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The written word of God is the scriptures - the Old Testament and the New Testament.

No. I’m saying our Christian Bible is the scriptures.

The Bible writers refer to the Bible as the scriptures. The Word of God is a technical term referring either to the Lord Jesus Christ (a title) or the communication of the one God.

I’ll leave it to the JWs (and others) to respond to that, just as I said concerning your comment about the Watchtower Society. My interest, fading now, is in your perspective on “our Christian Bible”.

No. You must have misread my post. I don’t leave it to the JWs to tell me the truth. I’m a Christian. My question to you concerned “our Christian Bible”.

No. * Depending on who you ask, I’m the Devil incarnate. *

Please pardon the interruption. I’ll leave it to the JWs (and others) to comment on your characterization of the Watchtower Society. What captured my attention was your comment concerning “our Christian Bible”. What exactly is our Christian Bible? My paternal grandfather was a deacon in the...

Winner winner chicken dinner - when something is both true and laughter provoking. Have you given much thought to Jesus’ use of humor?

We have Church councils to thank for the creeds of trinitarianism - and other things, some of which are more pertinent to some than to others.

Daily. Various and sundry. (NASB is my workhorse; for casual reading I like NABRE - a Roman Catholic translation. All.) English, Greek, Hebrew. (Though I claim fluency in none of the biblical languages and - with my Appalachian education - sometimes self-deprecatingly, English.) And yourself?

Cool, but what will it do to those who firmly believe that December 25 (of whatever the year was) is his birthday? Christmas - the celebration of the Incarnation of the Second Person of the blessed and most Holy Trinity. (Paraphrasing a Catholic cleric who is related to my wife.)

“In Christianity Jesus is not a human person.” Trinitarianism certainly agrees with that sentiment, but does Joe Average Trinitarian? Most commonly - and by a wide margin in my experience and in the experience of trinitarian scholars and clergy I’ve spoken with - the answer is no. JAT is...

Your answer is superior to mine.

The creed of Judaism (Deuteronomy 6:4), unlike the creeds of trinitarianism, is scripture. Scot McKnight (a trinitarian author) refers to it as “The Jesus Creed”. Other than that, I’m in agreement with your statement.

What about pride?

I recite the Shema more frequently than that. An example, which you might find amusing. I had to have an old dental filling replaced recently. While the dentist was doing his thing, I was doing mine - reciting the Shema silently. The dentist wasn’t aware of what I was doing. Whenever I attend...

I don’t think of you as a prick. Yahweh is echad, not yachid. Any standard Hebrew Lexicon can be consulted to verify.

You may or may not have heard me say that, among other things, I’m a retired Christian minister. I’ve never met a Christian minister who doesn’t read the New Testament. Have you? In the plainest way possible to answer your question: Yes. I read the New Testament. Would you like to know with...

Occasionally I don’t understand you but on the whole I think I do. That’s incorrect. I don’t believe Messiah is a created angel. I believe the Messiah is a created human being, a human person. When I’m probed there is found to be error from the trinitarian perspective, the binitarian...

The Messiah is a created being and my savior. That you’re unable to comprehend how that is possible doesn’t change the reality. P.S. Do you think it’s possible for someone to be a Christian and not believe in the Trinity?