Trinitarinians deny the big reveal of Jesus' ministry is that he is the long awaited Messiah, chosen by God to reconcile humanity to God and was never about revealing God incarnate. (Every Epistle makes clear that God, in his unitarian nature, is the Father alone, whose will is carried out by the Lord Jesus, anointed by God. Logic. Definition. Language Usage. When we say Jack and Jill went up the hill, it is not to be construed they are 1 being. The same when God, the Father, and Jesus went up the hill ...)
The amazing book of Acts establishes the highly controversial fact that a man was resurrected by God - and that eternal life is the inheritance of all who believe. No fair reading of this book could support any other conclusion. The trinitarian IDOLATRY of this man destroys the proof of Good News of our inheritance. For it is understandable that an all powerful God could appear to die and resurrect himself. (Translation below is CJB)
ACTS 1
v3 After his death he showed himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. (God is eternal and him being alive is a given).
v7 He answered, “You don’t need to know the dates or the times; the Father has kept these under his own authority. (The Father Alone is God and his authority being different from and higher than Jesus in this verse is clear.)
ACTS 4
v7 “By what power or in what name did you do this?” NOTE: The answer is NOT in the name of God and no claim of God incarnate. Logic. Definition. Language Usage. The name is not the name of God.
v10 It is in the name of the Messiah, Yeshua from Natzeret, whom you had executed on a stake as a criminal but whom God has raised from the dead, that this man stands before you perfectly healed. (God in his unitarian nature clearly acted upon the dead Messiah, in whose name the emissaries of the Anointed One do this, perform miracles).
v24 Begins a prayer to God ...
v27 your holy servant Yeshua, whom you made Messiah (Again, God acted on Jesus, the Messiah. In this verse, God, in his unitarian nature made Yeshua the Messiah. This is not how one would talk about God incarnate).
Thus the prayer to God ends with
v30 Stretch out your hand to heal and to do signs and miracles through the name of your holy servant Yeshua!” (God, in his unitarian nature, does signs and miracles in the name of his servant, Yeshua. Logic. Definition. Language Usage. God is not his own servant.)
The two Scriptures I cite for universal language both Christians and even Jehovah's Witnesses can follow and agree as Biblically consistent:
A. Baptize all nations in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
B. JOHN 10:29-30
Where Jesus declares both are true at the same time without conflict:
God the Father is Greater than all.
The Father and I are one.
So
@Wrangler Anything telling us that there is conflict between God as One and God manifesting as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is because man has not forgiven man. And we are projecting fear of our differences in how we see God manifesting in different levels to different people in different contexts.
God is still the same God.
It is because God is infinite, by the time people understand and perceive God, we break this up into different levels. So some people see God as unity and some see God in relation to man and have different names for those levels between God and man.
I even met a husband and wife, both faithful Christians, and one saw God as unity and the other as God/Jesus/Holy Spirit. We tried to explain this doesn't contradict God as one. But neither the husband or wife could see it the way the other was saying it!
It was clearly how God designed us to see things different ways. Still the one God, but in practice, the role that Jesus plays or the manifestation of the Holy Spirit are like distinct names for the one God working on different levels.
God also manifests as Love and as Wisdom.
Are these separate "gods" or just gifts from the one God?
We don't have to divide over this.
Just agree to forgive in Christ Jesus and receive God's wisdom, ways and words thar may be given in different approaches to different people. Because we each have our own unique path purpose and relationship with the One God through Christ Jesus.
None is greater than God the Father.
And the Father and Son are One.
And we are all called to Baptize All Nations in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Spirit to establish God's Truth Justice and Peace for All Humanity made One Church in Christ Jesus as the one Mediator between us and God.