only God existed before the creation!
The angels were also present before the creation, but neither you nor I believe Jesus preexisted as an angel.
If all things were created by Jesus Christ then he must be God!
Some unitarians would agree with that; other unitarians wouldn’t.
I’m going to ask you to try to do something that is difficult. I don’t know if you can do it or not, but let’s try. Just for a moment, put yourself in the shoes of someone who has never read the Bible. You’re not a Roman Catholic; you’re an illiterate nomad, roaming somewhere in a desert.
One day, you meet a man crossing the desert and strike up a pleasant conversation with him. The man wants to tell you something, and this is what he says:
“I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth;
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son Our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. …”
You, the illiterate nomad, interrupt the man - who is reciting the Apostles’ Creed to you - and tell him that you have questions about what he is saying that just can’t wait. The man replies he has more to say to you - he wants to finish reciting the Creed to you - but you insist that your question at this point is urgent, and the man, seeing the excitement in your face and hearing the urgency in your voice, consents to your request.
You tell the man that you have questions about this Jesus Christ, but before you ask about him you first want to ask about “the Creator of Heaven and earth”.
Who, precisely, are you, the illiterate nomad (just for a moment, if possible) asking the Creed-reciting man about?
the divinity of Christ and the holy trinity are Christian faith and doctrine reveled by Christ to reject them is to reject Christ his holy church, and salvation
Trinitarianism in a nutshell.
But Christ isn’t a trinitarian; he is a Jew who himself has a God; his God is “the Creator of Heaven and earth”.
Jesus and the earliest Christians are Jews; unitarians, not trinitarians.
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