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The Lutheran worships the Trinity. My God isn’t the Trinity. (The Trinity used to be my God. I have turned away from, have rejected, the God of the Lutheran.) The Lutheran will, generally speaking, when pressed, acknowledge that I worship the God of Jesus. One of us is right. This brings...

I consider prayer to be a form of worship. Do you? If Jesus prayed your daily standard prayer he would be thanking his God for creating him. Lutherans, of course, don’t believe that Jesus was created; for God - who has always existed - didn’t create himself, nor was there anyone to create him...

Thank you. The origin of Jesus isn’t a mystery in the Bible. (Lutherans, though, would say that he has no origin. In other words, the Lutheran would say that my question is based on a false premise.)

Witness is powerful. Yahweh isn’t a praying God. Neither is Allah. Similarity. Like you and I, Jesus is a praying man. The New Testament doesn’t preserve a record of all of his prayers but it does preserve some of them. They serve as a witness, just as yours and mine do. The prayer you offer...

I know how the Lutheran would answer this question @Pancho Frijoles but I’d like to learn how a Baha’i would answer it: What is the origin of Jesus?

To beget is to father and to father is to bring a person into existence. The Lutherans have no difficulty understanding that I don’t worship their God. I’m in full agreement with them that I don’t. A long time ago now a Lutheran told me how fortunate I was to live in the 20th century rather...

“1. The one God. (a) theos is the most frequent designation of God in the NT. Belief in the one, only and unique God (Matt. 23:9, Rom. 3:30; 1 Cor. 8:4,6; Gal. 3:20; 1 Tim. 2:5; Jas. 2:19) is an established part of the Christian tradition. Jesus himself made the fundamental confession of Jud...

There is only one true God -> the Messiah’s God. Everything else is idols.

No. The God and Father of Jesus of Nazareth, as Jesus himself and the Apostles say. Yes, the God of the Baptists or Lutherans is different from my God. Are you telling me that there are some Muslims who believe that Allah beget a son and then crushed him?

On the contrary. I would have an easy time refuting the atheist. Persuading the atheist would be hard. I’m not persuaded that Allah (who begets no son and has no son) is Jesus’ Father, Yahweh. Jesus was begotten by Yahweh and conceived by Mary. Even if they should fail to convince the...