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Yet you have one Seriously BIG problem...
The term Trinity is completely missing from ALL Scripture! All!!!
What is eternal life?
Joh 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Joh 17:3
Αυτη δε εστιν η αιωνιος ζωη ινα γινωσκωσιν σε τον
SAME YET IS THE eonian LIFE THAT THEY-MAY-BE-KNOWING YOU THE
μονον αληθινον θεον και ον απεστειλας ιησουν χριστον
ONLY TRUE God AND WHOM YOU-commission JESUS ANOINTED
It is and was important to Jesus that we understand and know the only true God. That is what this is all about. To seek and know the only true God, The Father! The Father tells us the only way we can know him is through his Son, Jesus!
Jesus who is our lord and King through Agency as He sits at the right Hand of the Father. Jesus is not the source of his authority... The source is the Father. Jesus is the mediator between the one God the Father and Man, there is no other.
Paul tells you this fact!
1Ti 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Gal 3:20 Now a mediator is not for one party only; whereas God is only one.
Yet you say... "However, if a person rejects the truth of the Trinity, then I would say it is soul damning because it falls into the realm of worshiping God in spirit and in truth."
Yet you fail to follow the pattern Jesus taught...
If we may let our Lord and King have the final word. Jesus plainly states, "the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be his worshipers. God is spirit; and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth" (John 4:23-24). Who does Jesus declare are the "true worshipers"? He insists, "the true worshipers shall worship the Father…" If we would be amongst the true worshipers we must be with Jesus worshiping this Father. Evidently, those like you who worship "God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, three persons in one God," Are not said by Jesus to be the true worshippers. Those who worship the Father as the "only true God" are. The worshipper of the One God, the Father, as Jesus’ own affirmation that he is the true worshipper.
You need to stop following the traditions of men... Your Pastor will not be standing next to you when you are judged by God on these matters!!!
I'm trying to help you!
Paul
I believe a person can initially be saved without knowing about the Trinity (or Jesus being God), but once that truth is revealed to them, they cannot deny it. For Jesus said, to whom much is given, much is required.
Jesus said, "if ye believe not that I am [he],
ye shall die in your sins." (John 8:24).
57 "Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Before Abraham was, I am.
59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by."
(John 8:57-59).
"And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you." (Exodus 3:14).
Jesus is the great "I AM."
The Jews went ape crazy nuts and wanted to stone Jesus when they heard Him say that He was the great "I AM" from Exodus 3.
Jesus essentially was saying that if you do not believe He is the "I am," you will die in your sins. The word "he" is not in the Greek in John 8:24.
"God is a Spirit: and they that worship him
must worship him in spirit and in truth." (John 4:24).
"And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." (Luke 4:8).
We cannot worship false gods.