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Originally Posted by Ohio
John, Peter, and Paul all tell us that Jesus the Son is God. So you can continually tell us that we are all wrong, because we have of one foot in WL teachings and the other in modern Christianity, but you are not acknowledging this great truth.
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Ohio- have you gone through the book of Acts yet and looked at all the gospels preached and how Jesus was presented?
Peter, John, and Paul in their writing all present Jesus as the Son of God. Paul plainly tells us there is but one God, the Father, and also tells (beseeches) us that keeping the oneness of the Spirit by acknowledging that there is one God, the Father. John summarizes his gospel in saying he wrote all his words so that we would believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and have life in his name. Jesus, the one you claim as God, says that eternal life is to know the Father, the only true God and Jesus the Christ. Peter, in his 1st epistle says Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. John, in his second epistle says Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the son of the Father.
John, in the Revelation says that Jesus bought us with his blood and made us a kingdom of priests to his God and Father.
Ohio, the presentation, the leading of the Holy Spirit is not to tell us Jesus is God, but to bring us to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, where we may worship and fellowship with our God and Jesus’s God and our Father and Jesus’ Father and with His son Jesus the Christ. This is the whole message in the scripture- it is not to make Jesus out to be God or to present a triune God of some sorts.
Please, look through Acts and get a foundational understanding and appreciation of the presentation of Jesus in all the gospels given in this great church history. Consider also Galatians and 1st Cor 15 to see what is the gospel. You make it sound like the gospel is a Jesus is God message and a God became a man preaching.
Ohio, in the LC, and elsewhere for that matter- how often do/did you hear a solid message on The God of our Lord Jesus, or on the God and Father of our Lord Jesus? I really would like an answer to this question. I’ve been a believer now for over 40 years and can not remember hearing any such message in the LC or in Christianity.