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Originally Posted by Trapped
Thanks......boy was it an inner journey to get there. Truly never thought I'd be re-evaluating this teaching, that's for sure. If responding to BJB wasn't helping me sharpen my own understanding, I would also have stepped away a long time ago. Frustrating to continually affirm I am not talking about the Trinity, only to be immediately accused of being Trinitarian, when it's totally obvious through simple comprehension I'm not speaking of a Trinity. But, honestly, the Father being God and the Son also being God but are not the same God (in the same way a father is a man and his kid is also a man, but yet are not the same men) make so much more sense now, so overall its been valuable and I'm glad to be participating.
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Me too. Long ago I decided that my goal was not to win an argument or persuade another poster. That would be far too frustrating, and discouraging, knowing some of the posters that pass thru these parts.
Firstly I write for the reader, the lurker, the passersby who might need something I have learned in my own journey. But I also write for myself, clarifying what might have been taken for granted over the years. Searching the scriptures is a great thing when it leads to discovery of life and truth in Jesus. Hundreds of topics have been examined in this way. Some things like the ground of locality, which I held for decades, has been readily discarded in the LC trash can. Other things, I am willing to die far.
I am thankful to have spent time in the Recovery examining all sides of this debate. We have studied verses in depth, which many just leave for theologians. Consider Paul's word in Colossians, "all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him bodily." This verse kind of shoots holes in everyone's theology. Yet I love it. And believe it.