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how can a man be the life?
God is life
Then you are saying Jesus is not a man?
And what exactly do you mean by, "the life"
In the great sh'mah, echad has a broader meaning than the number 1 but also means unity as in there is unity between us or disunity.
So the pharisees, scribes, and priests wanted to kill Jesus for using a common identifier?
Pure trinitarian projection. The Sh'ma, the most important commandment says He, the LORD, alone is the true God (VOICE translation uses Eternal). This destroys trinitarian hopes and dreams of a trident idol, a man-is-god thesis and even 'the 3rd person.'
I do appreciate your appeal to being deeper and more transcendent in ignoring the plain words to reach for the 'broader meaning' even though it is not in the Sh'ma.
Moses: 4 Listen, Israel! The Eternal is our True God—He alone.
Deuteronomy 6:4
Well, Mark 14:61-62 indicates the "I am" Jesus is referring to is being the Messiah, not God incarnate. This admission is what got him killed, not esoterically claiming to be God incarnate.
The Big Reveal of Jesus' ministry is that he was the Messiah, not God incarnate. (I don't know or care how the jealous Pharisees, scribes, and priests felt or wanted to do based on how they felt. It is a distraction from the fact of who Jesus is, God's Anointed, not God incarnate).
I think you want to be confused between who is anointed with who does the anointing, who is acted upon and who does the acting.
High Priest: Are You God’s Anointed, the Liberating King, the Son of the Blessed One?
Jesus: I am.
Mark 14:61-62 (VOICE)
Yes and He also said, "Before Abraham was, I Am"
I Am is the name of the self existant and eternal God.
-monotheism
One God yes
The Father is God
The Son is God
The HS is God
But there are not three Gods but one God
now answer my questions
Trouble with math. Also, don't grasp single pronouns do not refer to 3. Also, Scripture says God is only the Father - over and over again.
What questions do you have that are related to the Book of Acts undermining trinitarianism?
answer post 190 please
Damn it! I wrote a reply to post 190 then lost it as I was logged out! I'll get to it later tonight. Sorry TF.
Trinitarinians deny the big reveal of Jesus' ministry is that he is the long awaited Messiah, chosen by God to reconcile humanity to God and was never about revealing God incarnate. (Every Epistle makes clear that God, in his unitarian nature, is the Father alone, whose will is carried out by the Lord Jesus, anointed by God. Logic. Definition. Language Usage. When we say Jack and Jill went up the hill, it is not to be construed they are 1 being. The same when God, the Father, and Jesus went up the hill ...)
The amazing book of Acts establishes the highly controversial fact that a man was resurrected by God - and that eternal life is the inheritance of all who believe. No fair reading of this book could support any other conclusion. The trinitarian IDOLATRY of this man destroys the proof of Good News of our inheritance. For it is understandable that an all powerful God could appear to die and resurrect himself. (Translation below is CJB)
ACTS 1
v3 After his death he showed himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. (God is eternal and him being alive is a given).
v7 He answered, “You don’t need to know the dates or the times; the Father has kept these under his own authority. (The Father Alone is God and his authority being different from and higher than Jesus in this verse is clear.)
ACTS 4
v7 “By what power or in what name did you do this?” NOTE: The answer is NOT in the name of God and no claim of God incarnate. Logic. Definition. Language Usage. The name is not the name of God.
v10 It is in the name of the Messiah, Yeshua from Natzeret, whom you had executed on a stake as a criminal but whom God has raised from the dead, that this man stands before you perfectly healed. (God in his unitarian nature clearly acted upon the dead Messiah, in whose name the emissaries of the Anointed One do this, perform miracles).
v24 Begins a prayer to God ...
v27 your holy servant Yeshua, whom you made Messiah (Again, God acted on Jesus, the Messiah. In this verse, God, in his unitarian nature made Yeshua the Messiah. This is not how one would talk about God incarnate).
Thus the prayer to God ends with
v30 Stretch out your hand to heal and to do signs and miracles through the name of your holy servant Yeshua!” (God, in his unitarian nature, does signs and miracles in the name of his servant, Yeshua. Logic. Definition. Language Usage. God is not his own servant.)
No, it doesn't.Pure trinitarian projection. The Sh'ma, the most important commandment says He, the LORD, alone is the true God (VOICE translation uses Eternal). This destroys trinitarian hopes and dreams of a trident idol, a man-is-god thesis and even 'the 3rd person.'
I do appreciate your appeal to being deeper and more transcendent in ignoring the plain words to reach for the 'broader meaning' even though it is not in the Sh'ma.
Moses: 4 Listen, Israel! The Eternal is our True God—He alone.
Deuteronomy 6:4
Ok fine, you believe what you want to believe. Pretty sure that you'll get to ask the Lord about these things shortly.Well, Mark 14:61-62 indicates the "I am" Jesus is referring to is being the Messiah, not God incarnate. This admission is what got him killed, not esoterically claiming to be God incarnate.
The Big Reveal of Jesus' ministry is that he was the Messiah, not God incarnate. (I don't know or care how the jealous Pharisees, scribes, and priests felt or wanted to do based on how they felt. It is a distraction from the fact of who Jesus is, God's Anointed, not God incarnate).
I think you want to be confused between who is anointed with who does the anointing, who is acted upon and who does the acting.
High Priest: Are You God’s Anointed, the Liberating King, the Son of the Blessed One?
Jesus: I am.
Mark 14:61-62 (VOICE)
These guys don't care what the word says if it disagrees with their preconceptions, but I could never believe anyone who holds to doctrines that diminish Christ or the Holy Spirit, and that don't baptize in the name of all 3.you're leaving out:
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
which are undisputed facts.
there is God, (Father) God's Presence (Holy Spirit) and His Word (Son) which is spoken in His Presence, hence the Word of God who is a Spirit that goes out and returns to God fulfilled. note that Jesus went out from the Father and returned to the Father fulfilled according to the satisfaction of the Father.
all Three are One as in One is not without the others, but, they are God to anything not God.
if you don't get that, consider the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob renamed Israel, read.
if you don't get that see the first three verses of the whole collection of books in the bible and there is God, God's Spirit and then He speaks and it is fulfilled.
one's presence is distinct from one's self, and one's word is distinct from one's self and are that person to anyone not that person.
One can't be fully two different things. One can be fully one or the other, not both.Fully God
Fully man
Only the God-man can born of the ever Virgin mother
Jn 1:16
Jn 10:10
Grace in the new covenant
New creation
Jn 20:21-23 ref gen 2:7