3rdAngel
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Not really but I am sure this is what you believe because you are still living your life in sin and unbelief. If you knew what the scriptures teach outside of your unbelief you would know that Gods Israel have only ever been those who believe and obey what Gods Word says. You cannot see this because you do not know God or His Word and are still blinded by your sins and unbelief so you cannot see God because it is written in the scriptures, in Isaiah 59:2 "Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.Christianity was made by a small branch of Hellenized Jews originally concerned with the imminent apocalypse, which is why the ambiguous Son of Man is going to rock up VERY shortly, and certainly within the lifetime of some of Jesus' hearers in Mark, Matthew and Luke, but of course not in John because by the 90s CE when John was written it was clearly a dead letter. John is written as Christianity is asserting its distinctness from Judaism and becoming antisemitic, as you know.
Jesus, and all the disciples and even Paul the Pharisee and teacher of the Tanakh were all Jews. Christianity came from Jews according to the scriptures and came out of the old covenant scriptures in fulfillment of the scriptures. Jesus has always been God. You just did not know it because you choose not to believe and obey what Gods Word says therefore you do not know God or His Word which is in disagreement with you.At the time of the gospels, yes that's arguable. Jesus was a circumcised Jew himself. But when Christianity started to grow and the push came to elevate Jesus to God status ─ which was quite early ─ all of the very clear denials by the Jesuses of Paul and each of the gospels that they were not God were thrown out the window, and games like the Trinity evolved.
It is true that we cannot know Gods word like we to through academic studies in university. That is because the bible is not a normal book. It is Gods Word and Gods Word tells us we cannot know God or His Ways unless he guide us and teaches us through His Spirit (see Isaiah 55:8-9; John 14:26; John 16:13; 1 John 2:27). There is no nonsense to those who believe God and Word but then again this is foolishness to the worldly wise that do not know God and His Word but would rather sit in darkness in sin and unbelief.The Trinity doctrine ─ that God exists as three persons and one substance ─ is said to be a "mystery in the strict sense" and a mystery in the strict sense means that "it cannot be known by unaided reason apart from revelation, nor cogently demonstrated by reason after it has been revealed", which, as you'll notice when you consider the words, means that "a mystery in the strict sense" and "nonsense" are synonyms.
There is no problem here. The three being one simply means being one mind and purpose. All three are still God. Let me give you some examples from the scriptures.The problem is clearly seen when you consider that according to the doctrine, each of Father, Jesus and Ghost is 100% of God. Now, 100%+100% + 100% = 300% = 3 gods (which is the actual position). But of course that is ruled out irrationally, or as they say, is a mystery in the strict sense. And this clearly distinguishes the Christian God from the 2nd cent CE on from the Jewish God, as does the Christian abandoning of the covenant of circumcision.
ONE GOD?
- John 10:30 I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE.
- Deteronomy 6:4 4, Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is ONE GOD
- Genesis 2:24 24, Therefore shall a MAN leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his WIFE: and THEY SHALL BE ONE FLESH.
- Genesis 11:6 And the LORD said, BEHOLD, THE PEOPLE IS ONE, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
- Genesis 34:15 16, Then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and WE WILL BECOME ONE PEOPLE.
- Exodus 12:49 49, ONE LAW shall be to him that is home born, and to the stranger that sojourns among you.
- Exodus 24:3… all the people answered with ONE VOICE…
- Judges 20:8 All the people arose as ONE MAN…
- John 10:30 I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE
- Matthew 28:19 9, Go ye therefore, and TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY GHOST
- 1 John 5:7 “For there are three that bear witness in heaven: The Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and THESE THREE ARE ONE."
PLURAL GOD?
- Genesis 1:26 26 And God said, LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, AFTER OUR LIKENESS: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- Genesis 3:22 “Then the Lord God said, BEHOLD, THE MAN HAS BECOME LIKE ONE OF US, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and also take from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.”
- Genesis 11:7 “COME, LET US GO DOWN AND CONFUSE THEIR LANGUAGE so they will not understand each other
- Isaiah 6:8 “Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and WHO WILL GO FOR US?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”