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Ohio- just what are your views on trinity, God and Christ? Come on, don’t be shy- put them on out there! Type them out so we can banter them around and compare them to scripture, and to those held by, oh, I don’t know, maybe apostolic Pentecostals. I’ve been straightforward with mine. Here is a start for you, here is the LSM statement of faith- what do you agree with and what do you disagree with:

Holding the Bible as the complete and only divine revelation, we strongly believe that God is eternally one and also eternally the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, the three being distinct but not separate. We hold that Christ is both the complete God and the perfect man. Without abandoning His divinity, He was conceived in the womb of a human virgin, lived a genuine human life on earth, and died a vicarious and all-inclusive death on the cross. After three days He resurrected bodily and has ascended to the heavens. He is now in glory, fully God but still fully man. We look to His imminent return with the kingdom of God, by which He will reign over the earth in the millennium and in eternity. We confess that the third of the Trinity, the Spirit, is equally God. All that the Father has and is, is expressed by the Son; and all that the Son has and is, is realized as the Spirit. We further believe that mankind is in need of God's salvation. Though we were absolutely unable to fulfill the heavy demands of God's righteousness, holiness, and glory, Christ fulfilled all the requirements through His death on the cross. Because of Christ's death, God has forgiven us of our sins, justified us by making Christ our righteousness and reconciled us to Himself. Based on Christ's redemption, God regenerates the redeemed with His Spirit to consummate His salvation, that they may become His children. Now possessing God's life and nature, the believers enjoy a daily salvation in His Body in this age and the eternal salvation in the coming age and in eternity. In eternity we will dwell with God in the New Jerusalem, the consummation of God's salvation of His elect.

Ohio, I don’t mind you comparing my beliefs about Jesus to those of the J Ws if you know what theirs are- I don’t- I don’t have a clue from where they derive their theology other than I think that back in the late 1800s early 1900s when a lot of religious groups were forming there was a guy named Rutherford who kept prophesying Jesus was returning at a certain time- and I think I actually learned this from a LC member. To me, Jehovah is a slant on Jove. God wants us to refer to Him as Father, not Jehovah. You know, Our Father- hallowed be Thy name- Jesus taught us that. There is but one God, the Father- Paul taught us, uhhh I mean me that- apparently that’s not popular thought any more.