The Bible does not teach to pray to Jesus

[amazing grace]

AG, John 1:1 says that the Word is God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

I know but 'God' is used in the nominative case meaning that it is used in an adjectival, descriptive sense.

I've always called myself a Trinitarian, but I DO NOT believe the Trinity is three separate persons. That may shock some that I am a Trinitarian. But it has to do with Adam being made in the image of God - Elohim - which is a plural word. I also do not agree with all these people who try to explain the Trinity as like an egg, or the different elements of water - steam, ice, and liquid. I just turn to the Bible and let it explain the triunity of God and man. 1 Thess. 5:23 - we are one person, but are spirit, soul and body. And the Bible also shows us which part of us is the spirit, so thereby showing us what is left - the soul, and of course the body.

elohim can be either plural or singular.
We are one person. The whole complete person being made up of body, soul and spirit.
If we were made up of God's Spirit then we would not have to be born again.

Romans 7:25 So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Galatians 5:17 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

The publisher of the Bible made a stupid error when you compare texts. It is NOT Spirit, but spirit. It is our spirit - our mind- which knows the law, but until we are born again of the Spirit, the mind works against the flesh. Those who read on knows that those who are born again are NOT IN THE FLESH, but in the Spirit, so the spirit in Galatians 5:17 is just us, not the Holy Spirit. Also, that also means that Romans 7:14-25 is not talking about those who are NOT in the flesh, so that leaves those like the Old Testament Jews who knows the law:

Romans 7:1. Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.

The difference of the old man and the new man, the new creation in Christ. ^^^^^
Those that are born again are still in the 'flesh' which is contrary to the 'spirit' which is why scripture tells us to renew our minds.

It is heartbreaking that there are church goers who struggle with the flesh and do not know that Jesus can take away that old man, the sin nature, so that you then have no desire to sin, so cannot. 1 John 3:9. That is why on the forums there are so many that are willing to give up a place in heaven to demand that Romans 7:14-25 is speaking about Christians!

I wonder why scripture tells us to renew our minds if Jesus takes it all away for us? I wonder why scripture tells us to put on the whole armour of God to stand against the schemes of the devil.

That was me for the first 30 years of going to church as I was born to a Christian family. But on 2/9/77, the years of stuggling with the flesh was suddenly gone. I was baptized in the Holy Spirit.

I also have been baptized in the holy spirit - I have the power within me but alas like Paul in Romans because I do believe Romans is written to believers - I do believe that it is a spiritual battle.

but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

What any of this has to do with this: Believing and acknowledging that Jesus is the Son is the one who has the Father, aka God also - you acknowledge Jesus as God which is denial of the Son....... I don't know.