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Originally Posted by Boxjobox
Fairly late in his earthly ministry, Jesus asks his disciples who men say that he is, and then who do they say that he is. No one brings up you are the 2nd person of the trinity, or you are God the Son, or you are God incarnate. One would think, from the much that is said about John’s gospel, that those should have been the response. A great teachable moment in the revelation of the triune God!
In the garden before his sufferings, he prays Father, in John 13-17 it’s the Father as the focus, on the cross he cries out my God, and Father, into your hands I commit..., in resurrection he tells Mary of his Father and God. The entire book of Acts records no gospel of Jesus being God or God being triune. So when and where was everyone informed of this newfound revelation? My reading of the scripture shows me that the Holy Spirit gave no such teaching. Such a concept would have been a large departure from the common knowledge. It would have required very large quantities of scriptural space to be explained and digested questioned by the believers.
But here we are in the 21st century arguing about if modalism is the accurate description for the teachings of WL who was “recovering” the church and the truth!!!! Are we all that far off from what is the scripture as opposed to what is the evolution of man’s thought?
Should not a recovery of the church and the truth been one which brings us back to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus?
I’m just asking
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We once had a Unitarian Universalist preacher on this forum, also an ex LCer, who arrived at some of the same conclusions.
Yes, Jesus prayed to our Heavenly Father, and yes, Jesus is the Eternal Logos of God, Who was with God, and Who is God. We were not told to understand this, but to believe.