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Note in the following scriptures how God the Father and God the Son interact.

16. If the conversation indicates disparity of location and movement between the two deities, such as ascended to my Father, I came forth from the Father, or was sent by the Father, or because I go to the Father, this would all indicate individuality, hierarchy, and different location.

17. If one knows something that the other does not, like in Matt. 24:36 where Yeshua said, He did not know when the “end of the age” would occur, only the Father knew. This definitely indicates individuality and is conclusive proof that we are not talking about a single mind.

18. If the Son was sent by the Father. This indicates individuality and hierarchy of authority. One person sent somewhere by another. You will never read that Yeshua sent the Father anywhere.

19. If Christ said, (John 5:30) “I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.” The statement regarding the will of the one Who sent Him, occurs in other verses. John 6:38 & 39 Matt 12:50. Then there is Matthew 26:36-46 Mark 14:36 “And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.” This is a request from one person to another of higher authority and a designation of two separate wills... “not what I will, but what thou wilt.” The wills and minds of two Gods, clearly defined in words and actions with a clear show of respect from Son to Father agreeing to subject Himself to the will of the Father.

20. The oldest of the Christian Creeds is called the Old Roman Creed 2nd century…
I believe in God the Father almighty; and in Christ Jesus His only Son, our Lord, Who was born from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, Who under Pontius Pilate was crucified and buried, on the third day rose again from the dead, ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of the Father, whence he will come to judge the living and the dead; and in the Holy Spirit, the holy Church, the remission of sins, the resurrection of the flesh,

21. And Christ said this while He walked the earth...But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven" Matthew 10:33 God the Father and God the Son. Two persons in two different places and the Son denying someone before His Father.

22. “The My Father verses” are the most prevalent and best examples of Yeshua’s relationship with Yahweh. Over fifty times in the Gospels Yeshua refers to Yahweh as “My Father.” As far as understanding the interconnecting relationship between Yeshua and Yahweh these verses are very important to understand in content, context, and perspective. In most of these verses the differences between Yahweh and Yeshua are expressed, either by hierarchy, authority, interaction, will, mind, movement, communication, or physical location.

23. In John 2:16, Yeshua indicates that the Temple is His Father’s house .....not His. Christ never indicates that the Temple belongs to Him, the temple belongs to another. Nor did Christ ever suggest that after He left they should worship Him in the Temple.

24. In John 14:2 Christ tells of a place that would await the Apostles. He says, “In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” Note that He is not saying, His house. In 14 of the “My Father” verses, Yeshua refers to Yahweh as the Father in Heaven, precisely written, “Father which is in Heaven.” In 7 of these verses He is referring to His Father in Heaven, worded “Father in Heaven.” So Christ was standing on Earth referring to God the Father in Heaven, two different places.

25. In John 5:7 Christ says, “And the Father who sent Me, He has borne witness of Me. And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form. You have neither heard His voice at anytime, nor seen His form.” In this verse one should understand that it takes someone else to bare witness of another, and the voice and form they were hearing and seeing then, was not that of God the Father. He was not baring witness of Himself.

26. In Matthew 18:10, where Christ was warning not to offend the “little ones”....Christ indicates that their Angels constantly behold the face of Yahweh...in Heaven. Now surely, there is an understanding of the concept of omni-presence, but if you notice, Christ is not saying, they behold My face, or Our faces everywhere. Throughout the storyline of the Gospel, Christ makes it clear that He and His Father are in two different places. Christ’s overall mission on Earth is to fulfill the will of God which is Yahweh....and He makes it clear that Yahweh, His Father sent Him. Yeshua never said in the Gospels that He sent Himself or came on His own behalf, or was doing His own will, or begot Himself. Over 40 times Christ says in the Gospels that His Father sent Him. This denotes the higher authority of the Father and that His Father is another person at a different place.

In several verses Christ indicates that God the Father gives or appoints certain things to Him. To appoint or give is an indication of hierarchy, authority, and an indication of two positions, given and received. You will not find a scripture where Christ says He sent the Father somewhere, or that the Father was doing His will, or He gave authority to the Father, it is not His position to do any of that. Other examples, Christ would not say, I gave Myself, all things, nor would He say that He loved Himself.

27. In John 10:17, Christ says, “For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.” The same is true of honor or glory.


28. Honor is a heartfelt expression from one person to another. Christ does not honor Himself or love Himself. John 8:54, “If I honor myself, my honor is nothing: it is my Father that honoreth me; of whom ye say, that He is your God. All three of these expressions describe something happening from one...to... another.

29. Apostolic Perspective. There is a continual reference to Father and Son and a designation of Yahweh as God the Father in Heaven while Christ was on earth. And if you look closely the scriptures give distinctions to God as the Father and Christ as Lord in the same sentence. As in the benediction of some of books in the NT...2nd Corinthians, Ephesians, and Philippians.

30. 1st Timothy 6:13
“I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate.”

31. Matthew 5:16
Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

32. Matthew 5:48
Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

33. Matthew 6:1
Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

34. Matthew 7:11
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!

35. Matthew 7:21
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.

36. Matthew 10:32
Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.

37. Matthew 10:33
But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.

38.Matthew 12:50
For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.

39. Matthew 16:17
And Jesus said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

40. Matthew 18:10
See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven.

41. Matthew 18:14
So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

42. Matthew 18:19
Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.

42 Scriptures that show 2 Gods interacting with each other. Beyond this there are 50 My Father scriptures.
 
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Of course all things are possible with God..he sustains the universe....,Jesus was under authority of the Father, yet you seem to think he was fully God.

Sorry @Scott Downey ..I thought you were St Stephen..not sure what you believe.
I started another thread on this, you will see what scripture says is what I believe.
It is still not fully explainable or understandable, even so it is real and is true and is no lie.
 
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What do you make of this?

John 2:19 NIV
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
Jesus ‘caused himself’ to be resurrected, in the same way the woman with the flow of blood, ‘caused herself’ to be healed:

Jesus said to her, “your faith” has made you well.”

Jesus’ faith in his Father, his God, resulted in His resurrection. It was all up to Him.

Just as Paul told Timothy @ 1 Timothy 4:16….

“Pay constant attention to yourself and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

Doesn’t God ultimately save us? Yes, but it hinges on us individually.
 
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Reminded me of this one.
Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh? From where?

2 John 1:7 NIV
I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh,
have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.

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JWs say he was resurrected as a spirit, if that was the case why was his body missing from the tomb?
 

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St. SteVen said:
Jesus was referring to the temple of his physical body.
He was a temple ....he housed the Spirit....he didn’t house all of God that he is..is that what you’re saying?
That's not the point Jesus was making.
The point was that he was able to raise himself from the dead.

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Ok….

Of course it is.

John 1:18…’No one has ever seen God.’
1John 4:12…’No one has seen God at any time.
Do you think the Bible contradicts itself? Such mistranslations make it so.
That’s talking about God the Father, no one has seen him
 

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Jesus ‘caused himself’ to be resurrected, in the same way the woman with the flow of blood, ‘caused herself’ to be healed:

Jesus said to her, “your faith” has made you well.”

Jesus’ faith in his Father, his God, resulted in His resurrection. It was all up to Him.

Just as Paul told Timothy @ 1 Timothy 4:16….

“Pay constant attention to yourself and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

Doesn’t God ultimately save us? Yes, but it hinges on us individually.
I view it as He trusted His entire SELF to the FATHER, and this is a good example for us to follow too.
We should entrust ourselves to Christ and God.
John 5

Honor the Father and the Son​

16 For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, [d]and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.”

18 Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.
19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. 20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. 22 For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, 23 that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
 

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I started another thread on this, you will see what scripture says is what I believe.
It is still not fully explainable or understandable, even so it is real and is true and is no lie.
as you well know, a Born Again is in direct line with the Spirit Of God, via the Holy Spirit...I will check it out and if I am in error , the Spirit will open my eyes / ears..but as you know, everything is in Gods timing.thats if I am in error

I’m 100% open to hearing from the Holy Spirit.
 

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It's impossible for Trinitarians to deal with many of these passages without the right tools. You can learn and apply once you have them but without them its futile.

The core belief of a Trinitarian is;
The Lord God Almighty is their God.

What is a dilemma for you has no effect on them.

Glory to God,
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St. SteVen said:
Jesus was referring to the temple of his physical body.

That's not the point Jesus was making.
The point was that he was able to raise himself from the dead.

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The trinitarian argument mistakenly hinges on the word "power." The Greek word "exousia," translated as "power," is rendered as "authority" in 29 other instances (e.g., Matt. 7:29; 21:23; Luke 7:8; John 5:27). Weymouth's translation reads: "No one is taking it away from me, but I myself am laying it down... I am authorized to receive it back again." This translation aligns with Jesus' statements:

". . . The Son can do nothing of himself. . ." (John 5:19)

"I can of mine own self do nothing . . ." (John 5:30)

Jesus had the authority to take His life again because, as He said, "This commandment have I received of my Father" (vs. 18). Therefore, it is not Jesus acting independently for Himself.

Trinatarians cherry pick and force notions upon the Word which are not present.

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St. SteVen said:
John 2:19-21 NIV
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?”
21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body.
And..who gave him the power to do so?...
Please also explain what that scripture is saying, where I’ve highlighted it.
He was standing outside the Temple when he said this. Those listening thought he was referring to the Temple.

John 2:18-21 NIV
The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”
19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,
and you are going to raise it in three days?”
21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body.

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@St. SteVen @Ritajanice

Throughout the New Testament, the writers frequently mention the resurrection of Christ. However, not a single writer claims that Jesus raised Himself from the dead :dusted: . In every instance, it is God who raises Christ, not "God the Son" raising "the Son of Man." Consider the following passages:

"Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death . . ." (Acts 2:24).

"This Jesus hath God raised up . . ." (Acts 2:32).

See also Acts 3:15; 5:30; 10:39-40; and 1 Cor. 15:15.

Maybe you could ask St SteVen to provide his evidence?

F2F
 

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@Ritajanice

The trinitarian argument mistakenly hinges on the word "power." The Greek word "exousia," translated as "power," is rendered as "authority" in 29 other instances (e.g., Matt. 7:29; 21:23; Luke 7:8; John 5:27). Weymouth's translation reads: "No one is taking it away from me, but I myself am laying it down... I am authorized to receive it back again." This translation aligns with Jesus' statements:

". . . The Son can do nothing of himself. . ." (John 5:19)

"I can of mine own self do nothing . . ." (John 5:30)

Jesus had the authority to take His life again because, as He said, "This commandment have I received of my Father" (vs. 18). Therefore, it is not Jesus acting independently for Himself.

Trinatarians cherry pick and force notions upon the Word which are not present.

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Thank you Brother ,also @St. SteVen I’m going to leave you guys to it..going to take a break ..enjoy the discussion, at least it’s not getting nasty..God Bless..
 

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@St. SteVen @Ritajanice

Throughout the New Testament, the writers frequently mention the resurrection of Christ. However, not a single writer claims that Jesus raised Himself from the dead :dusted: . In every instance, it is God who raises Christ, not "God the Son" raising "the Son of Man." Consider the following passages:

"Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death . . ." (Acts 2:24).

"This Jesus hath God raised up . . ." (Acts 2:32).

See also Acts 3:15; 5:30; 10:39-40; and 1 Cor. 15:15.

Maybe you could ask St SteVen to provide his evidence?

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Jesus said he and the Father are one. So both are correct
 

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John 2:18-21 NIV
The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”
19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”
20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple,
and you are going to raise it in three days?”
21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body.

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Jesus received a commandment from His Father.

The personal pronoun "him," when referring to the death and resurrection of Christ, always refers to the body that lay in the grave. It never refers in Scripture to "God the Son," who is hypothetically said to have survived the death of the body. For example, the Acts of the Apostles records: "whom they slew and hanged on a tree: Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly." (Acts 10:39-40). The "him" that was hanged is the same "him" that was raised. This evidence directly contradicts the trinitarian view that "God the Son" continued to exist after the death of the body. Jesus clearly stated, "I am he that liveth and was dead." (Rev. 1:18). This statement was made after His resurrection.
 

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@St. SteVen @Ritajanice

Throughout the New Testament, the writers frequently mention the resurrection of Christ. However, not a single writer claims that Jesus raised Himself from the dead :dusted: . In every instance, it is God who raises Christ, not "God the Son" raising "the Son of Man." Consider the following passages:

"Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death . . ." (Acts 2:24).

"This Jesus hath God raised up . . ." (Acts 2:32).

See also Acts 3:15; 5:30; 10:39-40; and 1 Cor. 15:15.

Maybe you could ask St SteVen to provide his evidence?

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The Holy Spirit raised from from the dead.
 

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@Ritajanice

The trinitarian argument mistakenly hinges on the word "power." The Greek word "exousia," translated as "power," is rendered as "authority" in 29 other instances (e.g., Matt. 7:29; 21:23; Luke 7:8; John 5:27). Weymouth's translation reads: "No one is taking it away from me, but I myself am laying it down... I am authorized to receive it back again." This translation aligns with Jesus' statements:

". . . The Son can do nothing of himself. . ." (John 5:19)

"I can of mine own self do nothing . . ." (John 5:30)

Jesus had the authority to take His life again because, as He said, "This commandment have I received of my Father" (vs. 18). Therefore, it is not Jesus acting independently for Himself.

Trinatarians cherry pick and force notions upon the Word which are not present.

F2F
The problem with your thinking is before Jesus set aside his diety, and entered the human Body bore By Mary, He was all powerfull

He did it to express his love for his creation..
 
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