I am not sure what you are talking about. I just prefer to believe and follow what the scriptures teach...
- John 20:28 28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
Oh stop it!!!
- Titus 2:13 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ
You know that the true verse doesn’t say that.
It says that they are awaiting the appearance of the GLORY OF OUR GREAT GOD - The Glory of the saviour, Jesus Christ.
3rdAngel, you know that there is no support for ‘awaiting the appearance of God’… God is never stated as going or coming anywhere. God never leaves his spiritual throne - we are awaiting the second appearance of the man, Jesus Christ:
- “For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus”
It’s not ‘One God and mediator’ and also a mediator cannot be God since a mediator cannot be both of whom he mediates for. Jesus is neither Holy God nor Sinful man but is SINLESS MAN - Son of God. Jesus is the filter who prevents unrighteous prayers / Petitions from man reaching the ethereal ears of God. If Jesus, as mediator, hears unrighteous prayers, how can he then prayers he didn’t hear unrighteous prayers as God?!
- Hebrews 1:1-2 1, God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2, HAS IN THESE LAST DAYS SPOKEN TO US BY HIS SON, WHOM HE HAS APPOINTED HEIR OF ALL THINGS, BY WHOM ALSO HE MADE THE WORLDS;3, WHO BEING THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY, AND THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON, AND UPHOLDING ALL THINGS BY THE WORD OF HIS POWER, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high
God taught Jesus what to say and do in the world and then sent him to do those things.
Jesus fully achieved (in the eyes of God) all that God sent him to do and therefore was rewarded with the reward that came with the achievement of the task.
Notice that Jesus is APPOINTED HEIR …
What is an Heir?
Are you the creator and owner of something that you are APPOINTED to? Charles, Prince of the United Kingdom from his birth until 2012, was HEIR… he did not become KING of the kingdom UNTIL the then present monarch, the queen of the UK, died. But GOD NEVER DIES so Jesus is an ETERNAL HEIR over Heaven and earth - but IS APPOINTED RULERSHIP over
CREATION… a ‘
Room’ IN GOD’s House’!! Jesus
will rule over what the Father created FOR THE SON whom He deems as ‘Firstborn’ (Most loved!)
Doing what you are shown and taught to do IS a label of ‘Image of … him who taught and commanded you. That is what the word ‘Son’ means in spirit:
- ‘He who fully does exactly what the Father commands him to do!’
The power jesus wields is exactly that which God anointed him with in order to achieve what God desired of him - weaponised Jesus with Godly power.
Who is ‘The majesty on high’ that Jesus WAS SEATED at the right hand of?
Is Jesus EQUAL to the majesty on high such that he IS the majesty on high that he is seated next to?
- Hebrews 1:8 8 But of the Son he (the Father) says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.
‘O God’ does not pertains to ‘The God of the Israelites’. It simply means, ‘O mighty ruler’.
The verse is twin forked. On one hand speaking about King David at that time - David being classed a ‘Son of God’ and his throne being eternal (as we know that Jesus Christ will be seated on the eternal throne of king David); and on the other hand acting as a prophesy towards the end of time when Jesus Christ takes his seat on that eternal seat of king David and becomes eternal ruler over all creation: his eternal reign.
- Matthew 1:23 23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” which means, God with us.
You are scraping the bottom of the trinity barrel now!
The king sends an ambassador to a far allied country with support for a war that the far country is fighting in (America’s President sending Secretary of State to Ukraine). The far country raises high praise on seeing the ambassador, saying, “Glory Be, The king is with us!!’
- John 1:1-4 ;14 1, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2, The same was in the beginning with God. 3, All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4, In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 14, And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
We have done this to death …. But even so…
The verse speaks of ‘the begotten of the Father’. Are you claiming that ‘your God’ is begotten of the Father?
I’m ashamed that an intelligent man such as yourself should write such indiscriminate nonsense! It’s easy to see that you do not believe what you wrote since even common sense doesn’t get a foothold on this belief.
God’s word was that there would be a saviour come from the ‘Seed of a woman’…. When something that is stated as a future event actually takes place it is declared as:
- ‘Putting on Flesh’ / ‘Putting flesh on the bones of the statement’
So, what God said would happen, happened… and they beheld the glory of he whom God said would come into the world. Remember that John is writing these verse as a SUMMARY long after Jesus Christ was taken up to Heaven BY GOD… indeed, Jesus:
- ‘Sweated blood’ in suffering the night before he was to die wondering if GOD could indeed raise him up from the dead
- ‘Committed his spirit TO GOD…’ - what spirit was that? The spirit of God?
- did not raise himself from the grave
- did not give himself a glorified body
- did not raise himself up to Heaven
- did not seat himself NEXT TO GOD!!
2 Peter 1:1 Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ
No, 3rdAngel, the true verse does not claim Jesus Christ as ‘God and saviour’. It states:
‘… the righteousness of our God [the Father], and of our Saviour, Jesus Christ’.
‘Our God’ is not Jesus Christ. Such a claim is irreverent and easily shown as false. The righteousness is by BOTH God AND Jesus Christ… God is the author of righteousness, and Jesus Christ is emissary who brought that righteousness to mankind through his life and death by shedding of his own blood.
John 8:58 Jesus said to them: “Timeless truth I speak to you: Before Abraham would exist, I AM THE LIVING GOD.” (Aramaic)
Where is this verse in the scriptures?
Which word or words in the ‘verse?’ say ‘I am the living God’?
If you are referring to the Jews asking Jesus if he is greater than their forefather, Abraham, Jesus’ answer was: ‘Yes, I am greater than Abraham … Abraham spoke about for seeing my day’ and me being as one from his own loins - a greater glory Abraham could not have desired…
‘I am before Abraham’ is not speaking of presidency in time but rather, presidency in order of authority and greatness. This is mirrored in the story of John the Baptist wherein John the Baptist states:
- ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’
Here, again, it is clear that the man who is GREATER comes AFTER the man who declares him and that is what ‘BEFORE’ means … ‘In front of; ahead of; greater than’ in power and authority.
John the Baptist describes Jesus as ‘a man’ who is greater than he… scriptures describes John the Baptist as:
- “Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”
Yet, John the Baptist declares that there IS a man greater than he. So, according to your trinity claim, your Jesus is ‘Least in the kingdom of heaven!’ … ‘your GOD’ is the least in his own kingdom!
1 John 5:20 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son JESUS CHRIST
HE IS THE TRUE GOD AND ETERNAL LIFE.
The verse is misquoted - and you know it is.
‘ETERNAL LIFE’ depends on believing that the Father is the only TRUE GOD. It ALSO depends on believing that Jesus Christ has come into the world as Saviour. ‘True God’ and ‘Saviour’ are two different persons. The verse properly reads:
- ‘And we know the Son of God has come [it does not say that ‘God has come] and given us understanding [Jesus came to reveal the Father - the revelation is about God, the Father (Rev 1:1)] so that we may know HIM [the Father / God. Jesus did not come to reveal himself!] and we are in HIM WHO IS TRUE [Only God is True] AND in HIS Son, Jesus Christ. HE [God / The Father] is the true God and eternal life’.
Trinity translators played around with the Greek text because it explicitly claimed that the Father is the only true God and that is what Jesus came to reveal to the nations. The clues are obvious when compared to other qualifying text wherein the Father is stated as being the only true God and the God of the Son, Jesus Christ. Simply, one cannot BE BOTH GOD and also be the SON OF GOD - that is contradictory and incongruous … and irreverent!
Jesus was before creation and the God of creation as shown word for word in the scriptures that disagree with your words that are unsupported by the scriptures (e.g.
John 1:1-4;
Hebrews 1:1-2,
Hebrews 1:8-12 Colossians 1:16 etc). Receive Gods correction and be blessed Soapy. Ignoring Gods' Words does not make them disappear. According to Jesus the words of God we accept or reject will become our judge come judgement day (see John 12:47-48)
Take Care.
Oh wow… I hear the hesitation from you - the sudden enlightenment - and the desperate scrabbling to find a way out…. At least I know now that you can tell the truth from the lie .., you just prefer to believe the lie!