Originally Posted by Boxjobox
My main conclusion is that Paul and John, through giving us Jesus’s quotes say that there is one, only, true God who is the Father.
My other conclusion is that there is no such teaching of a three person God in scripture, but rather quite demonstrable there is repeated teaching of recognition of one God, the Father and one Lord Jesus Christ, the son of God. Paul, Peter, James, Jude, John all write of, acknowledge God the Father.
I don’t feel I’m important, I do feel the scripture is important. And I do feel that trinitarianism, including the subset of modalism and all the variants of that have brought Christianity to a bad place. I do think it is time to throw off that farce and return to the practice of the foundational church as Paul, the wise master builder established. And take Paul’s admonition of proclaiming one God and Father, who is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus- our God and his God, our Father and his Father.
Is there a God the Father, is there a Jesus Christ, the son of God, is there a Holy Spirit? Of course! But the scripture, at least in my humble reading, gives us, and expects us to acknowledge one God, the Father, of whom out of Him, and through Him and to Him are all things.
Ohio, over time, I have responded to your inquiries, but you keep bringing up the same thing- a few verses or parts on verses that” indicate” Jesus is God. This seem to be the most important belief, that everyone is supposed to acknowledge that Jesus is God, and thus enter into a faith of a trinity God, and proclaim God is three people in one, and maybe, perhaps the three people are really one in the same, manifesting themselves in different forms, or one became the other, who then became the other.
But the great apostle Paul, whom I do deem as important ( who, by the way did not consider himself becoming God) wrote quite plainly that there is but one God, the Father.
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