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   >>How to explain this, referring to Christ as "Him":   
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   >>Colossians 2:9   
   >>     because it is in him that all the fullness of the divine quality dwells   
   bodily   
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   >>Compare:   
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   >>A related common expression of Father as to Son - "of one essence with "   
   >>the Father".   
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   Friend james thought:   
      
   >Yes, that is in conjunction with John 10:30, "I and the Father are   
   >one".   
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   >>So, what meaning both "nature and essence" tells us as to Christ and the   
   >>father?   
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   >>The greek in question:   
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   >>Strong's Greek: 2305. theio'ty*s (theiot ) -- divinity, divine nature   
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   >>So "devine nature/essence" jointly points to "divenity bodily; Father as to   
   >>Son", no?   
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   >Well, Jesus CANNOT be God, for everyone that looks at him would die:   
      
   >So what does it mean that Jesus had a divine nature?   
      
   The scripture bits above tells all "qualty or nature or divinety" per the   
   greek used, including the John "Father and I are one".  Thus Christ did not   
   have *another divine nature*   
    but the one of the Father,ie. God.   
      
   To say the "divine nature" of Croist is another is to say He is also a   
   seperate/different god; prohibited in scripture.   
      
   The harder the jw vatican tries to support their very modern theories of   
   scripture the deeper they dig themselves in, no?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)