As a Trinity believer this is a bridge too far for me.
Before you posted this,
i thought of you and prayed to the Lord and this includes
my Brother @Johann
i am therefore joyful in the LORD
for your post to me as you are a blessing on here to all of us
i
KNOW that there are SAVED, Blood Washed Saints where ever the Gospel is preached = RCC, jw, Mormom, Baptists, etc
What we are doing here on these Threads is SEEING and HEARING from either BELIEVERS or 'religion' or 'undecided/confused'
the Apostle John new this as well and thus his gospel and his letters that really explain this
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the
spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
They are of the world. Therefore they speak
as of the world, and the world hears them.
We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us.
By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
What are people 'acknowledging' about Jesus??? -
JESUS says "out of the heart a man speaks"
the Apostle John was a true Jew of faith who walked with the Lord Jesus Christ and knew the Torah and the Commandments
As a Jew and especially as a Apostle, John would NEVER of wrote - "the Word was God" if it were not TRUTH from the TORAH
This is why and what John knew and BELIEVED = Torah = the Five Books of Moses, where the Lord Jesus Christ can be SEEN
I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
You shall have no other gods before Me. - Deuteronomy 5:7
When John speaks of "Jesus Christ has come in the flesh" , he is declaring that Jesus Christ is 'the LORD' of Torah who spoke to Moses
Something else that John wrote that not many 'christians' know = "no lie is of the Truth"
Anyone who promotes "the Word was a god" is deceived.
SHALOM to ALL who are
in CHRIST