I don's see how you did.
early Christian Saints such as Clement and Origen and many other early Christians PRIOR to TRINITY taught that Christ is a Mirror of God, rather than God's incarnation.
"Prior to Trinity"? There is no such thing. The Church led by the Apostles has always taught the Trinity, even if at first we didn't know how to explain or describe it.
"The document called 1 Clement, a letter from the Roman congregation to that at Corinth uses the language of the biblical book of Hebrews to portray Jesus as the reflection of God's splendor, the "mirror" of "God's... transcendent face"
Source:
Jesus Mirror of God
"Through Him let us look steadfastly unto the heights of the heavens; through Him we behold as in
a mirror His faultless and most excellent
visage...." 1Clem 36:2
Source:
First Clement: Clement of Rome
The explanation of Clement's calling Jesus the mirror is the same as Origen's, which I explain below--Jesus is the image of His Father, mirroring perfectly His divinity, power, glory, wisdom, will and majesty. Jesus mirrors all of these because He Himself possesses all of these, like two identical twins mirroring each other.
the great theologian Origen (185-254 C.E.), citing the Book of Wisdom, called Christ '
the spotless mirror' of God's workings (Origen, On First Principles 26).
Source:
Jesus the spotless mirror
From Origen's same work, in the Preface, chapter 4:
Secondly,
That Jesus Christ Himself, who came (into the world), was born of the Father before all creatures; that, after He had been the servant of the Father in the creation of all things— For by Him were all things made — He in the last times, divesting Himself (of His glory), became a man, and was incarnate although God, and while made a man remained the God which He was; that He assumed a body like to our own, differing in this respect only, that it was born of a virgin and of the Holy Spirit: that this Jesus Christ was truly born, and did truly suffer, and did not endure this death common (to man) in appearance only,
but did truly die; that He did truly rise from the dead; and that after His resurrection He conversed with His disciples, and was taken up (into heaven).
Then, Thirdly, the apostles related that the Holy Spirit was associated in honour and dignity with the Father and the Son. But in His case it is not clearly distinguished whether He is to be regarded as born or innate, or also as a Son of God or not: for these are points which have to be inquired into out of sacred Scripture according to the best of our ability, and which demand careful investigation. And that this Spirit inspired each one of the saints, whether prophets or apostles; and that there was not one Spirit in the men of the old dispensation, and another in those who were inspired at the advent of Christ, is most clearly taught throughout the Churches.
When Origen speaks of Jesus being the mirror of the Father, it means that Jesus reflects perfectly God's wisdom, divinity, light, power and majesty, not that Jesus reflects God's message like a mirror reflecting the light of the Sun. Rather, Origen continually calls Christ the Light that comes from God.
Origen does not support your doctrine. He clearly supports the true Faith in the Trinity, as his own writings clearly show. Rather, he calls Jesus God, in a very literal way. In Book 1, section 3, chapter 2, Origen says that God is the Word, and that the Word is God:
John, however, with more sublimity and propriety, says in the beginning of his Gospel, when defining God by a special definition to be the Word, And God was the Word, and this was in the beginning with God. Let him, then, who assigns a beginning to the Word or Wisdom of God, take care that he be not guilty of impiety against the unbegotten Father Himself, seeing he denies that He had always been a Father, and had generated the Word, and had possessed wisdom in all preceding periods, whether they be called times or ages, or anything else that can be so entitled.
And Christ is the Light of God, according to another place in book 1:
For the Son is the Word, and therefore we are not to understand that anything in Him is cognisable by the senses. He is wisdom, and in wisdom there can be no suspicion of anything corporeal.
He is the true light, which enlightens every man that comes into this world; but He has nothing in common with the light of this sun. ["sun" here refers to the big hot ball of gas in our solar system, not God; Origen was using the Sun as an analogy to explain how the Son is eternally from the Father and is as the light of the Father] Our Saviour, therefore, is the image of the invisible God, inasmuch as compared with the Father Himself He is the truth: and as compared with us, to whom He reveals the Father, He is the image by which we come to the knowledge of the Father, whom no one knows save the Son, and he to whom the Son is pleased to reveal Him. And the method of revealing Him is through the understanding. For He by whom the Son Himself is understood, understands, as a consequence, the Father also, according to His own words: He that has seen Me, has seen the Father also. 7. But since we quoted the language of Paul regarding Christ, where He says of Him that He is the brightness of the glory of God, and the express figure of His person, let us see what idea we are to form of this. According to John, God is light. The only-begotten Son, therefore, is the glory of this light, proceeding inseparably from (God) Himself, as brightness does from light, and illuminating the whole of creation.
St. Basil also explains the commandments that Jesus received by " the reflexion of an object in
a mirror"
Trinity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
We've had a very long exchange on this, and I got you to completely give up trying to use St. Basil to support your doctrine. See from
post 2299 onward to roughly post
2328.
These early Christian got their belief from the verses of Bible that describe Jesus as a Mirror and as Image of God, such as 2 cori 3-18:
"and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."
I already disproved your idea about what the early Christians believed in
post 2301. You clearly know nothing of what they taught, or else you would quote directly from the early Christians, not relying on isolated snippets from Wiki and encyclopedia articles.
Just as the Sun appears everyday to give Light, the Spirit which is the Light of God also must appear every Age, again and again, by appearance of the Sun of Truth, the Manifestation of God in every Age. To say Spirit cam once, or a Manifestation of God came once, and that we don't need it to come again, is just like to say, the Sun came yesterday, and gave light and we don't need it again to come. No!. Everyday it comes again. Therefore while the Holy Spirit was Manifested through revelation of Moses, it appeared again through appearance of Christ. In this Age, it appeared again through Manifestation of Baha'u'llah.
The Holy Spirit came, and never went away. He is not like the sun which sets and disappears, then comes and rises again. No. The Holy Spirit has never departed from the Church. Once we are baptized and chrismated, the Holy Spirit never leaves us. We may leave Him, but that's a different story--it doesn't change the fact that every Christian is a temple of the Holy Spirit. Your prophet is not a manifestation of the Holy Spirit.
Notice, it says "the doors being locked " yet "Jesus came and stood among them ". Obviously this is a symbolic story, and the Author said this to give us a hint that this story is Figurative.
No. Jesus is God. He can do things like appearing among the Apostles without to enter through a door.
Same objects that Jews did against Christ.
Except, the Jews were awaiting a Messiah who would come and redeem the world and free them. Jesus came, but they didn't accept Him. The Christians aren't expecting anyone else but Jesus Himself to come back from Heaven, in the same way He ascended into Heaven. And Baha'u'llah sure isn't Jesus coming on the clouds of Heaven, with a shout, trumpet and with archangels heralding his return.
Similar objections the Jews made about Christ: He is not our Messiah!
It is a fact that Baha'u'llah is not Jesus. Even you admit this. We are expecting Jesus. Baha'u'llah is not Jesus. 1+1 equals...
