I was just curious. It's 285 pages long. I just wondered if you had actually read it.
Yea, My wife found that article, but you are right I just read some of it, you know! some plant, some water, but God giveth the increase, but any way, about Chapter 9 of this article is where I came across the way that I heard from a Brother by the name of David Terrell, he had mentioned that Jesus Christ is God and he is moving.
Well, that statement stayed with me for years until I read where Peter said: Thou Art The Christ The Son Of The Living God, then I remembered what Jesus said to the woman by the well that God Is A Spirit.
Then I read about on this site from
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Greetings all. I posted this elsewhere and thought maybe I would share it with my new forum as well, since I have a few days off for a little forum activity. There are a lot of non-Trinitarians on the forum where I initially posted this, which is why I thought it might be helpful in illuminating the Biblical text, and providing a support base for the teaching of the early church. There is a Part 2 and Part 3, but all center on passages that I feel non-Trinitarian arguments don't do very good job of refuting.
Blessings in Christ,
Hidden In Him
First the verse: "And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory
I had with you
before the world began." (
εἶχον πρὸ τοῦ
τὸν κόσμον εἶναι. John 17:5)
Quoting from
Biblical Unitarian, here is one non-Trinitarian argument concerning this verse:
1. There is no question that Jesus “existed” before the world began. But did he exist literally as a person or in God’s foreknowledge, “in the mind of God?” Both Christ and the corporate be in the Body of Christ, the Church, existed in God’s foreknowledge before being alive. Christ was the “logos,” the “plan” of God from the beginning, and he became flesh only when he was conceived. It is Trinitarian bias that causes people to read an actual physical existence into this verse rather than a figurative existence in the mind of God. When 2 Timothy 1:9 says that each Christian was given grace “before the beginning of time,” no one tries to prove that we were actually alive with God back then. Everyone acknowledges that we were “in the mind of God,” i.e., in God’s foreknowledge. The same is true of Jesus Christ. His glory was “with the Father” before the world began, and in John 17:5he prayed that it would come into manifestation.
2. Jesus was praying that he would have the glory the Old Testament foretold, which had been in the mind of God, the Father, since before the world began, and would come into concretion. Trinitarians, however, teach that Jesus was praying about glory he had with God many years before his birth...
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The problem with this argument is that Jesus in no uncertain terms asks to be clothed with the glory He
had with the Father before the world began, not some glory that was "
in the mind of God" before the world began. This is adding to the text to support a doctrinal bias.
I agree that a person's doctrines should not be formed out of doctrinal bias, as the author himself admitted when he stated, "It is Trinitarian bias that causes people to read an actual physical existence into this verse rather than a figurative existence in the mind of God." But he is committing the very sin he is accusing others of. The word ought to be read for
what it says, not what it has to be manipulated into saying in order to suit someone's preconceived notions.
God bless,
Hidden In Him
And others have this understanding as in the title/OP of the article:
The
Awesome
Mystery of
GOD
The Father, the Logos, the
Messiah, the Mystery of
Christ
William F. Dankenbring
But my point is in Chapter 9 of the article: Is Jesus Christ Really God?
Love, Walter
