Doctor Reeves, I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your videos. What a wonderful way that you're upbuilding the Body of Christ in putting these videos out there. What a wonderful resource! I've watched through many of your lectures on here, and I have really benefited. Thank you, brother! Keep on keeping on! For Christ and His Kingdom!

@RyanReevesM

8 жыл бұрын

+Alex Duvall // Thanks, Alex. Very kind of you! I've enjoyed serving folks. A teacher just likes to teach and I never thought when I started this a few years ago folks would find it interesting, but folks like you keep me motivated! :)

I have just discovered your channel and I really like the way you explain things in a manner people can understand. Thank you Mister Reeves.

Dr. Reeves, I am wondering if you would be willing to produce a lecture/video on the ancient Sub Tuum Praesidium, maybe in concert with or included in a lecture on the Council of Ephesus.

Great Work..

Christ is the finite image of the infinite God. Everything we experience as God is through Jesus. Glorified Christ states that He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, yet God in His fullness is eternal and exists out of time, outside even our ability to understand fully. God had a plan for humankind from the outset. We were made as representations of Him in this created dimension. If not us, no one else. How incompetent would God be if no one fulfilled the purpose of His goal for us. So God took Himself, a full representation of His being, and caused Him to be a natural born human, living under the same conditions of humanity, yet having a God nature, and no separation from God by a unified Spirit. Christ accomplished what God had intended for man from the outset, but Jesus is still much more than just a man. In my own growth in the Word, I've grasped that all creation testifies to God and His Glory; A squirrel running up a tree, a little bee twitching his behind, back and forth. It's all a part of this most impressive thing; A frame of reference by which we, as sentient individuals, can understand things. I've grasped that God accomplishes things in echos. He makes a promise to Abraham. He fulfills it in his lifetime. He fulfills it on a greater scale with the kingdom of Israel. Then, after Salvation through Christ becomes available he makes us descendants of Abraham, through faith, thus fulfilling the prophecy in perpetuity. He makes a promise to David. He fulfills it through Solomon, then many years later, Jesus is born into David's family. Jesus is the Son of God. Born from God and not created. Both in a cosmic sense, that Jesus is the full product of God, sacrificed on our behalf that we might become like Him, and in the personal human sense, that he was conceived of a woman and lived here as one of us, and was also sacrificed so that we can fulfill God's plan for us, by following His example, by accepting His Spirit and His nature. His blood was necessary to break the curse for us, and to break the illusion of Satan's victory. It's good to see you back Dr. Reeves. I really appreciate you videos. We all are saved by grace, and I'm thankful.

Why is this simple concept so hard for people to understand. In short God is the author of his Word, Jesus Christ being born of uncontaminated blood then (second Adam) had the makeup to always do the father 's will. Thereby he is God's Word in person because Jesus Christ always did the father will. Which would be The word from God.

How would I explain to the Gnostic, and new Age believer that according to the Bible the soul is bound to the natural realm? The soul is created, not designed to transcend into spiritual realms, or become enlightened (awaken a spiritual being within) to ascend into the spiritual dimensions - like the angels (spiritual beings)? Does the Bible support that fact that human beings are not spiritual beings, but they are indeed natural and bound to the physical realm? Did God place restriction on the flesh that prohibit it's ascension into the spiritual realm/dimension. Is this not why God came to the world, descending to the realm of humanity?

Matthew 20:28 "just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

How about a video on the nature of the sacraments? One for each maybe?

@RyanReevesM

8 жыл бұрын

+NoName // Great suggestion, and one I have on the list for sure!

*sigh* Dr. Reeves, I love your videos but how exactly does one, even with only 90 seconds, ignore Gen 3:15 as the purpose of the incarnation? And how do you not include the covenant made (Ex 19:5-24:12) by blood that had to be satisfied? One simply cannot start in Romans and Hebrews for this. It's grander and much more magnificent than that.

Well..I think all the people of this world is still didn't know what's inside the kingdom of God..that will make u all shock and u will begun to fall on your knees and weep forever when u enter inside..I give all a clue Jesus Christ is God the father himself..he is in his throne now.. during his time on earth he promised he will send Elijah before his second coming..a messiah riding in a horse with many crown on his head and his name was word of God..he has a hidden name only him knows. and that name can only be found inside the kingdom of God..that is written in the book of revelations.. that Jesus Christ the messiah has a new name..and that man is here on earth..I hope u all know who is that man before his coming with the glory of his father Jesus christ in the clouds..before its too late.. he is the incarnate and duplication of Jesus in heaven and on earth..

Biblical NT scholar, John Dominic Crossan, says that: “It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that research in a historical Jesus is a very safe place to commit theology.” Through Socrates’ thoughts, 470 BC, e.g. the Dialogues, he claims: “I neither know nor think that I know.” Humbly, Socrates professess the more he learns the less he knows. Jesus, on the other hand knows everything. He's a god, of course... it's reported in Luke 21:17 that: “The kingdom is within you," according to this author's claims. Is Luke based on a hypothetical source ‘Q’, and the book of Mark written much later than Paul’s writings? Punctuated equilibrium... Later text gives Paul's narrative legs to invent new myths and legends over the next 4-5 hundred years--just like millions of other examples in history claiming divine revelations: Ellen White, Teresa of Avila, Joan of Arc, Joseph Smith's Moroni, Mohammad and Gabriel, Chief Seattle and other Native American shaman, Sun Yat-sen venerated as a Saint in Đạo Cao Đài, Kim Jong-un and millions of others...historically. The conclusion is that Paul is using his intrepreatation of the transendent and influencing later anonymous authors' NT cults to back fill the narrative with new detalis i.e. Mark, Mathew, Luke/Acts, and finally John's. The Gospel of John 1 (110 AD) builds on Paul’s writings of Romans as a source, and Romans 5 may have been written by Paul, possibly in Corinth (in 55/58 AD), via Erastus as the earliest attestation-none of which are primary sources to the “Incarnation”. To my knowledge there is NOT one primary source of extra-biblical text to corroborate Paul’s creative revelations of evolving theology. Is it true that Paul is evolving early Christian cults from his own imaginary sources: that he claims are from his dreams, visions, and unique revelations of consciousness? *(Source Galatians **1:11**-12)*. @ 0:57 “…He came down and took on flesh.” Do these texts in John sound rather Gnostic to anyone-e.g. raising the dead, casting out demons, and other odd themes of Jewish Apocalyptic theology? I'd be very interested in anyone else's thoughts...? *Sources:* Brakke, David. 2010. The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press Martin, Sean. 2010. The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics. Harpenden, Herts: Pocket Essentials. Edinger, Edward. 1999. The Psyche in Antiquity. Book Two, Gnosticism and Early Christianity, from Paul of Tarsus to Augustine. Toronto: Inner City Books. Novenson, Matthew V, and Novenson. 2009. The Jewish Messiahs, the Pauline Christ, and the Gentile Question. Journal of Biblical Literature. 128, no. 2: 357. Luke 17:21 Rylands Library Papyrus P52 (Dated to the first half of the 2nd century, is the oldest NT manuscript known) Harris, Stephen L. 2010. Understanding the Bible. McGraw-Hill Education. John Dominic Crossan, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1991), p xxviii. Kovacs, Judith L. (1995). "Now Shall the Ruler of This World Be Driven Out: Jesus' Death as Cosmic Battle in John 12:20-36". Journal of Biblical Literature. 114 (2): 227-247. Larsen, Kasper Bro. 2008. Recognizing the Stranger: Recognition Scenes in the Gospel of John. Leiden ; Boston: Brill. Wright, Robert. 2009. The Evolution of God. New York, NY: Little, Brown, and Co. Johnston, Mark. 2009. Saving God: Religion After Idolatry. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Pagels, Elaine H. 2012. Revelations : Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation. New York: Viking. Hector Avalos, The End of Biblical Studies (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), p 215.; Even John P. Meier admits that this is the case with regards to Josephus and Tacitus. Mason, Steve. 1990. Pharisaic Dominance Before 70 CE and the Gospels' Hypocrisy Charge. Harvard Theological Review. 83, no. 4: 363 Golden, Steven H, and Golden. 2004. A Jewish Perspective of Jesus. Biblical Theology Bulletin. 34, no. 2: 54. Galatians 1:11-12 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Romans en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_John en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation Show less

Do you really think God will come down.. oh his highness his holyness. He has the power to control evertjing... 😟

Why is your history channel focused on Christianity so much? Do you have an agenda or is it just your area of expertise? I'm asking because I'm concerned about the reliability of the information you are providing.

@RyanReevesM

7 жыл бұрын

My areas of expertise are history in general and also theology or history of theology. So I have done some of these but the videos focus on history.

Wow. you skipped an essential thing about the incarnation. YAHUSHUA(Jesus) was the Jewish Messiah. Why did HE come down? To be the promised Messiah. YAHWEH made so many promises in the Old Testament, and those promises had to be fulfilled in YAHUSHUA HaNotzri (Jesus of Nazareth), the Only Begotten Son.