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Great post Raptor.

Thanks for addressing so many of the verses that most Christians seem to ignore or try to "wish out" of the New Testament. I also refuse to reject these verses just because WL taught them, and we know he had other issues.

It seems so foolish to apply human logic and understanding to our God. Those are the arguments we hear all the time. How can God be one when Jesus prayed to the Father and the Holy Spirit descended like a dove upon Him??? How? I can't explain! Neither can I explain creation.

Neither can I explain how Jesus can appear and disappear with the disciples, and still eat food and have 5 holes in His body. How can Jesus live in me? How come the two on the road to Emmaus could not tell that Jesus was different? Wasn't He just mercilessly beaten and killed beyond recognition just a few days prior?

Jesus first instructions to the disciples after His resurrection were to "believe" and at the same time to shock all their preconceived notions of God. I am not here to reconcile "irreconcilable" truths about God. That would be a foolish impossibility. I am hear to believe God, and to believe His word.

It would really help the church of God, if we could end our binary mindset. Stop being a prisoner of two ideas -- modalism or tri-theism. The truth lies between these two extremes, yet seems to reinforce both extremes ... at times.