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CherishedbyGod -> Logos (7/2/2008 12:50:30 PM)

Can you please give me the best definition you have studied? I have Strong's on this computer but that is all.
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Thank you all so much!



BerianAardvark -> RE: Logos (7/2/2008 1:49:18 PM)

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ORIGINAL: CherishedbyGod

Can you please give me the best definition you have studied? I have Strong's on this computer but that is all.
This is for witnessing purposes to a man participating on these forums who is extremely intelligent.

He describes himself as "apostate" but I personally, after reading one of his replies today, doubt he ever was saved..

Thank you all so much!


I tracked through about a dozen commentaries, copied more than three pages of expository explanation....then ran across two that seemed to boil all of that down to relatively simple, but excellent definitions:

He who is to God what man's word is to himself, the manifestation or expression of himself to those without him. (See on John 1:18).
(Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible)

The plainest reason why the Son of God is called the Word, seems to be, that as our words explain our minds to others, so was the Son of God sent in order to reveal his Father's mind to the world. What the evangelist says of Christ proves that he is God. He asserts, His existence in the beginning; His coexistence with the Father. The Word was with God (Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible)

Hopefully this will help,
Tim



CherishedbyGod -> RE: Logos (7/2/2008 2:02:50 PM)

Hey, Thanks alot!

Do you think it would be alright if I copied and pasted it to the thread, or....better yet, would you add it to the thread where I am posting? I think we have another potential C.S. Lewis here[;)]

He is fighting pretty hard but our irrestible God is winning[:D]



BerianAardvark -> RE: Logos (7/2/2008 2:10:51 PM)

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ORIGINAL: CherishedbyGod

Hey, Thanks alot!

Do you think it would be alright if I copied and pasted it to the thread, or....better yet, would you add it to the thread where I am posting? I think we have another potential C.S. Lewis here[;)]

He is fighting pretty hard but our irrestible God is winning[:D]


You have full permission to copy anything I post. Between my studies, my family and my job I tend only to post to a few forums, so I'l let you be my surrogate in that thread. [;)]

All I did in this cast was maybe ten minutes browsing through commentaries (good Bible study software is a big help), and a bit of cut and paste to mt word processor program and then to the reply blank.

I am no C. S. Lewis, he wrote Mere Christianity, I am merely a Christian.

Tim



CherishedbyGod -> RE: Logos (7/2/2008 2:14:40 PM)

Thanks so much.



bob97 -> RE: Logos (7/2/2008 11:19:20 PM)

Heb 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Christ is God in the flesh…He is the visible expression of God.

Bob



BerianAardvark -> RE: Logos (7/3/2008 1:42:50 AM)

Of course most people have a mistaken idea of what mere means, which is why they get upset a the title "Mere Christianity".

MERE, a. [L. merus.] 1 : having no admixture : pure 2 being nothing less than : absolute 3: being nothing more than
(C)1997, 1996 Zane Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved

So when Lewis says Mere Christianity, he is referring to absolute, entire, distinct from anything else Christianity.

And to be merely a Christian is to be distinct from anything else (that is to say set apart) absolutely and entirely a Christian. I'm not there yet, but that is where I am aiming.

Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:12-14)

Tim



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