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What is the biblical basis for Jesus' eternal pre-existence (as opposed to having been created a long time ago)?
John clearly and logically makes four statements :
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. [John 1:1,2 KJV]
'In the ...
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In which writing(s) did Augustine assert that God exists outside of time?
Augustine addresses this question in at least the Confessions and the City of God. In book 11 of the Confessions he deals with the subject of time extensively, and ultimately he decides that it is ...
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Reason for drawing water at unusual time
This is a quite fascinating question, where we can speculate to our hearts' content!
First, it must be pointed out that the New Living Translation you have quoted is dogmatic in its assertion that it ...
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Is there any Biblical reference strictly speaking about God being timeless?
While how much philosophy has influenced the church on this can be debated, one only has to look to Scripture to see that God clearly operates outside time.
The term "outside time" may mean ...
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What exactly was the earliest start time of a Catholic mass before 1957? - What means aurora?
"Aurora" in Latin means "dawn", as opposed to "sunrise" (which is "ortus solis", the rising of the sun). This would mean, more or less, the period at which the sky was visibly bright.
The reason for ...
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What is the biblical basis for Jesus' eternal pre-existence (as opposed to having been created a long time ago)?
I have practically answered this question here with this argument:
We can reformulate the question as: what is the Biblical basis for the Nicene interpretation of the Pre-existence of Christ doctrine?...
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According to the Puritans, at what time did the Sabbath start and end?
Puritans hold several different views regarding the exact timing of the Sabbath. Perhaps the most widespread view is that the Christian Sabbath begins on Saturday at sunset and continues until sunset ...
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According to mainstream Christianity when did time begin?
According to mainstream Christianity when did time begin?
According to mainstream Christians, time commenced at the moment of the creation of the physical universe which was created by God as ...
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According to mainstream Christianity when did time begin?
Every measurement of time involves measuring a change in some physical
quantity. It may be a number on a digital clock, a heartbeat, or the
position of the Sun in the sky. In physics, the definition ...
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Why do some Christians believe a very young Earth?
Prior to the birth of Christ, most Jewish scholars assumed the genealogies in the Bible were accurate and complete and the account of creation was literal history, hence attributed an age to the earth ...
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What is the biblical basis for Jesus' eternal pre-existence (as opposed to having been created a long time ago)?
I don't have time for a long answer, but here are three passages that show that Jesus pre-existed eternally:
Hebrews chapter 7 - draws an analogy to Melchizedek, who it says was without beginning of ...
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How much time passes between Adam and Jesus?
~4ky is probably correct, although various dates have been given, some (according to Wikipedia, which I wouldn't trust as an unbiased source) reaching as far back as ~20ky. Most reputable estimates &...
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Is it odd that there is only one sentence about the death of David?
2 Samuel 23 begins with David's last words :
The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.3The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be ...
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Why do some Christians believe a very young Earth?
Besides what the Bible says, there is also more scientific evidence to support a young Earth than most people would think. Some examples of this are the Sun getting hotter and the oceans getting ...
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Can I pray for the past to change certain aspects of life? (Catholic perspective)
There is nothing preventing you from praying for anything you'd like, of course; it seems that your question isn't so much "Can we do this?" as "Does it do any good—can it change the ...
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What does it mean for Christ to have been slain before the creation of the world?
Mark Edwards has an excellent explanation of Romans 13:8 on the Biblical Hermeneutics Stack Exchange. In his excellent answer, he notes:
...the exact same idiom, right down to the noun morphology, ...
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On Prophecies Related to the Time-Table of the Messiah's Coming
An intriguing aspect of all biblical prophecies about future events is the lack of clarity about precise dates when something will happen. Yet enough detail is given so that - with hindsight - people ...
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How much time passes between Adam and Jesus?
The elapsed time from Creation to Incarnation depends on the chosen options regarding 4 issues:
The textual tradition: Masoretic Text (MT) or Septuagint (LXX).
The age at which Terah begot Abraham: ...
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According to mainstream Christianity when did time begin?
According to mainstream Christianity when did time begin?
This is a more speculative question than maybe the OP realizes.
The premise of your question is that Christianity teaches that time had a ...
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On Prophecies Related to the Time-Table of the Messiah's Coming
OP: Which prophecy[ies] might suggest, more specifically, that "the time had come" for the Messiah to be born?
The idea that there was a very specific time for Messiah to appear is very ...
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How much time passes between Adam and Jesus?
How much time passes between Adam and Jesus?
This is impossible to determine with any certainty or accuracy, however many hold that some 4,000 years passed between the creation of Adam to the birth of ...
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According to Reformed Calvinists, are all of a person's volitional states causally determined by prior causes in time?
N.B.: My "answer" is not really an answer to the question as asked. Forgive me. The following response can serve, however, to re-frame the question in a less complicated and easier to deal ...
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How do Christians who are neither Evolutionists nor Young Earth Creationists explain the timeline of the six days of creation in Genesis chapter 1?
Your question suggests that “no time-line is required” in order to believe and understand the six days of creation, and that “the time factor would not be the point”. As a Christian who denounces ...
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Can a heart beat in heaven acording to Catholics?
All the human body parts (the heart, fluids, genitals, hair, nails, etc.) will rise again, since they pertain to the natural human perfection (Summa Theologica suppl. q. 80 a. 1 "Whether all the ...
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What is the basis for the idiomatic understanding of "three days in the tomb" as two nights and a day?
Unfortunately I can't find the original source (yet), but according to this commentator, the Jerusalem Talmud states that a portion of a day was as a whole.
The Jerusalem Talmud quotes rabbi ...
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Why do some Christians believe a very young Earth?
You know those collages of pictures where each picture is a theme, maybe families, maybe in black and white; but as you stand back you see the BIG picture created by all of them? Well this is why a ...
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