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Unitarianism vs. trinitarianism. Trinitarians generally aren’t shy about acknowledging the complexity of trinitarianism. One of the common “knocks” against unitarianism is it’s simplicity. (The article in post #1 is a fine example of this.) As I thought about this I remembered my brief time...

Are you saying that God died?

I’ve listened to your teaching, considered it carefully, found it wanting, rejected it and told you why. Just listen to Jesus. His God isn’t the deity you’re enamored with and there is no God besides his God. If you don’t find that persuasive then don’t believe it.

“Jesus is God!” Jesus died. God died? No.

“The difference between the beliefs of Jesus and those of thousands of other Jews of his day amounted simply to this: he believed, also, that all these things were coming true in and through himself.” (Ibid.)

I’m speaking to someone who has a deity which isn’t the Messiah’s God. What you’re speaking out of your mouth is your teaching, not the Messiah’s.

“Jesus’ beliefs, therefore, remained those of a first-century Jew, committed to the coming kingdom of Israel’s god. He did not waver in his loyalty to Jewish doctrine. But his beliefs were those of a first-century Jew who believed that the kingdom was coming in and through his own work. His...

You dropped this on the front porch of Jewish monotheism. “Christianity Board Statement of Faith We believe that God is the Creator, Sustainer, and Ruler of the universe. We attest that God has eternally existed in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are...

Even now I say to you what I’ve already said to you. Your teaching doesn’t align with the Messiah’s Jewish monotheism and it has you following a deity which the Messiah himself doesn’t. You apparently think that’s fine and dandy. I don’t.

“[Jesus] was a first-century Jewish monotheist.” (N.T. Wright, Jesus And The Victory of God, p. 652) If you had your way @marks Jesus wouldn’t be allowed to post on this forum.

Jesus was a first-century Jewish monotheist. Trinitarian scholars know better than to deny that. You don’t know better than to deny it, at least at the present time. You don’t believe what Jesus believes because you reject Jewish monotheism.

Yes. Their unbelief had nothing to do with Jewish monotheism. He and they were Jewish monotheists. There was no dispute over who the one God is.

Those who rejected him - not all of them did - rejected the idea that he is the Messiah, not his and their belief in Jewish monotheism.

Earth ——> The habitation provided for man by God, in this age and in the age to come.

It’s so common for trinitarians to tell me that I’m going to hell because I’m a Jewish monotheist and don’t believe in “the deity of Christ”* that it barely registers anymore. My advice to you. Don’t let it upset you. Christ (himself a unitarian) is the one who will decide. * Many unitarians...

Some do but not all do.

I hope you understand that the author’s comments on - his presentation of - unitarianism is incomplete and inadequate. People are lazy. The issue I have with the article is that many non-unitarians who read it will come away thinking that it is a presentation of what unitarianism teaches...

I’ve decided on the latter. Here is a trinitarian clergyman doing what the trinitarian clergy typically doesn’t do with their audience. “God … that is, strong, Power. Here it is not the Person or the nature of this king that is depicted but only His wonderful government of the kingdom...

Have you read his statement - his commentary - on Isaiah 9:6?

There is. You can read the second version with full notes online at no cost. Here’s the link: Genesis 1 netbible.org