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Jesus commanded true Christians to “Preach the good news of the Kingdom to all the nations, as a witness to all the nations. And then the end will come” Matthew 24:14. It is good that you are trying to spread your ministry through the web but there is much more preaching work to be done on your halfs. Maybe a house to house preaching campaign throughout all the “nations” should be done. . .And then maye the “end will come”.
Brian, thanks for your comment here and throughout the blog. We are endeavoring to preach the gospel of the Kingdom on the streets, in the country and in the cities. May God inspire His people to more boldness with the gospel and love for the lost.
May the Kingdom come quickly.
-Victor
Well done! I think you’re all doing a wonderful job with this blog. Thanks for putting so much time and effort into it. It’s also nice that you’ve been expanding it with more categories, pages and types of content including this page for feedback.
I especially like the articles that are simple, straight foreword and confronting. The articles that set forth scripture in a way that’s easy to entreat and that I can begin to apply right away in my life. Those type of teaching articles along with the opportunity to interact and communicate with other believers are the things that really bless me.
Applying and living the word daily and what that experience is like for each of us along with it’s challenges and rewards is what really interests me in hearing about and sharing with others. I look foreword to more of that type of discussion, maybe as time goes on and more people find your site. The deeper theological discussions tend to maybe be over my head so to speak and I find little profit in them personally.
I also like reading comments from people with varying belief sets and from different faith backgrounds, thats a great element of this blog.
As I recommend your site to others, I find that the fact that my comments are posted on the site makes for a point of interest or a good excuse maybe for people that know me to visit the site. There’s some type of connection in that for friends, family and acquaintances opposed to simply having yet another random website recommended to them. Do you know what I mean. Keep up the good work
Cash,
Thanks so much for coming back over and over. We wanted this blog to be a place for discussion among all of us, and that is certainly what it has become. And for that we are glad!
One suggestion. I think you should change the banner picture regularly. I nice winter scenery picture would have been nice for a while. Now a spring time looking picture with a pastel purple trim around the whole page would be great.
Hi guys, sorry to do this but I’ve just listened to a sermon by J. Dan Gill. I am trying to find out if he has other sermons online. I am just learning how to get around the internet & I cant find anything. Every time I try to email someone, I get some weird box that wont let me send an email. Is there anyone who can help me get some info on him.
Cheers, John.
To my knowledge J. Dan Gill does not have any other sermons online. He may have some on CD and you could contact him to find out. I have just emailed him to find out his contact info. When he responds I’ll post it here. In the mean time if you get your email working his email address is gilld@realtracs.com
This blog is a definite blessing. Will be a companion to this site.
God Bless ,Tony
God Bless and how thankful I am to you all for making this blog available. I learn so much from the various articles. Your website is lifesaving and a great companion to me, living in Germany.
May Almighty God continue to open the eyes of our understanding, take the cobwebs from our ears to hear and understand the greatnesss of the Kingdom message. Thanks for helping me to see, hear & understand. Your reward will be great.
By His Grace & Mercy
Patricia
Having found restoration theology in the past year and having the trinity drummed into me all my life, it is a joy to find the “truth” being taught and verified by this website.
Yet, and I say that, casually, how do I come to believe the teaching that Jesus wasn’t with God before he came to earth or born of the virgin Mary.
John 17: 20-24 reads, “That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me adn I am in you. May they also be in us that the worl may believe gthat you have SENT me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one. I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the worl now that you SENT me and have loved them even as ou have loved me. ………….the glory you have given me because you loved me BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.
If someone can comment on those verses and how they seem to run contrary to the teaching that Jesus’ beginning was only at his birth, I would really love to hear those thoughts.
Thanks
Hey Randy,
Great to have you here! I think one of the biggest mistakes that we modern Christians make is to ignore or forget the Jewish backdrop.
Judaism at the time believes that three thing were existed before the creation: the Torah, the Messiah, the Temple (if I’m remembering the third correctly?). When they say this, they don’t precisely mean the same thing we would naturally talk about. They mean that these three things exist in the mind of God – as his plan – what he is going to do in the world.
I’m confident that the more we know and understand about Judaism and the primary source (in my view, Lazarus) behind the gospel of John – the more Jewish, less Gnostic, and ultimately, more understandable it will be.
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Randy, thank you for your question. We have moved this discussion about the pre-existence of Jesus to the main part of the blog. Please click here to see our response and continue this discussion.
I just wanted to make contact and say that I throughly enjoy reading the content on this site and the blog here. I too am a fellow One God believer (I’ve used the term “Biblical Unitarian” for years – though the CES folk have now used that for one of their site names – not that I’m really complaining about that). Additionally I firmly believe that the Scriptures prove that the Dead are nonexistent (asleep) until the return of Messiah Yahshua and he resurrects the dead and establishes his Father’s Kingdom here on earth.
In posting this I also wanted to tell Sean Finnegan that I listened to the three segments here on the site from his “Sleep of the Dead” discussions on “The Byte Show” and think he has a nice speaking voice and a very relaxed yet informative delievery. Overall a very nice job Sean!
And finally I do have a question that bothers me and it might be one that would be of help to others as well.
What is your opinion of what we should as “Sleep of the Dead/Conditional Immortality” believers say to friends, co-workers, extended family and others who make a comment to us regarding the traditional, culturally dominant view of the immortal soul? Specifically when a comment is made after someone dies or when referring to someone who has been dead for years. Comments like “Oh so and so is up there in heaven watching you/him/her/us/etc.”. I feel the urge to stand up for God and the truth of his word and say that “oh so & so” is NOT anywhere but dead in the grave and will be resurrected at the same time as everyone else at Christ’s return. Yet I do not want to be rude or impolite and hurt others feelings. And that is exactly what can happen when refuting cherished beliefs with others – even when they typically haven’t put much thought into why they even believe that going to heaven is the way everything works. I guess what I’m asking in essence is how do you get someone to be receptive to the “seed” of truth and not put a wall up and be defensive? How do you plant such a seed without coming off as an insenstive fanactic? Any suggestions?
Thanks and God bless.
Your brother in Messiah,
Ron
Thank you for the comments about the Sleep of Death series. It is certainly exciting to run across another truth seeker who is not afraid to go against tradition. Regarding your excellent question, I though it would be best to work on it in the main area of the blog. To that end, I have re-posted your question here. Hopefully we can work together to give you some suggestions.
grace & peace
~sean
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John wrote:
“Every time I try to email someone, I get some weird box that wont let me send an email. Is there anyone who can help me get some info on him.”
Sounds like what happens to me. When you click on a link that has a “Mail To” tag, it tries to bring up MS Outlook. Since I don’t have Outlook set up on my computer, I get that box that looks like an email but has no Send Button.
What you can do is point to the link and if it’s a Mail To tag, it will say Mail To: followed by an email address. You can write down the address and put it in your email, or right click and select Properties. That will give you a dialog box with the Mail To address in it, which you can then copy and paste into your email.
Hope this helps.
Ron S,
I hope you know by now that we know each other from a backpacking trip back in ’82.
With regard to your question about what to tell someone who believes a lost loved one is in heaven, I think the best approach is to affirm that we will see that person again in our glorious, physical bodies. Something like, “Yes, won’t it be wonderful to embrace them when Jesus returns and gives us our glorified bodies!”
I seem to have read somewhere that normal HTML formatting works when posting comments, but it did not seem to work for me. Can someone point me to some instructions to get this to work?
Sad it is ;-( that the multitudes believe a heretical
tradition regarding The One many, who say they are
believers, seek to follow. He Who is “The Messiah,
The Son of The Living GOD”.
Seems there is undeniable proof that the traditional name
of ‘jesus’ was not The Messiah’s GOD given birth Name
in any language! And proof exists in not just one, but all
New Testament Greek manuscripts from which catholic
and christian translators created their version of the
“bibles”!
Yes, undeniable proof!
First, the Greek word “Iesous” was used by those who
translated the Greek Septuagint, which was the Hebrew
to Greek translation of the Old Testimonies.
In the Greek Septuagint, which was translated prior to
the birth of The Messiah, the Greek word “Iesous” was
used to represent “Jeshua, son of Nun, so named by
Moses”. (Numbers 13:16)
And so it was established that the Greek name “Iesous”
represented the Hebrew name YeHoWsHuwa’(which
should have been translated as Jeshua, rather than
‘joshua’ in the English language Old Testaments).
Then in most all the New Testament translations, from
the various Greek manuscripts, the word “Iesous” was
translated correctly as Je(o)shua(YeHoWsHuwa’) in both
Acts 7:45 and Heb 4:8 and then the same Greek word
“Iesous” was traditionally(for the past 500, or so, years)
translated as their “imag”ined ‘jesus’ in all other places
of the English language New Testaments ;-(
However, in the original kjv(aptly named as king james’
version for it was of the church OF england) those who
did the translating of the New Testament decided to
rename Je(o)shua and declared the Je(o)shua of the
Old Testament to be of the same name as their
“imag”ined ‘jesus’ in both Acts 7:45 and Heb 4:8 ;-(
At least the translators of the kjv were consistent, yet
the result of their consistency is confusion ;-(
And so it was that a heretical tradition was established
less than 500 years past ;-(
Now if one wishes to take liberty and change the name
of the Old Testament “Je(o)shua” to ‘jesus’, well that is
their choice, yet a sad choice indeed and Truth ;-(
And worse yet you could accept the traditional lie that
the Greek word “Iesous” represents both “Jeshua” and
the catholic and christian ‘jesus’. For those who seek
The Light of Truth that is confusing at best! Another
sad choice ;-(
I have been, and know that i will yet be accused of
having my portion with the “sacred name folk” or some
other similar religious group. And yet that is as far
from Truth as one could be, for i believe that, “that
which decayed and waxed old” did indeed and Truth
“vanish away” with the destruction of the earthly,
natural kingdom that was centered in old jerusalem.
The Kingdom of GOD is now Spiritual and the body of a
believer is the Temple for the indwelling Spirit, The Spirit
that leads believers on The Way to The Truth of The Life.
Sadly, many believe that a name is not important ;-( Now
when a man makes such a statement to me i simply reply,
“ok, if that’s what you believe Martha”, or if it be a woman,
“ok, if that’s what you believe Matthew”…….
Truth is important, for apart from Truth their is nothing
but “confusion and every evil work” and Truth IS that the
“imag”ined name of ‘jesus’ was not spoken for more than
1500 years after The Only True GOD raised The Messiah
from among the dead! Truth IS that The Messiah’s GOD
given birth Name was YeHoWsHuwa’(Jeshua in modern
day English)!
Prior to that time there was no ‘j’ sound in the English
language, which is verifiable in most any encyclopedia.
And there never has been a ‘j’ sound in either Hebrew
or Greek.
Seems the vain “imag”inations of the “catholic” and
“christian” systems of religion have caused “The Way
of Truth to be evil spoken of”, so why continue to use
their “imag”ined name for “The Son of Living GOD”?
Those who yet cling to the “imag”ined name of ‘jesus’,
after The Truth was presented unto them, have chosen
to follow the evil ways of catholicism and her firstborn
“chrisitan” daughter, “the church OF england” ;-(
I am sad for all yet held captive by the “strong delusion”
that is their “imag”ined ‘jesus’ ;-(
Yet there is hope!
For Miracles do happen!
Hope is there would be those who would experience
The Miracle that is receiving “a love of The Truth”!
Truth IS, Yeshua(Je(o)shua in modern day english) is
The Messiah, Immanuel, The Son of The Living GOD!
Peace, in spite of the dis-ease(no-peace) that is of
this wicked world and it’s systems of religion, for
“the WHOLE world is under the control of the evil
one”(1Jn5:19) indeed and Truth……. francisco
francisco,
While we would appreciate you contributing to discussions here on kingdomready, could you please ensure you post in the proper places? This “Tell Us How We’re Doing” area just isn’t the place to start up a discussion on the Messiah’s name.
Also could you please format your posts properly by NOT hitting return at the end of every line? Just keep typing in the reply box and only hit return to separate paragraphs. The way you’ve been posting is causing all your threads to be much longer in length on the web page than they need be (making them harder to read).
Thanks!
Ron S.
Tim,
OH MY! I didn’t even see your post here till tonight and I never thought the “Tim” that I’ve been reading posts from for the last few days was a “Tim” I actually knew! But after reading your comment above about a certain 1982 backpacking trip, I went in and checked your email address to confirm if it could be my old friend Tim D.! And what do you know it was! It is SO GREAT to have you here! How did you find this site brother? BTW, I’ll email you privately later to chat more in depth.
Ron
Well, late last year, I got into a debate on this blog -> http://jmoorhead.blogspot.com/. My brother joined shortly after that. It was the first time I had done this sort of thing in the internet age. We were both threatened with eternal damnation many times over the Christmas break! While I was doing research for that discussion, I ran across this site (http://cfmin.wordpress.com/, lots of material here) and let things slide for a while.
About two weeks ago, I went back to http://cfmin.wordpress.com/ and found a link to this site -> http://crossbearerforchrist.blogspot.com/2008/06/case-for-trinitarianism.html. The first post on that site was from the guy that does the Adoni Messiah site and the first post there linked to the Kingdom Ready site.
So, it was kind of a six degrees of separation thing!
Tim,
Regular html works in the comments. Here are some examples:
to indent (as when quoting) type: <blockquote>text</blockquote> and it will look like this
to bold type <strong>text</strong>
to italicize type <em>text</em>
to underline type <u>text</u>
to make a link type <a href=”url”>where url is the website</a>
Thanks, I was using ‘quote’ instead of ‘blockquote.’ Do you know if bulleted lists work? That is one thing that I tried (correctly, I think) to do, but it did not seem to work.
bullets don’t work in the comments
Not even using the standard “ol” or “ul” tags??
Here’s a test:
Test1
Test2
Test3
Test4
Test5
Test6
Nope, they sure don’t work.
A couple of suggestions:
1 – I think it would be interesting to have a list of recommended books in one central place. I have seen specific books discussed in individual posts.
2 – I would like to see a discussion of “Biblical urban legends.” For example, it is often said, in proof of the trinity, that (a) only God can raise the dead, (b) only God can heal, (c) only God can forgive sins, etc. Is there really scriptural support for any of these? I know that the apostles raised the dead – is there anything different in the way that they raised the dead with respect to the way that Jesus raised the dead.
-Thanks-
Heh, a recommended list of books would get very long. And there would also be many caveats with each book we would list. We often read liberal scholars that have plenty of a priori assumptions that we don’t share. But we are able to use the process they use, without their assumptions. And we read some conservative scholars, who again have a priori assumptions, that we don’t share – and we’re able to use their processes. Of course, the processes between conservative and liberal clash often. This just means that we have to get a wide survey of interpretation about the evidence, and be thinking people. Not necessarily a people who are looking for a book, which bullet points certain items that we should believe. In technical terms, naive realism is a flawed espistemology.
But, a short list of modern, good, scholarly authors: NT Wright, Sanders, CA Evans, Dunn, Horsley, Witherington, LT Johnson, FF Bruce, Raymond Brown, Erhman, Neusner, Chilton, McKnight, and there are others, I’m sure Dustin and Sean can add to this list… (I don’t endorse everything the above say, but they are a smattering of the moderate left and right of scholarship).
Has anyone read Michael Servetus’ “Restoration of Christianity” (I think that is the name)?
I would like to read it, but not have to pay $200 on Amazon.com. I am sure my local library does not have it.
I assume you are referring to the translation that Marian Hillar completed recently. I don’t have it either but it would be amazing to read.
Yes. It is already out-of-print on Amazon and the cheapest used copy is still $200.
Thanks for an excellent website! Professional and knowledgeable!
I came here because very recently i have had a driven purpose to seek the truth.
the truth i have found so far is the church has fallen so far from God and now worships money and pride of themself that they have invented other gods to serve. there are many sites like this out there that are seeking the truth but stop seeking when they find just one.there also has been many that started with the truth but ended up using that truth for their own gain. these people have polluted the truth because their own revelations was lumped in with the real truth. this is a very powerful tool that satan uses to cover the truths as they are exposed.
satan also uses man imagination to confuse the truth like making things like symbols and traditions into things that please God when actually God hates thems and tells us through out His words. receiving salvation through Jesus is not a complicated thing but still will be the hardest thing you will have ever done. i am currently seeking the things that please God and learning the things he hates. without knowing what they are how could anyone be sure they will receive salvation.i am sure that i still have a long road to travel before i am positive that i have received salvation.there is nothing right now on this earth more important than that.
its time for all that have received God’s calling to step up to help people find all the truth.
robert
Did you just close this discussion http://kingdomready.org/blog/2009/01/28/1-thessalonians-414/ ? I thought you wanted to “keep up with the conversation”, not to censor it?
Yes I turned off comments after ~160 comments that were not at all relevant to the post. That is not censorship, that is realizing enough is enough. If I wanted to censor, it would be censored.
Knowing that you do not believe in the rapture, per say, could you please reconcile the difference between the scriptures talking about Jesus coming like a thief in the night and the scripture of every eye shall see Him (as lightning flashes from the east to the west). It would seem reasonable to me that these are two separate happenings. Also, what would be the point of us meeting Christ in the air only to accompany him to the ground, and where are we supposed to be during the wrath period as the word says that we (believers) are not appointed to wrath. Thankyou.
Sue, see further comments here:
http://kingdomready.org/blog/2009/05/06/rapture-questions/
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This is probably not the right place to post this, but I could not find anything better.
My son is entering seminary in the fall to become an Army chaplain.
I wonder if I could get recommendations on the sorts of resources that should be on every seminary student’s desk. We already have a concordance.
I’ve heard Anthony Buzzard mention some resources in his talk in the 18th Theological Conference, but I forgot to write it down.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
I have a great deal of difficulty getting the post page to come up any time I’d like to post a comment or ask a question. I also have difficulty finding the answers to comments (questions). Other than that, this web site is a God send. The pastor that was screaming at all of the Christians that are so cruel to homosexuals had me puzzled. I’ve never been cruel to or thought myself to be better than anyone so looks like he may have a problem judging others.
I still cannot get the comment page which is why I used to section to ask a question so I hope it’s alright. I’d like to know who the two witnesses are in Revelation that get life breathed back into them after three days and do up into the clouds. Thankyou.
I love this blog…it is very insiteful especially when you have the verses to coinside with the posts…
Is there any way that we can add a personal discussion type of thing like if we have questions pertaining to something other than what the posts are about is there a place to go on this website?
I just want to add that I have read many of these posts and just want to comment that we should stick to the subject of the posts instead of going way off the subject and confusing people I have seen that many times!
God bless and thank you
Stacey
You have presented a compelling argument. However do you not know in Genesis when Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, man did not realize that he was naked, and when Adam ate of the fruit, their eyes were opened and they realized they were naked. Then God entered the garden to walk with man and God said, “Adam!” “Where art thou?” And Adam said, “You were in the midst of the garden and we hid from you because we were naked.”
“We told you that we were naked and you asked us who told you that you were naked?” “Did you eat of the fruit of the garden that I commanded you not to?” And Adam said, “I ate of the fruit of the garden that you forbade me from eating because my wife presented it to me.” Then God said to woman, “How did you happen to do this?” “Well, I was beguiled by the serpant.” The rest you all probably know. However, in this situation, God said he would “put enmity between your seed and her seed and He will crush your head and you will bruise his heel,” directly fortelling the life and death of God on earth.
Now, let me tell you according to the Gospels, God did not raise Jesus from the dead but God gave Him the power to lay His life down and take it up again. But in the Scriptures God Himself had to make a way for anybody that He truly chooses to believe in Him that He did everything absolutely necessary for us to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
According to both the Old and New Testaments only a first yearling lamb could take away the sins of Israel and Jesus was not only the first yearling lamb but He was God’s sacrifice so that man might come to be acquitted of all human transgression if God chose the man and the man in return chose God. Jesus was and still is the perfect sacrifice of those whom He has chosen and those who keep themselves according to Himself.
Hi,
I want to ask four questions, 1.Could I ask a how can I have direct connection to God(YahWeh) and always connecting with Him, 2.Could I ask how to hold in awe to God(YahWeh), 3.Could I ask how to pray directly to God(YahWeh), 4.Could I ask a question Who is the True Christian also is Real Believer of YHWH Elohim, Biblical Trinitarians, New Trinitarians, Binitarians OR Biblical Unitarians ?
Bye For Now,
Shun-Ren Hu
How do I begin a new topic?? I can’t seemt o find the “starting point”!
Rui
Welcome Rui
From what I understand we can’t just start a new topic. We have to try to find a thread that is somewhat similar to the topic we want to discuss and then submit a comment or question in that existing thread. If you could tell us what topic you want to discuss, maybe one of the people that has been around the blog for awhile might be able to direct you to an appropriate thread…
Remember “Owensboro” I still remember and love you in our Lord.
I’d be interested in seeing a discussion of Rob Bell’s new book “Love Wins.” I’m almost through, and while I don’t agree with everything in it, I think that it raises a lot of questions about the traditional view of heaven and hell, especially in the first chapter, that many in this forum would agree with.
Hi there,
so you simply delete comments you don’t like and then put the thread on a “closed comments” status?
See the article on “The United States in ‘The End Time’ ” ….
Has the blog now become a well censored platform where only those comments are allowed which fit the overall theology propagated here?
Hey Guys I seem to be having a issue when posting on the site. It gives me a internal server error.
I tried sending a email to webmaster@kingdomready.org but gave me a failed send. Any ideas on my posing status?
Hi Joseph,
I am having the exact same problems that you are. I can’t seem to paste anything on to the K.R. site. I have been trying since last night and it is still not working…
On reclaimingthemind.org/blog they now have the ability to hover over a reference to a biblical passage and it will cause a pop up with that passage (no page refresh). I find that very helpful and just making a suggestion here that it would be very nice to incorporate that feature.
I am currently translating the Bible into Portuguese and request help with a few scriptures. Allllzcvx, Brazilian Bibles have the wrong Matthew 28.19, and it is time to set the record straight. Thank you