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Short answer. Yes. Long answer. Is one God in one million persons an impossibility? I ask because of an experience I had on an Internet forum with a trinitarian who said that it is possible, since “all things are possible with God”. His position is that we know of three for certain, but there...

Have you ever noticed my avatar? Do you know the story behind it? The man in the water is a trinitarian.* The man reaching out to rescue him is Dirk Willems, an Anabaptist. Willems’ story is told in Martyr’s Mirror or The Bloody Theater. I’m linking the entry in Wikipedia that summarizes it...

I’m thinking as I eat lunch this afternoon about the Trinity you presented to me; the Trinity as you believe the Trinity to be. What do I see? The Trinity is 1 self and 3 selfs, two YHWH’s, and the Holy Ghost. Have other trinitarians ever stated objections to your understanding of the Trinity?

So too did his God. That’s one of the reasons. Functional equality with God places him in a position of authority.

That sounds like splitting hairs to me, but maybe it isn’t. I’m a follower of the Messiah. I’m a disciple of Rabbi Jesus. I have faith in him and my faith is his faith.

I speak of you as Christians, not as pagans who are pantheists. I address that in post #114. I wanted to keep it separate from my comment about how I speak of you so that neither would be lost; one overshadowed by the other.

I wanted to come back to this and give you something which I think you’ll find helpful. It doesn’t make much of an impression on Protestants but it should on Catholics. “...it’s own conception of the Trinity was looked upon by the Fathers themselves as a combination of Jewish monotheism and...

Come on now. You know what I believe and teach. You’ve probably heard trinitarians say that I have no love of the truth and that what I teach and believe is a lie. You also know that I’m an ex-trinitarian. I once believed in and taught others the doctrine of the Trinity. (I still teach people...

Jewish monotheism - one God. Trinitarian monotheism - one God. Identical, up to this point. More than one God - polytheism. Jewish monotheism avoids polytheism. Trinitarian monotheism avoids polytheism. Identical, up to this point. Now comes the divergence. There is a difference between...

Personal, but not a third person. The operational presence and power of the one God. The Father’s Spirit, extended through the resurrected Messiah to believers. I see a very close connection in scripture between “spirit” and “mind”. For example, Jesus said his words are spirit. We’re...

“(2) ‘Paul calls Jesus kyrios, but he seems to have marked reservations about actually calling Jesus ‘God’ (Rom. 9.5 is the only real candidate within the main Pauline corpus, and even there the text is unclear). Similarly he refrains from praying to Jesus. More typical of his attitude is that...

“The Lord says to my lord: ’Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool.’ … the double use of kyrios. The one is clearly Yahweh, but who is the other? Clearly not Yahweh, but an exalted being whom the psalmist calls kyrios.” (James D.G. Dunn, Unity and Diversity in the New...

Surely Jesus isn’t talking about immortal worms and never ending fire. What do you think the phrases “their worm dieth not” and “the fire is not quenched” mean?

A Hebrew - English translation of Psalm 110 from a Jewish source in Israel. If you won’t be persuaded by trinitarian scholars @heartwashed then I hold out little to no hope or expectation that you’ll be persuaded by observant Jewish scholars who do not believe Jesus is the Messiah. I’m providing...

Trinitarian scholars who argue in favor and in defense of the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of the deity of Christ are strictly non-trinitarian? I’m not convinced.

No.

That’s right. The subject isn’t YHWH. YHWH speaks to the subject, an unidentified man. It’s only in the NT that we find out that it’s referring, ultimately, to the Messiah. As trinitarian commentaries point out, in it’s historical context, it could be applied to any of the royals. The NT...

The trinitarian commentary in the NET is instructive. “Here is the LORD’s proclamation to my lord: …” (Psalm 110:1, NET) Notice that the trinitarian translators correctly rendered the Hebrew word adoni (lower case “l”). The commentary, explaining why the translator’s rendered the Hebrew word...

Adon, the root word, can be translated as either “Lord” or “lord”. It’s not translated “lord” when the subject is YHWH. (See the 195 occurrences.) The vowelled Hebrew, the Masoretic Text, is as clear as clear can be. So why do some translations, like NASB, get it wrong in only that 1 occurrence...

I was thinking about the letter I wrote to the publisher of NASB. I still have it in my files somewhere. If what I sent them was incorrect then there would be no reason for them to respond in writing, as they did, acknowledging the mistake in their translation and committing to correcting it in...