Actually, I address the Father as Father God, & always end my prayers in Jesus' name.
Not offended at all, was just wondering what the problem was w/ speaking the name written in the native English tongue, Jehovah, which is one of Jesus' names in the Old Testament.
Pre-Islam era, the Edomites practiced polytheism, & worshiped various deities, including gods associated with nature, & fertility. Israel has been known to adopt deities from other nations to worship. I've noticed a lot of bad fruit associated w/ the name Yahweh, & just wanted to give a head's up.
Thanks.
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But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me. [2 Timothy 1:12]
That's great that you got what Paul wrote regarding the Old Testament, amen!
The mediator of the new covenant God makes w/ the house of Israel, & the house of Judah in the future. The promises made to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob. Christians confuse the New Testament w/ the new covenant. Paul makes no mention of the Body of Christ being promised an earthly inheritance, only a heavenly inheritance.
Replacement Theology teaches the Body of Christ is the true Israel (aka spiritual Israel). Romans 11 is a thorn in the side of those who claim we have replaced Israel. Paul says there's neither Jew, 'nor Gentile in the Body of Christ. Galatians 3:28
Yes, we all one in Christ.
remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. [Eph. 2:12-16] Yep, There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. . . . . One body, one church of which Christ is the head.
And this is why Jesus said He, & His Father are one. The Father, Son, & Holy Spirit have always existed. None were created.
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
1 Timothy 3:16
I believe that particular rendering is questionable. There was no need for God to be justified (1. to render righteous or such he ought to be; 2. to show, exhibit, evince, one to be righteous, such as he is and wishes himself to be considered; 3. to declare, pronounce, one to be just, righteous, or such as he ought to be) - God was seen of angels in the beginning at creation, it was Jesus who was preached to the Gentiles; it was Jesus who was received up into glory.
AI: The oldest versions of 1 Timothy 3:16 read as "He who was manifested in the flesh" or simply "who was manifested in the flesh". The reading "God" appeared later, likely due to a scribal error where the abbreviation for "God" (ΘΣ) was accidentally substituted for the abbreviation for "who" or "he" (ΟΣ) in manuscripts like the
Codex Alexandrinus and
Sinaiticus.
God w/ us b/c He was God manifest in the flesh. You can't get around this, amazing.
God with us because God was in Christ - thanks.
Christians don't have two, or three Gods. Only the one, true God.
I and my Father are one.
John 10:30
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and
no one will snatch them out of my hand.
My Father, who has given them to me,
is greater than all, and
no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one.” [John 10:28-30] I and my Father are one in caring and keeping the sheep----one in purpose and mission.
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
1 John 5:7
The above passage is also a disputed passage because it is missing from the earliest and most reliable Greek manuscripts before the fifteenth or sixteenth century.
I apologize for being disrespectful, amazing. My only intent was to show you where Unitarianism got its roots from.
The Origins and Beliefs of Arianism
Arianism takes its name from Arius (c. 256–336 AD), a Christian presbyter in Alexandria, Egypt. Around 318 AD, Arius began teaching a radically different view of Christ’s nature, which sparked the controversy.
Arius’ Key Beliefs:
Christ as a created being:
- Arius taught that Jesus Christ was not co-eternal with God the Father but was a created being.
- He believed that “there was a time when the Son was not”, meaning Christ was brought into existence by the Father.
Monotheism and simplicity of God:
- Arius emphasized the belief in one supreme God, suggesting that the Son, as a created being,
could not share the Father’s divine essence.
- This made Arianism attractive to those who feared that the doctrine of the Trinity threatened monotheism.
There are two schools...
1. Antioch, where they were first called Christians. Acts 11:26
2. Alexandria, which teaches:
Gnosticism
Witchcraft
Spiritualism
Philosophy
Tradition
Arius, as you can see, taught in Alexandria. It's a 4th century belief held by a man.
Unitarianism - Unitarian Monotheism has it roots in the beginning throughout the OT - The God of our fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob ----- a single ONE.
The first century church was built upon the OT scriptures therefore they were also Unitarians.
The fourth and fifth centuries brought about the idea of a Triune God and developed from there . . .
I am a Biblical Unitarian - a monotheist.
