interpretation of Jesus' words?
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It is hard to say for sure exactly what this meant.  Jesus seemed to believe that there would be coming very soon a "Son of Man" in glory on the clouds of heaven.  And he seems to be some sort of cosmic judge.  Of course, it was later understood by Jesus's followers that he was speaking of himself.  \n\nSon of Man seems to have been used in Judaism to refer to the Messiah or some sort of a cosmic judge of the earth that would come in apocalyptic times.  It is used in the book of Daniel in this way.  \n\nSon of Man actually can be argued to have almost a MORE divine connotation than Son of God.  Everyone is a son or daughter of God.  And also everyone is a son or daughter of man.  But to become a true Son of God, one must make himself subservient to his fellow man, thus becoming a son of man.  \nSo when Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, he was making himself a son of man, a servant of man.  And in so doing, he precisely shows himself to be a true Son of God, because to become great, one makes oneself lowly.
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Luke 12:10\n\n"And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven."
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I have not heard of that quote before.\n\nJesus said: Luke 14:27 (NKJV)  \n    And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. \n\n\nMatthew 11:28-30 (NKJV)  \n    Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. [29] Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. [30] For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." \n\n\nHope that helps.\n\nI've looked at CCLI.com for the lyrics you mentioned...I wasn't able to find anything. Sorry.
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Well friend,\nI am a christian.\nAnd this is what that verse means to me.\n\nThe main problem with christians is that they always like to read such verses from a worldy perspective ignoring the spiritual aspect of it.\n\nLook at the begining it mentions of future and hope. Thats what we should be aiming for NOT earthly fortunes or satisfactions.\n\nSeeking the Lord comes with calling upon our Lord as well as praying to Him NOT just sitting around and trying to "argue" out things in your mind. Honesty is important here.\n\nNow consider, the phrase...\n"will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile."\n\nSome people like to take the that and say, Hey, God will bless me!!\nIt is true but does it mention necessarily EARTHLY blessings? No. I believe its more spiritual blessings that you will inherit one day in the afterlife. For the spiritual blessings are eternal as opposed to the temporary blessings on earth.\n\nWell, dont seek after earthly things as others do, these are all vanity.\n\nAs for me,\n"Jesus is enough"\nNothing else I want.\n\nRegards
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Revelations seems to indicate that JESUS will turn the world on its head, exaulting the lowly, and humbling the exaulted, and JESUS will have a new name.  There will be a NEW JERUSALEM.  Remember when JESUS came the first time he utterly destroyed the temple.  Seems, and i am not a prophet, yet seems to me that it may happen again, that there will be a renewing of things, with JESUS as ETERNAL LORD ruling with a ROD OF IRON (i take this to mean unbending in his administration of THE LAW, which is clear in the commandments LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, MIND, SOUL AND STRENGTH AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.) \n\nRevelation 3:12  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
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Man's interpretation of God's word.
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26And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!” 27Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.”\n28And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”\n29Jesus said to him, £“Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”  John 20:26-29\n\nWe are promised that if we seek Him we will find Him.  Search His word, pray for wisdom.  \n\nHe doesn't speak to us today as He did to the Patriarchs, but He speaks to us in every sunrise, every sunset, everything beautiful.
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I find that mildly insulting, since "Just read the Bible for yourself and you'll see" *is* my religious practice.  I use many translations in an attempt to understand the context and meaning of the original words, and take timeout to actually *experience* God in my life as well, through prayer and observation.\n\nPoint 1)\nJesus said "you are not to be called teacher. There is only one Teacher, and all of you are brothers.  Do not call any man here on earth your father. There is only one Father and He is in heaven.  You are not to be called leader. There is only one Leader and He is Christ." \n\nSo if we only have One teacher, and He isn't obviously visible or tangible to everyone, it's going to take a change in our perception to find Him.  Following any leader, any church, any teacher traps us.\n\nPoint 2)\nJesus said "The holy nation (kingdom) of God is not coming in such a way that can be seen with the eyes. It will not be said, 'See, here it is!' or, 'There it is!' For the holy nation of God is in you."\n\nAs we respond to our internal reactions to the scriptures, we will find Christ at work in it.\n\nPoint 3)\nRomans 1:19-20 Paul is saying:\nMen know about God. He has made it plain to them. Men cannot say they do not know about God. From the beginning of the world, men could see what God is like through the things He has made.This shows His power that lasts forever. It shows that He is God.\n\nWe also react to the world around us, but it is the internal reaction which reveals God at work in our hearts.  This works even if you don't read scripture.\n\nPoint 4)\nBut Jesus said, "It must be done, because we must do everything that is right." So then John baptized him.\n\nJesus did things that weren't even necessary for Him to do.  Being baptized for example, was a way for a Gentile (non-Jew) to become "grafted" to Judaism.  So we see Jesus being observant in all the ways a person can be observant.\n\nI try to act in a way that reveals God's presence and love to all people, Jews first, but also Christians, Muslims, Pagans, Wiccans, Hindus, and Native Americans especially, since I am living in their space and I am in part descended from them, Mexicans, Canadians, anyone stigmatized, homosexuals, the handicapped, the homeless, and that really annoying guy at work.\n\nThis brings me to\nMy final Point)\nGod is Love 1 John 4:8,16\n\nIf you learn anything on the way that leads you to act hatefully, you weren't learning that from Jesus.\n\nI'm sorry if you expected more.  I hope you weren't expecting me to point you in a church you never noticed, sitting right there on your corner, with white doves perched on a running fountain.  But fortunately, the religion I'm talking about is open to everyone, and not just the literate, not just the social, not just the convicted, but also the conversational, the solitary, and the skeptical.  You seek God with all your heart and ability and He Himself teaches you.
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Jesus Would (DID) Say\n\n"Render Unto Ceasar What Is Ceasars\nRender Unto God What Is Gods"\n\nDo You Understand What That Means??
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Matthew 28:5-7 reads, "The angel said to the women, 'Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.  Then go quickly and tell his disciples , He has RISEN FROM THE DEAD, and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.' Now I have told you too".\n\nLuke 24:45-49, reads, Then He, (Jesus), openend their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.  He told them "This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and RISE FROM THE DEAD on the third day, and repentence and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem". - Here, Jesus reinstates it was he who was crucified. \n\nIf anyone also wants to read more about Christ's crucifixion and death & his ressurection, read the book "The Case for Christ", chapter 11.  You'll understand that Jesus died on the cross after you read Lee Strobel interview with Alexander Metherell, M.D.,PH.D.  Metherell uses his expertise as a physician to describe in vivid detail just what Christ went through, and how He died on the cross.  He leaves anyone reading his account convinced that Jesus did die on the cross and wasn't just swooned or faint from what he went through.
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The verse itself fits perfectly with Salvation. He is the way, the truth, and the life. Without Jesus, you can't get to God. You must be saved by Jesus, to get to God. What Jesus said is the PERFECT verse to argue salvation with. Jesus will show you the way, the truth, and give you life everlasting by saving you, wich gets you to God.
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lol . . . Jesus mean . . . if you believe the bible . . . Jesus was straight forward and to the point.  He did not pussyfoot around . . . and treat people with kid gloves.  He tell things they way they are . . . no sugar coating.\n\nDo you think Jesus should have been kissing the apostles a**?  Hell no, they were too busy trying figure out who will take the lead after Christ . . . fighting for position half the time.\n\nJesus was a man . . . whether he was god's son (who know . . . who cares) . . . he did not back down on what he believed was right.
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It means that Jesus' teachings WERE ONLY meant for the people of Israel of that period of time who are lost in this world.\n\nLost in this world means that they had crossed out the line of God's commands and did what He had forbidden.\n\nNotice the capital words of "were only". It holds the key to the answer of seeking the right religion.
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It depends. I spoke to our Parish priest about that, (^_^) and he said that it was INSPIRED in the prophets who wrote it, so in reality it was not really what Jesus exactly says (or said).\n \n(^_^)
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Is Jesus Christ actually God?\n\nJohn 17:3, RS: “[Jesus prayed to his Father:] This is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God [“who alone art truly God,” NE], and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.” (Notice that Jesus referred not to himself but to his Father in heaven as “the only true God.”)\n\nJohn 20:17, RS: “Jesus said to her [Mary Magdalene], ‘Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” (So to the resurrected Jesus, the Father was God, just as the Father was God to Mary Magdalene. Interestingly, not once in Scripture do we find the Father addressing the Son as “my God.”)\n\nDoes John 1:1 prove that Jesus is God?\n\nJohn 1:1, RS: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God [also KJ, JB, Dy, Kx, NAB].” NE reads “what God was, the Word was.” Mo says “the Logos was divine.” AT and Sd tell us “the Word was divine.” The interlinear rendering of ED is “a god was the Word.” NW reads “the Word was a god”; NTIV uses the same wording.\n\nWhat is it that these translators are seeing in the Greek text that moves some of them to refrain from saying “the Word was God”? The definite article (the) appears before the first occurrence of the·os´ (God) but not before the second. The articular (when the article appears) construction of the noun points to an identity, a personality, whereas a singular anarthrous (without the article) predicate noun before the verb (as the sentence is constructed in Greek) points to a quality about someone. So the text is not saying that the Word (Jesus) was the same as the God with whom he was but, rather, that the Word was godlike, divine, a god. (See 1984 Reference edition of NW, p. 1579.)\n\nWhat did the apostle John mean when he wrote John 1:1? Did he mean that Jesus is himself God or perhaps that Jesus is one God with the Father? In the same chapter, verse 18, John wrote: “No one [“no man,” KJ, Dy] has ever seen God; the only Son [“the only-begotten god,” NW], who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.” (RS) Had any human seen Jesus Christ, the Son? Of course! So, then, was John saying that Jesus was God? Obviously not. Toward the end of his Gospel, John summarized matters, saying: “These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, [not God, but] the Son of God.”—John 20:31, RS.\n\nDoes Thomas’ exclamation at John 20:28 prove that Jesus is truly God?\n\nJohn 20:28 (RS) reads: “Thomas answered him, ‘My Lord and my God!’”\n\nThere is no objection to referring to Jesus as “God,” if this is what Thomas had in mind. Such would be in harmony with Jesus’ own quotation from the Psalms in which powerful men, judges, were addressed as “gods.” (John 10:34, 35, RS; Ps. 82:1-6) Of course, Christ occupies a position far higher than such men. Because of the uniqueness of his position in relation to Jehovah, at John 1:18 (NW) Jesus is referred to as “the only-begotten god.” (See also Ro, By.) Isaiah 9:6 (RS) also prophetically describes Jesus as “Mighty God,” but not as the Almighty God. All of this is in harmony with Jesus’ being described as “a god,” or “divine,” at John 1:1 (NW, AT).\n\nThe context helps us to draw the right conclusion from this. Shortly before Jesus’ death, Thomas had heard Jesus’ prayer in which he addressed his Father as “the only true God.” (John 17:3, RS) After Jesus’ resurrection Jesus had sent a message to his apostles, including Thomas, in which he had said: “I am ascending . . . to my God and your God.” (John 20:17, RS) After recording what Thomas said when he actually saw and touched the resurrected Christ, the apostle John stated: “These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.” (Jo
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Jesus was somewhat more explicit about what "the truth" involved in an earlier conversation.\n\n(John 8:32) the truth will set you free.\n\n(John 8:31,32) Jesus went on to say to the Jews that had believed him: “If you remain in my word, you are really my disciples, 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.\n\nThe gospels indicate that "the truth" Jesus spoke of was (and is) the truth about Jehovah’s provision for salvation directly from the Son of God. In fact, God's Kingdom is the theme of the entire bible.\n\n(John 17:16-17) [Jesus prayed] They [disciples of Jesus] are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world. 17 Sanctify them by means of the truth; your word is truth.\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/19981001/article_01.htm