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The Great Plan Part 5

Posted on 06/03/2023 by Doug

Does Man Actually Have Freedom of Choice? The concept of “free choice” was never completely a part of God’s Plan for Man, at least not in the beginning. It seems free choice was a very small part of the plan. Whether we realize it or not, God has a very active influence on the nature of our decisions. Continue reading →

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The Great Plan Part 3

Posted on 06/03/2023 by Doug

It sounds like that from the very beginning of creation it was all a part of God’s plan for the woman to be subject to the man and her desire to be to him — at least according to what was written in the Bible. Also a part of the plan was for man to have to work all of his life and then at the end of life to die.

If man didn’t die and he just kept on multiplying, the Earth would have been overpopulated thousands of years ago. In fact, all of nature is involved in a natural cycle of birth, life and death. Wouldn’t it stand to reason then that man, being a part of nature, would follow the same path? Continue reading →

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The Word was God

Posted on 06/03/2023 by Doug

But the reason he is known as the Word is that what was taught to Jesus by his Father was the only thing that came out of the mouth of Jesus. He lived, breathed, taught, lived and died for the Word of God that he received from his Father.

This was a very fitting metaphorical title to apply to Jesus. Jesus is called the Word of God. Literally speaking, the Words of God are the words spoken by God, that proceed from the mouth of God. Being a metaphor, what Jesus has in common with the the Word is that he learned the Word of God from his Father; he came to earth with a message that was the Word that he brought from His Father; he lived the Word of God; he taught the Word of God and risked his life for the Word of God.

The phrase, “Jesus is the Word of God” is obviously not literal. It is used as a metaphor because of what he was, who he was, and what he did. Jesus and his Father are not one and the same. Continue reading →

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