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You are obtuse, blocking even the on ramp to consider evidence. Worse, you did not answer the question of your rejection criteria. What evidence will you accept for God's existence? As @atpollard pointed out, it is the same with gravity. Yet, you aren't denying gravity, are you? No sir...

Agreed. They don't match in today's uber literal, unsophisticated copy and paste world view. In the NRSV Cultural Bible it explains that ancient audiences preferred variations of a common reference to break from monotony. Yet, they were sophisticated enough to know the reference matched. Today...

Sadly, the thesis of your OP is not well constructed. I suspect the lack of clarity is deliberate to help blur the false conclusion you are striving to reach and support. Interestingly, from today's devotional reading @ 1 Thes 5:21, we find the God given command, Test everything. Read The Rise...

I believe God is more liable to forgive us for erring on the side of grace.

Our lord. Matthew 25:35-45

A DJ of a local Christian station is fond of saying something similar. "The world is full of nice people. If you cannot find one, be one." It does not cost us to extend grace. Yet, we humans seem to share it most reluctantly - when it is needed most. :sleepy:

Perhaps I worded the point in a clumsy way. There is only one Gospel. And that is the Good News of Jesus Christ. (The good news is that he paved the way for our reconciliation with YHWH for our sins. There is nothing more important than this). There are saints to have written testimonies of...

Maybe I misunderstood your point but here seems to be a number of fatal flaws in your attempt to rebuke @tigger 2's analysis fitting into 2 categories. Discerning different points made in different parts of Scripture. Recognizing REAL-lowercase gods in Scripture. How do you explain the idea...

My thoughts exactly. The question of this thread could be expanded to the whole NT and indeed, the whole Bible; why were the books selected and why put in the non-chronological order that they are in? I believe it would've been fascinating to hear the arguments. Although I have not read the...

False Alternative. That Jesus confessed to be exiting before Abraham in no way implies he is necessarily the Creator, his Father.

That’s funny. Why is it not Jesus but Yeshua?

Don’t you think that ambiguous verses should be subordinated to explicit verses? For instance, a verse that could imply Jesus is God has to be subordinated to an explicit verse that says God is not a man. Hosea 11:9.

I read the whole thing. Well researched, leaving the idea of the trinity in complete shreds.

Not at all. You fail again to grasp agency. There is one God, who has a Spirit. This spirit was given to Jesus at his baptism for one reason; Jesus is not God. Through Jesus, we are gifted God’s spirit. God has chosen to reconcile us to him through his agent, through his servant Jesus. Having...

No, not literally. The logos of theos is not theos. Being of God, it is divine but not a deity. The word was God is a figurative expression. The word was a god, with divine authority is literally correct. This refrain will help you keep this straight. Words are WHAT’s not WHO’s.

Nope. There is no God the Holy Spirit verse. Rom 8:9-11 is talking about an attribute of God, his spirit, not a different person.

Not in the Bible one time. In the Bible 37 times is that he is the Son of God. Matthew 15:6 So, for the sake of your tradition, you nullify the word[a] of God.

I trust Jesus to keep me saved. It’s my ego I don’t trust, to disregard the MANY verses about salt being thrown out that lost it’s flavor, branches that don’t produce fruit thrown in the fire and Jesus saying he does not even know those who performed miracles in his name. I haven’t read a...

It goes to show how LANGUAGE USAGE is constantly at odds with your dogma.

The investment Christology has in their idol, cannot allow them to recognize a single argument is weak or their whole house of cards may fall. This is why I started a thread on REAL-lowercase gods in Scripture. Words are WHAT’s not WHO’s. But the Scriptural evidence for their man-is-god idol...