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As a man who can come to a rational conclusion about the difference between speech and writing.
God, the "one true God" that Jesus prayed to, (1) has a name, (2) is a Father.
I agree with what you have found in the Bible 100%
Yes, there's a difference between speech and writing. Excellent point.
Still not a person.
God has a name. God spoke to Moses. He is a person. Exodus 33
I know many claiming to be Christian who are adulterers, and lying in business.
Is it your understanding that it was not Jesus put to death but rather another man put to death in his place? Just trying to understand what you said above. Thanks.
Right, I got it. My bad, excuse me!
Were these letters not addressed to Greco-Roman gentiles? Weren't they "outside" the law and wasn't this confirmed by the Jerusalem council?
Yes, “the way” to Whom?
And Who taught him that truth?
Even that, Jesus said, was “granted” by the Father to him. (John 5:26….”For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted also to the Son to have life in himself.”
I so glad you are so much better than the one who heard, who saw with his eyes, who has looked upon, and whose hands have handled the Word of life;
Yes, I would wholeheartedly agree… but you are referring to the earthly manifestation of The Word as a man. The one who: AMPC Phil 2:6 Who, although being essentially one with God and in the form of God [possessing the fullness of the attributes which make God God], did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained, 7 But stripped Himself [of all privileges and rightful dignity], so as to assume the guise of a servant (slave), in that He became like men and was born a human being. 8 And after He had appeared in human form,
Oh course he did. What are you talking about?
Jesus said he was. That's in the bible btwThis is NOT about what God can and cannot do. It is about what is in the Bible.
The Bible says that Jesus is not God and that is how we know that Jesus is not God.
John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
Since no one has ever 'seen God' on that basis alone we know that Jesus cannot be God, since many people saw Jesus.
One would have to throw out most of the New Testament to maintain that Jesus is God, since many people saw Jesus in the NT.
We also know that those who saw the face of Jesus continued to live, so Jesus could not have been God.
Exodus 33:20 But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.”
That is aside from the fact that if the Bible is correct in the way God is described, there is no way that Jesus can be God since God is All-powerful, All-knowing, Unchanging, Impassable, Infinite, Omnipresent, Self-Existent, Self-Sufficient, and Immaterial, and Jesus did not have those attributes, since Jesus was a man and no man can have those attributes. That means that logically speaking Jesus is not God.
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You cannot believe that Jesus is God incarnate and still believe in the Bible.
I suggest that you and all the other Trinitarians ask yourselves why you want Jesus to be God.
I believe that Jesus was a Manifestation of God in the flesh, but that is not the same as God becoming flesh. God cannot become flesh because God is spirit.
Jesus came in the flesh and manifested God's attributes and revealed God's will but the essence of God did not become flesh.
1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Being manifested in the flesh is not the same as being incarnated in the flesh. The excerpt below from a longer article explains the difference between a Manifestation of God and an incarnation of God.
“The Christian equivalent to the Bahá'í concept of Manifestation is the concept of incarnation. The word to incarnate means 'to embody in flesh or 'to assume, or exist in, a bodily (esp. a human) form (Oxford English Dictionary). From a Bahá'í point of view, the important question regarding the subject of incarnation is, what does Jesus incarnate? Bahá'ís can certainly say that Jesus incarnated Gods attributes, in the sense that in Jesus, Gods attributes were perfectly reflected and expressed.[4] The Bahá'í scriptures, however, reject the belief that the ineffable essence of the Divinity was ever perfectly and completely contained in a single human body, because the Bahá'í scriptures emphasize the omnipresence and transcendence of the essence of God…..
One can argue that Bahá'u'lláh is asserting that epistemologically the Manifestations are God, for they are the perfect embodiment of all we can know about God; but ontologically they are not God, for they are not identical with God's essence. Perhaps this is the meaning of the words attributed to Jesus in the gospel of John: 'If you had known me, you would have known my Father also' (John 14:7) and 'he who has seen me has seen the Father (John 14:9)…..
Jesus Christ in the Bahá'í Writings
While Christians traditionally believe the Gospels to be substantially accurate, little is known about Jesus and what he actually taught; the Bahá...bahai-library.com
John 14: 9. You need to wake up
And you get to decide what those things are? God can do whatever he likes but won't violate his own rules.