I appreciate the effort and seeming sincerity of your posts of late.
You brought up the Word and that the Word was both with and was indeed GOD.
To me though, such doesn't automatically mean trinity.
The Word Is GOD is the Spirit is the power by which GOD affects HIS will on HIS creation.
What I am saying is that I equate the Word to the Spirit seeing as how both are descriptors of GOD almighty.
I agree that knowing Christ is of the utmost importance.....salvific if you will; but that doesn't mean I believe the trinity as salvific. Now; that doesn't mean I do not believe in a form of trinitarianism; just that I don't find such a believe in scripture personally nor the belief in such as salvific per scripture or the conscience.
It is refreshing to speak to someone without negativity being hurled around needlessly.
peace
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You'll never be able to find the evidence you need from the English language . Only the Greek texts and someone who knows how to read them can show you the evidence your looking for .
I've studied under a Stanford level Dr. Of theology for 32 years . Greek words are very specific . He is fluent in all the ancient texts , and owns the largest collection of biblical manuscripts in private hands behind the Vatican .
The Greek specifically teaches that God the Father , the Son , and the Holy Spirit , are one entity , and 3 separate entities , at the same time all the time . Just like Jesus was 100% God and 100% man at the same time , all the time . This is what one needs to accept about Christianity going out the gate .
These are just the beginning of many of the examples of God's paradoxical framework of understanding that the Greek specifically teaches.
It would take Him 6 months just to teach his students how to correctly understand what a paradox is , and they were basically at a genius level. So I don't expect any agreement in just one post .
This is the problem with being self taught . There are really important pegs that need to be established in the mind to correctly understanding Scripture.
If you try to discern on your own , without one of the gifted ministers , in English , you'll find yourself on either side of the paradoxical pole , throwing darts at the other side .