That does not in any way suggest that Jesus was therefore the incarnation of God literally.
325 AD / 325 AD / 325 AD / 325 AD. Four Hail Marys and no ice-cream after supper for me.The council of Nicaea is in 325 AD you Christ-hating pagan.
I read your post. Love the personal touches you added.I know you would prefer I lie to you but sometimes the truth hurts
If Jesus is not God then our sins are not paid for
no
Genisis1
1 In the beginning Elohim created the heaven and the earth.
26 And Elohim said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Isaiah 48
12 Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, My called; I am He; I am the first, I also am the last.
13 My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens. I called; they stood up together.
14 Let all of you gather and hear; who among them has declared these things? The LORD has loved him; He will do His pleasure on Babylon, and His arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
15 I, I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I brought him and he makes his way succeed.
16 Come near to me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning. From its being, I was there; and now the Lord Jehovah, and His Spirit, has sent me.
Jesus never said "I am God" so people like you could deny Jesus as God and go to hell
God is spirit
John 4:24 God is a spirit, and they who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.
no
always has been three persons one God
no
shocked
Of course I'm a sinner. What a really stupid thing to say. I will pay for all my transgressions just like you.I doubt the self-righteous, Christ-hating heretic, @blueboy, would even admit the truth that he is a sinner with sins to be paid for.
I will pay for all my transgressions
Of course I'm a sinner.
What a really stupid thing to say.
You go first.Whom will you pay for all your transgressions?
How do you imagine you will do so?
When do you imagine you will be done paying for all your transgressions?
And, if you imagine you can pay for all your transgressions, then why have you not yet paid for all your transgressions?
You go first.
The first shall be lastYou go first.
You never make any attempt to give us the scripture for your false beliefs.It is not God’s form, but His metaphysical nature and spiritual attributes that He bestowed upon Jesus.
You are a liar. Paul declared the deity of Christ throughout his epistles.It was clear to Paul that Jesus was not God, but created in the image or likeness of God.
Wrong.The Trinity is a human construct that is illogical when applied in a literal sense.
Jesus never said "I am God" so people like you could deny Jesus as God and go to hell. The love of Christ sure does shine through here.
Accept what I believe or be damned.
The concept of the Trinity, (Jesus accepted as God) evolved over time
and became a canon of belief receiving imperial sanction at Nicaea in 325 C.E.
It does not appear in the Bible as a teaching.
Despite the approval of the emperor this did nothing but identify the three elements of Christian faith.
The actual connection, interaction between God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit remain beyond human understanding,
but we do know that the Creator of the universe and all life is transcendent and not dependant upon anything,
nor composed of parts,
nor can the majesty of god
be trivialised by imagining that said God entered its
own Creation
in a human form
to be murdered.
Luke 23:33-35: 33 And when they had come to the place called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left. 34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” And they divided His garments and cast lots. 35 And the people stood looking on. But even the rulers with them sneered, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ, the chosen of God.” |
John 15:12-14: 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. |
Romans 5:7-9: 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. |
The great Christian theologian and thinker Thomas Aquinas concluded that both reason and faith must be requirements in theology; and he said, in his landmark work Summa Theologica, that the three-person theory of the Trinity could not be defended in any rational or understandable way.
If there are several persons in God
then there are several substances,
God then is composed of parts
and this to me seems heretical.
Three can not become one, nor one become three.
Yet a Trinity exists in the sense that the dynamic Will of God, Holy Spirit became evident in the Christ and Christ represented the authority of God before humanity.
How no idea how you see the Trinity in the first verse of the Bible.
It is not God’s form, but His metaphysical nature and spiritual attributes that He bestowed upon Jesus.
It was clear to Paul that Jesus was not God,
but created in the image or likeness of God.
An image is not the same thing as the original—though it may reflect the intent of the original.
Colossians 2:8-10: 8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. |
Further, while the Christ is suggested to exist before Jesus appears in history,
John 17:1-5: Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, 2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 4 I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. |
even this pre-existent Christ is described as a created being,
born of God.
Thus a double distinction is made between God and His created likeness.
No incarnation of God is implied.
Yes I understand what Logos means.[/BOX]
Then why use "word"?
I have never said that Jesus was just a man.
Jesus is both man AND God.
Jesus is a Messenger, a Prophet, a Messiah of God.
None of which are anything special, on their own. There had been plenty of messengers, prophets, and messiahs prior to Christ.
So that's not what set Him apart from the rest.
This is another order of spirituality altogether than that possessed by mere humans.
Meaningless nonsense.
Jesus was both physical human and possessed the spiritual attributes of a Messenger of God.
Supra.
That does not in any way suggest that Jesus was therefore the incarnation of God literally.
Straw man.
We don't claim Jesus was the incarnation of God because He was a "messenger, prophet, or Messiah."
We claim He is God because the Bible shows Him to be God!
Jesus was a perfect mirror reflection the Attributes of and Will of God before human kind.
A reflection of you is you.
The perfect representation of God IS God.
The Trinity is a human construct that is illogical when applied in a literal sense.
Saying it doesn't make it so.
I love how you address the verses we provide and show us how wrong we are from those versesI read your post. Love the personal touches you added.
You choose a piece of Scripture, or a set of Scripture pertaining to a specific belief you have, then explain how you believe that this supports your belief and if I agree with you I'll indicate as such. If I disagree with you I'll try to find Scripture to support my take.I love how you address the verses we provide and show us how wrong we are from those verses
oh wait that never happens
You make your posts near impossible to respond to because they are so full of vitriol and a lack of basic understanding of spiritual concepts. It's not that I don't appreciate your responses, I genuinely do, but we have so little common ground to work from.Is it not loving to tell someone who's about to jump out of an airplane with no parachute to equip one?
No. Accept what the Bible says, or be damned.
As all concepts do... usually.
So what?
Just because the word "Trinity" isn't in the Bible doesn't mean the Bible doesn't teach that God is triune.
Irrelevant.
Yet you claim to understand it enough to know that God is not triune?
How does that make sense?
Agreed.
No one here has said "God is composed of parts."
So we also agree on this.
So why keep bringing it up?
*God, capital G.
*His
God refers to Himself as male, because He is three Persons.
Why couldn't God enter His own creation? What prevents Him from doing so, according to you?
Note that any answer to this contradicts your "God remains beyond human understanding" shtick.
A follow up to the above question: Why couldn't God not only enter His creation, but also come as a man?
Yes, the world murdered Jesus Christ.
But here's what Jesus had to say about that:
Luke 23:33-35:
33 And when they had come to the place called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left. 34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” And they divided His garments and cast lots. 35 And the people stood looking on. But even the rulers with them sneered, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ, the chosen of God.”
On the other hand, that was part of His plan. Jesus also said:
John 15:12-14:
12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
And Paul said this:
Romans 5:7-9:
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
Did you catch that?
"But GOD demonstrates His own love toward us, in that . . . Christ died for us."
Jesus Christ is God.
Thomas Aquinas was not an inspired author of the Bible, and has just as much authority over scripture as you or me.
Let God be true, and every man a liar.
There is THREE Persons in the Godhead. (And yes, that "grammatical error" is intentional.)
Why?
No, He's not.
Saying God is composed of parts IS heresy.
Irrelevant. God IS one God, and He is three persons.
Because Jesus was God in the flesh.
"Elohim" is the plural form of the Hebrew word for god. The very first verse of the Bible uses the plural form of the noun "god" and the singular form of the word "create."
Translated woodenly literally, it comes out as: "In the beginning, [Gods] [He created] the heavens and the earth."
In the beginning, God created an image for His Son to indwell, then created man in that image.
He then, 2000 years ago, roughly, tabernacled in a tent of flesh, in the same form that He had created Man in.
False. See above.
Nope.
Colossians 1:9-18:
9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.[/BOX]
Jesus wasn't just the express image of God.
Colossians 2:8-10:
8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
And Jesus Himself backs this up:
John 17:1-5:
Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, 2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 4 I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
No, he's not, as per Colossians 1:16.
No, he's not described as such, and I have no idea where you got that idea.
False.
False.
John 1:1, 14
You make your posts near impossible to respond to
because they are so full of vitriol
and a lack of basic understanding of spiritual concepts.
It's not that I don't appreciate your responses, I genuinely do, but we have so little common ground to work from.
Triune God according to Athanasius - excerpts from the Athanasian Creed “...we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity... for there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Ghost is all one... they are not three gods, but one God... the whole three persons are co-eternal and co-equal... he therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity...”.
Now while I acknowledge that there might be less convoluted attempts to make sense of something that makes no sense, in general the concept of the Trinity is found in this excerpt.
Basically, one person, God the Father, plus one person, God the Son, plus one person, God the Holy Ghost, equals one person, God the What?
References used to build a case for the Trinity from Scripture a vague at best.
The Traditional Passages Showing Christ's Deity: Most of the primary verses with a sampling of the many others showing that, like the Father, Jesus is... - Called God: John 1:1 with v. 14; 20:28; Rom. 9:5; Titus 2:13; Heb. 1:8; 2 Pet. 1:1; Luke 1:16-17 - From Everlasting: Ps. 90:2 with Micah 5:2 - Receiving worship: Mat. 2:11; 14:33; 28:9; John 9:38; Heb. 1:6 (etc., 10x) with Ex. 34:14; Acts 10:25-26 & Rev. 19:10 - Forgiving/Delegating Power to Forgive: Mat. 6:9, 12 with Jn. 20:23; Luke 5:20; Mark 2:5-11 & 1 Jn. 1:7-9 - Omniscient: John 10:15; 2:24-25 21:17 - Omnipresent: Ps. 139:7-10 with Mat. 18:20 & 28:20 - Omnipotent: Rev. 1:8 with 11-13, 17; 2:8; 5:11-6:1, 21:22-23; & 22:13 - Immutable: Mal. 3:6 with Hebrews 13:8 - The exact equivalent
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KJ Version - 1 John 5:7 “...there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one”. This is now agreed to by Biblical scholars as with doubt a later addition. It is not found in today's versions of the Bible.
In Matthew 28:19 the "Great Commission," "baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." This being clearly an addition to Biblical texts.
1) baptism in the early Church, as discussed by Paul in his letters, was done only in the name of Jesus; and
2) the “Great Commission” was found in the first gospel written, that of Mark, bears no mention of Father, Son and/or Holy Ghost.
The concept of a Trinity of divine beings was not an idea put forth by Jesus.
This doctrine, now subscribed to by Christians all over the world, is entirely man-made in origin.
Paul of Tarsus, the man who is considered the true founder of today's Christianity,
formulated many of its doctrines,
yet despite that the Trinity, foundational to many Christian denominations was not among them.
What a wonderful false accusation.You make your posts near impossible to respond to because they are so full of vitriol and a lack of basic understanding of spiritual concepts.
The problem is that you have little common ground with Christians that believe what the Bible says.It's not that I don't appreciate your responses, I genuinely do, but we have so little common ground to work from.
You choose a piece of Scripture, or a set of Scripture pertaining to a specific belief you have, then explain how you believe that this supports your belief and if I agree with you I'll indicate as such. If I disagree with you I'll try to find Scripture to support my take.