Ronald Nolette
Well-Known Member
I do disagree with you final sentence as it certainly is not clear to me. I have been reading my three Bibles [English, German & Spanish] daily along with talking to God for many years. Yes, God has shown me many new things during this time, but not much on this subject.
I rarely get into in depth discussions about the nature of God [Godhead?] any more as it is very often not edifying. I have done it many times in the past on this forum and other forums for 20 some years to no avail. I have heard all of the arguments that people provide to this side or for that side many times before. I have read all of those verses and others many times before. I have talked to God about it. Only God gives the increase, You believe in a Trinity, but I do not. If we are sincere and God wants us to change, He will change us.
"O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Jerem 10:23
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." Matt 5:6
"Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase" I Cor 3:5-7
Well we must be willing to be changed when facts are presented if God is to change us!
You are free to reject the Trinity- that is your privilege! But then you hold the Holy Spirit is not God and Jesus is not God. So what are they?
YOu must also accept along with the Watchtower and the adherents of ancient Origen and Arius that jesus was simply a created being.
I suspect you are more interested in this than you declare! If you have been doing this for 20 years, either you are a true unitarian and are seeking to convert trinitarians, or you have a deep urging to continue down the path.
Trinity is a made up word yes. It was used to distinguish from Satan's old counterfeit of the pagan triads of gods But it does describe what is written in Scripture as to who God is!
The Father is god, The Son is God and the Spirit is God! It is not tri-modalism but a tri-unity! They all share equal divinity though they do not share equal position in the God head.