Coldwell Banker Schmidt Realtors

Find an agent or one of twenty offices statewide with an interactive map.

Commercial Real Estate News Headlines

Headlines from Metro Detroit newspapers, relating to commercial real estate, with direct links to each story.

Greenridge Realty, Inc.

Property listings, buyer's tips, seller's tips, and mortgage calculator.

Home Marketing Systems Inc.

Find Kalamazoo homes, repossessions and foreclosures, student rental properties, or let then manage your property.

Meridian Title

Providing commercial and residential title insurance and escrow/closing services for real estate in Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan.

Michigan Association of REALTORS®

Licensing information, education, legislative advocacy, housing statistics, calendar of events, consumer resources, and member resources.

Michigan Association of REALTORS®

Licensing information, education, legislative advocacy, housing statistics, calendar of events, consumer resources, and member resources.

Michigan For Sale by Owner Homes

Classifieds for FSBO home sellers and buyers offering updatable listings with visual tours, yard signs and discount newspaper advertising.

Preview Properties

Specializes in commercial and residential real estate. Offices in Brighton, Dearborn, Lansing, Grand Rapids, and Grand Blanc.

Promo

Search for homes, condominiums, mobile homes, vacant property, and apartments.

In article <07D63785-C2EE-221B-EC76-41491964AB9A@srcbs.org>, Sarah Kanary
says...

> wrote in message
>news:C9E31AD4-3432-66B8-A5CF-8E2F6B67D201@srcbs.org...

>> It is written : John 1:1-3 "1 In the beginning was the
>> Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

>Literally, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
>with the God, and god was the Word."

And like so many other 'literal' translations, this
translation is UNFAITHFUL to the Greek original.

>The Word was WITH God. So therefore was not actually God,
>else he would not be described as 'with' Him.

Not true. For the end of the very same sentence says "and
the Word WAS God". So yes, He was/is actually God.

> To John's Jewish readers, it would of course be blasphemy
>to say that anyone was actually God but Jehovah.

No doubt. But of course, John did not _say_ the Word was other than
YHWH.

> However, there were others, both angel and human, who are
>referred to as 'elohim' or 'theos' when they act as God's
>representatives. So it is certainly no surprise that God's
>Firstborn Son would be referred to as such.

Well, so what? It is clear that that is NOT the sense for
'elohim' that is to be read here in John 1:1-18.

[snip]

>"'WHAT CAME TO BE', while the oldest manuscripts have no
>punctuation here, the corrector of Bodmer P75, some mss,
>and the ANF take this phrase with what follows, as
>staircase parallelism. Connection with verse 3 reflects 4th
>century anti-Arianism." Robertson's Word Pictures'
>commentary on John 1:3: "Paul pointedly asserts that "the
>all things were created in him" (Christ) and "the all
>things stand created through him and unto him" (Col
>1:16). Hence it is not a peculiar doctrine that John here
>enunciates. In 1Co 8:6, Paul distinguishes between the
>Father as the primary source (ex hou) of the all things and
>the Son as the *intermediate* agent as here (di' hou)."

I notice that since the Robertson citation ends here, there
is NO reason to suppose he shares your twisted
interpretation below:

>So the Word was at no time the direct creator, but an agent
>*through whom* the Creator acted. Jesus Christ is God's
>'only-begotten' Son.

And you _consistently_ misunderstand this principle! For
just as the son of a man is a man, the son of a horse is a
horse, the son of God is God.

> God has other sons, both angel and human. (Job 38:7;
>Luke 20:36) Some will even be JOINT HEIRS with Christ:

Here too you miss the point; we can be joint heirs with
Christ only by being grafted onto Christ. So in a way, He is
_still