Comment on the biblical passage: I am the vine and you are the branches, apart from me you can't do nothing

answer this pls..: Comment on the biblical passage: I am the vine and you are the branches, apart from me you can't do nothing

Comment on the biblical passage: I am the vine and you are the branches, apart from me you can't do nothing
Without Christ in your life you are doomed to fail at everything you do. Jesus Christ is the Creator of all and the sustainer of all. You cannot possibly have any sort of viable plan for your life unless you include him at the top. Certainly, you cannot get to heaven without him. He is the vine, the main source of your life---your nourishment. You are the branch---a creation from the vine that bears fruit. The branch cannot survive apart from the vine. Without the vine there can be no fruit. If you try to live apart from Christ thee will be no fruit in your life and you will wither and die. Jesus loves you.
Reply:With God all things are possible
Reply:It is a reference to the idea that each of us exist as a part of God. Hindus believe each of us to be a part of God. Much like the leaves on a tree, each is a leaf, but still each leaf is undeniably the tree. Much like Christianity teaches that we are all a part of God. This is what the passage refers to.





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Reply:What it means that God as a creator is above all human beings. Without his will nobody can do anything
Reply:I doubt if anywhere in the Bible a phrase like "can't do nothing" was ever used. This is a double negative and only illiterate rednecks would say something like that.
Reply:God is the vine and we are the branches. As the vine supplies the needs of all the branches, God supplies our needs. As a brach which has fallen from the vine can do nothing so it is for us without God. But if we have God we like the branches cna bear fruit.
Reply:I heard some sermons on that earlier this year. There is a Greek work that is used in this passage "remain' in me - unless you remain in me you can do nothing. (And I'm not going to fuss with your grammar, cuz it is the idea that counts and your idea is sincere). The concept that comes across is that the branch in the vine is similar to a baby at the breast. Also to the commitment that a husband and wife are supposed to make in their vows that it is supposed to be forever.





It is God who is the source of everything good, life, love, health, wisdom, talents, etc.. and in the space and time of this earth it is a moment by moment thing, that we continue to have life, love, health, wisdom, talents, etc. If we begin to think that we dont need God to live and grow, and we cut ourselves off, we cut ourselves off from our source, like a baby who falls off of the breast and won't drink,, we can't live.


The bearing fruit part is that we are not meant to just eat and get fat while being couch potatoes. If the branches did not bear fruit, then it is useless. Jesus cursed a worthless fig tree to wither up and die. We must use the life, love, and talents we are given productively. Our fruits are the results of our labors. So we have people who contribute to society by being nurses, teachers, carpenters, homemakers, and doing acts of mercy and kindness. People who are just grabbing things for themselves, soaking up the sap that the vine provides, or the mother's milk, getting fat without doing anything productive or constructive are cut off as useless.


but don't worry, he is not like a factory forman and we are not on piece work pay. We are just supposed to do the best we can with what we've got.