the Trinity belief does not discredit Jesus as man, He was both man and divine.
Darcy,
As I mentioned, there is a LOT more here - trust me, you barely have your big toe in the water. I have been at this for 30+ yrs and spent ten - fifteen years almost soley focused on Christology. I am not saying I understand everything or that I am necessarily right - only that what is passed for teaching in the Evangelical church is, well, the nicest I can say is "pre-medieval" and with just that amount of thought...
I would be happy to work with you but only on the condition that you are willing to change your mind when obvious texts are brought. At present, I would not go beyond ICor8:6.
re: Traditional Trinitarian Theology denies the man Christ Jesus
Again - there is more here than you know. Below I provide a snippet from Schaff (with a couple annotations...) who specifically states this. HOWEVER, I can provide you quotes from 20 different systematics that will state exactly the same thing -they ALL deny the human person of Christ. They are forced to do so - and, thus, Satan's greatest deception - the denial of the man Christ Jesus - the only mediator between man and God. Crazy? Yup - that is what they told Martin Luther too I imagine (though I am hardly unique in this assertion).
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc3.iii.xii.xxvi.html
“History of the Christian Churchâ€, Philip Schaff, Vol III, p.757
7. The anhypostasia, impersonality, or, to speak more accurately, the enhypostasia, of the human nature of Christ.
This is a difficult point[impossible actually...], but a necessary link in the orthodox doctrine of the one God-Man; for otherwise we must have two persons in Christ, and, after the incarnation, a fourth person, and that a human, in the divine Trinity. The impersonality of Christ’s human nature, however, is not to be taken as absolute, but relative, as the following considerations will show.
The centre of personal life in the God-Man resides unquestionably in the Logos, who was from eternity the second person in the Godhead, and could not lose his personality. He united himself, as has been already observed, not with a human person, but with human nature. The divine nature is therefore the root and basis of the personality of Christ. Christ himself, moreover, always speaks and acts in the full consciousness of his divine origin and character; as having come from the Father, having been sent by him, and, even during his earthly life, living in heaven and in unbroken communion with the Father.1653 And the human nature of Christ had no independent personality of its own, besides the divine; it had no existence at all before the incarnation, but began with this act, and was so incorporated with the preexistent Logos-personality as to find in this alone its own full self-consciousness, and to be permeated and controlled by it in every stage of its development. But the human nature forms a necessary element in the divine personality, and in this sense we may say with the older Protestant theologians, that Christ is a persona suvnqeto", which was divine and human at once.1654
Thus interpreted, the church doctrine of the enhypostasia presents no very great metaphysical or psychological difficulty. It is true we cannot, according to our modern way of thinking, conceive a complete human nature without personality. We make personality itself consist in intelligence and free will, so that without it the nature sinks to a mere abstraction of powers, qualities, and functions.1655 But the human nature of Jesus never was, in fact, alone; it was from the beginning inseparably united with another nature, which is personal, and which assumed the human into a unity of life with itself. The Logos-personality is in this case the light of self-consciousness, and the impelling power of will, and pervades as well the human nature as the divine.1656
