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Originally Posted by Boxjobox
The entire thought of the church, the scripture, God, Christ, the trinity controversy, apostles, the truth, church practices has a history since the resurrection of Christ and the pouring out of the Spirit. WL/ the LC is not apart from this whole history. Obviously, the writings we have as scripture do not include the teachings that God is triune, and I would say the teachings that Jesus is God falls in this as well. I realize that this is highly controversial, particularly considering church history. None the less, in my reading and considering of the NT and considering what a major change such a belief would have been to the Jews as well as to the gentiles, such a concept as a man being God would have had to have a large, expansive teaching to be accepted, and that just doesn’t appear in the NT.
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Boxjobox, I can see how Christians throughout history have focused on the man Jesus who died on the cross for our sins, was raised from the dead, and now is enthroned. But there are too many N.T. verses which also plainly show his eternal deity. With that we also have so many parallels between O.T. and N.T. which show us plainly that Jesus is the Jehovah of old.
Because so many errant heresies hinge upon Jesus being
only human, I would hope that you would reconsider your views here. Absolutely the humanity of Jesus is emphasized, but that in no way negates His eternal Deity as God.