you can read "You believe in God; believe in Me as well..." like a basic math problem because "as well" means "in addition to." So there is a belief in God and there is a belief in Jesus. 1 belief + 1 belief = 2 beliefs. Scripture explicitly states that belief in God and Jesus are separate and distinct. I know these things and your arguing against Scripture all the time isn't going to make this change.
Unitarianism is just a modern theological name for the earliest view on the Judeo Christian God which has historically been strictly monotheistic about a one person God. This isn't new, novel, or gnostic. Perhaps your ignorance of how God has been historically viewed by we Christians is all this is.
uh. you have no support for your supposed finding of ancient roots. If you are a Jew who never came to recognize Jesus, I guess I can understand how you continue to deny him.
DUhh on what Jesus said. If you cannot believe he who perfectly reflects the image of the Father, you cannot accept the Father. Maybe you heard that Jesus walked among humanity as a man. You assume that he would have to go to everyone and say "I am God." That would have been further rejection of his ministry. You have to reject that Jesus is the Son of God such that you only take it as some accidental claim by him.
Yes the Bible does describe God as a singular person consistently from cover to cover, e.g., God is a He who created alone, the Father is the only true God, etc. That's strict monotheism and leaves no room for a three person God. You are the one who does not even have a single reference to God being defined as a trinity.
Belief in God and Jesus aren't the same things. Once you are able to accept this then you be ready to accept what the rest of the Bible says. As of right now, you are not even ready for the pure and simple milk of the word.
The Bible explicitly states God is one person who created alone. I can quote it and I have many times, but not many seem to believe it. Do you feel that your beliefs trump what Scripture says?
Yes the Bible explicitly and directly states God is a singular person who created alone. Can't miss it. Actually it says this repeatedly, but to keep this concise and to the point I will begin with one example.
If you mean that no other gods were involved, then you are correct. If you deny who the Triune God is, you have not shared a passage to deny that the said God is a sole entity in his essence.
Technically the "triune god" is not even a topic in Scripture. We shouldn't even be entertaining what ifs and conjecture.
In every dictionary, language, culture, and religion throughout recorded history, singular personal pronouns refer to one person in every context. I have did my job showing where the Bible explicitly states plainly, clearly, and directly that God is just one person who created alone.
so now you consider the scripture as all conjectural. More surprises from the unitarian. The unitarian does not allow someone to explain how scripture testimony is not contradictory. So he or she leaves it in unresolved contradiction. You have left the scripture in confusion within your system of belief or you reduce meaning to meaninglessness.
You can drop the act about the trinity being Scriptural. Just speak what you know to be true. The trinity is never mentioned or described in the Bible. It's not Biblical.
You then are saying the bible is unbiblical and should be left in utter confusion so you can be protected in your unbelief about who Jesus is.
Stringing together a verse here, a verse there, redefining what words means, introducing new words and terminology, denying what Scriptural already plainly states about the Father's exclusive deity does not make the trinity Biblical. The trinity is never mentioned in the Bible either in word or description. As I said, drop the act.
I realized you were talking about your process of reading the bible -- stringing verses together to get an alternative bible interpretation. Then you say God is not described in the Bible either.
The burden of proof is on you. I have already provided all of the scriptural citations regarding the Father's exclusive deity, Jesus being an exalted and glorified man, and God being a single person who created alone. The issue is you reject what the Bible plainly says in favor or your beliefs.
