Thank God for the Lord Jesus Christ.
Praise be to them always, ... :) God bless have a wonderful day.
In a world like it is today, and people fight over words, the best thing to do is to let go and understand that this topic will go on for countless of centuries. Before you or I was even born the doctrine of the trinity, has been around.
People in historical times of the church, if they did not believe the or agree with the group of people who said this is the right way, and you have no right to question because the bible says this and that, is a huge loss for the ability to share the love of God and the love of the Lord Jesus Christ, by and through compassion and understanding.
Those who did not agree with them ( say in this case the trinitarians (which to me are believers, having brothers and sisters in Christ )) ~ Do not agree with the doctrine they may see and they may not understand the way another person looks at it unless they explain themselves clearly how they see God, and how the see Jesus Christ, and how they see the spirit - while also allowing the spirit of God to help you understand if the trinity is there, or help you understand that sometimes these things do not matter and as believers we should continue to live in faith and trust towards God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Also Love God, and Love Others.
Take care, and have a nice rest of the evening!
Fellowship in the Scripture is one thing. Inserting cultish doctrine such as a 'created christ' is entirely another. They are to be refuted and rebuked
sharply by the Scriptures, that we and others may be sound in the faith. (Titus 1:13)
I have no problem fellowshipping in Christ with 'Oneness' Christians that say the Son is the Father and they are one and the same Person in the Godhead. They are mistaken, but not necessarily without Jesus in their hearts. And we can go around the Scripture for a while and finally agree to disagree.
But paganism doctored up as Biblic Christian doctrine is NOT a nice, let's get along, and fellowship in the blood, starting ground. The whole roiling mess of the Nicene creed would never have been necessary if not for Arian's injection of pagan 'unitarianism'.
But, we were forewarned about false teachers transforming themselves into angles of light, and are exhorted to read and study and be ready with Scripture to expose them as such. Which work of faith is highly commended by Jesus:
"I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars." (Rev 2)
Consider Apollos who was
mighty in the Scriptures (Acts 18), and Paul who
disputed daily (Acts 17) in the Scriptures with false teachers, and got himself stoned for it.
My first 15 years as a believing Christian in Jesus was wasted and nearly ruined my life, including losing my wife, because I was an unknowledgeable babe lured in by this kind of
filthy dreaming and destructive garbage, that these Jehovahite pagans come all the way over here to push. And like the false leaders and teachers I knew, they do it with utmost courtesy and smiles and grinning teeth, that is ultimately stained with the poison of asps and the blood of the saints.
And I may not have heeded the kind of Scriptural rebuke and warning we have here, but I can say of a certainty that I would have like
the chance at least.
So, my dear brother in the Lord, the praise and worship thread is available. Leave the tough work of sound Scriptural dispute to those made for it, by learning it the hard way.
