Are you a Trinitarian, and if so, can you defend the doctrine?

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Are you a Trinitarian, and can you defend the doctrine?

  • Yes, I am a Trinitarian, and I can defend the doctrine.

    Votes: 37 63.8%
  • Yes, I am a Trinitarian, but I cannot defend the doctrine.

    Votes: 2 3.4%
  • No, I deny the doctrine of the Trinity.

    Votes: 16 27.6%
  • I don't know if the Trinity is true or false.

    Votes: 3 5.2%

  • Total voters
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Jesus claims God is a Spirit and refers to Him, which indicates One Spirit Being:

John 4:
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
That's out of context. Jesus was explicitly teaching about the Father.

23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
 
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I don't know, a lot of those verses are just three things in a passage and your calling it The Trinity.
Why do the Jews not have a Trinity in their theology?
Judaism is a false religion. The Trinity is taught in the OT. And God blinded the Jews except for those who believed the gospel.
 
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Judaism is a false religion. The Trinity is taught in the OT. And God blinded the Jews except for those who believed the gospel.
So the Jews have never had a Trinity doctrine?
 
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That's out of context. Jesus was explicitly teaching about the Father.

23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Doesn't matter, it's clear that Jesus is calling the Father, God, and that Father God is a Spirit, not a person!
 

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So how do you reconcile the fact that we are told that God created the Heavens and the Earth in Genesis
and that Christ as the Word created everything in Johns Gospel?


In the Torah, when God destroyed Sodom, the term used for God is the same for God in Heaven as He is God while on Earth. The Torah is specific it's the SAME PERSON GOD being Omnipresent in Heaven and while on Earth.


כדוַֽיהֹוָ֗ה הִמְטִ֧יר עַל־סְדֹ֛ם וְעַל־עֲמֹרָ֖ה גָּפְרִ֣ית וָאֵ֑שׁ מֵאֵ֥ת יְהֹוָ֖ה מִן־הַשָּׁמָֽיִם:
Genesis 19:24
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
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According to the Hebrew, The LORD in HEAVEN was at the same time the LORD on EARTH (Omnipresent)!

World English Bible
Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

Young's Literal Translation
and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens;

It literally translates the SAME PERSON is in 2 places performing one act!



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Knowing this, we can see how the WORD and GOD are the same Person in 2 different places at once. Therefore, Genesis and John 1:1 can be viewed as GOD being OMNIPRESENT in 2 places at one time!
 
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In the Torah, when God destroyed Sodom, the term used for God is the same for God in Heaven as He is God while on Earth. The Torah is specific it's the SAME PERSON GOD being Omnipresent in Heaven and while on Earth.


כדוַֽיהֹוָ֗ה הִמְטִ֧יר עַל־סְדֹ֛ם וְעַל־עֲמֹרָ֖ה גָּפְרִ֣ית וָאֵ֑שׁ מֵאֵ֥ת יְהֹוָ֖ה מִן־הַשָּׁמָֽיִם:
Genesis 19:24
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
^
According to the Hebrew, The LORD in HEAVEN was at the same time the LORD on EARTH (Omnipresent)!

World English Bible
Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

Young's Literal Translation
and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens;

It literally translates the SAME PERSON is in 2 places performing one act!



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Knowing this, we can see how the WORD and GOD are the same Person in 2 different places at once. Therefore, Genesis and John 1:1 can be viewed as GOD being OMNIPRESENT in 2 places at one time!


Understanding that God is OMNIPRESENT, reveals how Eshu/Yeshua/Jesus/Yahweh/Jehovah can tell Moses that He is I AM and ELOHIM!


In Exodus, the Burning Bush where Yeshua reveals He is I AM, He tells Moses:

6 And He said, "I am ELOHIM of your father, ELOHIM of Abraham, ELOHIM of Isaac, and ELOHIM of Jacob." And Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look toward ELOHIM.

ווַיֹּ֗אמֶר אָֽנֹכִי֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י אָבִ֔יךָ אֱלֹהֵ֧י אַבְרָהָ֛ם אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִצְחָ֖ק וֵֽאלֹהֵ֣י יַֽעֲקֹ֑ב וַיַּסְתֵּ֤ר משֶׁה֙ פָּנָ֔יו כִּ֣י יָרֵ֔א מֵֽהַבִּ֖יט אֶל־הָֽאֱלֹהִֽים:
 
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Knowing this, we can see how the WORD and GOD are the same Person in 2 different places at once. Therefore, Genesis and John 1:1 can be viewed as GOD being OMNIPRESENT in 2 places at one time!
Bilocation nor omnipresence define person. Person is founded on the individuality of a rational being. We find in scripture the distinctions required to know God to be a community of persons.
 
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Doesn't matter, it's clear that Jesus is calling the Father, God, and that Father God is a Spirit, not a person!
So, God calls God God and from that one can conclude that God is not a person? I'm not following. The fact that Jesus is God the Son is enough to conclude they are individual persons. Jesus prays to the Father "your will not mine" reveals Individual persons.
 
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So, God calls God God and from that one can conclude that God is not a person? I'm not following. The fact that Jesus is God the Son is enough to conclude they are individual persons. Jesus prays to the Father "your will not mine" reveals Individual persons.

Jesus is called SON because He was flesh.
We are called SONS because we are flesh and accept God as our Father.

From John, the Beloved, own disciples and the Church Fathers:

God, then, having His own Word internal within His own bowels,
........... begat Him, emitting Him
........... along with His own wisdom before all things.

but the wisdom [Spirit in this instance is Sophia] of God which was in Him, and
........... His holy Word which was always present with Him.
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What this is literally saying, that the WORD and WISDOM (Spirit) are not separate on their own, because they come from within God Himself and remain as Him.
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There is no God the SON!

There is God, His WORD, and God's Wisdom (Holy Spirit)!
 
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He was MADE/MANIFESTED into flesh for one Purpose, to DIE for us!

Other than that God had no baby!

What a ridiculous idea!
 
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The only DNA the WORD has is from GOD because He is GOD!
He, as a seed, already made, was planted into Mary.
He does not have Mary's DNA!
 
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Look up invitro.

A man and woman's seed planted into a host mother. But that seed, already fertile, will NEVER have the DNA from the host mother!
It literally is attached to the wall of the host mother's womb.
 
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If the WORD had Mary's DNA, then the Nephilim were killed hypocritically by God!
This is how we know the WORD had no DNA from Mary!
 
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God's Own Law, leave human women ALONE!
If the WORD had any portion of Mary's DNA, God is breaking His Own Law!