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  First, second and third century prayers.  To whom do you pray today?   “I have a sports friend I talked to about Christ, and at the end he asked me if it was right that he was praying to his father. He told me that his father died without seeing his performance , and now he came to him every time he enters the field and says, "Dad, please be with me!" Then he dedicates any victory to him. Although he had to shatter an illusion that seemed to do him good, although I brought him a state of thought that initially saddened him, yet I brought him to the truth. That the dead, whoever they are, can no longer help us. We cannot ask who we want, whom we loved most on earth, and who went to the eternal ones.” Tony Saint Mary is one of the many dead. She is not alive, so she could not help us. She is not in Heaven, nobody is in Heaven till the resurrection and the rapture of the church in heaven occur (John 3:13). This is precisely why our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ , ...

  Three ways before apostle John defining the Logos   I found these interesting things by searching the internet for information about John 1:1c   Somebody specified the following   "Apostle John could have done John 1:1c in three ways: 1). kai theon ēn ho logos. 2). kai ton theon ēn ho logos. 3). kai theos ēn ho logos. If John had wanted the text to read (in English) "and the Word was a god" he likely would have used the first option. Putting god in the accusative without the definite article. If John had wanted to say "and the Word was the God", he would have used the 2nd option. Again putting God in the accusative this time with the definite article. However, John chose to use a nominative predicate (3rd option) and it clearly has a meaning other than "and the word was a god" or "and the Word was the God". This leaves the traditional "and the Word was God". I have seen a number of articles on this, p...