Paul E. Michael
Member
True. No Trinitarian says that Jesus is God the Father. In fact, that Jesus (the Son) is not the Father is a truth essential to Trinitarianism.No one is saying that Jesus is God the Father.
Anti-Trinitarians, as parrots, go about chanting "Jesus is not God!" Here's what's fun to ask these unitarians:
When you say "Jesus is not God," by your word, "God," are you referring to the Father? Yes or No?
Either the anti-Trinitarian, by his word, "God," is referring to the Father, or he is not.
If, when you say "Jesus is not God," by your word, "God," you are not referring to the Father, then to whom, or to what are you referring by it? And, as an unitarian—as one of the "Only the Father is God!"-crowd— why, by your word, "God," would you be referring to anyone, or to anything that is not the Father?
Here's the fun part. See, so long as the anti-Trinitarian, by his word, "God," when he chants "Jesus is not God!" is referring to the Father, this is what he is saying:
"Jesus is not [the Father]!"
So, all the anti-Trinitarian is doing, here, is preaching to the Trinitarian choir. And I, for one, have never been able to understand how preaching Trinitarian truth to Trinitarians could be considered as a way to attack Trinitarianism. But then, I'm a rationally-thinking person rather than an anti-Trinitarian.