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Originally Posted by UntoHim
I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Isaiah 42:8
Septuagint
ἐγὼ κύριος ὁ θεός τοῦτό μού ἐστιν τὸ ὄνομα τὴν δόξαν μου ἑτέρῳ οὐ δώσω οὐδὲ τὰς ἀρετάς μου τοῗς γλυπτοῗς
And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
John 17:5 ESV
Textus Receptus
καὶ νῦν δόξασόν με σύ πάτερ παρὰ σεαυτῷ τῇ δόξῃ ᾗ εἶχον πρὸ τοῦ τὸν κόσμον εἶναι παρὰ σοί
The most sacred and precious thing to God is his Name. (here in Isaiah: κύριος ὁ θεός - The Lord God) Closely related to his name, and just as sacred and just as precious, is his glory. God will not share his Name with any other, and God will not share his glory with any other.
Moses received the most sacred and most precious gift from God himself - "I AM WHO I AM", and simply "I AM", Later in Exodus Moses exclaimed "Show me your glory!" Moses, along with the Children of Israel, eventually realized that next to his name, the most sacred and most precious thing God could reveal to them was his glory.
Either Jesus Christ was an insane heretic (which is exactly what much of the Jewish leadership thought of him) or he actually shares the glory of God with the Father. He temporarily laid this glory aside from the time of his incarnation until his resurrection, at which time he "reunited" with the Father and resumed his rightful place - sharing in the glory of God with the Father.
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Untohim, because you choose trinitarianism over the great revelation Paul gives us in his ministering to the Ephesians, you draw wrong conclusions and set them up as truth; yet the Spirit of God witnesses to truth. Here is what Peter With the backing of the 120 spoke in his 1st public gospel and we know the Holy Spirit witnessed with signs and convicted hearts
Acts 2 29Brethren, I may say unto you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us unto this day. 30Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins he would set one upon his throne; 31he foreseeing this'spake of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he left unto Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. 32This Jesus did God raise up, whereof we all are witnesses. 33Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye see and hear.
34For David ascended not into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
35Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet. 36Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly, that God hath made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom ye crucified.
God made this crucified Jesus both Lord and Christ. This is what Paul considered the needed revelation in Ephesians and this is what Peter, (you know, the first pope of the trinitarian religion!), spoke as gospel.
Tritheism debases the scripture and sends it’s followers down a false path. It’s time to “recover” the church back to its foundational roots.