As I said, sometimes I fall for trick questions.
Sad that you expect those you know disagree to agree with your premises.
Ditto.
haven't read all the Posts and addressing the OP only. you said, "A synonym for God is "father," ....Father" is a relational word that refers to a single individual and not a plurality". TRUE and HEAD is synonym for "Father", which the Lord Jesus is, and "GOD", Colossians 1:18 "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence." let's break this ONE VERSE down.
I think this is one example of trinitarians attempting to change word meanings to suit their doctrine. According to https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preeminence, preeminence does not mean first in any way. It only has one meaning, superioritiy.
I am in the process of going back into history and investigating the theological origins of the Word of God and the Trinity in the OT. You submitted a wealth of information about that throughout different threads by consulting various versions of the OT such as Targum. My OT preference is the LXX but I'm willing to look into non-Masoretic OT's like LXX and Targum in order to get to the unaltered truth of the OT word of God. Is there a way to organize all that information in a way that a Western-educated (Anglo/Greco/Roman) person like myself can learn from scratch all that you wrote? Have you thought about producing a book?
I have a wealth of ancient rabbinical writings scattered on my computer brother and in the process of getting it sorted up into the appropriate files-it is going to take some time.
Don't feel bad my longer posts in threads I start do not get read by most. Its not the crowds we should be focusing on ( the 99 ) but the ( 1 ).
From what you wrote about the Targum text, I believe that it would go a long way in further connecting the OT and NT as what the LXX does right now. I might be dreaming but I think that there is a definite market for that.
Keep the faith! I see great value in what you know. I'm personally gathering your stuff together but I can only understand so much. I can send you what I gather from your sources and other sources, time permitting, and maybe you can guide me? Any which way you want to go with this is fine with me.
What rabbinical sources are you looking for? On the Two Powers?
It’s so funny how threads tend to meander. This one was simply about the 1,000’s of singular pronouns used to describe YHWH - and by YHWH. Somehow that leads into excessively long posts that few read.
I would prefer the Targum as it parallels in many ways the LXX. I would prefer to concentrate on OT writings, including the Apocrypha. The Apocrypha are part of the LXX cannon, from which the Apostles quoted from, and as such should be recognized. Writings outside of the OT & NT cannon are extremely hard to "sell" in the West because we have a sour taste of them, especially from Mormon, SDA, and historical Catholic sources. The only advice I can give you is Western (Anglo/Greco/Roman) advice.
Thanks! Will do. I'll create a high level (table of contents) draft and send that to you soon, time permitting.
Give it a few days-I am edited
Brother he would really like your help. Please use your God given gift and bless him with it. I’m trying to encourage you my friend.
Who would like my help brother? Almost all my posts are being edited and/or deleted and I am calm-
I hope all is well with you. Here is my outline. I'm limited in # of links so I only presented the topics. Everyone has his presentation style and I have mine so forgive me wherever I am not clear. Tell me what you think. Maybe we can expand the topics into more areas for the purposes of remedying controversies.
No problem. Take your time. I appreciate anything advise you can give.
It's my view that Muhammad matches with Mary. From both of them came their respective Word of God and they both had a form of purity. Muhammad's "purity" was that he was illiterate so it was not possible for him to corrupt his "words of God" with any of his own writings.
