It could be an indication of the Trinity because Jesus said no one has seen God, referring to the Father.
Yes, and Jesus, testing a young man, asked him, "why do you call me good?" The cults love that passage and claim that Jesus was denying His divinity rather than seeking an acknowledgement of His person, as He did with His disciples when He asked them, "who do you say I am?"
He knew the rock upon which he would build His church, the good confession, before He posed that question to His disciples, but He couldn't announce it beforehand. He wasn't supposed to give testimony of Himself in order to satisfy the law. Somehow the scholars among the cultists seem to miss the entire point of the requirements of testimony, that by two or three witnesses all matters of the law are established.
I like this passage and can't imagine how the cults twist it to make Christ less than what He is.
"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant,
and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to
the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and
that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ
is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:5-11
This passage actually says that before Jesus was born, He was already in the form of God. How could the preincarnate Christ be found in the form of God without being God.
Then there's the issue of God's name. God is self existent and eternal. God the Father wasn't created, He wasn't born, He had no parent to name Him and is named according to what He chooses to call Himself. Even so, He's given Jesus Christ the name above all (not some) names. If God will not give His glory to another, yet glorified our Lord, how could Jesus be anything other than God in flesh?
The gift of the Holy Spirit and scripture is a sound mind, and in spiritual maturity, the mind of Christ. But what does this imply about the minds of those devoid of His Spirit?
You want to avoid going about telling the unregenerate that they're insane, but that's what scripture implies (and the bizarre reasoning process suggests.)
The cults take what is plainly written and seek for a way to make it mean something else as though God was the deceiver trying to turn us into false witnesses. That should tell anyone that their lord is Satan and not God, and that they dwell in darkness, blind to truth. How does anyone attribute evil and deception to our God and call themselves Christians? The Angels were instructed not to uproot the tares, but we weren't.
