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    Please help me to respond to some of my non-trinitarian friends

    Reply to Posthuman " Revelation 22:3 And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. the Spirit is authoring this, individual from God and the Lamb, and it is the word of God, so the Spirit is also equivalently God. the...
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    Please help me to respond to some of my non-trinitarian friends

    This is what my friend believes: The Holy Spirit is a portal through which the invisible God, the Father, can communicate, speak through, instill knowledge and wisdom, and empower those indwelt. Our reality is in the mind of the Father. That is how He has all of those godly powers. The...
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    Please help me to respond to some of my non-trinitarian friends

    In answer to most of your posts my friend says: Our reality is in the mind of the Father. The Holy Spirit is a portal through which the Father communicates with, speaks through, and empowers the beings He indwells. Matt 11: 27 All things are delivered unto me by my Father, and no man knoweth...
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    Please help me to respond to some of my non-trinitarian friends

    Thank you all for your responses. I let my non-trinitarian friend read all of them but he points out that no Jews who converted to Christianity ever challenged the Trinity (lack of controversy). If the Trinity is true, then Jesus and His apostles must have believed it and taught it. The lack of...
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    Please help me to respond to some of my non-trinitarian friends

    Greetings brothers and sisters. I have some Christian friends that are not trinitarians. What is the Trinity? one God in three persons (one being or essence with 3 personalities) co-eternal (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have always existed) co-essential (they share the same essence) co-equal...
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    Did Jesus Die on The Cross for The Just/Elect/Saved Whose Names Are Written in The Book of Life OR

    Wrong. Christ's death was for all those appointed to salvation out of all humanity. There is no contingency on our part because it is God the Father who fills us with the faith and repentance that leads to salvation. It is the Father who builds up the body of Christ when Christ baptizes with...
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    My God, My God. Why have you forsaken me?

    I thought that Jesus death on the cross was substitutionary. We are all imperfect because we are sinners, and the result of sin is death. Jesus was born under the law of conscience (knowing good and evil) because of Adam and Eve, but never sinned. He was not supposed to die, but he allowed...
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    My God, My God. Why have you forsaken me?

    Hi Paul. Thanks for trying to answer my questions. I appreciate your honest reply. The approach that I've taken in my research is from a rational perspective. For example, if God can create out of nothing, has always existed even before creation, knows all things including the present, past, and...
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    My God, My God. Why have you forsaken me?

    Why does Jesus ask why? Why does Jesus refer to his Father as his God when according to the Trinity, Jesus is already God? God is a rational God, and is not a God of confusion. Anything irrational must be man-made. I'm trying to understand. In your answer to my post, are you saying that at the...
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    Did Jesus Die on The Cross for The Just/Elect/Saved Whose Names Are Written in The Book of Life OR

    I agree with everything you posted above, but fail to see what truths you think I was never taught?
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    My God, My God. Why have you forsaken me?

    I'm trying to understand. If according to the Trinity Jesus is all God, how or why would Jesus think that He had forsaken Himself? Why would He even question the Father or even pray to himself? The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are supposed to be one being. If they are three different minds, how...
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    Did Jesus Die on The Cross for The Just/Elect/Saved Whose Names Are Written in The Book of Life OR

    Jesus' death on the cross made it possible (opened the door) for all to get saved. However, not everyone will get saved (the road to damnation is wide, and the road to salvation is narrow and few will find it). We are all born defective and are all headed towards damnation. Our defect is our...
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    Total Depravity

    Matt 24: 37 But as in the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. This verse follows Matt 24: 36 which states that only the Father knows the day and time. The analogy that is brought up is with the days of Noah concerning the people being oblivious to the upcoming...
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    Total Depravity

    The point that I'm trying to make is that there are things that only the Father knows. Matt 24 : 36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. Also, the God of the old testament changed his mind, repented of some of his actions, exhibited...
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    What is the point in being a prophet?

    Greetings voiceinthewild. A prophet is a person who receives the Holy Spirit of the Father. The Holy Spirit is referred to as "the angel of His presence". An angel because it can be sent, and where the Holy Spirit is, the Father is. Isaiah 63: 9-10 In all their affliction He was afflicted, and...
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    Total Depravity

    Since you guys are trying to understand God from a human perspective, how about my rationalization of what is really going on. Question: How can the Father know everything (past, present, and future), create out of nothing, can do anything, etc. Rationalized Answer: Our reality is in the mind of...
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    Total Depravity

    Jesus not only erases our sins, He perfects us when He baptizes us with the Holy Spirit. From what I gather, the Holy Spirit is a portal through which the Father can communicate, speak through, and empower those indwelt. Where the Holy Spirit is, the Father is. Isaiah 63: 9-10 In all their...
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    Total Depravity

    Romans 4: 15 Because the law worketh wrath; for where no law is, there is no transgression. Romans 5: 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, Romans 7: 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but by the law; for I had not known...