Arianism/Subordinationism already settled this. The problem is only "the Word was God" in John 1.
Author of John (John 1 Prologue) and Paul said it explicitly.
You are doing that thing of not understanding what the word ‘God’ means… You are taking it as a PERSON.
NO!!! Stop it!!! Please. You are intelligent enough to see that the term ‘word’ is being related to an ADJECTIVE… and a SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVE at that.
Please do not tell me (oh, go on, then!) that you do not know what a superlative adjective is… find out and give me an example!!
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I’ll be checking to see if you answer!)
It is purely trinitarian to claim that the word of THE GOD OF THE JEWS was GOD! There is no sense in that statement and no other point except that THE WORD OF THE GOD OF THE JEWS was a SUPREME word… a SPOKEN ENTITY:
- “Let there be light!!”
- “Let the waters…”
- “Let the ground…”
- “Let the trees…”
for instance… Also EVERY WORD that THE GOD OF THE JEWS uttered was supreme and almighty.
‘GOD’ is JUST A REFERENCE to an almighty entity… Virtually ALL religious beliefs have an almighty entity (and most have several entities referred to as their GODS)… it is not unique to the Jews. If anything it would be better to say, ‘Deity’:
- ‘The deity they worshipped and revered AS THEIR GOD’
- ‘The deity they worshipped and revered as their ALMIGHTY BEING’
Some took carved stone or wood as their ‘God’… others were fooled into believing in invisible Spirits that proved worthless when put to the test.
No! You must stop this nonsense about John 1:1 etc. Those verse are TRICKS of words, deliberately made vague to fool the unwary - and it worked!!!
Jesus said in GofJ: "My Father is always working, and so am I." (Yes, I know it's ambiguous.)
There is nothing ambiguous about what Jesus said here. The Jews got it into their heads that on the sabbath day no work, absolutely no ordinarily daily work, must be carried out. This was wrong since this was imposed by MOSES in his time because slavery was rife and unless such a stringent rule was put into force the Jews might be made to carry on working at their weekday work. But Moses ONLY MEANT LABOURING… Jesus pointed out that DOUNG GOOD is a never ending job… it is not LABOURING… in fact, Jesus pointed out that the Jews broke their struck law anyway since if a donkey they owned fell into a well they wouldn’t hesitate to pull it out: Labouring.
The words of Jesus means that EVEN GOD (whom the sabbath was dedicated to) was, himself, DOING WORK … OF GOODNESS on the Sabbath, and, since the Father does works of goodness on the sabbath, then so, too, does the Son!!
AND THEY SHOULD DO SO ALSO!
Any proof that the exact verse (1 Cor 8:6) is falsely translated?
The proof is in the reading and understanding of it… in other words, that it makes NO SENSE… It, at one moment claims that the Son created all things, then it claims that the Father created all things, then it is whittled down to that the Father created THROUGH the Son FOR THE SON!
If you can’t see that that is what it’s saying then you are certainly captured by its absurdity!! No one AT ALL would write a sentence like that in any literature and expect it to pass the proof reader. It’s purely because it’s an aged religious text why it is not tossed out as FAKED.
I can see where it is modified from ‘The Father created all things for the son’ to ‘The SON created all things THROUGH THE SON and FOR THE SON’… oh boy!!!
So what if the word wisdom is female? It's before any human existed (and thus also any sex in this regard). (God) Father is also grammatically male but God is actually neither male or female.
Backsliding!!! Only hardcore and desperate Trinitarians STILL continue to suggest that wisdom is Jesus. By far the majority of deluded Christian’s have ditched this ‘[non-]proof’. How come you are still latching onto what even Trinitarians have ditched…. (That ‘proof’ is so old I can only think you must have only just found the verse and thought you found gold!!! Fools-Gold, is what you found!)
Jesus was not pre-existent. Only when the Word (creative agent/principle) incarnated (became human) it became Jesus.
Well, at least you said something true there about Jesus not being pre-existent. But you do know that you just scuppered yourself AGAIN when you at one point say Jesus is Wisdom (from before creation) and now say he wasn’t pre-existent…. Not any wisdom there!!!!
Two possibilities:
1. He was created before all (other) creation.
OR
2. He was co-eternal with Father.
See above…. I really don’t think you are joining the dots…. You appear to be doing that isolation thing where you don’t relate one thing you say to something you said before!!
You really are all at sea in your belief….
What belief system is it you subscribe to?
Who is teaching you this nonsense?