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Gurbani (696-703)
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Gurbani (795-831)
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Chhant (843-848)
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Solhe (1020-1033)
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Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
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<blockquote data-quote="Jass Singh" data-source="post: 20935" data-attributes="member: 1904"><p><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Harsimritkaur</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I am not impressed by your lack of scholarly hermeneutics. Having studied Hebrew you should know better than to twist the Word of God to suit your needs of syncretism. </span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">JOHN 8:58-59:</span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">You have utterly ignored VERSE 59, the response of the Jewish leaders after Jesus claims to be the “I am” of Exodus 3, which He prefaced with “truly truly” to underscore that what He was saying is the absolute truth. The Holy Bible says: “Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.’ Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself, and went out of the temple” (John 8:58-59). The Jews would have NO REASON to stone Him except that He CLEARLY CLAIMED TO BE THE TIMELESS God – the SELF-EXISTENT “I AM” who existed long before Abraham. It was a claim that outraged his hearers. Stoning was the Jewish punishment for blasphemy and they did not wait for the verdict of a court. They saw no reason to delay but attempted to carry out an execution in the traditional style. </span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">You correctly point out that the Greek text of John 8:58 says ”Ego eimi” which is the equivalent of “I am.” If you did your homework you would know that the 70 scholars who translated the Hebrew Scriptures into the Greek Septuagint correctly rendered “I am” of Exodus 3:14 as “Ego eimi.” This only reinforces the correct interpretation of Jesus’ words as a claim to being Yahweh, the covenant keeping Supreme God the great “I am” the Self-Existent one. This is exactly what the Jews understood of Jesus’ words & the reason they want to stone Him for blasphemy!</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">JOHN 5:18:</span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">In addition John 5:18 quite clearly says that Jesus was making Himself equal with God: “For this cause therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.” (John 5:18).</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">John 1:3:</span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Furthermore, in John 17: Jesus says: "’And now, glorify Thou Me together with Thyself, Father, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.’” This is further indication of His pre-existence before the creation of the universe. And John 1:3 says: “All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.” </span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">REVELATION: </span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Then there are the verses in Revelation where Jesus three times underscores his claims to be God:</span></span></strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong>" 'I am the Alpha and Omega' says the Lord God, 'Who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.' " (Rev 1:8).</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong>"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end." (Rev 21:6).</strong></span></span></p><p><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." (Rev 22:13).</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">LUK 11:1-2:</span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">You write: </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Please read the text in context starting with the previous verse it says: “And it came about that while He was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples" (LUK 11:1).</span></span></strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong>The disciples are asking Jesus how THEY should pray. This is the disciples’ prayer & not the Lord’s Prayer. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">CONCLUSION:</span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: green"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">You have no reasoned argument against the case for Jesus’ deity except ad hominem attacks and accusations of “fundamentalism” “brainwashing” etc. This is not scholarship & is unbefitting someone as learned as you. So please let’s leave out irrelevant ad hominem attacks – deal with the texts and their clear meaning as understood by the contemporaries of Jesus and not your 21st century misinterpretation far removed from the time, culture & context of Jesus’ day. And leave Sikhism & your illegitimate syncretism out of this for it has NOTHING to do with the text. By doing so you are only committing the fallacy of isogesis – reading your own illegitimate meaning into the text when it is not there. </span></span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jass Singh, post: 20935, member: 1904"] [B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana]Harsimritkaur[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana]I am not impressed by your lack of scholarly hermeneutics. Having studied Hebrew you should know better than to twist the Word of God to suit your needs of syncretism. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3]JOHN 8:58-59:[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana]You have utterly ignored VERSE 59, the response of the Jewish leaders after Jesus claims to be the “I am” of Exodus 3, which He prefaced with “truly truly” to underscore that what He was saying is the absolute truth. The Holy Bible says: “Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.’ Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself, and went out of the temple” (John 8:58-59). The Jews would have NO REASON to stone Him except that He CLEARLY CLAIMED TO BE THE TIMELESS God – the SELF-EXISTENT “I AM” who existed long before Abraham. It was a claim that outraged his hearers. Stoning was the Jewish punishment for blasphemy and they did not wait for the verdict of a court. They saw no reason to delay but attempted to carry out an execution in the traditional style. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana]You correctly point out that the Greek text of John 8:58 says ”Ego eimi” which is the equivalent of “I am.” If you did your homework you would know that the 70 scholars who translated the Hebrew Scriptures into the Greek Septuagint correctly rendered “I am” of Exodus 3:14 as “Ego eimi.” This only reinforces the correct interpretation of Jesus’ words as a claim to being Yahweh, the covenant keeping Supreme God the great “I am” the Self-Existent one. This is exactly what the Jews understood of Jesus’ words & the reason they want to stone Him for blasphemy![/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3]JOHN 5:18:[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana]In addition John 5:18 quite clearly says that Jesus was making Himself equal with God: “For this cause therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.” (John 5:18).[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3]John 1:3:[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana]Furthermore, in John 17: Jesus says: "’And now, glorify Thou Me together with Thyself, Father, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.’” This is further indication of His pre-existence before the creation of the universe. And John 1:3 says: “All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.” [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3]REVELATION: [/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana]Then there are the verses in Revelation where Jesus three times underscores his claims to be God:[/FONT][/COLOR][/B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana] [B]" 'I am the Alpha and Omega' says the Lord God, 'Who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.' " (Rev 1:8).[/B] [B]"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end." (Rev 21:6).[/B][/FONT][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana]"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." (Rev 22:13).[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3]LUK 11:1-2:[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana]You write: [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana]Please read the text in context starting with the previous verse it says: “And it came about that while He was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples" (LUK 11:1).[/FONT][/COLOR][/B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana] [B]The disciples are asking Jesus how THEY should pray. This is the disciples’ prayer & not the Lord’s Prayer. [/B][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR][B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3]CONCLUSION:[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=green][FONT=Verdana]You have no reasoned argument against the case for Jesus’ deity except ad hominem attacks and accusations of “fundamentalism” “brainwashing” etc. This is not scholarship & is unbefitting someone as learned as you. So please let’s leave out irrelevant ad hominem attacks – deal with the texts and their clear meaning as understood by the contemporaries of Jesus and not your 21st century misinterpretation far removed from the time, culture & context of Jesus’ day. And leave Sikhism & your illegitimate syncretism out of this for it has NOTHING to do with the text. By doing so you are only committing the fallacy of isogesis – reading your own illegitimate meaning into the text when it is not there. [/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [/QUOTE]
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