St. SteVen
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Your false accusations of idolatry illustrate that this is not a civil discussion.What does this evidence imply about other gods, including the trinitarian god?
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Your false accusations of idolatry illustrate that this is not a civil discussion.What does this evidence imply about other gods, including the trinitarian god?
Sometimes we entertain angels unaware.Was it God 'incognito' the whole time when we would wait for the 'Good Humor' truck???
It was a legitimate question and you have not rescinded.And you @St. SteVen, are you doubling down on your false witness that my point was that Scripture is a diversion on a religious forum?
Perhaps because Christians that are not Trinitarian is a ridiculous idea.You are just not serious people discussing a serious subject.
Look it up in a Greek Interlinear and see that there are two “gods” mentioned in John 1:1.Dear @APAK,
The Love of God asks you to please review carefully - Thank You
Watchtower NWT Bible = In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.
APAK is not a JW.....not all trinity deniers are Jehovah’s Witnesses.....No one can be saved by the god of Watchtower.
David in NJ said:"a god" cannot save you or anyone = Isaiah 45:5
“The Lord” is a title, not a name. Yahweh is God’s name and nowhere in the Bible is Jesus called Yahweh.I am the Lord, and there is no other;
There is no God besides Me.
The one way to salvation is what Jesus said.....There is only ONE Way to Salvation = the Word was God and the Word became flesh = Immanuel, God with us
Exactly.....and no one can come to the son without an invitation from his Father. (John 6:65)Lord Jesus Christ = "IAM the WAY the TRUTH the LIFE, no one comes to the FATHER but thru ME"
This passage doesn’t say what you think it does....God highly exalted himself? God gave himself a name that is above the one he already has? (Psalm 83:18) Is the knee bowed in worship or obeisance? (Same word)Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Yes...he is the savior.....but sent by the greater Savior....without Yahweh, there is no Jesus......Yahweh is the God of Jesus. Only Yahweh is “Our Father”.the Lord Jesus Christ
Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” - Acts 4:12
the FATHER will only accept you if you come to the Lord Jesus Christ
I have to say that I am always impressed by your sincerity Ritajanice.....but being “one in spirit” is exactly what the Scripture means. What is our spirit though? How would we define it? Isn’t it the motivating force within our hearts that steers us towards God? It is the difference between some one who is not spiritual reading the words of the Bible and not responding to them at all.....the words do not ‘resonate’ as they do for believers. But then we have to ask is satan capable of taking that spirituality in us and redirecting it to something at appears to be correct, but is nothing but a clever counterfeit? Or at least it was in the beginning where false doctrines were introduced gradually until they were accepted by the masses.That is what you believe it can mean Aunty, by the scripture that you post, ...I believe differently.
The Father and I are one, that could mean that they are one in Spirit.
He did indeed grow in the womb of the wonderful woman he chose to give birth to his son and to raise him in a devout Jewish household. Joseph too was the perfect earthly father of God’s son, taking his family for the prescribed yearly festivals in Jerusalem and teaching all his children the value of staying close to their God and obeying his laws.Jesus grew from the seed of God, that is my belief, he was Born in human flesh, yet he was divine...that imo goes without saying.
Even though Jesus was divinely produced, he was still 100% mortal human....and free willed, as the exact equivalent of Adam, for whose sinful course he willingly came and offered his life in atonement for what Adam had done to all his children. In order to give his life, he had to remain sinless, proving that Adam too could have remained sinless if he had chosen to be obedient to his God instead of choosing to side with his disobedient wife. The devil tried to derail his course by tempting him to sin, but he staunchly refused.The Living seed that overcame Mary, was the Living Holy Spirit.....Jesus was not an ordinary human being....he was the divine Son Of God ,grown all according to God’s purpose/ plan in the womb of Mary...how I even entertained that he was human as we are before we became Born Again, with sin, baffles me....I guess I was then thinking from my human understanding at that time.....
We can all be used by God to impart knowledge and understanding of God’s word. But it requires careful study to prove the truth of what it really teaches, not being sidetracked by the accepted doctrines of a counterfeit church system, hopelessly divided with people leaving in droves, and wondering why God is not blessing them. (1 Cor 1:10)I am his vessel to use as he so pleases, he used the Virgin Mary to grow his seed of Jesus in, she was also a vessel that God used.......God used many to get his message across.....Jesus was a prime example only he was the divine Son Of God, he was no ordinary human man....the Bible was written under the influence of the Holy Spirit...the Holy Spirit speaks through his children.the Born Of The Spirit Children?
Dear Aunty,Look it up in a Greek Interlinear and see that there are two “gods” mentioned in John 1:1.
Biased translation ignores the definite article when it is often the only identifier of Yahweh, when God and his son are mentioned together.
The only reason why the definite article is used at all is because the Jews had stopped saying the divine name, so the Greeks had no word for a god with no name. The one nameless Jewish God was simply called “the God” and lesser divine ones like Jesus or angels, or even humans like the judges in Israel were called “gods” not because they were Yahweh, but because they were either divinely created or divinely authorised. (John 10:31-36) This is why the trinity was even able to be introduced in an apostate church because using the divine name in John 1:1 would have prevented it.
It would have read.....
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Yahweh, and the Word was divine.”
APAK is not a JW.....not all trinity deniers are Jehovah’s Witnesses.....
The “Watchtower” has no god...it is a Bible Society that prints Bible literature.
It is used as a legal entity by Jehovah’s Witnesses to print and distribute Bible study aids to help us to understand the big picture. Most on here don’t seem to have one.
What is your big picture David? Why are we here? What kind of life did God purpose for humankind “in the beginning”?
How did we lose that......and how did God plan to restore his first purpose for us?
Where will Christians spend eternity?
Jesus did not need to be either God or a god to save mankind....all he needed to be was the exact equivalent of Adam....a perfect sinless mortal human being. One life that made atonement for an equivalent life.
The fact that there was not another human being on earth who was sinless, necessitated the need for God to produce a sinless human to atone for the life that Adam took away from his children. God created Adam and God created in Mary a life that could be laid down as a sacrifice for Adam’s sin.....not just any life, but a free willed human being whom he could trust implicitly to carry the future of entire human race on his shoulders.
He transferred the life of his precious son for an earthly mission, which he carried out perfectly.
What part of...Neither be of you are serious Bible students, reverting to childishness when you cannot defend your IDOL.
It's long been the closed minded who missed him!Perhaps because Christians that are not Trinitarian is a ridiculous idea.
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The Logos became flesh—the outward Divine expression of God's inner thought! I'm truly in awe of how you get tangled up in the concept of Logos. Everything that was created has come from the Logos!Or perhaps the... Word became flesh part?
"And now the Lord says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant..." (Isaiah 49:5, ESV)@Aunty Jane
I am curious how you see -
Filipp 2:5 For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus,
Filipp 2:6 who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God,
Filipp 2:7 but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,
This is why you cried like a baby for all to see.Speaking of ignorance, I see you struggle with answering a Simple question.
WOW…LOL
Yes, I know that translations can vary on many things, but as far as scripture, twisted to accommodate the trinity is concerned, bias in translation wins out when the translators are trinitarians.@Aunty Jane
I am curious how you see -
Filipp 2:5 For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus,
Filipp 2:6 who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God,
Filipp 2:7 but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,
There is a whole list of Bible translations of this verse - Philippians 2:6 - Bible Gateway
It’s the truth according to the rest of the Bible and accurate translation, not influenced by a false doctrine, so ancient that no one seems keen to explore its authenticity. They are so convinced that it is a salvation issue that they refuse to examine the evidence for its lack of Scriptural support.But the JW states -
Keep this mental attitude* in YOU that was also in Christ Jesus,+ 6 who, although he was existing in God’s form,+ gave no consideration to a seizure,* namely, that he should be equal to God.+ 7 No, but he emptied himself and took a slave’s form+ and came to be in the likeness of men.
That's really something else, or?
John 3:10 - Jesus answered and said to him, 'Thou art the teacher of Israel--and these things thou dost not know!Born again is literal?
Born again is literal?
Pretty much like Jesus.... Luk 3:38 the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. ouch!Gen 2
[7] And the LORD God “formed” man of the dust of the ground,
^ CREATED
and
“breathed into” his nostrils the breath of life
^ MADE
and
man became a living soul.
^ PERSON (Body with a Soul)
Conjunctions!
Why is life on this earth so short David? Was it meant to be short? How long did humans live after Adam’s sin and before the flood? Read Genesis ch 5 and see the longevity. Noah was 500 years old before he had children!Dear Aunty,
Our life on this earth is very SHORT.
DO NOT wait until you die to bow your knee and confess with your tongue that Jesus Christ is LORD
Every one of your points here has been scripturally refuted, but this is just a refusal to acknowledge what you do not want to hear.....only God can unblock ears, unblind eyes and unlock hearts.....he did that for me over 50 years ago...and I have never stopped learning and extracting gems from that spiritual treasure chest.Look up Genesis chapter 1 in the Hebrew = PLURAL = 3
Look up Elohim and Elohenu in the Hebrew = PLURAL = 3
GOSPEL = PLURAL = 3 = SAME 3 from Genesis
Apostles writings = PLURAL = 3
Revelation = PLURAL = 3
FYI - the RCC is EVIL and i ran from it into the TRUE LIVING ELOHIM