Well, if 'knowing God' in its most basic understanding means, to start, WHO HE IS, then read the scriptures I gave you with care.
John 17:3 - "Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." - NIV.
It is eternal life to know as much as we can (from scripture, not man's councils) about God and about Jesus. If I worship God as two (or three persons) and he is truly one, the Father, then I truly don't know God in the most basic sense and I don't know Jesus either. What might I lose for not studying the word of God carefully enough for this basic truth?
1 Thess. 1:8, 9 "He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
9 Such people will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction by being separated from the Lord’s presence and from his glorious power." - NIV.
Good thoughts tigger...you are opening many doors for the inquiring mind to walk through.
The Christian believer reads of a God Who is a personal being Who exists as a single divine Person (Yahweh; the Father). This attribute is arguably the most important of all, since it has a direct bearing upon this debate (Who is God). The identity of God is explicitly defined in Scripture on many occasions, and the unitary nature of His personhood is repeatedly emphasised.
For example:
Deuteronomy 6:4, “Listen, Israel: The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!”
Deuteronomy 32:6, “Is this how you repay the LORD, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your creator? He has made you and established you.”
Psalm 89:26, “He will call out to me, ‘You are my father, my God, and the protector who delivers me’”
Isaiah 63:16, “For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not recognize us. You, LORD, are our father; you have been called our protector from ancient times.”
John 4:21, 23, “Jesus said to her, ‘Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem… But a time is coming – and now is here – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers’”
John 17:3, “Now this is eternal life – that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent”
1 Corinthians 8:6, “Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we live”
Galatians 1:1, “From Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead)”
Some of these verses present unique challenges for Trinitarian theology, since they demonstrate an unequivocal distinction between Father and Son as two separate persons who exist as individual beings. As the debate progresses we will see that Trinitarians will find it necessary to construct an
increasingly complex system of “solutions” and “work‐arounds” by which they attempt to “explain away” the many Bible passages (such as John 17:3) which contain this strictly Unitarian language.
By contrast, Biblical Unitarians can take all of these verses at face value without resorting to lengthy “explanations” of statements which do not require any explanation at all.
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