlasting Father", then the Modalists, not the Tri...

Another text for discussion in the recent vein.... Paul: For “[God] has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son h...

Hello, Rick, Thank you for your response. kaufmannphillips: I also hedge at lumping early Christians together with ancient Hebrew beliefs. Early Christianity developed out of late Second Temple Judaism, which is a different animal from both Israelite religion and the early Jewish religion of the pos...

Hello, Rick, Thank you for your response. kaufmannphillips: A uniform rule does not apply here. In other circumstances, lack of the article in Greek is properly rendered in English with an indefinite article: e.g., Acts 12:22; 17:23; 28:6. The issue in John 1:1 is not that an indefinite article is r...

Hi, Derek, They (the JW's) justify their translation (a god) by stating that the definite article is not there (the word was "a god"), thus it's not God. However, one only needs to try to be consistent with this rule, always rendering God without the article as "a god" to see how it doesn't work. (I...

Hello, Derek and Ely and Rick_C, A few comments below... Ely: Well, if you can recognise Greek letters and words, there is apparently some kind of stem or something which determines the case. Same with tenses. I've resolved to making an effort to get familiar with Greek. I've sent off for a Mounce's...

Hello, Paidion, I also agree the Father alone is the only true God (Jesus said so in His prayer). Oops - so if I'd paid more attention, I'd have been aware that you're aware of that verse :oops: . Yet, I insist that both the Father and the Son share the NAME (Yahweh). Genesis 19:24 speaks of two, ea...

Hello, Paidion, [emphases added below] Paidion: It was always Yahweh the Father, or Yahweh the Son, who spoke to people. But in their case, since they were and are exactly alike(Jesus being the exact expression of God's essence), it didn't matter which one did the speaking. Jesus said, "He who has s...