you would know that jesus was declared God in the book of acts
I’ve demonstrated REPEATEDLY how Acts logically states Jesus is not God. You have not quoted one verse supporting your claim.
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you would know that jesus was declared God in the book of acts
2. As for 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
There are other situations that can reflect a similar relationship:
1 Judicial system + 1 Legislative system + 1 Executive branch = 1 Federal Government
I will share some Parables and explanations with you, and you can tell me if that approach makes more sense than anything to do with the Trinity teachings or calling Jesus God.
There are other approaches that might make sense to more people who don't see God that way.
You definitely have a certain audience to address ... that you don't relate to. That will only cause frustration and doesn't help anyone.
Dear @WranglerYou have repeatedly reached for an arbitrary division of 3 to support you doctrine that is not in Scripture. And it is so easy to refute.
The federation, the Federal government was formed by 13 States.
Having the Spirit of God in us, are we too not divine, which is why we are called children of God?
Jesus is not divine but, like us, has divinity within him.
Reiterating the assertion does not make it so. Jesus is no kind of God. Being the Son, means one is not the Father.
The Father alone is God alone.
‘For us, there is one God, the Father’
1 Corinthians 8:6
I’ve demonstrated REPEATEDLY how Acts logically states Jesus is not God. You have not quoted one verse supporting your claim.
Sorry we do not have divinity within us- We have God living within us. We are but a temple for Him.
Jesus is called God in the bible- You should as well.
You only say that because you are ignorant of how Jews used wordsa and the significance of the terms used in the culture of the day!
Dear @WranglerAgain, the EXACT OPPOSITE is the case. Trinitarians impose their 4th century doctrine onto unitarian text. A way to know you are wrong is that Jews are monotheist and reject the trinity to this day.
I wonder if Wrangler is a JW, I’m not saying he is but he sounds a lot like one.I pity you, you reinterpret Scriptures to promote a lie that has ensnared you.
BV: you've read his posts and replied to him and you suggest he might be a JW. Short-sighted of you.I wonder if Wrangler is a JW, I’m not saying he is but he sounds a lot like one.
In John 20:28, after Jesus revealed himself to Thomas, Thomas said to Jesus, “My Lord and my God”. Jesus would have rebuked Thomas if he wasn’t indeed Almighty God. Just my thoughts on this issue. Blessings.
He did not insist on Jehovah or preach that God or Lord is a title.I wonder if Wrangler is a JW, I’m not saying he is but he sounds a lot like one.
In John 20:28, after Jesus revealed himself to Thomas, Thomas said to Jesus, “My Lord and my God”. Jesus would have rebuked Thomas if he wasn’t indeed Almighty God. Just my thoughts on this issue. Blessings.
So Thomas was correct when he called Jesus God, right?BV: you've read his posts and replied to him and you suggest he might be a JW. Short-sighted of you.
And Jesus would have rebuked Thomas for calling his Master, and God, the Father Almighty? LOL
Yahshua knew that Thomas finally realized and believed after his inspection, what was first said before his crucifixion that Yahshua would be raised from the dead by his Father, the one true God. Why would Yahshua rebuke Thomas for that? He welcomed it with joy. Thomas believed!
No, @Wrangler is a true Christian Monotheist Biblical Unitarian, a rare breed these days, although a common breed before 400 AD. Then pagans and worldly politics and power crept in and persecuted and scattered the Christians of the same cloth as the original disciples.
These spiritual forgers invented a counterfeit religion with their idolization of their golden cow as a non-descrip-Triune god a few centuries later.
I guess you are one, as Ron and others are also, all worshipping the same god forged by the minds and hands of godless men.
APAK
What is their “golden cow”, at least in your opinion?BV: you've read his posts and replied to him and you suggest he might be a JW. Short-sighted of you.
And Jesus would have rebuked Thomas for calling his Master, and God, the Father Almighty? LOL
Yahshua knew that Thomas finally realized and believed after his inspection, what was first said before his crucifixion that Yahshua would be raised from the dead by his Father, the one true God. Why would Yahshua rebuke Thomas for that? He welcomed it with joy. Thomas believed!
No, @Wrangler is a true Christian Monotheist Biblical Unitarian, a rare breed these days, although a common breed before 400 AD. Then pagans and worldly politics and power crept in and persecuted and scattered the Christians of the same cloth as the original disciples.
These spiritual forgers invented a counterfeit religion with their idolization of their golden cow as a non-descrip-Triune god a few centuries later.
I guess you are one, as Ron and others are also, all worshipping the same god forged by the minds and hands of godless men.
APAK
I'll tell you what BV, see if can be the first to respond to the OP. What is your take on Acts 1:3, 7 and Acts 4: 7, 10, 24, 27 and 30? Can you demonstrate your knowledge of this scripture even as a summary of short statements?What is their “golden cow”, at least in your opinion?
The main differences you pointed out:
* you do not use the term God to mean infinite or eternal but you see God as finite
* you do not see Jesus as closer to the level of God, but see Jesus closer to the level of man (where we can all embrace/follow the spirit of God as Jesus did)
* you reject and do not see "Trinity" teachings as another way of explaining God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit
Not sure how you are parsing God with divinity in us.
Jesus is not called God in the Bible because he is not his Father. Said differently, the Bible says through the Serpent that man can be like God in eating the forbidden fruit. Calling the fruit the pathway to divinity does not make it so.
Again, the EXACT OPPOSITE is the case. Trinitarians impose their 4th century doctrine onto unitarian text. A way to know you are wrong is that Jews are monotheist and reject the trinity to this day.