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I know you do. I think John believed what Jesus, the Messiah, the Son of God believed / believes - there is only one God, theirs.

“A person who doesn’t know history is [a person] easily misled.” - Mr. Fanning, my 9th Grade History teacher I thought then, and still think now, that he was right. Was he? Does it matter?

Did Christians invent the Trinity? The OP says no. The source of the Trinity, we were asked to believe, is Judaism, not Christianity. The Rabbis were trinitarians. The Rabbis were trinitarians? Only one trinitarian stepped forward to point out the absurdity. Why didn’t others? Does it...

The experiment was, by design, subtle. Not to repeat the experiment but to make my intentional mistranslation less subtle and more visible: “And they all said, ‘Are you the second person of the Trinity, then?’ And he said to them, ‘Yes, I am.’” (Luke 22:70, IMV - Intentionally Mistranslated...

“Does it matter?” That’s what I asked myself once I became aware that I believed things which no one living in biblical times believed. I eventually decided that it does. The Church helped me make that decision. I ask others the question now - 4 decades after asking and answering the question...

Jesus isn’t called “God the Son” in scripture. He is called the Son of God in scripture. You call him God the Son, don’t you? You speak about him in a way which scripture doesn’t. You speak about him in the way that binitarianism and trinitarianism speaks about him. When I was a trinitarian...

Is that why you missed it? Do you think that’s why other trinitarians miss it?

Also in theology.

Bourbon.

Trinitarians almost always do. The question is why do they “totally” miss it?

Why did you miss God the Son? I can tell you why I missed it when I was a trinitarian.

It is post #123.

It was a side point. Why didn’t you see the first one? (The point of my experiment is that a trinitarian wouldn’t.) You’re right. Why isn’t there a verse that says “God the Son”?

You should have objected because I intentionally mistranslated the Greek. The verse doesn’t say “God the Son”. The verse does say “I am”. In my mistranslation, I have the Jews in the Council asking a question which they didn’t ask and, even worse, Jesus saying that he is what they didn’t ask...

Son of God or God the Son. Does it matter? “A wreath strewn with sulfur was placed on his head. When the faggots were ignited, a piercing cry of horror broke from him. ‘Mercy, mercy!’ he cried. For more than half an hour the horrible agony continued, for the pyre had been made of half-green...

Agreement with some doesn’t require agreement with all.

You posted an article that discussed “readable” but “not worth reading” translations. The author of that article made a good point.

Yes to both. And in so-doing they wound up far away from where the Church began. What have the JW’s said in response?

No objections having been heard, the experiment is concluded. Survey of Bible Gateway says - “God the Son” = 0. Luke 22:70 - Bible Gateway The mystery rendering I provided was an intentional mistranslation. Trinitarian readers should have spotted it and protested loudly, but they didn’t. I...

“What is a heretic? The Greek word from which the English terms ‘heresy’ and ‘heretic’ are derived simply means an ‘act of choice’ or an ‘attachment.’ For a time, hairesis merely meant ‘party’ or ‘sect’ (from the Latin verb ‘to cut’) and did not imply any disparagement. At an early date in the...