Did he not say if you believe in God, believe in me also?
This is not scripture keeps it is the puny human intellect trying to understand what is written and not doing so well at that.
Give up trying to understand with your human intellect...you need the Holy Spirit to show you.
Ah but you think He is but an emanation don't you.
...was that just afore or just after He said "if you have seen Me you have seen the Father"
Christ is the express IMAGE of the Father, not the Father. You can not see the wind, only the effects of the wind. So it is with the Father, you can only see the son and the things he did by the power he was given.
You got that back to front...you get many things back to front...Jesus said if you have seen Me you have seen the Father, so it is that you cannot see the Father but by the Son.
So when you claim that you worship only the one true God how do you do that? He is only seen through the Son.
The apostles worshipped Christ and proclaimed Him Lord and God and so do we.
Only one called him God, and I question that for it disagree with what the other Apostles preached.
Jesus went to his God and our God.
He speaks of being a pillar in the Temple of his God.
He tells His Father sent him.
He prayed to his Father.
What is it going to take for you to see that the Father is the ONLY true God?
You can not be God and have a God if there is only one God.
Sorry I touched a wrong button
If you do not believe Jesus I do not expect you to believe me. John 17:3.
Did he not say if you believe in God, believe in me also?
...was that just afore or just after He said "if you have seen Me you have seen the Father"
So you are saying Jesus is his own Father?
You do not understand simple truths keeps. He was equal with God but He HUMBLED HIMSELF....in other words He of His own volition placed Himself in subjection to the Father. You were not begotten of God, only One has been begotten of God. If He had been begotten by man He would be man but He was begotten of God.
The trouble is you seek the opinions of men on these matters when you could have the opinion of God.
Are you saying you have better knowledge and understanding than Thomas? nobody disagreed with Thomas, you made that up
I don't believe in anyone who believes the bible is in error and corrupted and turns around correcting it. You corrected it based on another man beliefs .
Jesus believes in the elects regardless of thier belief since that happens long before any man's birth. That won't matter after birth cause God's wills are eternity
Name another apostle that called Jesus God.
They saw him as the SON of God, not God.
It could be that the translation of the English version got recorded by a bias translator. Or the Greek word used meant god not God. But the fact is not one of his other men called him God. Neither does Paul.
I have discarded the opinions of men and replaced it with the words in scripture. Your the one who fail to see that our early church fathers were in error. They did not have the tools we have today Totton to find the truth. You do not see that no one is as great or equal to the Father. The Father is the ONLY uncreated being. The wall of tradition is to high for you to see over friend. Christ is a servant of his God. He gave up his high position to do the will of his God and take the form of a man. Jesus Christ is our Lord, made so by his and our God. Christ did not come to us because he wanted to, he came to obey his Father. Did he not say that he did not come of his own accord?
Totton you dishonor the creator if you make another God. Christ is a creation for he/it is an IMAGE of the Father. The Father was pleased that he/it had his fullness. Col 1:19.
In my fathers house are many mansions I go to prepare a place for you.
Notice he did not say in my house!
I guess he is not his Father.
So you are saying Jesus is his own Father?
This God who you claim to worship has said it is His will that the Son is to be honoured even as the Father is honoured. If Christ is to be honoured even as the Father is honoured then He must be honoured as God.
I say you are being unintellectual in not seeing that begotten Son must mean that the Father and the Son are God. He is begotten of God.
God speaking through Isaiah says "as I live saith the Lord to Me every knee shall bow every tongue confess Me"
Paul in applying this scripture to Christ is proclaiming Christ as that same Lord.
Now you like to pretend we are both Christians [secretly you think I am a Babylonian whore] but when you have your mask on you address me as "friend"
But to say Christ is not God is as far different from saying that He is as night is different to day...we are not family keeps.