Nowhere in the Bible does it say that believing in the Trinity is essential for salvation.
The doctrine of the Deity of Christ, on the other hand, is identified as an essential in scripture.
As you study further, you find that there is distinction between the Persons of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and that they are indeed ONE: the same Spirit, the same Lord, and the same God.
1 John 5:7 is a primary verse on this; but of course the devil fights against it in his own way.
Has anyone ever heard of revisionist history?
JBF: you are just juggling words here, admit it you are a Trinitarian or some variant of it. ONe part of Trinity doctrine simply says that Jesus = God = source of divinity = means nonsense to scripture. YHWH or God Almighty is the source of all divinity and deity. Yes, Jesus is immortal today, although this does not make him God the Divine one. You were taught this misguided doctrine from youth I suspect.
I noted something you posted a little earlier. #527..you infer that it's ok to replace YHWH for Lord Jesus, without thought to its origin or original translation.
So you can then replace the word YHWH and Lord, for God Almighty or the Lord our God, into Jesus our Lord and our God, in thousands of places in scripture? How interesting
I’ve never seen or read a Bible like that one. What is its name? Oh, I see, how silly of me, we are meant to just understand that whenever the word YHWH or Lord is used we are to mentally change it to automatically to Jesus.
So, you read Mar 12:29 as,
(Mar 12:29) Jesus answered: The first is, Hear, O Israel, the Lord
(Jesus) our God, the Lord
(Jesus) is one.
So, you read Mar 12:30 as,
(Mar 12:30) And you shall love the
(Jesus) Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
I wonder what YHWH would say?
You are forgetting that when Jesus is called Lord, whether translated correctly or in err, it always has a restrictive and specific meaning. It never means God Almighty. It means that he is our Master, exalted one, Supreme ruler and king over our lives. He paid for us with his blood. Jesus is still a servant to his Father as we are today. So who is the deity again?
You evidently do not read scripture for true meaning and why Jesus is truly your savior and YHWH is his Father and ours.
Is your faith and doctrines you preach a new or neo-Trinitarian view? I’m really serious on this point. I would say that 20-30 years ago your open eagerness and wholesale substitution of Jesus as the son of God for God Almighty would be extraordinary and incredible thinking; even as a 3 person as one God pagan modelist.
I wonder what the next new Trinitarian doctrine or its variants will be embraced in another 20 years? Of course, completely retranslating the Bible where YHWH is entirely erased, and Jesus or Lord is substituted directly into scripture. Yes, I might jest although it may well happen in the future.
There is very sacred reason why YHWH is ultimately the special name over ALL other names, the unspoken title of the creator and our God, our Lord and source of all Deity. Jesus our Lord and Saviour would agree with me totally as YHWH is his Father as well.
As a believer, we all serve YHWH, PERIOD!!
Bless you,
APAK