Thomas... My Lord and my God

[Peterlag]

He was a sin offering. But he was also made to be sin on our behalf, as Isaiah said He would be. Adding the word "offering" to that passage doesn't make the verse dispute other Scripture, but it does make it say something that the original writer (and the Holy Spirit who authored it) meant for it to say.

But God cannot become sin.

 

[mikesw]

uh. maybe that is why God's Son became incarnate so that his body could take it on. However, the metaphysical sense may be beyond our understanding, but the effect and benefit to us makes better sense to those who recognize that God can do these things. Maybe someone can share this with Peterlag.

 

[dwight92070]

There's reasons why the Bible does not teach Unitarianism in one whole paragraph in a few different places or a whole chapter or two on it. There's reasons why the Bible teaches that God would come to the earth as a man. There's reasons why there was never a debate about Unitarianism in Scripture like we see with justification by works or who should be circumcised. Such an important subject matter like Unitarianism and the Bible is silent on all of it.

And there's the spinning and twisting from the Unitarians who can't come up with one verse in the Bible that says we should not believe or confess that Jesus is God. Unitarians who can't come up with one verse that says why God would not come to the earth as a man. Unitarians who have to make up their own words that are not in the Bible. Words like Unitarian, and Unitarianism and nonTrinitarian.

If any of this nonsense - Unitarianism - was true and since it's so important and a huge subject to Christianity and is necessary for salvation like many teach. Then it would have been taught by someone somewhere. And it is not.

 

[mikesw]

There's reasons why the Bible does not teach Unitarianism in one whole paragraph in a few different places or a whole chapter or two on it. There's reasons why the Bible teaches that God would come to the earth as a man. There's reasons why there was never a debate about Unitarianism in Scripture like we see with justification by works or who should be circumcised. Such an important subject matter like Unitarianism and the Bible is silent on all of it.

And there's the spinning and twisting from the Unitarians who can't come up with one verse in the Bible that says we should not believe or confess that Jesus is God. Unitarians who can't come up with one verse that says why God would not come to the earth as a man. Unitarians who have to make up their own words that are not in the Bible. Words like Unitarian, and Unitarianism and nonTrinitarian.

If any of this nonsense - Unitarianism - was true and since it's so important and a huge subject to Christianity and is necessary for salvation like many teach. Then it would have been taught by someone somewhere. And it is not.

Thomas' reaction to seeing Jesus resurrected would have been a perfect time for Jesus to say "No. I am just a resurrected person."

 

[dwight92070]

Thomas' reaction to seeing Jesus resurrected would have been a perfect time for Jesus to say "No. I am just a resurrected person."

Obviously Jesus didn't say that, because that would be false. He acknowledged that Thomas now believed that He was his Lord and his God.

 

[Doug Brents]

But God cannot become sin.

That is your opinion. Scripture says that He did.