And I have been kind and respectful to you. I am not fighting with you. What makes you think that because I expect answers to foundational questions from you?
I would prefer you not reply to what I posit with unrelated abstractions that have no relevance.
For instance, if I aslked you this: "I have finished the work you have given me to do", what might I expect your answer to be?
John 17
4
I have glorified You on the earth
by completing the work You gave Me to do.
5*
Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence
with that glory I had with You
before the world existed.
Hebrews 4 (HCSB)
The Promised Rest
4 Therefore, while the promise to enter His rest remains, let us fear that none of you should miss it. 2 For we also have received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard did not benefit them, since they were not united with those who heard it in faith. 3 (for we who have believed enter the rest), in keeping with what He has said:
So I swore in My anger,
they will not enter My rest.
And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world, 4 for somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this way:
And on the seventh day
God rested from all His works.
5 Again, in that passage He says, They will never enter My rest. 6 Since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience, 7 again, He specifies a certain day—today—speaking through David after such a long time, as previously stated:
Today, if you hear His voice,
do not harden your hearts.
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. 9 Therefore, a Sabbath rest remains for God’s people. 10 For the person who has entered His rest has rested from his own works, just as God did from His. 11 Let us then make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same pattern of disobedience.
12 For the word of God is living and effective and sharper than any double-edged sword, penetrating as far as the separation of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It is able to judge the ideas and thoughts of the heart. 13 No creature is hidden from Him, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give an account.
Our Great High Priest
14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—let us hold fast to the confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tested in every way as we are, yet without sin. 16 Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.
Genesis 2 (HCSB)
2 So the heavens and the earth and everything in them[a] were completed. 2 By the seventh day God completed His work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done. 3 God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He rested from His work of creation.
Philippians 2
5*Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus,
6*
who, existing in the form of God,
did not consider equality with God
as something to be used for His own advantage.
7*
Instead He emptied Himself
by assuming the form of a slave,
taking on the likeness of men.
And when He had come as a man
in His external form,
8*
He humbled Himself by becoming obedient
to the point of death—
even to death on a cross.
9*
For this reason God highly exalted Him
and gave Him the name
that is above every name,
10*
so that at the name of Jesus
every knee will bow—
of those who are in heaven and on earth
and under the earth—
11*
and every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
John 1
1*
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
2*
He was with God in the beginning.
3*
All things were created through Him,
and apart from Him not one thing was created
that has been created.
4*
Life was in Him,
and that life was the light of men.
5*
That light shines in the darkness,
yet the darkness did not overcome it.
Colossians 1:16
For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.
John 14:8-21 (HCSB)
8*“Lord,” said Philip, “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”
9*Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time without your knowing Me, Philip? The one who has seen Me has seen the Father.How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10*Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on My own. The Father who lives in Me does His works.11*Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. Otherwise, believe[a] because of the works themselves.
1 John 1 (HCSB)
Prologue: Our Declaration
1*
What was from the beginning,
what we have heard,
what we have seen with our eyes,
what we have observed
and have touched with our hands,
concerning the Word of life—
2*
that life was revealed,
and we have seen it
and we testify and declare to you
the eternal life that was with the Father
and was revealed to us—
3*
what we have seen and heard
we also declare to you,
so that you may have fellowship along with us;
and indeed our fellowship is with the Father
and with His Son Jesus Christ.
4*
We are writing these things
so that our joy may be complete.
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