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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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Ohio, do you see what is produced when we start down the road of Jesus is God, and God is triune? Here is someone who is still trying to figure it all out. Perhaps, Ohio, you who see and understand the whole concept would want to help Trapped come to a full knowledge of God, and save him from going off the beaten orthodox path and introducing all sorts of strange thoughts.
I would think, though, it would be easier to acknowledge that the scripture is not in the business of giving us a trinity, nor of us speaking of Jesus as God, but that the scripture if clearly showing us that there is one God the Father, who is above all, through all and in all, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, the son of God, who died for our sins, whom God raised from the dead and set at his own right hand, whom God gave to us, the church to be our head. This is the gospel that is preached, that brings us to faith, with which the Holy Spirit anoints.