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Originally Posted by Ohio
Trapped, great post, spelling out so many truths. What makes conversations with BJB so frustrating are his constant fall backs, saying we are stuck with Lee-isms or old church-isms about trinitarian-isms.
I went so far as to "compromise" with BJB and concede with a "two-person" God, the Father and the Son, in a loving and eternal relationship. But BJB won't acknowledge or identify what he believes about Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the living God. Is He God or not? If not God, based on what? How then can He be eternal, much better than the angels, the Creator of all things, all-knowing, and how could He be sinless. How could He always do God's will, always know what the Father was speaking, always do what pleases Him, always be in the Father's presence? Until those few hours on the cross.
If it wasn't for the same errors inflicting the JW's and other cults throughout church history, identifying biblical truths concerning Jesus Christ, I would have stepped away from this unending discussion long ago.
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Ohio, I take it,it is not enough for you to accept the clear portrayal in the scriptures that we view Jesus as the Christ, the son of the Living God. Do you really need to have another Jesus, a god the son Jesus? The scriptures are given to us to relate to God and His Christ. If we were supposed to relate to Jesus as our God, I would say then that the footnotes of the WL version would be the correct NT, and the old NT did us a gross disservice. As I must point out Jesus himself, as quoted by John said that eternal life was to know the Father, the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom he sent. I didn’t write this quote, John did, and I accept it, and would urge you to do the same.