This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
(Ephesians 4:17-18)
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
(Psalm 1)
If I had time I would. But they are out of context to defend the Kenyonism of Jesus died spiritually. A text taken out of context can be use as a pretext. This teaching is found nowhere in Christianity except WOF ! It is false doctrine. Luther did not believe this at all either....
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
(Ephesians 4:17-18)
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
(Psalm 1)
I believe Jesus suffered spiritually rather than died spiritually. Dying spiritually implies to me becoming a sinner with a perverted heart in terms of its inclincations and motivations.
Acts 2:24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it
The verse is a reference to one of the psalms :
Psalm 18:4 The pangs of death surrounded me,
And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
5 The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.
There clearly was more going on than Jesus merely being physically dead, there was something trying to hold him in death, something that would have succeeded with holding you and me.
No.
Defend your position.
Until you can show me that they are "out-of-context" all I have is your opinion.
Prove it.
Psalm 2:7
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Acts 13:33
God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Hebrews 1:4-6
(4) Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
(5) For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
(6) And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
Hebrews 5:4-5
(4) And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
(5) So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
(Ephesians 4:17-18)
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
(Psalm 1)
Acts 2:24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.
Acts 2:31, "he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that He was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did His flesh suffer decay."
It seems reasonable to me to conclude that since death could not hold him in Hades but had to let go of him therefore he wasn't abandoned to Hades. And this happened before his flesh had decayed entirely since he resurrected within three days.
I'm with Lionheart on this one. This is an idea that is not in the Bible. It is quite a stretch of scripture.
In I Corinthians 15:3,4, Paul gives us what he clearly feels is the essence of the Gospel saying, “. . . that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures . . . . ” No mention is made of the Lord’s alleged descent and torment in hell, such teaching is without biblical warrant. 1) The scriptures do not teach that Jesus suffered a “spiritual death” on the cross that severed Him from union with God resulting in His becoming a mere mortal man.
2) The scriptures do not teach that Jesus descended into hell to there suffer at the hands of Satan for three days and nights.
3) The scriptures do not teach that Jesus was, subsequent to His death on the cross, born again, and is now an exalted, resurrected man.
In discussing his ministry, the Apostle Paul wrote the Corinthians that he “determined to know nothing . . . except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified” (I Corinthians 2:2). He made it abundantly clear that the heart of the Gospel was the truth about Christ “and Him crucified” (I Corinthians 1:23; 15:3,4; Galatians 6:14; I Timothy 1:15).
curly sue (11-21-2015)
Actually it is scary because the Jehovah witnesses quote the same scriptures about Jesus being begotten to prove an entire other heretical teaching. Again, the teaching arose from Kenyon stringing together some scriptures of of context to prove his errors. It is not found anywhere in any branch of Christianity !This is why very Biblical scholars like Pentecostal pastor J.R. Goodwin rejected Hagin's repeating of Kenyon's errors. He knew they were not sound Biblical doctrine.