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Cults teach hate, and teach anti Catholic hate sentiment. I know I was in a cult like yours. I went to a Pentecostal who had a strict dress code where you have to speak in tongues to be saved believe in oneness instead of the Trinity. They were all about anti-Catholic and anti Pagan trash. That's what your church is, hate group cult who hates Gays and lesbians Catholics and Pagans.
That's fine. I never expect to prove anything to the one I am replying to. But thanks for giving me the opportunity to perhaps allow someone else, who may have read my reply, to discern the truth for themselves.
The trinity is a form of oneness. The idea that it is separate entities isnt supported by Scripture at all!
Jesus Eshu the greatest said, He is in the father, and the father in Him. And that He is one with the father. This is all biblical, as well as traditional.
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God is Almighty while Jesus Christ is not.
The Bible teaches that God is the most powerful God (Genesis 35:11).
And God said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.
Christ’s statement in John 5:30 prove that he is not the Almighty God because he admitted that "By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me."
Why would an omnipotent God on earth say that he can not do anything by himself? The limitation that Jesus had while on earth proves the point that Jesus is not God in spite of the miraculous deeds he had done.
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Peter even testified that God did those miracles through him (Acts 2:22).
Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know.
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I believe there is no evidence to support that view.
I believe this speaks of the two natures. For those viewing Jesus as just a man (cough cough) he could do nothing but as God in the flesh He can do anything. I believe you should note that Jesus does not need to call upon God to do His miracles; He just does them.
I believe your conclusion is false because your premise is false.
I believe my text says "by Him" not through Him but it makes no difference Jesus is God doing the works.
Muffled, posted:
"I believe this speaks of the two natures. For those viewing Jesus as just a man (cough cough) he could do nothing but as God in the flesh He can do anything. I believe you should note that Jesus does not need to call upon God to do His miracles; He just does them."
The Lord Jesus Christ said:
John 5:30 New International Version (NIV)
By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
John 5:19 New International Version (NIV)
Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
Apostle Peter said:
Acts 2:22 New International Version (NIV)
“Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know.
Note how you call Jesus merely a man, then you post that man merely has his opinions. This is a clever argument to discredit Jesus.
So the deity of Judaism is the devil?Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father the devil,
I believe it says they, father, son, and holy ghost are equally God and a unified one God.
So the deity of Judaism is the devil?
I believe it says they, father, son, and holy ghost are equally God and a unified one God.
God is not a trinity.V.7 in the KJV was not in the original text but later inserted, when printing was used.
Adam Clarke writes: But it is likely this verse is not genuine. It is wanting in every MS. of this epistle written before the invention of printing, one excepted, the Codex Montfortii, in Trinity College, Dublin: the others which omit this verse amount to one hundred and twelve.
More modern versions of the Bible omit this verse altogether. Others, like the ESV, define it this way: For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. This avoids the obvious temptation to erroneously prove the Trinity from the KJV.
“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”
"For there are three that testify, the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three agree"
What John is simply saying here is that the Father is the Word and is the Holy Spirit. In other words, when God speaks, it is done, and it is done by His Holy Spirit power. If the Holy Spirit is a third person, we would be hard pressed to explain Matt 1:18 with John 3:16!
“Towards the end of the 1st century, and during the 2nd, many learned men came over both from Judaism and paganism to Christianity. These brought with them into the Christian schools of theology their Platonic ideas and phraseology.” — (Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, 1891, Vol. 10, “Trinity,” p. 553)
The word “Trinity” originated from Tertullian around 200 AD. The 3 in 1 god came from Athanasius in 325 AD, and the idea of the Holy Spirit as the third person came from three Cappadocian “fathers,” Basil, bishop of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus in 381 AD at the Council of Constantinople.
The doctrine of the Trinity is a man-made doctrine borrowed from paganism and Greek philosophy. It has been a divisive issue throughout the history of Christianity. There is no perfect way to understand the Trinity: one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in three co-equal persons, and at the same time completely understand it, yet it is one of the most difficult concepts for Christianity to let go of!
The Trinity was conceived from pagan and Greek philosophy and not from the Bible. It came about through much bloodshed and whoever had the most power. The Catholic Church, influenced by the doctrine of the Trinity, adopted it and patched together Greek and Roman philosophies snatching a handful of Bible verses out of context and interpolated them into their text hundreds of years after the death of all the apostles and long after the completion of the Bible (Col 2:8-10). This dogma became the central dogma of Catholicism during the 4th Century. It is not a Biblically inspired doctrine ( Eph 4:4-6).
To believe in the Trinity is to believe the following about Christ:
1. Jesus is the immortal God, but died. Jesus is the invisible God, but was seen.
2. Jesus is the omnipotent God, but was strengthened by an angel.
3. Jesus is the omniscient God, but did not know the day of his return.
4. Jesus is as great as his Father, but his Father is greater than he.
5. Jesus is equal with the Father, and yet he is the Father.
6. Jesus is the son, but the same age as the Father.
7. Jesus is the son who has a Father and the God who has no Father.
8. Jesus is the begotten son and the un-begotten God. Jesus is very God and very man, came out from himself, prayed to himself, gave power to himself, thanked himself, bore witness of himself, went back to himself, sits at the right hand of himself, is his own Father and his own son, left Heaven and yet was there all the time.
There are things which are hard to understand in the Bible, but you can be sure that God never expects us to believe such impossibilities!
I believe it says they, father, son, and holy ghost are equally God and a unified one God.
God is not a trinity.
Note how you call Jesus merely a man, then you post that man merely has his opinions. This is a clever argument to discredit Jesus.