Why Nobody Graduates From The Bible?

[Runningman]

so you are saying Jesus cannot be a High Priest because of his divinity!! You sure are limiting what God can do.

A reminder. You quote scripture as if you are making an argument. I reminded you that you are not showing a denial of Jesus divinity with your scripture quotes. Oh well for the unitarian weaknesses showing up again.

Jesus is a high priest, but not God because he is a high priest. People are not God because they are divine in the Bible.

The leap you are making to get to your conclusion is a common mistake made by Trinitarians. For example, being divine doesn't mean deity, being divine doesn't make someone God.

2 Peter 1
4Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

Actually, Jesus isn't the only priest. Scripture states Jesus has made other priests to his God, the Father.

Revelation 1
6who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.

 

[mikesw]

Jesus is a high priest, but not God because he is a high priest. People are not God because they are divine in the Bible.

The leap you are making to get to your conclusion is a common mistake made by Trinitarians. For example, being divine doesn't mean deity, being divine doesn't make someone God.

2 Peter 1
4Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

Actually, Jesus isn't the only priest. Scripture states Jesus has made other priests to his God, the Father.

Revelation 1
6who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.

Wow. I cannot believe how bad your memory is. I speak of divinity as being God. So if God is not God, the whole logic of scripture disappears. I suppose that is what gives room for the unitarian heresy to continue.

Being partakers of the divine nature speaks of Christ's Spirit in us. If Jesus is not divine, then his spirit cannot be in us. You again take a verse that you wish to deny Christ that actually reveals aspects of the Triune God.

I do not know why you keep posting with such big errors. I think you do so because you cannot see what the passages reveal. You will even doubt the meaning after it has been shared.

 

[mikesw]

Jesus is a high priest, but not God because he is a high priest. People are not God because they are divine in the Bible.

The leap you are making to get to your conclusion is a common mistake made by Trinitarians. For example, being divine doesn't mean deity, being divine doesn't make someone God.

2 Peter 1
4Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

Also, proof texting is not bible study nor good debating. The interpretation has to be related to the context of the verse. In fact, your interpretation would support Mormonism, where everyone becomes a god and gets their own planet -- or something like that.
So you are providing some reasons why people do not graduate from the bible and not even get through the first grade of it.

 

[Runningman]

Wow. I cannot believe how bad your memory is. I speak of divinity as being God. So if God is not God, the whole logic of scripture disappears. I suppose that is what gives room for the unitarian heresy to continue.

Being partakers of the divine nature speaks of Christ's Spirit in us. If Jesus is not divine, then his spirit cannot be in us. You again take a verse that you wish to deny Christ that actually reveals aspects of the Triune God.

I do not know why you keep posting with such big errors. I think you do so because you cannot see what the passages reveal. You will even doubt the meaning after it has been shared.

Being divine isn't what makes someone God. That is nothing near what is ever stated anywhere in the Bible.

The wall you are going to keep hitting is that you are mixing your philosophy with the language of the Bible and isn't working out well for you.

Of course, you would need to deny that others are divine and change it some some religious sounding mumbo jumbo instead of using the language of the Bible. That's why you deny 2 Peter 1:4.

Let's ask you bluntly. Is it possible for you to share in the divine nature of God? A yes or no will suffice.

 

[Runningman]

Also, proof texting is not bible study nor good debating. The interpretation has to be related to the context of the verse. In fact, your interpretation would support Mormonism, where everyone becomes a god and gets their own planet -- or something like that.
So you are providing some reasons why people do not graduate from the bible and not even get through the first grade of it.

This seems to be a debate between your philosophy and the Bible. I think you're just looking for validation from other people because you can't find it in the Bible.

 

[mikesw]

Being divine isn't what makes someone God. That is nothing near what is ever stated anywhere in the Bible.

The wall you are going to keep hitting is that you are mixing your philosophy with the language of the Bible and isn't working out well for you.

Of course, you would need to deny that others are divine and change it some some religious sounding mumbo jumbo instead of using the language of the Bible. That's why you deny 2 Peter 1:4.

Let's ask you bluntly. Is it possible for you to share in the divine nature of God? A yes or no will suffice.

I think you blanked out when I shared with you about Christ being in Christians. So we have a down payment of God's Spirit in Christians. I guess that idea does not apply to you. You seek to diminish who Christ is while drastically overstating what people can do for righteousness.

The analysis I see of 2 Pet 1:4 of enjoyment of the Spirit of God in us. Here is a commentary to give some detail

In contrast to Hellenistic ideas, Peter maintains that corruption and mortality are not due to matter, but to sin. You do not escape them by cult initiation now and the immortality of the soul after death, but by God implanting a new nature, Christ’s own, within you, which will produce holiness of life now, and will flower into the fullness of knowing him after this life is over

Michael Green, 2 Peter and Jude: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 18, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1987), 85.

 

[mikesw]

This seems to be a debate between your philosophy and the Bible. I think you're just looking for validation from other people because you can't find it in the Bible.

Proverbs 16:25 (ESV)
25There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Your dependence solely on what seems right to you actually turns out to be a precarious path. If you have keener insight than all other people, you will have to demand that people bow down and worship you.

Okay. My point is that you do not have sufficient scope of understanding to even prove the minutes beliefs of your unitarian system of interpretation. You are wavering between unitarian beliefs and Mormon beliefs now. Those are pretty wild interpretations paths you take.