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Trinity ~ God is One not 3!

Postby alifaia » Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:34 pm

Greetings everyone...

over the past 18 months i have learnt a great deal about christianity as a muslim than i ever learnt during my 25 years as a christian... (well... i guess i was too busy partying n stuff.. :) ) anyways...

When ever i try to discuss trinity with anyone... invariably it ends up in a no show or "It is a mystery" label or a reversal of topics where Islam is the main subject... I have asked honest questions and .... maybe due to the fact that the christian posters are tired of repeating the same thing over n over again , get pissed off... which is quite understandable.... anyways... like elsewhere i will post my thoughts here... and lets see....

Ask a muslim what is Trinity... an automatic answer will be ... its an illogical 3=1 equation... frankly speaking this cant be possible... but this is what a christian will say. with no further explaination ... or if there is any explaination ... something similar to the mind-body-soul or water-ice-steam ... but all such examples fall short of explaining what Trinity really is... some fault or the other can be found in all such examples.... as for scripture... the word is not in hte Bible... it was first coined by a church person... (sorry cant remember who) in the 2nd century... (plz correct me if i am wrong) and interestingly enough this same person later on said that the more he tried to understand this word the more confused he got... I think it was terutullian or somethign liek that... anyways...

everyone knows that the Son is not the Father is not the Spirit... all 3 are different... distinct... individual entities... so keeping this in mind are these 3 entities absolute? infinite? supreme? or is there a hierarchary (i always was bad at spellings) you see the statement goes as " We/I believe in the Father creator of all things.. we also believe in Jesus the Son ....... " i cant remember the whole creed... basically this states that there are 3 distinct persons... and these 3 persons are one... what is missing here is one what? one purpose? one entity? one what?

now allthis is well and good... but the christian claim is they are monotheists.... which cant be possible. considering that the mere mention of the word trinity signifies more that 1 clearly makes it non-monotheistic... rather its tri-theistic.... or a more generalized term polytheistic...

I was going thru a thread here an hour back... started by ms. ladybeliever... she went on to explain the concept of trinity and others here joind in saying similar comments... (well except for the why the Holy Spirit is not also worshiped) and after reading that thread ... and gazzilions of others here and elsewhere... the bottom line conclusion one will arrive at everytime is there are 3 entities... (i wont use the word God here...) if there are 3 distinct entities... how are these 3 distinct entities 1 entity??? is this what the trinity means??? i.e. 3 entities who are 1 entity??? or is it more of a purpose / command thingie??? i.e. the same driving purpose... united in purpose... unity in diversity...

So i guess the real question is is christianity a monotheistic religion or a polytheistic one?

Anyways....

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Postby alifaia » Tue Sep 14, 2004 05:06 am

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Postby webmaster » Tue Sep 14, 2004 05:20 am

God(Yahweh) done answered your doubts in His Son 500 years before the Quran corrupted it!


The Deity(Jesus Christ) is Elohim(God) the same as the Spirit of Elohim(Yahweh) is Elohim(God) or that the Word(John 1:1) is the same as Elohim(God).

The Deity(Jesus Christ) existed before the foundation of the world!
John 1:1.

The Word(John 17) is in the Father and the Father is in Jesus.

So since Jesus is the Word(John 1:1) then Jesus is also in the Father.

Jesus Christ who is sitting at the Right hand of the Father has been given all authority, judgment(John 6:27), and etc.

Everything has been placed under His feet in Heaven and on Earth
(1 Corinthians 15:27).

And in the end when all things shall be subdued unto Him(Jesus),
then shall the Son also himself be subject unto Him(Yahweh)
that put all things under him(Jesus),
that God(Yahweh) may be all in all(One),
with no arguments that He(Yahweh) is one
from those who are lost and don't want to receive the truth.
1 Corinthians 15:16-28, Deuteronomy 6:4-5.

Jesus shall humble himself again in Heaven and prove that he is the Son of God to the terror of every Muslim when they are thrown into the Lake of Fire buring forever because of their unbelief!

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Postby Truth Seeker-Joshua » Tue Sep 14, 2004 05:50 am

Peace ali,

Here is what I believe as a Christian.

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of all things.

I believe in Jesus Christ, the One and Only Savior.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, for guidance and protection.

Each of the trinity having a seperate purpose. God created us and shows mercy on us, Jesus carried the sins of the world upon him and saved us, the Holy Spirit guides and protects us.

But in the New Covenant, the only thing I need to for salvation is in Jesus's words, "the Kingdon of God can be sought and entered through me."

Ali, this is just my belief of the truth, and Im sure doesnt answer your question. But what I always feel regarding the question of the trinity is: we are 1 dimensional humans trying to explain and understand a un-demensional God. He never asked us to understand him, he only asks for our faith

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Postby alifaia » Wed Sep 15, 2004 06:10 am

Hi everyone....

Thanks for the replies...

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The Deity(Jesus Christ) is Elohim(God) the same as the Spirit of Elohim(Yahweh) is Elohim(God) or that the Word(John 1:1) is the same as Elohim(God).

So the Son is the Father and the Father is the Spirit and the Spirit is the Son... i.e. they are all one entity... and these titles are just that.. titles?

Jesus Christ who is sitting at the Right hand of the Father has been given all authority, judgment(John 6:27), and etc.

if Jesus are the Father are one entity... then ... i dont understand this verse.....

If i am not mistaken there is a verse in the Bible stating the God is not a God of confusion... which i feel is true... now.. whenever i try to go in deep study of the trinity... well... i reach a stop point which i just cant pass over... are the 3 persons in reality just one person are are they actually 3... if the former then this would contradict the many many many verses of atleast 2 of the 3 persons interacting with each other. if the latter... then it contradicts the "Hear o israel.... "verse...

And to be honest with you all ... i just cant seem to get over this.

Hi TSJ... greetings....


But in the New Covenant, the only thing I need to for salvation is in Jesus's words, "the Kingdon of God can be sought and entered through me."

Ali, this is just my belief of the truth, and Im sure doesnt answer your question. But what I always feel regarding the question of the trinity is: we are 1 dimensional humans trying to explain and understand a un-demensional God. He never asked us to understand him, he only asks for our faith


this is problem no. 2... 100% of the time every trinity thread ever started ends up with the "Mystery of God" explaination. which i agree is perfectly fine... for a person born as a christian... how?? well from day 1 he will be told this time and again to a point where it will be like 2nd nature to him... sort of like programming... (plz... this is true for any religion... even in Islam... the shia program their kids the sunni do so too the hindus etc... everyone does it... well program might be a harsh word... but i do hope you all understand what i am trying to get at)

But what about the outsider? forinstance... a non-denomination guy wishes to understand christianity... now this guy is a rational scientific type guy... so... how does one go about it???

first explain the Original sin... and how we all are in sin etc... which can be explained... although not to absolute certanity but at least get the point across...

2nd explain how God loves His creation etc that He chose to sacrifice His only son for the sake of man kind. .... hold on a moment... this is when the guy will say " God's son???"

3rd explain Trinity. now if the christian guy who was showing this guy all stuff... well.. he will state the standard trinity explaination 3=1 ... and honestly speaking ... this outsider knowledge seeker will get stumped.

Guy: is it one??? or is it 3??
Christian : "Well i am sorry my friend... but this is how God works... we do not know... and there is no way we will ever know.. .true the statements sound contradicting.. but that is the mystery of God... the creation cannot understand the creator... you will just have to accept this on blind faith"
Guy : why???
Christian : "coz i said so"
Guy : How can a non christian accept a christian doctrine without understanding it... without it making sense... If the bottom line requirement is blind faith and not rationale ... then whats wrong with hinduism or judaism or islam or even the zulu religion... they all have faith... what makes christianity superlative ???

So you see the delima ... this just doesnt cut it. anyways i appreciate the responses... thanks...

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Postby webmaster » Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:12 pm

All it takes is simple childlike faith underwise it's based upon Self. You should spend some time understanding that SELF is what seperates you from God. Everything is about I don't understand, I don't believe, I don't think it's logical I I I I I I I SELF SELF SELF!

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Postby newseed » Wed Sep 15, 2004 02:36 pm

Peace alifaia,

this is problem no. 2... 100% of the time every trinity thread ever started ends up with the "Mystery of God" explaination. which i agree is perfectly fine... for a person born as a christian... how?? well from day 1 he will be told this time and again to a point where it will be like 2nd nature to him... sort of like programming... (plz... this is true for any religion... even in Islam... the shia program their kids the sunni do so too the hindus etc... everyone does it... well program might be a harsh word... but i do hope you all understand what i am trying to get at)


Firstly, your understanding that everyone has been programmed from birth is wrong. I lived life knowing of a god but never knew God. No one in my family were Christians. The first thing I learned about Christ was His salvation and how my decision could affects me. Until I got saved, I never knew the meaning of the Trinity muchless think that Jesus is God. I just never took the time to KNOW Jesus. And through all that time, I never once sought God to reveal the truth to me until 6 years ago. I got saved by the teachings of Christ. Trinity was not taught to me nor was I taught that He was God. Once my confession of sins was brought forth to God, I began to see Jesus as being more than just a man. This led me to know Christ even more.

Here's my point: You can try to learn about the Trinity all you want but you are never going to truly understand the truth unless you are in the truth. Man has the tendancy to make God limitive in what He can or cannot do. What's surprisingly is that most believe that God has created all that we see and cannot see and yet many cannot believe that God could become a man.

Being in Christ brings truth. Jesus has preached it over and over again in the Gospels. Maybe you should be asking your question to God the Father since you want to know the truth so badly.

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Postby webmaster » Fri Sep 17, 2004 09:44 pm

The basic creed of Reformed churches, as most familiarly known, is called the Apostles' Creed. It has received this title because of its great antiquity; it dates from very early times in the Church, a half century or so from the last writings of the New Testament.
Martin Luther said "Christian truth could not possibly be put into a shorter and clearer statement" than that which is contained in the Apostles’ Creed. The earliest trace of the Apostles Creed goes back to Ignatius who lived in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD.


The Apostles' Creed

I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
the Creator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:

Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.

He descended into hell.

The third day He arose again from the dead.

He ascended into heaven
and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty,
whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the *one holy universal church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting.

Amen.

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Postby webmaster » Fri Sep 17, 2004 09:45 pm

THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT GOD IS ONE.

Isaiah 45:22 – “…for I am God and there is none else.”
Isaiah 45:5 – “…there is none else, there is no God beside me…”
Isaiah 44:6 – “…I am the first…beside me there is no God.”
1 Timothy 2:5 – “For there is ONE God…”
1 Corinthians 8:4 – “…a false god is nothing…and there is no other God but one.”
Deuteronomy 6:4 – “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is ONE Lord.”
Ephesians 4:5 – “ONE Lord, one faith, one baptism.”


Deuteronomy 6:4 – “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is ONE Lord.”

The literal translation of this would be:
4.
|8085| Hear,
|3478| O Israel,
|3068| Yahweh,
|0430| our God,
|3068| {is} Yahweh
|0259| one.
Here the name of God is mentioned three times, and the word translated one (echad) expresses a compound unity

Strong's Number: 259
Transliterated: 'echad
Phonetic: ekh-awd'
Text: a numeral from 258; properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first: --a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, [dai-]ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,

example as in the expressions ''one cluster of grapes,'' ''the congregation was assembled as one man,'' and again, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.''

The Hebrew word one (yacheed), which expresses absolute unity, is never once used to express the unity of the Godhead.

24.
|5921| There-
|3651| fore,
|5800| will leave
|0376| a man
|0853| -
|0001| his father
|0853| and
|0517| his mother
|1692| and will cling
|6106| to his wife.
|1961| And they will become
|1320| into flesh
|0259| one.

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Postby webmaster » Fri Sep 17, 2004 09:57 pm

THE MOST HOLY TRINITY


The "Holy Trinity" is a very clear doctrine of the New Testament, already sketched in the Old: There is only one God, with tree persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit... each person is fully God, but there are not three Gods, only one God!.


God is a Family... the Trinity:

Elohim is God in plural, as a family:

"And God (Elohim - plural of deities) said, Let US (plural) make man in OUR (plural) image, after OUR (plural) likeness: and let them (plural) have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." (Ge.1:26 NIV).
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them (plural). (Ge.1:27).

The first factor in understanding the proper definition of God from the Hebrew perspective is that the word is the plural of deity. It is similar to the word family. A family is one entity comprised of more than one member. For example, my family is comprised of four members, we are the Dominguez family and my individual title is the Father. The word "Elohim" is a specific class of beings whose individual members are further defined by the first names they carry. This class of beings is first set forth in the first chapter of Genesis. "And God created great whales, and EVERY LIVING CREATURE that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, AFTER THEIR KIND, and every winged foul after HIS KIND: and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:21 (KJV)

That "family", says later the Bible, is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, three persons but only one God. The Father is God and fully God. The Son, the Word, is God and fully God. The Holy Spirit is God and fully God. And there are not three Gods but only one God, the family of God... the most glorious mystery of the Holy Trinity in the whole Bible.

The Father is eternal and immutable, without beginning nor end... the Word, the Son is also eternal, The Father has Word from the beginning, and the Word is the Son who became flesh, Jesus the Christ. So, the Word, the Son, was not created but eternally begotten of the Father, begotten not made, one in Being with the Father always, since eternity to eternity.

On top of it,if just for a second the Word would have not existed, for that second the Father would have been no "Father" because for that second He would have had no "Son", which is an impossible, because He is eternally immutable.

The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son: The love of the Father to the Son and the love of the Son to the Father is the Holy Spirit, also eternal and immutable, as the Son and the Father... Yes, God is Love, a family of Love!.

We often try to paint the Father: Jesus tells us, he who sees me sees the Father (Jn.14:9), so the best picture of God the Father is Jesus at Bethlehem or at Calvary or as a Carpenter in Nazareth.

Since Creation, in Gen.1, the tree persons always do things together: The Father gives the order, the word... the Word Jesus makes it, and He does not need any laborers, He does everything with the power of the Holy Spirit.

This is the way I understand it: If I ask my son to put on the light, he clicks the switch and the light is on. Here, I would be the Father, my son would be the Son, but the light does not go on if there is not electrical current there... that electrical current is the power of the Holy Spirit.

And to end this example, we are the bulb!, if the bulb is broken not even the Holy Spirit can light it up!... Yes, God made us free like Him, and when he made us free He decided to respect our freedom no matter what... so, if you or I decide to spit God in His face, not even God will stop us!... and that's the reason of our "responsibility", and of Heave or Hell forever, because we were not only made "free" like God, but immortal, eternal, like God.

Some more Quotations on the Trinity:

- Only One God: Deut.6:4-5, Mk.12:29-30, Jn.10:30, 14:9, 17:11, 21,23, Ephe.4:4-6.
- Three Different Persons: Mt.3:13-17, 28:19, 1Cor.12:3-6, 1Ped.1:2, Jud.20-21, 2Cor.13:13, Tit.3:5-7, Rom.1:1-4, Gal.4:6, Rev.1:4-5
- Jesus and the Father:
- John: 2:16, 3:35, 5:17,20,37, 6:65, 8:54, 10:30, 14:9,10, 14:23-24, 16:14-15, 16:25-33, 17:1-5, 17:11,21,23,
- Matthew: 6:9,15, 7:11,21, 10:32, 11:27,12:50, 18:35, 24:36, 28:19,
- Luke: 2:49, 6:36, 12:32, 22:42, 23:34, 23:46, 24:49.
- Jesus and the Spirit: John: 14:15-17, 14:26, 16:5-15, 1Cor.12:1-11, 2Cor.13:13,
- The Spirit in the OT: Gen.1:2, Num.11:16-26, 27:18, Judg.3:10,6:34, 14:6,19, 15:14, 23:24, 1Sam.16:13, 2Sam.23:2, 2K.2:9, Is.11:2, 28:6, 63:10, Zech.7:12, Neh.9:30, Sal.51:11


Old Testament:

In Genesis God speaks in "plural": "Let us make", "to our image", "to our likeness"... it does not say, "I make", "to my image"... (Ge.1:26)... and continues, "God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them" (Ge.1:27).

God is like the "sun": The sun is the Father; the light is the Son; the heat is the Holy Spirit... only one sun, only one God.

In the "creation" of Gen.1, the Father gives the "order"; this order is made by the Word, the Son; but the Son does not need engineers nor architects, nor workers... he does everything with the power of the Holy Spirit... and, in fact, the Spirit is the first person of God mentioned in the Bible, in Gen.1:2.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.(Jn.1:1-3... Colos.1:15-17).).

In Gen.2:24 God created "marriage" at the image of God, "the two of them become one flesh"... and the actual beautiful plan of God for marriage is "3 persons in one flesh", "husband, wife, and God", like the Trinity!, and marriage would be like "a piece of heaven on earth"!... but many marriages are like "a piece of hell on earth", because the 3 persons are "husband, wife, and Satan"... if you are in sin, your marriage is hell, even if you are a millionaire... guaranteed!... if you want to fix your marriage, it is easy, live with Jesus in your heart, and your marriage will be a piece of heaven on earth... guaranteed!.

The Trinity is also represented by the "three men" who visited Abraham in Gen.18:2.

God is repeatedly "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob", in Ex.3:6, 3:15, Lk.20:37... symbolizing the Holy Trinity: Abraham is God the Father, Isaac is God the Son, and Jacob is God the Holy Spirit... Jacob was transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit from "Jacob", a cheater, into "Israel", the kindest man in the Bible.

God is Himself a community of love: The Father loves the Son, and the Son loves the Father, and this love of the Father to the Son and of the Son to the Father is the Holy Spirit: Three persons, but only one true God.

- The Son exists from eternity, as the Father, because if at any moment the Son would have not existed, the Father would not have been a Father at that moment, and that's an impossible, because one of the characteristics of God is that he is immutable, unchangeable, the same today, yesterday, and tomorrow... and the Holy Spirit has also the same eternity, because he is the mutual love of the Father and the Son, eternally, immutable.

In the Baptism of Jesus:

The three persons appear distinctively (Matt.3:16-17, Mar.1:10-11):

1 - The "Son" is a person, fully God and fully man, Jesus the Christ, the Messiah.
2 - The "Father" is a person who claims, "this is my beloved Son".
3 - The Holy Spirit is a person, descending like a dove coming upon Jesus.


The Holy Spirit:

Peter teaches that the Holy Spirit is the person most important now in our lives, because the Father already created us; the Son already redeemed us; and the Holy Spirit is the person who sanctifies us now, who makes us to appropriate in our lives the redemption of Christ, for the glory of the Father (1Pet.1:2).

The Holy Spirit comes to our lives as a "dove", very humble, wanting to nest in our hearts, but with the hurricane power of Pentecost of Acts 2, able to fill our lives with the love of Christ, for the glory of the Father, and of his Church, and for our own good.

Come, Holy Spirit, on any person reading these lines, make in him the same job you did in Virgin Mary, fill him with Jesus, to serve the neighbor and to sing the praises of the Lord, like Mary did in Luk.1:35, 39-56... it is the essence of the Pentecost in Act.2... and in our lives!.

Anything Jesus did on earth was with the "power of the Holy Spirit":
- He was conceived in the Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit (Luk.1:35);

- He went about doing good and healing the sick by the power of the Holy Spirit (Act.10:38);

- He offered himself on the Cross through the eternal Spirit (Heb.9:14);

- Resurrected by the power of the Holy Spirit (Rom.8:11);


The Spirit is the life of the Church:
He guides the Church now, fills her with life... he is the Lord and giver of life, the one who inspired all the Holy Scriptures (2Pet.1:21).


Do you need a good Lawyer?:
Take the Holy Spirit, your Great Lawyer, your Advocate, your Guide, your "Paraclete", "the one who is always at your side" (Jn.14:16, 16:7-13).


Everything good in the Bible:
Everything good in the Bible was made by the power of the Holy Spirit: The "creation" of Gen.1, as we commented; Moses was filled with the Spirit and that same Spirit was given to other 70 in Num.11; Samson, Gideon, and all the Judges were filled with the Spirit; Saul, David, Solomon, were anointed with the Holy Spirit; all the Prophets were inspired by the Spirit (2Pet.1:21)... and Joel says that in the last days, now!, God will poor out his Spirit upon all flesh, upon all humanity, prophecy fulfilled in the Pentecost of Acts 2:16-21. Holy Spirit

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Postby webmaster » Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:58 pm

Now let's compare and explain.

The Quran is the word of Allah.

The Bible is the word of Yahweh.

The Bible teaches that God is eternal and immutable, without beginning nor end.

The Bible teaches that the Word is also eternal and immutable, without beginning nor end.

The Bible teaches that the Word, the Son is also eternal, The Father has Word from the beginning, and the Word is the Son who became flesh, Jesus the Christ.

The Bible teaches that the Word, the Son, was not created but eternally begotten of the Father, begotten not made, one in Being with the Father always, since eternity to eternity.


John 1:14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

In context
And the Word was made flesh(Jesus), and dwelt among us(Sinners), and we(Sinners) beheld his(Jesus) glory(Word), the glory(Word) as of {the} one and only of the Father, full of grace(Word) and truth(Word)!

14.
|2532| And
|3588| the
|3056| Word
|1096| became
|4561| flesh
|2532| and
|4637| pitched {his} tent
|1722| among
|2254| us,
|2532| and
|2300| we beheld,
|3588| the
|1391| glory
|0846| of him,
|1391| glory
|5613| as
|3439| of {the} one and only
|3844| from
|9999| {the}
|3962| Father,
|4134| full
|5485| of gracious love
|2532| and
|0225| of truth.

Strong's Number: 3439
Transliterated: monogenes
Phonetic: mon-og-en-ace'
Text: from 3441 and 1096; only-born, i.e. sole.

Strong's Number: 3441
Transliterated: monos
Phonetic: mon'-os
Text: remaining, i.e. sole or single; by implication mere: --alone, only, by themselves.


|3439| of {the} one and only ~ begotten

Now for the problem. The Quran cannot be begotten "of {the} one and only" because Allah said he begot's nothing for he is Allah and he is one.
37:152 'Allah has begotten?' They are truly liars.

So then the Quran was created and is not eternal or immutable.

If the Quran is eternal then it means that sura 37:152 isn't a true statement.

The Quran is not "of {the} one and only" aka begotten because
'Allah has begotten?'
They are truly liars.
37:152
!


So we end up back at this point.........

Jesus Christ who is sitting at the Right hand of the Father has been given all authority, judgment(John 6:27), and etc.

Everything has been placed under His feet in Heaven and on Earth
(1 Corinthians 15:27).

And in the end when all things shall be subdued unto Him(Jesus),
then shall the Son also himself be subject unto Him(Yahweh)
that put all things under him(Jesus),
that God(Yahweh) may be all in all(One),
with no arguments that He(Yahweh) is one
from those who are lost and don't want to receive the truth.

1 Corinthians 15:16-28, Deuteronomy 6:4-5.

Jesus shall humble himself again in Heaven same as He did here on earth and prove that he is Worthy to be called "of {the} one and only ~ begotten", The Son of God, this to the terror of every Muslim and even Satan himself(Matthew 4:1-7)!

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Postby webmaster » Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:48 pm

The Godhead


The Godhead consist of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit all being truely one but manifested in different forms/persons.

Thou shalt have no other Gods before Yahweh and He(Yahweh) is one. Exodus 20:1-3, Hosea 13:4, Deuteronomy 6:4-5.

So who is this Elohim(God) with the name of Yahweh?
How does He reach out to us?

In the Old Testament "God" consisted of the plural Hebrew word Elohim(Gods) because Elohim(God) manifested Himself(Yahweh) as the Spirit of Elohim(God) and as the (Word).

Examples:
The Spirit of Elohim(God) is mentioned in Numbers 11:25,29 and Judges 14:6 in direct workings with people by resting on them.

The Spirit of Elohim(God) is mentioned in John 1:1 as the Word which consisted of the Old Testament.

In the New Testament the Spirit of Elohim(God) is manifested in human form as the only Son of God, Jesus Christ.(Acts 2:36, God hath made that same Jesus)

The Spirit of Elohim(God) is manifested in the New Testament in direct workings with people by dwelling in them because of the finished work of Calvary Matthew 10:1;19-20, John 7:39; John 14:16-17.

The Diety(Jesus Christ) is Elohim(God) the same as the Spirit of Elohim(God) is Elohim(God) or that the Word(John 1:1) is the same as Elohim(God).

The Word(John 17) is in the Father and the Father is in Jesus. So since Jesus is the Word(John 1:1) then Jesus is in the Father.

The Man(Jesus Christ) who is sitting at the Right hand of the Father has been given all authority, judgment(John 6:27), and everything else been placed under His feet in Heaven and on Earth(1 Corinthians 15:27). And in the end when all things shall be subdued unto Him(Jesus), then shall the Son also himself be subject unto Him(Yahweh) that put all things under him(Jesus), that God(Elohim) may be all in all(One). 1 Corinthians 15:16-28, Deuteronomy 6:4-5.

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Postby webmaster » Sat Sep 18, 2004 12:39 am

Here are more points.

Holy Spirit
The Spirit is Holy and we are to be Holy. The Holy Spirit brings about the peace and repentance to change and mold us into the image of Christ(Word).

Works of the flesh
Works of the flesh offer quick rewards and offers no real satisfaction. Works of the flesh leaves you empty inside because you want to do it again only to find that it always ends nowhere. Works of the flesh leads to increased spiritual darkness which wants more control over you and you never realize it. This covers the concept of us sinning and the concept of us trying to be righteous by our Good Works. That our Good Works will out weigh our Bad Works.

Works of the Spirit
Works of the Spirit offer peace and joy to the heart. It leaves you fulfilled because it brings in unbelievers into the Kingdom of God. It offers real rewards in other people life's that you can clearly see the fruit of. This Good Work is not based upon what you have done but is based upon what God has done thru His Spirit in you.

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Postby (Omega) » Sat Sep 18, 2004 01:06 am

alifaia wrote:
Jesus Christ who is sitting at the Right hand of the Father has been given all authority, judgment(John 6:27), and etc.

if Jesus are the Father are one entity... then ... i dont understand this verse.....

If i am not mistaken there is a verse in the Bible stating the God is not a God of confusion... which i feel is true... now.. whenever i try to go in deep study of the trinity... well... i reach a stop point which i just cant pass over... are the 3 persons in reality just one person are are they actually 3... if the former then this would contradict the many many many verses of atleast 2 of the 3 persons interacting with each other. if the latter... then it contradicts the "Hear o israel.... "verse...


Exodus 15:6 - Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

Exodus 15:12 - Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.

Psalms 17:7 - Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that (savest) by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

Psalms 18:35 - Thou hast also given me the shield of thy (salvation): and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.

Psalms 20:6 - Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the (saving strength)of his right hand.

Psalms 48:10 - According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

Psalms 110:1 - The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my (right hand), until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

alifaia wrote:If i am not mistaken there is a verse in the Bible stating the God is not a God of confusion...

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Postby Berlin Bear » Sat Sep 18, 2004 09:24 pm

Hello friends, just a couple of short thoughts,
The sun is one yet we receive warmth, light, and energy from it. It would not be the sun without these three elements.
The Bible tells us that God is Spirit and we must worship Him in Spirit.
And then else where we read that Christ was resurrected in His body, and in this same perfect sin free body He ascended to Heaven.
We do not have perfect sin free bodies therefore we will receive new ones at Christ return to take us, but Christ was the perfect lamb without blemish offered as payment for our sins.
And I believe that when the accuser accuses one of us who know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, then Christ presents His scourged and nail scarred body as evidence that our sins have been paid for.
The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our guide, our teacher, he reveals all things to us.
And faith, call it blind faith, or the fools faith is still belief in things that you have not yet seen knowing that they will come to be because God said they will.
And faith is given as a gift from God, it is not debated into reality.
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Postby Truth Seeker-Joshua » Sun Sep 19, 2004 04:57 am

Amen Bear.

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Postby H2O » Sun Sep 19, 2004 06:07 am

Let us make this quick short and affective for the thinkers.

Most Christians (not all) believe and teach the G-DHEAD is 3 that are 1 which means in math 3/1 :o

In Islam all muslims (that we know of) believe and teach that G-D is one which means in math 1/1 8)

Now which one is logical ?
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Greetings everyone... hope ya'll are doing well... sorry for the delay... been a long weekend here... thursday friday and saturday... and i dont have an internet connection at home yet... so its sunday and here is my post......

Webmaster..

Everything is about I don't understand, I don't believe, I don't think it's logical I I I I I I I SELF SELF SELF!

True.. that is sooo very true... it is human nature... man just cant get over the "I" part.... very rarely will it be something about anyone but "I".. these are the people who are usually called saints, samaraitans... mr. good guy etc... eg Mother Theresa.... It cant be denied.. the "I" is built-in into man... this is one of the reasons why we have so much strife in the world...
You should spend some time understanding that SELF is what seperates you from God.

did you know that there are only 2 things in existance that matter??? God and I... all else is un-important... this college degree i have... this computer geek knowledge i have... this ... this ... this... all of it is a waste of time... absolutely futile... a man lives as an independent for about 50-60 years... then dies. what has he accomplished? nothing. he ate, slept, drank,procreated,partied,worked... but what is the end result? nothing. if he hasnt gained any spiritual knowledge or to put it in more laymans terms if man doesnt know his purpose in life and after... whats the use then??? i think i have gone way off here... sorry about that... i usually tend to do this...

What i am trying to say is the "self" / "I" is what seperates us from God as you said... but this is a fact... there is no unity as such between us and God... He and I are seperate.

Tell me something... God has created everything. animate and inanimate... God also created our brain... He also gave us this intelluctial soul searching curisoty knowledge... and there has to be a reason why He did so. Why did He give us a brain? to understand. for instance... animals... i dont know about your belief but i believe that they wont be judged by God. why? because they are pre-programmed by God to do just what they are supposed to do. sort of like robots... unlike man ... this robotic attitude is due to the gift or the lack of "freewill to choose" .. animals dont have it. why? no brains... man has it. Why? got brains!! so ... definately there is a purpose to this intelligence that He gave us.

Now everyone knows resources should never be wasted... its a sin to waste.. like food. or water or oil etc... it should never be wasted. so is the case with the mind/brain... not using it is contrary to human nature which God made... man would be denying God itself if he were to go against God's set system.

To not use the brain/mind/knowledge/intelligence etc is to go against His set system.. and i beieve this. 100% He will never do something which is confusing... after all didnt He say "I am not a god of confusion" or something like that.

God is perfect. whatever He does is perfect. whatever He says is perfect. wouldnt His created logic also be perfect?

one of the requirements for real justice is to be on the same level. somethig like "Lowest common denominator" ... For God to judge us properly... it would be unfair to use rules which would be un-understandable. If He wants to judge us He will have to do it using rules which are applicable to us... like a court system... using the words "Coz I said so" will never give a just sentence. it would be illogical. confusion. chaos. there has to be a set of rules which are absolute and un-questionable... unfortunately trinity falls in this questionalble category...

It is beyond a doubt that no person alive or dead has ever understood or been able to explain trinity to a point of absolute (something.... i cant get the word.... i hope you all understand my point) even the person who first said trinity later on admitted that he too doesnt understand it.

BTW.... the childlike faith you mentioned... this is also known as blind faith... the child doesnt know jack. he/she will accept anything said to him/her

sunday:

Webmaster... you have put in a lot of effort in your post... i must say ..WOW!!... its really nice.... but unfortunately it doesnt answer anything... its still the same typical christian response to a trinity question. "The Trinity is true coz the early church fathers said so after reading the Bible" The same standard examples like the Sun or the Triangle or the Ice-water-steam or the Man who is father/son and work collegue... etc... these are all standard examples that christians 99.99% of the time quote to support the concept of the trinity. and yet every single example with no exceptions what so ever at all fails... miserably.... now i wont go into refuting / explaining how and why they all fail... i am sure you all heard it all before... no point in wasting precious webspace...

trinity has 3 persons in it. and these 3 persons are one. i assume one person.. (plz correct me if my assumption is wrong) meaning there are 3 entities in the trinity and these 3 entities are one entity. is this a correct explanation? I do not wish to trivilize your post into which you put so much effort... but honestly i have read it all before... and everysingle time i stop at this point... 3=1??? i feel just like that church father terutullian ... the more i question it the more i feel lost.

God is a family

an un-knowledgable muslim /non-christian will automatically get a polytheistic view... i.e. there is /are multiple members in this "family" ... and this view is what breeds more misunderstanding and problems between us.
Elohim is God in plural

i come from India... and my language is urdu... and we do have a concept of this majestic plural... a single royal person refering to himself in the plural form... it doesnt make sense in english but in urdu its perfectly correct... i live in the middle east... and arabic is the language here... altho i am not an expert in arabic i do know that this same concept exists in arabic. majestic plural. i dont know any hebrew or aramiac... but ... i assume... these languages are the root of arabic ... BTW urdu is a derivative / descendent etc of arabic... actually its farsi but then whos checking.... so everytime the word WE is used with reference to God ... my understanding is 1 entity. there is no possibility of more than one... whatsoever. but i am sure you heard this all.
The first factor in understanding the proper definition of God from the Hebrew perspective

Who is a better expert in hebrew? a hebrew native (jew/israeli) or a non-hebrew native (christian/non-israeli) for instance... there is this website http://www.askmoses.com ... its a jewish scripture something site.... where they explain stuff... one of theresponses i read there among many was that the WE in the OT meant God (1 entity-singular) and the creation... altho i dont completely subscribe to this idea but it atleast gives a direction i.e. the concept of God in jewish scripture is a single entity ... no family.. no father / son... no multiple personalities... no nothing... there is no doubt in the oneness of God. this brings out a new question ... who is a better explainer of the OT??? The Jew or the Christian???

Why did the jews try to stone Jesus when He said my Father and I are one???? because they understoond it to mean Jesus was trying to claim divinity... which is an absolute no-no in jewish systems...

That "family", says later the Bible, is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, three persons but only one God. The Father is God and fully God. The Son, the Word, is God and fully God. The Holy Spirit is God and fully God. And there are not three Gods but only one God, the family of God... the most glorious mystery of the Holy Trinity in the whole Bible.

The Father is eternal and immutable, without beginning nor end... the Word, the Son is also eternal, The Father has Word from the beginning, and the Word is the Son who became flesh, Jesus the Christ. So, the Word, the Son, was not created but eternally begotten of the Father, begotten not made, one in Being with the Father always, since eternity to eternity.

Reference John 1:1..... In the begining was the Word and the Word was with God...... begining??? which begining? the absolute begining or relative begining? i say relative because further down the verse we see "and teh Word was with God" so God was already there. God preceeded the Word. without God there is no word. first has to come the speaker then only can the spoken come. so this begining isnt really an absolute one... it is a relative begining... relative to the origin of the Word. So the word as such is not exactly eternal... in an absolute sense.

Now let's compare and explain.

The Quran is the word of Allah.

The Bible is the word of Yahweh.

i think you are getting mixed up or are mixing up things... point 1 is true... teh Quran is the word of God... but point 2... are you saying the Bible or Jesus? because the rest of your post is relevent to Jesus only... it is not about the Bible... i take it you meant Jesus is the word of Yahweh... not the Bible. anyways... my understanding to "the word of God" ... the word of God has a begining... a start... etc but is eternal...it will always remain. there is no end to it. now... it may have existed as an idea before it was uttered.... i.e. as potential energy... i dont know... but what i do know is that it was uttered... if it was uttered... it has a begining (relative begining if you wish to be precise) but if you wish to take into consideration everything then i'd say its eternal... first as potential energy... then as kinetic energy... ( i am not sure if the entire muslim world subscribes to this idea... but its my understanding... and i could be wrong... i am not a definative authority on God)

beget v. (-tt-; past begot; archaic begat; past part. begotten) literary 1 father, procreate. 2 cause (anger begets violence). [Old English: related to *be-]

begotten past part. of *beget.

explaination 1 ie father, procreate etc wont fit in here... the 2nd one is more appropriate... to cause... which means a starting point. which means prior to this starting point there was nothing like this. This too supports my thought of the word of God has a begining altho no end... every cause/effect has a starting point. so too with the word... there is / was a starting point... and if this word is Jesus the god... then ... can a god have a begining? the no end part is immaterial at this junction....

Hence John 1:1 is not a literal statement... it has a more deeper mystic inner meaning... it is not a plain and simple Word=Jesus=God.....
Now for the problem. The Quran cannot be begotten "of {the} one and only" because Allah said he begot's nothing for he is Allah and he is one.
37:152 'Allah has begotten?' They are truly liars.

So then the Quran was created and is not eternal or immutable.

If the Quran is eternal then it means that sura 37:152 isn't a true statement.

The Quran is not "of {the} one and only" aka begotten because
'Allah has begotten?'
They are truly liars.
37:152 !

this is all pointless after the above explanation....
The Godhead

Fine... so would i be wrong in saying that it was the Father who died at the cross??? can the Father be called the Son? or can the Son be called the Spirit? etc... if yes then my above statement is correct. if not... then there is no single entity but multiple entities.... There is the Father who didnt die at the cross... the Son who did and there is the Spirit. There is a Father who is not the Son.etc... 3 different entities... no single entity... resulting in the "Hear O Israel...." verse false....


(Omega) : hi... how re you doing??? all well i hope... thanks for the response... but i am not quite sure i understood what you are trying to say...

Berlin Bear : Hi there...

The sun is one yet we receive warmth, light, and energy from it. It would not be the sun without these three elements.

true... H2O is also another example... there is ice, water and steam. back to the sun ... Energy = Light + warmth... anyways these by-products of the sun can be called attributes of the sun... because the sun burns there is light and heat. similarly because God spoke there is the Word of God.
Also the Father is fully God, the Son is fully God and teh Spirit is also Fully God. so if the sun is Father and light the Son and heat Spirit.... then these 3 sun parts are just that... parts... not whole in itself... Light does not exist of its own. neither does heat. and as you said sun without these parts is not a sun. meaning the sun is a compound entity. which is sub-divisible... God by defination on the other hand is a non-divisible entity... if God can be sub-divided... then it isnt God... its an entity with parts... a complex machine... take out the cogs and it falls apart. meaning Father is not fully God... neither is Son nor Spirit.

And faith, call it blind faith, or the fools faith is still belief in things that you have not yet seen knowing that they will come to be because God said they will.
And faith is given as a gift from God, it is not debated into reality.

That is so very true. Faith can never be debated. there is no defintion for it. but a buddhist or a hindu or a jain or a zorastrian .. they too all have faith... who is correct?

Newseed : Hi...

You know...i too was like you ... altho i was born in a catholic family... we wernt very much a religious family... church was a once-a-year occasion (christmas) thats it... i wasnt a practicing christian... but deep down i knoew there is a God who is watching... and with no outside intervention i knew that the 3 religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) were successive religions from the same source ... one succeding the other. because the teaching are the same... back then i didnt know that Jesus was anything more than just a figurative metaphorical son. a son just like how we all you and i are sons of God. i didnt know that Jesus died to pay the price he didnt owe. etc... But i did know that there were persons from God who were called Jesus and Muhammed and Moses and Noah and Abraham etc... only in 92-93 (at the age of 20 did i learn more) uptil then i was a non-denomination non-sect non-whatever God fearing person. And then I chose Islam.

I asked this question on another forum before and else where... i got just 1 christian response ... the question was can the devil go any good. even anything as small as a grain of rice??? i believe no. an apperent good doesnt count coz the act itself in whole will be evil ... eg winning the first few hands at the craps table can be called good ... but it isnt good in anyways... gambling itself is evil... winning there is not good.. its evil. So since no good can come from the devil... not even an atoms worth... and Islam teaches atleast an atoms worth of good... it has to be non-diabolical. ofcourse the same applies to all religions as all teach atleast 1 good deed. the problems start when man decides to amend these divine rules/regulations thru the non-stop poking and inciting of the devil... Man can choose to deviate. but it doesnt mean the original is wrong. So is Christianity... it started out alright... but somewhere down the line someone decided to amend something. this is true for Islam also... so dont think that i am biased.... i know there are faults incorprated into Islam by the so-called religious personnel... but thats besides the point.

The point is i have seen threads here stating Islam is absolute diabolical.. but it isnt... it teaches good. and all good comes from God. I think i am going off topic again....

Here's my point: You can try to learn about the Trinity all you want but you are never going to truly understand the truth unless you are in the truth. Man has the tendancy to make God limitive in what He can or cannot do. What's surprisingly is that most believe that God has created all that we see and cannot see and yet many cannot believe that God could become a man.

True... but how does a non-christian accept something if he wont understand it. i guess one of the motivation to be a christian will be the all sins past present and future are forgiven....

anyways... thanks for taking the time to explain.... God bless you all... and guide you all and i to the right path.

Peace

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PS: to the Moderator/administrator who changed the title of this thread... it is absolutely unfair on your part to do this... the title now suggests that i (the person who started the thread) support the idea that 3=1... or rather i believe the idea that 3=1... but its your board... you may do as you wish... Thanks

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Postby Berlin Bear » Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:06 am

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I have read some of the Quran out of a desire to know some of the Islamic beliefs. Strange that after reading most of it I noticed through conversations with self-proclaimed Islamic believers that they are very similar to many self proclaimed Christian believers. Many from both faiths believe what someone else has told them without ever having read for themselves. They even dispute what is presented as written statements in an effort to continue in their misunderstood or misled beliefs. With that said I would question an explanation given in the beginning of my Quran that states; when the word WE is used in the Quran it is referring to we the saved, or redeemed, not to a 3 part God head as some Christians believe. Then as I read the Quran, within the first 3 Surat’s I found more then 38 times the word we. With statements like, we created the universe, we provide for your needs, we forgive sins... I am sorry but I cannot accept the "we the believers" as the "we the forgivers of sin" as being anything other then a God Head.
Or can you explain this use of we, (from the Quran, not from thought out words)?
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Postby LindaBee2 » Sun Sep 19, 2004 04:05 pm

Here's the Holy Trinity, broken down:

GOD THE FATHER: He is the one who created the universe and all living beings through Jesus Christ.

GOD THE SON: Jesus Christ, born to the Virgin Mary. Lived for 33 years. Willingly died on the cross and shed His blood so He could have fellowship with us, and rose again three days later. Currently, He is standing at the right hand of God the Father.

GOD THE SPIRIT: When a person believes in and accepts Jesus as Lord and Savior of their life, the Holy Spirit takes up residence within their heart. He acts as the Comforter and Advisor. It might also help you if you think of Him as a spiritual telephone line from the Father to the Christian and from the Christian to the Father.
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Postby H2O » Sun Sep 19, 2004 05:13 pm

alifaia wrote:PS: to the Moderator/administrator who changed the title of this thread... it is absolutely unfair on your part to do this... the title now suggests that i (the person who started the thread) support the idea that 3=1... or rather i believe the idea that 3=1... but its your board... you may do as you wish... Thanks


Good eyes, I wonder the same thing.

Berlin Bear wrote: when the word WE is used in the Quran it is referring to we the saved, or redeemed, not to a 3 part God head as some Christians believe. Then as I read the Quran, within the first 3 Surat’s I found more then 38 times the word we. With statements like, we created the universe, we provide for your needs, we forgive sins... I am sorry but I cannot accept the "we the believers" as the "we the forgivers of sin" as being anything other then a God Head.


We have already commented on this on another thread. In Islam when Allah uses "WE,US,OUR" this is called the plural of majesty denoting an impersonal charater.

Some christians say the Plural of Majesty never existed in that time or before and some Christians say it did. So this is a matter of dispute among them selves to linking the plural "elohim" with the trinity belief as it has been attacked by critics of christianity, but yet the MAJORITY of Christian scholar say it is the Plural of Majesty.

The plural used in the old testatment was always understood by Jews to imply the plural of majesty as far as my background from learning is concerned.

Here is the thread that we had the show down at http://www.jesus-christ-forums.com/home/viewtopic ... 1179#41179 have fun reading the whole thing.
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Postby H2O » Sun Sep 19, 2004 06:10 pm

I posted one reference by a Hebrew scholar on the thread we had our debate about. However I didnt inlcude the following which is below.

“This word is plural in form, and although it most frequently means “God” it can be used in a plural sense. Thus it can refer to other gods (Ex. 20:3; Josh. 24:16), foreign gods (Jer. 5:7), gods of the nations (Isa. 36:18), etc. Sometimes it appears to mean beings with divine qualities or authority — either angelic or human (Ps. 8:5; 82:1, 6; 138:1)…The use of the plural form with singular meaning is not unique to Israel. Similar forms occur in pre-Israelite Babylonian and Canaanite texts in which a worshiper wishes to exalt a particular god above others. This form has been called the “plural of majesty” or the “intensive plural” because it implies that all the fulness of deity is concentrated in the one god. Elohim being the most common word for God in the OT thus conveys this idea. Some have also thought that the frequent use of Elohim emphasizes that God is not intrinsically monistic but includes within Himself plurality of powers, attributes, and personhood.” [Bromiley, Geoffrey W. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised, Vol. 2, Page 505-506. Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1988; 2002.]


“Typically West-Semitic, though not exclusively so, is the use of the divine plural where a single entity is concerned. In texts that use the aphabetic script such plurals of excellence are not readily recognizable. Where the Akkadian writing system is used, combining a syllabic script with various logograms, plural forms are less ambiguous. A good illustration of the plural of divinity is found in the Amarna letters, where the Pharaoh is repeatedly addres by his Canaanite vassals as DINGIR.MES-ia, literally 'my gods', but planely referring to one person only...It also occurs as a designation of the personal god in combination with a verb in the singular; this phenomenon parallels the Hebrew use of 'elohim...There are some rare examples of a pluralis divinitatis in Akkadian texts; most of them betray West-Semitic influence. Judging by the Babylonian Theodicy however, it was not uncommon in Standard Babylonian to refer to the personal god with the plural form 'gods'.” [Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible. Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter W. van der Horst (eds.). Brill:1995, pg 683]


So according to these scholars the plural of Majesty is nothing new or just came about during or after the tiime of when the Quran was revealed
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alifaia wrote:Webmaster..

Everything is about I don't understand, I don't believe, I don't think it's logical I I I I I I I SELF SELF SELF!

True.. that is sooo very true... it is human nature... man just cant get over the "I" part.... very rarely will it be something about anyone but "I".. these are the people who are usually called saints, samaraitans... mr. good guy etc... eg Mother Theresa.... It cant be denied.. the "I" is built-in into man... this is one of the reasons why we have so much strife in the world...


Jesus taught us to die to ourselves.
We are separated from God because of Self. The center of our existence is Self. We are to die to ourselves and put God in the center.

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You should spend some time understanding that SELF is what seperates you from God.

did you know that there are only 2 things in existance that matter??? God and I... all else is un-important... this college degree i have... this computer geek knowledge i have... this ... this ... this... all of it is a waste of time... absolutely futile... a man lives as an independent for about 50-60 years... then dies. what has he accomplished? nothing. he ate, slept, drank,procreated,partied,worked... but what is the end result? nothing. if he hasnt gained any spiritual knowledge or to put it in more laymans terms if man doesnt know his purpose in life and after... whats the use then??? i think i have gone way off here... sorry about that... i usually tend to do this...



The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Ecclesiastes 1

alifaia wrote:What i am trying to say is the "self" / "I" is what seperates us from God as you said... but this is a fact... there is no unity as such between us and God... He and I are seperate.

Tell me something... God has created everything. animate and inanimate... God also created our brain... He also gave us this intelluctial soul searching curisoty knowledge... and there has to be a reason why He did so. Why did He give us a brain? to understand. for instance... animals... i dont know about your belief but i believe that they wont be judged by God. why? because they are pre-programmed by God to do just what they are supposed to do. sort of like robots... unlike man ... this robotic attitude is due to the gift or the lack of "freewill to choose" .. animals dont have it. why? no brains... man has it. Why? got brains!! so ... definately there is a purpose to this intelligence that He gave us.


The purpose of our intelligence is to worship and have fellowship with God.

alifaia wrote:Now everyone knows resources should never be wasted... its a sin to waste.. like food. or water or oil etc... it should never be wasted. so is the case with the mind/brain... not using it is contrary to human nature which God made... man would be denying God itself if he were to go against God's set system.

To not use the brain/mind/knowledge/intelligence etc is to go against His set system.. and i beieve this. 100% He will never do something which is confusing... after all didnt He say "I am not a god of confusion" or something like that.

God is perfect. whatever He does is perfect. whatever He says is perfect. wouldnt His created logic also be perfect?


God is perfect but we are not perfect. So there is no way for an unperfect human to understand that which is perfect unless that which is perfect changes the mind of the unperfect human so that he/she can understand that which is perfect.
Again it is by the work of that which is perfect to fix the un-perfect that makes the unperfect ~ prefect. We have to molded and shaped into the perfect mind of God by the mind of God. Not by our own human logic which isn't perfect! If we can by our own human logic then we save ourselves which means we are prefect and don't need to be saved.


alifaia wrote:one of the requirements for real justice is to be on the same level. somethig like "Lowest common denominator" ... For God to judge us properly... it would be unfair to use rules which would be un-understandable. If He wants to judge us He will have to do it using rules which are applicable to us... like a court system... using the words "Coz I said so" will never give a just sentence. it would be illogical. confusion. chaos. there has to be a set of rules which are absolute and un-questionable...unfortunately trinity falls in this questionalble category...


The level of judgement is based entirely upon unbelief which is the "Lowest common denominator" as you put it. That is the rule which is understandable by childlike faith. Neither is it blind faith because it is based upon that which is Prefect.

An example of a very devout person who followed God logically based upon a religion was Paul, a very devout Religious Jew, who said about himself "I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief."

Justice demands payment. You break the law and rob a bank then justice demands a verdict for the crime. Paul was guilty and justice demands a verdict. If God is Holy and Just then the sentence has to be carried out or the Judge becomes tainited and is no longer Holy or Just or Prefect.

Also how does doing good deeds ever Justify anybody when the guilt remains. Just because a bank robber was a devout giver of his money and time to the poor doesn't neglect the need for justice in the crime of robbing the bank.

But it is also interesting that all of these sins Paul speaks about committing was done because of unbelief. Even Moses and those in that fell in the wilderness could not enter into the promise land because of their unbelief.

So unbelief is the missing link.
But belief in what, is the key to finding the missing link to God.
The belief should be so simple that even a child could understand it.
But of those who have placed Self as the missing link to God then it should be hid from them.

In the end one of the requirements for real Salvation is to end up being justified or we are all still guilty.
Justice means you have to be 100% prefect. If not then you have to be judged. Justice demands a verdict.
Justified means you have been pronounce free from guilt or blame.

Justice demands a verdict because of unbelief but we are Justified by belief.

When the Holy Spirit comes,
He will rebuke the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment:
Of sin, because they believe not on me;
Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
John 16:8-11

You should notice that we will only be judged because of one sin, unbelief.

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Postby alifaia » Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:46 am

Good morning everyone.... hope all is well for all....

Linda : hi... thanks for the defination... and using this same defination we still see that the 3 persons of the Trinity are just that ... 3 differnt persons... it is not 1 person... maybe 1 in command/purpose... but as 1 entity... nope. If anyone here says "yes the 3 are 3 distinct entities/persons... and one only in purpose/command" then yes... i understand trinity... but 1 entity????... my fragile lil mind just cant comprehend it...

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We are separated from God because of Self. The center of our existence is Self. We are to die to ourselves and put God in the center.

Maybe i am misunderstanding you... are you saying we are to be one with God?
Ecclesiastes 1
This is a very beautiful passage.... thanks for it... this is my outlook for/of life... absolutely beautiful... all is futile except God. working towards God has eternal rewards(selflessness)... working towards self (selfishness) has only monentary apparent rewards...
The purpose of our intelligence is to worship and have fellowship with God.

kinda true... but first we have to figure out if there is really a God or not... who is He? what is He? etc etc.... once that is done... worship etc comes as 2nd nature... one does not have to think of worshiping... it comes naturally...
God is perfect but we are not perfect. So there is no way for an unperfect human to understand that which is perfect unless that which is perfect changes the mind of the unperfect human so that he/she can understand that which is perfect.
Again it is by the work of that which is perfect to fix the un-perfect that makes the unperfect ~ prefect. We have to molded and shaped into the perfect mind of God by the mind of God. Not by our own human logic which isn't perfect! If we can by our own human logic then we save ourselves which means we are prefect and don't need to be saved.

We are perfect and at the same time we are not. its a matter of perspective... a child born 10 minutes ago... this is perfection. in perfect harmony with nature. a prophet of God. perfection in action.... but the highest and best-est (sorry ... couldnt come up with a word that is a superlative of best) perfection in action is when a man/woman chooses God.
Consider this... in a perfect world ... would good and evil exist? yes. because if either one was absent then what is good? or what is evil? choice is what makes man perfect.... without choice... we still are perfect but the degree of perfection is somewhat lesser... yea yea i know... i am contradicting myself... different levels of perfection???? absolutely absurd... but it is a fact. eg. is a world perfect if there is no free will/choice? a man devoid of freedom to choose good or evil... is this perfect? no. if you cannot choose which college to go to then would you consider you teenage life as perfect? no. you will say its imperfect... but if your dad agreed to your college of choice... you will right away say life is perfect. a college of my choice... a girlfriend of my dreams.. etc etc... so to cut to the chase... you and i are perfect. but there are levels... it all depends on the meaning of perfection for that perticular individual... God's perfection is a totally different kind that what we have. etc....

you dont have to agree to the above passage... all i ask is if you understand my point of view.

as for the logic part.... well i believe like all things this too is created by the Supreme Being. so it has to be perfect.
The level of judgement is based entirely upon unbelief which is the "Lowest common denominator" as you put it. That is the rule which is understandable by childlike faith. Neither is it blind faith because it is based upon that which is Prefect.

i am sorry... i didnt understand this... would it be possible for you to explain it a bit more??? thanks.
Justice demands payment. You break the law and rob a bank then justice demands a verdict for the crime. Paul was guilty and justice demands a verdict. If God is Holy and Just then the sentence has to be carried out or the Judge becomes tainited and is no longer Holy or Just or Prefect.

true. but isnt God all-merciful as well? i guess the real question here is ... which attribute of God is more stronger? mercy or justice?

If a person begs for mercy and God chooses to still go ahead with the punishment ... doesn this make God all-unmerciful??? Normally i try not to bring this up... but i have to here... God in christianity is potrayed as an all-loving.. all-kind...etc god. from the NT times... maybe in the OT times it was both but after NT.. God is more merciful than angry. also muslims are accused of limiting God. limiting what He can and cannot do... (eg manifestation of Jesus... word becomes Jesus... etc etc) by reading the above quote... doesnt it look like you are limiting God??? "No... God has to punish. He is all Holy... the slightest infraction deserves the severest punishment... God cannot give mercy because it will infring on His Holiness" and other such statements... tell me.. who is limiting God? the universally accepted view of God in Islam is "we dont know what God will do with us. It is His choice... He may choose to punish us.. He may choose to forgive us... He may choose to do anything. He is God. He is the one who set the rules. not us. we live by His rules. He does not bend to our rules. We bend to His. Even the prophets prayed to God coz they didnt know their end result" this is a general muslim view ... but if anyone wishes to differ plz say so... (the muslims here that is) One of the major points christians pick about Islam is that there is no gaurantee in Islam. a person may be devout his whole life and still not make it to the pearly gates... Even Prophet Muhammed prayed to forgive his sins and to let him thru the gates... whereas in christianity ... accept Jesus and you have a one-way ticket to heaven... no questions asked. But my friend we are being practical... We do not know what is going on in God's mind. We do not know which bad deed of ours will wipe out all our good.. or which good deed will wipe the slate clean... we dont know. and that is why works/deeds is much supported... atleast if there are any good deeds/works done we have a slight fighting chance of passing thru... but at the end of it all its all at God's descretion... No gaurantees...none what so ever... and thats what makes it sooo great.

So tell me... who is limiting God now? You or I ???

Also how does doing good deeds ever Justify anybody when the guilt remains. Just because a bank robber was a devout giver of his money and time to the poor doesn't neglect the need for justice in the crime of robbing the bank.

Tell me ... is there anything called repentance or forgiveness or prayers in Christianity? if so?why? eg. consider this same bank robber... he is a good christian... re-born if you wish... he gets tempted... robs a bank. then later on repents... maybe he has the money or maybe he spent it all on whatever... This man accepted Jesus once... but got tempted. and since he is after all just a human he stole. now... will God punish this robber? who accepted Jesus etc... or will this person be let off the hook??? lets make it a bit more interesting.. .this robber repents ... sincerely if you wish... will he be punished??? or he is let off scott free??? plz reply to this as i wish to know your view on this topic.

In the end one of the requirements for real Salvation is to end up being justified or we are all still guilty.
Justice means you have to be 100% prefect. If not then you have to be judged. Justice demands a verdict.
Justified means you have been pronounce free from guilt or blame.

Justice demands a verdict because of unbelief but we are Justified by belief.

Once again ... are we limiting God here??? on what He can and cant do??? someone screwed up now he has to be punished. God cannot be merciful because it will conflict with the divine justice part... who is limiting God?

You should notice that we will only be judged because of one sin, unbelief.

Did you know that in Islam all sins against God can be forgiven (if He chooses to) except disbelief/unbelief ... its called kuffr... all other sins are mere breaking the rules... but kuffr is saying there is no rule maker... there is no God... and this God says will not be forgiven. (but let me add something more... for clarification sake... kuffr and sinning against another are 2 sins that God will not forgive... i am not saying this... its God who said it. )

I wanted to bring this up in my last post but i was getting late... any ways here it is... In the apostles creed ... its said that Jesus went to hell... which part? The divine part or the human part? and why did Jesus have to go to hell? He never sinned.. I know the words used in the Bible are to the depths of earth or something like that... and many people interpret it in different ways.. some say its hell (literally) and some say it is a metaphore... etc...

plz if you have the time do answer the 2-3 questions i brought up ...

Thanks

H2O... i was as much surprised as you were/are... not only is the title changed but it shows that i believe in the trinity... which i dont. so the Mod/Admin who did this... change it back ... or atleast something that reflects my views... i do not think the title was anti-christian or whatever...

Thanks ya'll

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Postby ILJ/Y » Fri Sep 24, 2004 06:08 am

Peace all,

May God bless you all, and bring HIS peace to you

Ali,

I very much like the respectful way you have discussed in this thread, hats off to you sedeeqh.

It's very late and I probably shouldn't post, but if I don't I may forget which thread I was looking at here :-?

You said,
original is wrong. So is Christianity... it started out alright... but somewhere down the line someone decided to amend something. this is true for Islam also... so dont think that i am biased.... i know there are faults incorprated into Islam by the so-called religious personnel... but thats besides the point.

The point is i have seen threads here stating Islam is absolute diabolical.. but it isnt... it teaches good. and all good comes from God. I think i am going off topic again....


First you are biased as you are Muslim, definatley a moderate Muslim, and a free thinker.

First if a religion teaches a good thing, that doesn't mean it necessarily isn't bad.Satan as a deceiver will employ whatever means necessary to deceieve people and raise himself above the Throne of God.So I guess what I am sayin is the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.As Jesus said a person should clean inside and outside, not just the outside.

If a decption from Satan who Jesus says was a liar and a murderer from the start, he would say some things they show outwardly it is a good thing, but inwardly it is the ravening wolf spoken of, in that the good was used to draw people to it, then the real objective will show sooner or later.

I wanted to bring this up in my last post but i was getting late... any ways here it is... In the apostles creed ... its said that Jesus went to hell... which part? The divine part or the human part? and why did Jesus have to go to hell? He never sinned.. I know the words used in the Bible are to the depths of earth or something like that... and many people interpret it in different ways.. some say its hell (literally) and some say it is a metaphore... etc...


I know we're off topic so I'll try to be brief.It says Jesus went to Abraham's bosom.To free the captives is why, as He conquered death and Hades.It's too late to post extensively as I have to work in the morning, but I do have some info.on this somewhere, because this subject came up at Sunday school one morning, so I researched it a bit.Hopefully I can find my info. here or else where.

May God shower you and yours with blessings always :D

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Postby (Omega) » Sat Sep 25, 2004 06:51 am

Hello again alifaia!

alifaia wrote:Tell me ... is there anything called repentance or forgiveness or prayers in Christianity? if so?why? eg. consider this same bank robber... he is a good christian... re-born if you wish... he gets tempted... robs a bank. then later on repents... maybe he has the money or maybe he spent it all on whatever... This man accepted Jesus once... but got tempted. and since he is after all just a human he stole. now... will God punish this robber? who accepted Jesus etc... or will this person be let off the hook??? lets make it a bit more interesting.. .this robber repents ... sincerely if you wish... will he be punished??? or he is let off scott free??? plz reply to this as i wish to know your view on this topic.


To Repent means a change of ones mind that will also result in a change of conduct as well. Many associate repentance with just sorrow, it is not merely sorrow, it involves a complete change in attitude regarding sin and God and is accompanied by a sense of sorrow and a change in conduct! This sort of repentance does not come from within man himself but is a result of Gods Mercy that leads man to it. Repentance and asking for mere forgiveness of a sin one has committed are not the same. One is willing to make an effort to change or to turn away from His sins because of Gratitude of Christs Sacrifice that has saved them from the Wrath of God which was given unto them by Grace. This in no way is saying that man cannot sin but His sin nature is bo longer abides in Him because the seed of Christ remains within Him. If the Robber willfully and deliberatley sin without taking thought whatsoever and not taking heed to the obedience of God, do you really believe that He is Truly Repentant? A repentant person makes an effort to turn away from His Sins because Christs Spirit lives inside of Him, however this person may not take heed to it even though the Holy Spirit reproves Him because of several reasons. One might be that He is new to the faith and another reason is that He is still growing in Christ. But deliberately sinning without taking NO THOUGHT of the consequences whatsoever as to ingoring the voice of the Holy Spirit does not have the Holy Spirit because He is not convicted of sin and it is the Holy Spirits duty within the Genuine Believer to do such as explained here within these verses: Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, -because the prince of this world is judged. John 16:7-11

The Holy Spirit reveals the need for redemption because of sin. The Greatest sin is unbelief and the Greatest work is belief. When one who is indwelled with the Truth of God He strives to be obedient to the will of God and to keep His commandments not to obatins Salvation but because of His Gratitude and Honor to Him, if He were to sin the Holy Spirit would convict Him of sin and thus He would feel the need to ask for forgiveness because He knows within His heart that He has tresspassed against God. Take a look at this verse my friend: 1 John 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We are not to deny our sins if we have committed any but rather we are to confess them before God with a spirit of meekness and Godly Sorrow as such with these verses below:

2 Corinthians 7:10 - For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. Psalms 34:18 - The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

And when He has confessed His sins before God knwing that He has tresspassed agaist God, whether He be a robber(Repentant thief) God is faithful to forgive His sins. Here is an example of such a prayer from one whos was (repentant):Psalms 51:4 - Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

I hope that this has cleared up your inquiry!

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Postby gerani » Sat Sep 25, 2004 05:52 pm

the trinity was a dogmatic concept made up by the church to explain to the masses of people how jesus and the holy spirit and the Father were all God at the same time. besides explaning how three can be one, theyve labeled it as a mystery. though recently theve used some math concepts such as 1x1x1=1 but not 1+1+1=3.

and it also mingles in the pagan concept of three being a magical number.
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Postby (Omega) » Sun Sep 26, 2004 03:17 am

Hello gerani! :)

gerani wrote:the trinity was a dogmatic concept made up by the church to explain to the masses of people how jesus and the holy spirit and the Father were all God at the same time. besides explaning how three can be one, theyve labeled it as a mystery. though recently theve used some math concepts such as 1x1x1=1 but not 1+1+1=3.

and it also mingles in the pagan concept of three being a magical number.


Care to explain this gerani!

gerani1248 wrote:um, christianity and hinduism are different religions. you may believe that you can sin and only get to heaven through jesus, in hinduism, you can get to heaven through any of the 3 million gods and goddesses. more choice and preference for which form of God that is more easier for you to be with. in hinduism, God can be loved as a mother, father, child, lover, friend, brother, sister, etc...


The One True God will continue to remain a Mystery to those who do not know Him. When one invites Christ into their Hearts and receive Him as Both Lord and Savior, He/She begins a relationship with the Lord God. When you are engaged to be married to the woman whom you are deeply in Love with, you begin to form a Closer bond with your spouse because you and her are now United Together. And as time progresses you will develop a closer relationship with your spouse and your hearts begin to become as one, that is if your devoted to her. Take a look at this verse in Scripture: Ephesians 5:31 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

And now take a Look a this verse: Matthew 19:29 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

As one who is set apart from His Family to be with His Wife, so Likewise are those who are sanctified(Set Apart) to be with the Lord, the difference is that The LORD must be put above all relationships. This in Turn will bring one closer to God and thus develop a better understanding of His Nature by Revelation from God through the Holy Spirit. In Order to Understand the Triune Nature of God it must be understood by the Holy Spirit, notice the word HOLY, Since God is Holy and cannot be in the presence of Sin, His revelation of Himself can only be manifested through The Holy Spirit who reveals the Mystery of God by Christ being accepted into their hearts First. To sum it up, the Natural Man or those not born of the Spirit can never attain the understanding of the Triune Nature of the Godhead.

1 Timothy 3:16 - And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

That verse above can better be described as, Great is the Mystery of Christianity. Those of other faiths cannot understand this mystery of God being manifested in the Flesh as the Son of God. When all is Said and Done, The Revelation of God and His Mysterious Triune Nature will be revealed unto all, even to those who could not come to the understanding of the Triune Nature of God, they will then realize Christ as God but the Consequences of their rejection of this message of the Free Gift of Eternal Life will then be Void to the LOST!

Seven represents Completion!
Revelation 10:7 - But in the days of the voice of the (seventh) angel, when he shall begin to sound, (the mystery of God) should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

A Very Simple Prayer, SO CLOSE, and yet so FAR AWAY!

God Bless! :)

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Postby alifaia » Sun Sep 26, 2004 11:41 am

Hi ILJ... how are you??? all fine i hope...

Thanks for the kind words... i try to be rational in my discussions... getting emotinal / fanatical etc never solved jack... Altho i must say that when i started visiting different forums... i was ... well... adamant to a point of fanaticism... but over the past 18 months i have learnt a lot... but there is still more i can aquire... i dont know much yet...

anyways...
First you are biased as you are Muslim, definatley a moderate Muslim, and a free thinker.

true to all poiints... but then again at the same time i am unbiased as well... mainly because i know how a non-muslim or a non-christians feels and thinks... been there... usually i try to put myself in the other guys shoes and try to see thing sfrom his/her perspective... and yes ... i do understand... but (and i dont know if this is right) i feel that a personal view is always biased... hence the third person view... (yea yea i know this too is a personal vieew... i always was good at contradicting myself.. :) ) but think about it... on a personal level... an individualistic level... what is good for you might not be good for me... and whats right for me is wrong for you... thats the problem with personal views.. and to top it all... the person relating it is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt convinced that what he/she says is right... hence all the strife pain problems etc....

anyways...

First if a religion teaches a good thing, that doesn't mean it necessarily isn't bad.Satan as a deceiver will employ whatever means necessary to deceieve people and raise himself above the Throne of God.So I guess what I am sayin is the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.As Jesus said a person should clean inside and outside, not just the outside.

it all depends on ones defination of satan... what he is? what he is capable of etc... my understanding is he is upto no good... and i am sure all will agree with that... however the part about him doing good or rather wispering us to do good with the final result being bad... well i dont know... i feel that due to his clear cut anti-God stance... he wouldnt support the idea of helping a fellow man. i mean ... what type of deception can there be in feeding a poor man??? or giving alms?? or helping an orphan??? and i dont know if you are aware of this but in Islam such acts are very much required/recommended/requested/demanded etc... and these parts are or these acts are part of Islam... it is not a custom or tradition ... the very same things that Jesus said... are said by Prophet Muhammed...

That is why i feel that all religions existing today are or were at some time the real deal... which got lost in the course of time...

Ok... deception is this... a guy is playing at the craps/poker table... and he wins the first 5 rounds... big time... now you wouldnt call this a good act attributed to God would you? definately gambling is a sin. which can be only from satan... on the 6th round he pushes the limits of his bets and loses all... God?? no... satan?? definately yes... gambling or drinking or wife beating or any such thing just cant be attributed to God... and none of the religions existing today support such an idea...

but I do have some info.on this somewhere, because this subject came up at Sunday school one morning, so I researched it a bit.Hopefully I can find my info. here or else where.

Plz do... i appreciate it a lot... thanks dude...

Take care...

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2 Corinthians 7:10 - For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. Psalms 34:18 - The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

And when He has confessed His sins before God knwing that He has tresspassed agaist God, whether He be a robber(Repentant thief) God is faithful to forgive His sins. Here is an example of such a prayer from one whos was (repentant):Psalms 51:4 - Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

I do not accept Jesus as my saviour who lived and died for my sins and rose again on the 3rd day... however i repent and repent scincerly.. as per biblical verse you pointed out 2Cor7:10 and Psa 34:18...

In this case eg such as me... whats the point of a sacrifice if sincere repentance will do the job?

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Care to explain this gerani!

May i gerani??
Have you heard of the hindu trinity omega? Shiva-Vishnu-Bhrama... altho i am not saying its pagan or whatever... just giving an example of trinity in non-christian religions... and hinduism according to christianity is pagan/polytheistic etc... so there you go.
When you are engaged to be married to the woman whom you are deeply in Love with, you begin to form a Closer bond with your spouse because you and her are now United Together. And as time progresses you will develop a closer relationship with your spouse and your hearts begin to become as one, that is if your devoted to her.

man and woman are 2 seperate indivudual entities.. united by a mental psycholigical bond called marriage... the united together you speak of is this bond... a mental psychological non physical togetherness. but all the while the 2 are 2 seperate beings... Trinity on the other hand is the opposite of this. there are 3 individuals and these 3 individuals are (is) 1 individual. the question of mystery is not there at all... this is not a mystery... its illogical.. impossible... there is noly 1 infinite. infinite cannot be more than 1. 2 is not infinite.

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Postby gerani » Sun Sep 26, 2004 01:36 pm

um, omega, you are aware that thiese 3 million gods and goddesses are just different names and attributes of One God? its a more personal relationship between God and the devotee, and is not mandated by a dogmatic church of anysort.
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Hello alifaia!

alifaia wrote:Omega : hi... how are you doing?? How is the job hunt???
I do not accept Jesus as my saviour who lived and died for my sins and rose again on the 3rd day... however i repent and repent scincerly.. as per biblical verse you pointed out 2Cor7:10 and Psa 34:18...

In this case eg such as me... whats the point of a sacrifice if sincere repentance will do the job?


Everyone is born into theis world with Sin Nature after Adam and Eved sinned against God this sin nature had passed on to us. Now since this sin nature had been passed down to us it is a bad seed that must be removed and this cannot be accomplished my man since he was responsible for it. Take a look at this verse in Scripture my friend: Hebrews 9:22 - And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. Don't you find it difficult to remove red wine from your clothes? Sometimes its best to take it to the cleaners. And if there is no remission, there is no forgiveness. Man on His own can repent from His sins and still fall into condemnation because He has not dependedon God but on His own power to be free not only from His sins but His Sin Nature! Christ did not have a sin nature and unless one is Born of Christ and has His Seed within Him he will never see the Kingdom of God, you must be born of incorruptable seed and born of the new nature and die to self my friend, have you died to self?

Hebrews 12:14 - Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Meaning that all men are unrighteous and none are Good as the Bible declares and one is made Holy through the process of Sanctification throught the atoning Blood of Christ by His Sacrifice on the Cross. Let me let you in on another trick the Devil uses to condemn all. Take a look at this verse, actually this trick is pretty lame, take a look below:

From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and (be killed, and be raised again the third day.) Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. Matthew 16:21-23

Satan through Peter made an attempt to stop the Crucifixion of Christ so that he may be victorious and that Jesus would fail His mission so that there would be no remission of sins. Since He had failed His atempt there He made another attempt in the Islamic religion. You neither believe that He is LORD neither was He Crucified and rose the third day. those are mandatory in order to receive Salvation, take a look below.

Romans 10:9 - That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

alifaia wrote:May i gerani??
Have you heard of the hindu trinity omega? Shiva-Vishnu-Bhrama... altho i am not saying its pagan or whatever... just giving an example of trinity in non-christian religions... and hinduism according to christianity is pagan/polytheistic etc... so there you go.


:lol: Which God do you serve??? That is a poor analogy of the Triune God my friend, very, very poor. Did you read my my post and its explanation on the Trinity and once again you failed to realize it because you and gerani are both natural men and make a sad attempt to compare the God of Christianity to other religions, He is unique in nature and is not presented as different roles, that is Modalism which is a false conception of the Trinity! God is defined as 3 Eternal Persons my friend reread my posts.

alifaia wrote:man and woman are 2 seperate indivudual entities.. united by a mental psycholigical bond called marriage... the united together you speak of is this bond... a mental psychological non physical togetherness. but all the while the 2 are 2 seperate beings... Trinity on the other hand is the opposite of this. there are 3 individuals and these 3 individuals are (is) 1 individual. the question of mystery is not there at all... this is not a mystery... its illogical.. impossible... there is noly 1 infinite. infinite cannot be more than 1. 2 is not infinite.

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IMPOSSIBLE? WHOA!
I rest my case, you a mere man making an attempt to understand the Uniqeuness of God, this is why there is none like Him, you have just further strengthened the Fact that there is none like Him. Allah says that He is one and so is man correct? What so special about that? Because He is Eternal? Sorry nothing special about Him, His vain attempts and reiterations of him being the Most Magnifiicent and ALMIGHTY and that there is none like further proves that he is not unique when compare to the Understanding of my God. Understand this my friend very, very carefully, The Spirit of the False Prophet who is the Second Chief demonic Spirit in the demonic heirarchy Glorifes satan through his deceiving words which he has wrought in the Quran and into the hearts of the simple. And the Words written therein such as "Most Magnificent, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful" are attempts to Glorify Satan and the False Prophet does this in His Words in the Quran. Don't you see whats going on here? When He says most merciful , it may seem True in the your understanding but understand this very carefully! Demons and especially Satan operate on different levels that you are not aware of and that is what makes them so deceiving. "Most merciful" So I guess it won't matter since Allah is most merciful, I can surely be spared from Allah if I show mercy towards others even though I am a filthy sinner, because Allahs mercy must exceed mines since he is the most merciful correct? SORRY, BE NOT DECEIVED!!!

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. Revelation 13:11,12

The True God is 3 Eternal persons without begninning nor and end and formed in absolute Unity and Essence, Impossible with you because you are a mere man, and that sad part is that man is trying through His OWN LOGIC to understand the Immutability and Uniquenss of His Eternal Being which is manifested in Three Eternal Persons. I leave you with this and ask yourself honestly, is it still IMPOSSIBLE?

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8,9

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Postby gerani » Sun Sep 26, 2004 07:07 pm

"Which God do you serve??? That is a poor analogy of the Triune God my friend, very, very poor. Did you read my my post and its explanation on the Trinity and once again you failed to realize it because you and gerani are both natural men and make a sad attempt to compare the God of Christianity to other religions, He is unique in nature and is not presented as different roles, that is Modalism which is a false conception of the Trinity! God is defined as 3 Eternal Persons my friend reread my posts. "

the trinity of God is the Creator, the Life, and the Destructor.

you omega, know nothing about God. you swallow conceptions made by currupt leaders of the church and question nothing.

God is beyond human comprehension. we worship him in forms that relate to us in our daily lives in the world of nature.

we are not pagans, we are polytheistic and monotheistic at the same time. lol.
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Postby ILJ/Y » Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:53 pm

Peace all,

Ali,
Yes evetone has their own bias, but it we are truely seeking truth, we have lose "self" and listen as well as speak.

As far as satan, to deceive he would have to present a side of him that is not true to draw people to him.The Bible tells that he would fool even the very elect etc...His abilities of deception are very string, especially to a world spiraling away from morals, and sound teachings.Look at how many families are split, and know nothing of faith, and love for that matter.

As you and webmaster have described "self" which is so dominant today, but there is a huge price tag for such selfishness, we lose relationships with others, even our own families to uplift our selves, and not glorify God.

Now how would the anti-Christ, deceive people unless this person/satan indwelt, presented some good things, but the core being bad?


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I pray you and yours are safe and without serious damage from these storms.I saw on your posts that you are in hurricane country.I just want you to know we are praying for all of you in that area, and in the path of the current storm Jeanne.

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Postby alifaia » Mon Sep 27, 2004 08:46 am

Morning Omega..

Everyone is born into theis world with Sin Nature after Adam and Eved sinned against God this sin nature had passed on to us. Now since this sin nature had been passed down to us it is a bad seed that must be removed and this cannot be accomplished my man since he was responsible for it. Take a look at this verse in Scripture my friend: Hebrews 9:22 - And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. Don't you find it difficult to remove red wine from your clothes? Sometimes its best to take it to the cleaners. And if there is no remission, there is no forgiveness. Man on His own can repent from His sins and still fall into condemnation because He has not dependedon God but on His own power to be free not only from His sins but His Sin Nature! Christ did not have a sin nature and unless one is Born of Christ and has His Seed within Him he will never see the Kingdom of God, you must be born of incorruptable seed and born of the new nature and die to self my friend, have you died to self?

Hebrews 12:14 - Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Meaning that all men are unrighteous and none are Good as the Bible declares and one is made Holy through the process of Sanctification throught the atoning Blood of Christ by His Sacrifice on the Cross. Let me ..................................................


you have missed the point... if as per the verses you provided i repent.. i should be let off free... however if repentence doesnt do the trick ... and only the sacrifice does it... then is repentence needed ?? or required?? No. meaning... the saved are given a one way ticket to heaven... no matter what they did or are doing or will do... and the un-saved will burn in hell ... no matter what they did or are doing or will do.

so.. does repentence work?

Which God do you serve??? That is a poor analogy of the Triune God my friend, very, very poor. Did you read my my post and its explanation on the Trinity and once again you failed to realize it because you and gerani are both natural men and make a sad attempt to compare the God of Christianity to other religions, He is unique in nature and is not presented as different roles, that is Modalism which is a false conception of the Trinity! God is defined as 3 Eternal Persons my friend reread my posts.


3 persosn you say?? ok i can understand that... provided these three persosn are actual 3 different entities... and they are not one entity... if you say they are one entity... well.. there is the hindu trinity then. if they are not one entity then... arent you polytheistic???? i.e. multiple gods??


The True God is 3 Eternal persons without begninning nor and end and formed in absolute Unity and Essence,

3 absolutes?? mathamatically that is impossible.

rest my case, you a mere man making an attempt to understand the Uniqeuness of God

How are you different from me? is there something special about you??
The Spirit of the False Prophet who is the Second Chief demonic Spirit in the demonic heirarchy Glorifes satan through his deceiving words which he has wrought in the Quran and into the hearts of the simple. And the Words written therein such as "Most Magnificent, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful" are attempts to Glorify Satan and the False Prophet does this in His Words in the Quran. Don't you see whats going on here? When He says most merciful , it may seem True in the your understanding but understand this very carefully! Demons and especially Satan operate on different levels that you are not aware of and that is what makes them so deceiving. "Most merciful" So I guess it won't matter since Allah is most merciful, I can surely be spared from Allah if I show mercy towards others even though I am a filthy sinner, because Allahs mercy must exceed mines since he is the most merciful correct? SORRY, BE NOT DECEIVED!!!

If you wish to have a decent clean inter-religion discussion... i suggest you refrain from using words and phrases like the above... if you cant... well... have a good life... hope all works out for you... i am not here to be insulted... Thank you.

Gerani: Hi dude...

a small question... is Shiva the destructor?? or is it Vishnu?? i always got confused by it... I know Bhrama is the creator... Thanks dude...

ILJ/Y : Hi...How are you ??

There are 3 types of people existing today...
1.the true believer (hindu,muslim christian ...whatever... according to himself he is a true believer... and thats what matters only... i.e. he will try to follow his book to the last letter.)
2. the semi believer... (he knows... but thinks what the hell... just one more time... and i wont do it again)
3. the dis-believer (he doest believe at all... life on earth is what matters... good or bad.. its the only thing to him)

people in category 1 are the most difficult to tempt... satan just cant break their will... good is 2nd nature to them...

people in category 2.. are the easiest to break. mainly coz they dont have any will power... they know its wrong but still go thru with it. it doesnt take much to sway them away.

category 3 doesnt need any tempting at all... coz they are already there... sex drugs and rock n roll is a way of life for them. they are so engrossed in their own "deeds" that they cant even see the light.

in all cases if one is tempted to do good (good in the sense as we all know it... morally good stuff.. boy scout style good deed for the day etc... ) it is a definate fact that this has to come from God. Satan (who is undeniably absolute evil) just cant do / tempt others to do this "good"... as for apperent good... well... the only example i have was the poker table one... and that too was given by another christian friend... honestly i cant think of one. maybe you could think of something??

So waht i am trying to say is even if a religion is "satanic" as most people refer to religions other than theirs... if there is even an iota worth of good in it.. this good just cant be from satan... i mean how can an absolute evil person peform /tempt a good deed... i guess i cant imagine this coz i cant visualise it. no example crosses my mind... hence all religions did have divinity in it at the begining... but was distorted down the line...

donno if this makes sense to you... hope you understand...

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Postby (Omega) » Mon Sep 27, 2004 03:46 pm

Hi alifaia!

alifaia wrote:Morning Omega..
you have missed the point... if as per the verses you provided i repent.. i should be let off free... however if repentence doesnt do the trick ... and only the sacrifice does it... then is repentence needed ?? or required?? No. meaning... the saved are given a one way ticket to heaven... no matter what they did or are doing or will do... and the un-saved will burn in hell ... no matter what they did or are doing or will do.

so.. does repentence work?


No my Friend I have not missed your point and I don't believe that you missed my point , I know that have! Let me copy and paste my own post so I don;t have to continue to waste my timesince nothing seems to get to you, I don't mean this in an offensive way but as one who follows the instructions written within the Holy Bible, it speaks for itself, it is written:1 Corinthians 12:3 - Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
The Act of Repentance is because one believes that Jesus' Sacrifice had paid their sin debt and that in their Gratitude they earnestly repent, as Christians, that the Whole Concept of Salvation is based on Repentance. I will use this childlike understanding to describe it in three famous words that I'm sure that most Christians are familiar with and that is:Ask, Believe, and Confess! We Must First ask the Lord to come into our hearts with our hearts, believe that He died and rose again the third day victorious over the Devil, Confess with our mouths that He is Lord. And I specifically stated that without the sheeding of blood there are no remission of sins! When one invites the Lord into their heart the seek to purify themselves just as Christ is, e.g: 1 Peter 1:16 - Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Easy as ABC my friend, easy as ABC! Michael Jacksons Lyrics will tell you(abc, easy as 123, or simple as do re mi) :lol: :lol: :lol:

So regardless if one is repentant, His repentance without His recognition of the saving blood of Christ which was shed for Him becomes useless. I have mentioned it in my previous post how the repentance of this world will lead one to condemnation regardless of his change in conduct if one does not receive and accept the Sacrifice of Christ on their behalf, do you understand this my friend? Corinthians 7:10 - For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. Your not saved by works my friend but by the Blood of Christ. When one accepts Christ into His heart he chooses to repent from the error of his ways, even if this person fails to serve God faithfully but remains firm in His belief that Jesus is LORD and has died for their sin, this person will enter into paradise because He has entered as a believer, that is believing in the Grace of God and not His works!, it is written here: 1 Corinthians 3:15 - If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. This verse in Scripture does not refer to purgatory or one being purified in Fire but literall means that even if the BELIEVER dies without works to show He will enter in Heaven"BY THE SKIN OF HIS TEETH!!!"

Which God do you serve??? That is a poor analogy of the Triune God my friend, very, very poor. Did you read my my post and its explanation on the Trinity and once again you failed to realize it because you and gerani are both natural men and make a sad attempt to compare the God of Christianity to other religions, He is unique in nature and is not presented as different roles, that is Modalism which is a false conception of the Trinity! God is defined as 3 Eternal Persons my friend reread my posts.


alifaia wrote:3 persosn you say?? ok i can understand that... provided these three persosn are actual 3 different entities... and they are not one entity... if you say they are one entity... well.. there is the hindu trinity then. if they are not one entity then... arent you polytheistic???? i.e. multiple gods??


Your driving me nuts! ImageImageImage I have explained it to you in another post and stated that if you could not understand that then you will never understand it my friend.

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Postby gerani » Tue Sep 28, 2004 12:55 am

once again, omega has failed to answer my questions. way to go omega.

"a small question... is Shiva the destructor?? or is it Vishnu?? i always got confused by it... I know Bhrama is the creator... Thanks dude... "

shiva is the destructor. hinduism, unlike christianity, confronts reality and teaches that its part of nature, the process of life and death. God is entwined in nature, how this works, how we must live and die for there to be the supreme balance in the world.
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gerani wrote:once again, omega has failed to answer my questions. way to go omega.

"a small question... is Shiva the destructor?? or is it Vishnu?? i always got confused by it... I know Bhrama is the creator... Thanks dude... "

shiva is the destructor. hinduism, unlike christianity, confronts reality and teaches that its part of nature, the process of life and death. God is entwined in nature, how this works, how we must live and die for there to be the supreme balance in the world.


gerani do you know why I don't respond to your posts too often because they make no sense at all. Polytheistic and Monotheistic? Have a nice day gerani! Talk about confusion! :lol: I know nothing about God gerani? If you say so, I don't have to prove it to you because and the end of your road you will open your heart to the True God, til then your search is so far in vain!

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Postby alifaia » Tue Sep 28, 2004 05:27 am

Morning Omega..

Your not saved by works my friend but by the Blood of Christ. When one accepts Christ into His heart he chooses to repent from the error of his ways, even if this person fails to serve God faithfully but remains firm in His belief that Jesus is LORD and has died for their sin, this person will enter into paradise because He has entered as a believer, that is believing in the Grace of God and not His works!,


So a person doesnt have to do any good at all after his re-birth... he can remain a believer and still lead his normal party life.. maybe toned down a bit.. but none the less enjoy himself... and still enter heaven???

a simple yes or no will suffice...
Your driving me nuts! I have explained it to you in another post and stated that if you could not understand that then you will never understand it my friend.


Actually its you who is driving me nuts... first you say 3 then you say 1... which answer should i believe? 3 or 1???

Gerani:
thanks ... actually hinduism like Islam is a complete way of life... every thing is accounted for ... right from birth till death and after... all aspects of life are covered... i always used to think... if all the hindus in india were to become muslims... these new converts will be much better than the existing one... and i guess the change over will be the easiest...
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Postby gerani » Tue Sep 28, 2004 06:52 pm

ya. thx. its monotheistic cuz we believe in ONe God. its polytheistic cuz we worship seperate parts (and the whole too) of God because the Divine is extremly fast and just by calling him God the father, will not encompass the wholness. god the father is a form, i can understand that.


my friend amanda, (non denom christian) pointed out that the trinity is like calling a woman, a daughter, a wife, and a daughter. three different names, but same person. but still, if God, Jesus, and holyspirit were different names for the same God, and they all had different roles.

i like this analogy a lot. am i correct?
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Postby Alpha » Tue Sep 28, 2004 08:42 pm

gerani wrote:ya. thx. its monotheistic cuz we believe in ONe God. its polytheistic cuz we worship seperate parts (and the whole too) of God because the Divine is extremly fast and just by calling him God the father, will not encompass the wholness. god the father is a form, i can understand that.


my friend amanda, (non denom christian) pointed out that the trinity is like calling a woman, a daughter, a wife, and a daughter. three different names, but same person. but still, if God, Jesus, and holyspirit were different names for the same God, and they all had different roles.

i like this analogy a lot. am i correct?


People can come up with so many examples to explain the Trinity, but its easier to just bend the knee and accept the Trinity for what it is and realize God's ways and thoughts are higher than ours (Isaiah 55:9). The examples of the Trinity are just given to show that it is not illogical, they are not given to show 100% that is how the Trinity is.

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Postby gerani » Wed Sep 29, 2004 01:07 am

"People can come up with so many examples to explain the Trinity, but its easier to just bend the knee and accept the Trinity for what it is and realize God's ways and thoughts are higher than ours (Isaiah 55:9). The examples of the Trinity are just given to show that it is not illogical, they are not given to show 100% that is how the Trinity is."

true, God's ways are higher than ours, but what i find hillarious that humans cannot explain a concept made by humans themselves. asnd yes, the trinity is a human concept. its what you chose to call God. certainly i dont think God calls himself the 'holy ghost' or 'holy spirit' at times.
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gerani wrote:"People can come up with so many examples to explain the Trinity, but its easier to just bend the knee and accept the Trinity for what it is and realize God's ways and thoughts are higher than ours (Isaiah 55:9). The examples of the Trinity are just given to show that it is not illogical, they are not given to show 100% that is how the Trinity is."

true, God's ways are higher than ours, but what i find hillarious that humans cannot explain a concept made by humans themselves. asnd yes, the trinity is a human concept. its what you chose to call God. certainly i dont think God calls himself the 'holy ghost' or 'holy spirit' at times.


Matthew 28:19 - Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in (the name) of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

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Postby gerani » Wed Sep 29, 2004 10:15 pm

that is christian propaganda inside the bible. who knows if Jesus really said it or not.
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Postby (Omega) » Wed Sep 29, 2004 10:40 pm

gerani wrote:that is christian propaganda inside the bible. who knows if Jesus really said it or not.


John 8:32,36 - And ye shall (know the truth), and the truth shall make you free. If the (Son) therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

John 5:24 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, (He that heareth my word), and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

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Postby Alpha » Thu Sep 30, 2004 03:38 pm

gerani wrote:that is christian propaganda inside the bible. who knows if Jesus really said it or not.


The Bible has the most evidence to support the sayings of Jesus and not to mention the Old Testament prophecies on Him. So if I was to believe any source on the sayings of Jesus, it would be the Bible. If I was to have any other opinion other than the sayings of Jesus in the Bible, it will take more faith to believe in those opinions than to believe what the bible says about Him.

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Postby gerani » Thu Sep 30, 2004 04:11 pm

um, thats circular reasoning. it just doesnt work...
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Postby Alpha » Thu Sep 30, 2004 09:51 pm

gerani wrote:um, thats circular reasoning. it just doesnt work...


If you put two choices in front of me: College A (free tuition, excellent school), College B (half-price tuition, good school) and I chose College A, how is that circular reasoning?

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Postby (Omega) » Thu Sep 30, 2004 10:16 pm

Hi gerani!

gerani wrote:um, thats circular reasoning. it just doesnt work...


Lets take a look at the Plum and make its comparison to the Triune God, and then lets see if you can obtain a better understanding.

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We know that the Plum consists of the seed, its flesh and the skin and these comprise one avocado correct? Without the seed there would be neither the skin nor the flesh and we realize that they are of one essence .

John 8:28 - Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. The Flesh of the Plum can do (nothing of itself) but it is the seed of the Plum that (gave it its form), as the Son that has been given instruction or being (taught) of the Father. Take a look at this vese in Scripture: [color=darkred]John 5:19 - Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do (nothing of himself), but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. The Skin, flesh and the seed all Grow at the Same time. We have the (seed), then we have the (flesh) than we have the (skin) on the outer part of the Fruit , likewise the (Father) sends the (Son) and the Son sends the (Holy Spirit)! So we have three Eternal Persons that comprise One Absolute God in Absolute Unity without Beginning nor an End, The Eternal Plum, the Plum without Begninning nor an End. Furthermore we must understand that Gods Creations such as the plums are what they are Creations such as with Man, however God Is not Created but His Creation is: Genesis 1:2,16 - And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. So we have something from Absolutely Nothing! God existing before anything came into existence, The Eternal Godhead consisting of Three Eternal Persons, the Son Eternally Begotten of the Father. Ever notice that If the skin of the Plum is peirced or poked at the Fruit begins to (rot), likewise with the Blasphemy of the Holy Ghost, such as constant rejection of the Truth and contributing its Power to (Satan)! Please don’t continue to poke the Plum gerani! The Good part of the Eternal Plum is that its seed Gives Life when it is Buried and planted even after it is Poked and Pierced!!!

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Postby gerani » Fri Oct 01, 2004 01:41 am

... okay omega. you can stop smoking the shrubery now.


circular reasoning means that you explain the truth by the bible itself. its not the truth, it could be, but its just an assertion, only in the bible itself. and thats it. by saying, oh is true! because its in the bible. thats circular reasoning. is it true? i dont know. but you have "faith" in it.
omega, i think you are blind from knowing what the real truth is. open them! ill pray for you.
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Postby H2O » Fri Oct 01, 2004 05:57 am

Alpha wrote:People can come up with so many examples to explain the Trinity, but its easier to just bend the knee and accept the Trinity for what it is and realize God's ways and thoughts are higher than ours (Isaiah 55:9). The examples of the Trinity are just given to show that it is not illogical, they are not given to show 100% that is how the Trinity is.


We will stick to the plain and simple ONE with no PARTS which is logical and consistant with the universe and nature.

THere is ONE G-D. See how easy that is. Its very simple to understand. Just ONE and ONLY one. There is no formula to make up a GODHEAD.

There is no ONE G-D that is THREE :-? .

Lets look at the trinity concept when rendered from words to numbers 3/1 or 1/3 = [?] this is the Christian belief (Note: Not all Christians believe in the Trintiy)

Lets look at the Tawheed concept of Islam when rendered from words to numbers 1/1 or 1/1 = 1

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Postby Alpha » Fri Oct 01, 2004 02:29 pm

H2O wrote:
Alpha wrote:People can come up with so many examples to explain the Trinity, but its easier to just bend the knee and accept the Trinity for what it is and realize God's ways and thoughts are higher than ours (Isaiah 55:9). The examples of the Trinity are just given to show that it is not illogical, they are not given to show 100% that is how the Trinity is.


We will stick to the plain and simple ONE with no PARTS which is logical and consistant with the universe and nature.

THere is ONE G-D. See how easy that is. Its very simple to understand. Just ONE and ONLY one. There is no formula to make up a GODHEAD.

There is no ONE G-D that is THREE :-? .

Lets look at the trinity concept when rendered from words to numbers 3/1 or 1/3 = [?] this is the Christian belief (Note: Not all Christians believe in the Trintiy)

Lets look at the Tawheed concept of Islam when rendered from words to numbers 1/1 or 1/1 = 1

Tawheed = Oneness (Of G-D)


Christians believe there is one God, we don't believe there is three God's. And if you do not believe in the Trinity, you are not a Christian. I'm not talking about the word "Trinity", which many seem to think is a part of the argument. I'm talking about the concept which the Bible teaches. So just like Muslims, Christians believe in one God. It's just that we don't believe in the same God. An example of three things that are one in nature is: The Universe(time, space, and matter). From that example, how can you interpret that I said there are three Universes? You can't! By the way, I'm not saying that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is like the Universe with time, space and matter. I just gave that example to show that it is logical to say three in one. I'm sure the relationship within the Godhead is more complicated, but only God knows.

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Postby (Omega) » Fri Oct 01, 2004 03:21 pm

gerani wrote:... okay omega. you can stop smoking the shrubery now.


circular reasoning means that you explain the truth by the bible itself. its not the truth, it could be, but its just an assertion, only in the bible itself. and thats it. by saying, oh is true! because its in the bible. thats circular reasoning. is it true? i dont know. but you have "faith" in it.
omega, i think you are blind from knowing what the real truth is. open them! ill pray for you.


First of all gerani I DO NOT SMOKE!!!!! so stop accusing me!!!

I rspond to posts but when one continues to fail to realize the Truth when it is point blank in thir face then responding is nothing more than a waste of time which I am to use correctly.

Have a nice day gerani and God Bless!

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Postby gerani » Fri Oct 01, 2004 06:13 pm

omega, listen, you are completly gullible. its not to be taken literally. i dont care if you smoke... sigh. you completely missed my point. try seeing it in a metaphorical point of veiw. your fundamentalist leaders have not strengthened you in thinking for yourself.
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Postby H2O » Fri Oct 01, 2004 06:22 pm

Alpha wrote:Christians believe there is one God, we don't believe there is three God's. And if you do not believe in the Trinity, you are not a Christian.


I respect this just to the same extent that we do not consider groups like the NOI or the Nation Of Islam a so called black movement muslim organization as being muslim cause of their beliefs are verily unorthadox.

But however, there are Christians out there which I am sure you have heard of and have incountered before that do not believe that Jesus is G-D or believe in the Trinity.

My opinion on this though being that I do have a christian background, and I have read the bible countless of times, they are more authentic and orthadox than those who believe in the One G-D is three persons ideology of the Godhead, or the Divinity of Jesus.

Alpha wrote:It's just that we don't believe in the same God


As that we do not believe Jesus is G-D as you do. We consider the THE FATHER (as you refer to him as) to be G-D only and Jesus is his servant, prophet and messenger to the Jewish people.
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Postby (Omega) » Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:27 pm

Hi there gerani! :)

gerani wrote:omega, listen, you are completly gullible. its not to be taken literally. i dont care if you smoke... sigh. you completely missed my point. try seeing it in a metaphorical point of veiw. your fundamentalist leaders have not strengthened you in thinking for yourself.


Try seeing it in a Spiritual point of view! makes more sense then.
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Postby Alpha » Mon Oct 04, 2004 10:14 pm

H2O wrote:But however, there are Christians out there which I am sure you have heard of and have incountered before that do not believe that Jesus is G-D or believe in the Trinity.

My opinion on this though being that I do have a christian background, and I have read the bible countless of times, they are more authentic and orthadox than those who believe in the One G-D is three persons ideology of the Godhead, or the Divinity of Jesus.


If you are a Christian, you have to adhere to biblical teaching. The Bible clearly teaches Jesus is God. This was known before Muhammed was even born. God prophesies, He does not edit.

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Postby WarriorofChrist » Sat Oct 23, 2004 02:51 am

Alifaia

Ali you are one person right and you have a spirit, God gave each of us a spirit now I ask you is your Spirit seperate from you ? is your spirit another alifaia ?

According to your logic you and your spirit are two different people.

What we are trying to tell you is that

The Father - God

The Holy Spirit - Gods Spirit

The Word - Gods word

are all ONE.

Just like you and your spirit are one

If not then that would mean you and your spirit are two different people inside you.

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Postby shhhhhhhhhhhhh » Mon Oct 25, 2004 02:19 pm

Yes of course they are one god.
So when jesus suicide on the cross and died then god also died.
But wait!!! Christian jerks keep telling methat Jesus spirit didn't die but only his body!!!
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Who is Jesus?
…According to leading Biblical scholars and reference works.

The purpose of this paper is to document the many quotes which illustrate that important scholars and reference books do not agree at all that the statement "Jesus is God" represents the Bible accurately. I believe that this is important because the majority of mainstream Christianity is under the incorrect assumption that Christians who renounce the Trinity as unbiblical are members of some sort of cult who have been brainwashed into believing this heretical view. This could not be farther from the truth. In fact, it is the complete opposite. The majority of these people have studied the Bible in depth, which is why they can see that the Trinity is not contained in the Scriptures.

This list will contain quotes from some of the most recognized Biblical scholars and reference books. Some of the quotes are even from Trinitarian scholars and reference books, which makes their admission carry even more weight.

IS THE TRINITY BIBLICAL?

Let us start first with an individual which most of us in the U.S.A. admire for his contribution to our country not only as President, but also as the author of one of the greatest literary works of our time, the Declaration of Independence. What most people do not know about Thomas Jefferson is that he was an excellent, well-known and respected theologian of his time. Here is an excerpt from a letter that he wrote to a man named James Smith on Dec.8,1822:

"Hear, O Israel, YHWH our God is one LORD" (Deuteronomy 6:4), the Shema, the creed of Israel.

"No historical fact is better established, than that the doctrine of one God, pure and uncompounded, was that of the early ages of Christianity…Nor was the unity of the Supreme Being ousted from the Christian creed by the force of reason, but by the sword of civil government, wielded at the will of the fanatic Athanasius. The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands of martyrs…The Athanasian paradox that one is three, and three but one, is so incomprehensible to the human mind, that no candid man can say that he has any idea of it, and how can he believe what presents no idea? He who thinks he does, only deceives himself. He proves, also, that man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such person, gullibility which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck."

Thomas Jefferson: Letter to James Smith, Dec.8, 1822.

In the 1670’s, Isaac Newton quietly studied the Trinity and came to the conclusion that the doctrine was foisted on the church by Athanasius in order to swell the numbers and fill the coffers. He concluded that the Bible had prophesied the Rise of Trinitarianism ("this strange religion of the west," the cult of three equal gods) as the abomination of desolation – (The Rise of Science and Decline of Orthodox Christianity. A Study of Kepler, Descartes and Newton).

After Newton, others such as Matthew Tindal, John Toland, Gottfried Arnold, Goerg Walch, Giovanni But, Henry Noris and Hermann Samuel Reimarus argued Unitarianism and opened up a new era of criticism.

Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889) saw the Trinity doctrine as flagrantly Hellenistic. He said, "that it had corrupted the Christian message by introducing an alien ‘layer of metaphysical concepts derived from the natural philosophy of the Greeks, and it had nothing to do with early Christianity."

"Jesus Christ never mentioned such a phenomenon, and nowhere in the New Testament does the word ‘Trinity’ appear. The idea was only adopted by the church three hundred years after the death of our Lord." – The Paganism in Our Christianity, historian Arthur Weigall.

"Anyone who can worship a Trinity and insist that his religion is monotheistic can believe anything." – Robert A. Heinlein.

Jesuit Fortman: "The New Testament writers…give us no formal or formulated doctrine of the Trinity, no explicit teaching that in one God there are three co-equal divine persons…Nowhere do we find any Trinitarian doctrine of three distinct subjects of divine life and activity in the same Godhead."

Protestant theologian Karl Barth said: "The Bible lacks the express declaration that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are of equal essence."

Yale University professor E. Washburn Hopkins: "To Jesus and Paul the doctrine of the Trinity was apparently unknown…they say nothing about it." – Origin and Evolution of Religion.

"As early as the 8th century, the theologian St. John of Damascus frankly admitted what every modern critical scholar of the New Testament now realizes; that neither the doctrine of the Trinity nor that of the two natures of Jesus Christ is explicitly set out in Scripture. In fact, if you take the record as it is and avoid reading back into it the dogmatic definitions of a latter age, you cannot find what is traditionally regarded as orthodox Christianity in the Bible at all." – For Christ’s Sake, Tom Harpur.

J.D. Michaelis who is an eminent professor of biblical languages states: "It cannot be proved, out of the whole number of passages in the Old Testament in which the Holy Spirit is mentioned, that it is a distinct person in the Godhead."

"To be called Son of God," says the leading contemporary scholar and systematician at Fuller Seminary, "means that you are NOT God" (Ex Auditu, 7, 1991).

"You simply cannot find the doctrine of the Trinity set out anywhere in the Bible. St Paul has the highest view of Jesus’ role and person, but nowhere does he call him God. Nor does Jesus himself explicitly claim to be the second person of the Trinity, wholly equal to his heavenly Father." – For Christ’s Sake, by Tom Harpur.

"Jesus is not God but God’s representative, and, as such, so completely and totally acts on God’s behalf that he stands in God’s stead before the world.... The gospel [of John] clearly states that God and Jesus are not to be understood as identical persons, as in 14:28, ‘the Father is greater than I’" (Jacob Jervell, Jesus in the Gospel of John, 1984, p. 21).

"Apparently Paul did not call Jesus God" (Sydney Cave, D.D., Doctrine of the Person of Christ, p. 4.

"Paul habitually differentiates Christ from God" (C.J. Cadoux, A Pilgrim’s Further Progress, pp. 40, 42).

"Paul never equates Jesus with God" (W.R. Matthews, The Problem of Christ in the 20th-Century, Maurice Lectures, W.R. Matthews, 1949, p. 22).

"Paul never gives to Christ the name or description of ‘God’" (Dictionary of the Apostolic Church, Vol. 1, p. 194).

"When the New Testament writers speak of Jesus Christ, they do not speak of Him nor do they think of Him as God" (J.M. Creed, The Divinity of Jesus Christ, pp. 122-123).

Karl Rahner [leading Roman Catholic spokesman] points out with so much emphasis: That the Son in the New Testament is never described as ‘ho theos’ [God]" (A.T. Hanson, Grace and Truth, p. 66).

"The clear evidence of John is that Jesus refuses the claim to be God.... Jesus vigorously denied the blasphemy of being God or His substitute" (J.A.T. Robinson, Twelve More New Testament Studies, pp. 175, 176).

"In his post-resurrection heavenly life, Jesus is portrayed as retaining a personal individuality every bit as distinct and separate from the person of God as was his in his life on earth as the terrestrial Jesus. Alongside God and compared with God, he appears, indeed, as yet another heavenly being in God’s heavenly court, just as the angels were - though as God’s Son, he stands in a different category, and ranks far above them" (Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 1967-68, Vol. 50, p. 258).

"What, however, is said of his life and functions as the celestial Christ neither means nor implies that in divine status he stands on a par with God Himself and is fully God. On the contrary, in the New Testament picture of his heavenly person and ministry we behold a figure both separate from and subordinate to God" (ibid., pp. 258, 259).

"The fact has to be faced that New Testament research over, say, the last thirty or forty years has been leading an increasing number of reputable New Testament scholars to the conclusion that Jesus...certainly never believed himself to be God" (ibid., p. 251).

"When [first-century Christians] assigned Jesus such honorific titles as Christ, Son of Man, Son of God and Lord, these were ways of saying not that he was God but that he did God’s work" (ibid., p. 250).

"The ancients made a wrong use of [John 10:30] to prove that Christ is...of the same essence with the Father. For Christ does not argue about the unity of substance, but about the agreement that he has with the Father" (John Calvin, Commentary on John).

"As far as the New Testament is concerned, one does not find in it an actual doctrine of the Trinity." (Bernard Lohse, A Short History of Christian Doctrine).

"The Pauline Christ who accomplishes the work of salvation is a personality who is both human and superhuman, not God, but the Son of God. Here the idea, which was to develop later, of the union of the two natures is not present" (Maurice Goguel, Jesus and the Origins of Christianity, Harper, 1960).

"Jesus is never identified simpliciter [absolutely] with God, since the early Christians were not likely to confuse Jesus with God the Father" (Howard Marshall, Jesus as Lord: The Development of the Concept, in Eschatology in the NT, Hendrickson, p. 144).

The Catholic Encyclopedia: "For nowhere in the Old Testament do we find any clear indication of a Third Person. Mention is often made of the Spirit of the Lord, but there is nothing to show that the Spirit was viewed as distinct from Yahweh Himself. The term is always employed to signify God considered in His working, whether in the universe or in the soul of man."

The Encyclopedia Americana: "Fourth century Trinitarianism did not reflect accurately early Christian teaching regarding the nature of God; it was, on the contrary, a deviation from this teaching."

A Dictionary of Religious Knowledge: "Many say that the Trinity is a corruption borrowed from the heathen religions, and ingrafted on the Christian faith."

The Paganism in Our Christianity: "The origin of the Trinity is entirely pagan."

The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: "The doctrines of the Logos and the Trinity received their shape from Greek Fathers, who were much influenced, directly or indirectly, by the Platonic philosophy. That errors and corruptions crept into the church from this source cannot be denied."

The Church of the First Few Centuries: "The Doctrine of the Trinity was of gradual and comparatively late formation. It had its origin in a source entirely foreign from that of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. It grew up, and was ingrafted on Christianity, through the hands of the Platonizing Fathers."

Outlines of the History of Dogma: "Church doctrine became rooted in the soil of Hellenism (pagan Greek thought). Thereby it became a mystery to the great majority of Christians."

The Illustrated Bible Dictionary: "The word Trinity is not found in the Bible…It did not find a place formally in the theology of the church till the 4th century."

The Encyclopedia of Religion: "Theologians agree that the New Testament does not contain an explicit doctrine of the Trinity."

The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology: "The New Testament does not contain the developed doctrine of the Trinity."

The Encyclopedia Americana: "Christianity derived from Judaism, and Judaism was strictly Unitarian [believing that God is one person]. The road that led from Jerusalem to Nicaea was scarcely a straight one. Fourth century Trinitarianism did not reflect accurately early Christian teaching regarding the nature of God; it was, on the contrary, a deviation from this teaching." –(1956), Vol. XXVII, p. 294L.

The Nouveau Dictionary Universel: "The Platonic Trinity, itself merely a rearrangement of older trinities dating back to earlier peoples, appears to be the rational philosophic trinity of attributes that gave rise to the three hypostases or divine persons taught by the Christian churches…This Greek philosopher’s [Plato, fourth century BCE ] conception of the divine trinity…can be found in all the ancient [pagan] religions." (Paris,1865-1870), edited by M.Lachatre, Vol. 2, p. 1467.

Dictionary of the Bible by John L. Mckenzie, S.J: "The trinity of persons within the unity of nature is defined in terms of ‘person’ and ‘nature’ which are Greek philosophical terms; actually the terms do not appear in the Bible. The Trinitarian definitions arose out of long controversies in which these terms and others such as ‘essence’ and ‘substance’ were erroneously applied to God by some theologians." – (New York, 1965), p. 899.

The New Encyclopedia Britannica: "Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: ‘Hear O Israel; YHWH our God is one Lord’ (Deut. 6:4)…The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies…By the end of the 4th century the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since." -(1976), Micropedia, Vol.X, p. 126.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia: "The formulation ‘one God in three persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. But it is precisely this formula that has first claim to the title the Trinitarian dogma. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective." –(1967), Vol. XIV, p. 299.

Why has it taken so long to expose this false teaching?

The fact that the Trinity is not Biblical is well known among Bible scholars and reference books as is attested to in this paper. There are many more quotes from many more sources that could be added to this list, but I sufficed that these were enough for the purpose of this paper.

The reason that it has taken so long to expose this fact to the masses is that only until recently (the 1700’s), the punishment for denying the Trinity was death by fire at the stake. This is no joke or exaggeration. In the 5th century the Roman Emperor Justin made non-belief in the Trinity punishable by death. Another very important reason is that there were very few Bibles, and very few people who were literate, and even if you had a Bible and could read, you were forbidden to read it because it was considered a mortal sin for an average person to do so. Only the Church officials had the privilege to read the Scriptures. Roman Catholics were not allowed to read the Scriptures until 1962 when it was finally allowed under Vatican II by Pope John the 23rd. Keep in mind that even today, Catholics make up about 80% of the Christians in the world.

By the time the reformation took place in the 1500’s, the Trinity had had 1000 years to entrench itself in Christianity. At this time, still very few people were able to read, and Bibles were still very expensive. The reformist did allow people to read the Scriptures if you could read and afford it, but denial of the Trinity still carried the death penalty. Michael Servetus was burned at the stake by Calvin for declaring his anti-Trinitarian views.

Finally, in Western Europe in the 1700’s a more tolerant position was adopted. You were no longer persecuted by the state for your views, but you were still persecuted socially and economically by society.

It was because of this tolerant position by the state that the controversy about the Trinity arose again in full force in the 1700’s and 1800’s. It has taken until the 1900’s for it to become common knowledge among Bible scholars and serious Bible students, although it is still vigorously defended as "a mystery" by so-called orthodox churches.

I do believe it will be well into the next century before the majority of Christianity finally discards this apostasy that has robbed Christians of the true knowledge of the only God, the Father, and His Son the Jesus the Messiah, for the last 1700 years.

"Yet for us there is one God, the Father" (Corinthians 8:6).

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" (Ephesians 1:3).

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Postby WarriorofChrist » Mon Oct 25, 2004 03:59 pm

Yes of course they are one god.


Was that too hard to admit :)

So when jesus suicide on the cross and died then god also died.


:cry: I will just say you need to realise that God never died on the cross only the flesh that God manifested in died, God is Spirit, Spirit cannot die.
Please understand the Old Testament Leviticus God required the Jews to give a lamb without blemish (sin) kill it and shed it's blood for sin, what was required was the BLOOD of a PERFECT INNOCENT man or animal.
God came in the flesh and was Perfect and was suitable for the sacrifice.
It was the Perfect sinless flesh of Jesus that died and his blood shed not literally God :roll:

But wait!!! Christian jerks keep telling methat Jesus spirit didn't die but only his body!!!


Please don't call Christians Jerk, it's very rude and shows what kind of attitude you muslims have it only makes you look negative.
Jesus said after his flesh died Father into your hands I commit my Spirit, the Spirit went back to the Father.
Please understand the Old Testament Leviticus sacrifices and maybe you can get a glimps of Jesus sacrifice, also read Isaiah 53.
and please read my signature.
Read all this and then get back to me.

So it's only a matter of killing a dirty body, the same body that smell and used to go to the bathroom and piss.


The body of Jesus was not dirty, it was PERFECT without blemish, had no sin. and Jesus blood was shed for sins.

So where's the great scarific of Jesus?


The sacrifice was the perfect sinless blood of Jesus, life is in the blood, please read the leviticus law and then get back to me.

Why the lamb has 2 be jesus? why not Sylvester Stallone?


because the lamb had to be without blemish (sin) no man was without blemish therefore no man could atone sins, only Jahweh was without sins and is a perfect sacrifice.
Sylvester Stalone is sinful and so is everyone in the World especially muhamad expert rapist and child molester.
Levititus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins

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Postby gerani » Tue Oct 26, 2004 01:08 am

Please don't call Christians Jerk, it's very rude and shows what kind of attitude you muslims have it only makes you look negative.


yes, i agree. lets remain civil. and please tell your other christian friends on this forum who use bad language, dissing muslims. its an obvious sign of the lack of intelligence.
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Postby Alpha » Tue Oct 26, 2004 02:42 pm

gerani wrote:
Please don't call Christians Jerk, it's very rude and shows what kind of attitude you muslims have it only makes you look negative.


yes, i agree. lets remain civil. and please tell your other christian friends on this forum who use bad language, dissing muslims. its an obvious sign of the lack of intelligence.


It's an obvious sign that humans are sinners and need a Saviour. It's been a while gerani, how's it going?

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Postby gerani » Tue Oct 26, 2004 06:58 pm

swell. :lol:
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Postby Loki » Wed Oct 27, 2004 02:52 pm

The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is not merely an "article of faith" which men are called to "believe." It is not simply a dogma which the Church requires its good members to "accept on faith." Neither is the doctrine of the Holy Trinity the invention of scholars and academicians, the result of intellectual speculation and philosophical thinking.

- First : To have a Christian understanding of the Trinity is to eliminate all materialistic ideas of Allah.
- Seccond : It is important to recognize that the Qur'anic concepts of the Trinity are wrong and are not useful to understand the Christian conception of the Trinity.

The doctrine of the Trinity is that there is only one God who exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Not one god out of three. Trinitarianism is monotheistic

- Third : The doctrine of the Trinity does solve the difficult question of the nature of the Qur'an (Al-Kalaam) itself. How can the Qur'an be uncreated and eternal? This was an important question in the early development of the religion of Muhammad. This conundrum arose because, if the Qur'an were uncreated and eternal, there would be two eternal and uncreated entities: Allah and Al-Qur'an. This duality shatters the concept of One Eternal and Uncreated Being.

(I posted this allready in another post, with no response)

One of the things that distinguishes Old Testament (Bible) believers from New Testament (Bible) believers is how God the Holy Spirit functions with believers. In the Old Testament, God dwelled AMONG His people in either the Tabernacle or the Temple. When Jesus walked in Palestine, he was with men in his physical person doing miracles and convincing men of faith that he was their Messiah. In the New Testament Age of the Church, God, as the Holy Spirit resides IN His children. We literally ARE His sanctuary or temple.

John 16:7 "Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter (The Holy Spirit) will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you."

Jesus said he would leave this earth physically before the Holy Spirit would come and manifest himself to man. This should be a clarifying thought as to the nature of the members of the "Trinity" or Godhead. Only one of them has chosen to be manifest on earth at any given time. This does not say that the three persons of the Godhead limit one another, but the Godhead has chosen to manifest itself in one divine Person at a time when offering men salvation in each Dispensation of time. The reason for this is that the Three Persons are One God, not three, as people claim who want to confuse themselves on purpose.

Tertullian (A leading church theologian who lived around 220 AD) was the first to clearly mark out what he thought was happening to cause this Trinity: to wit, the Spirit was coordinated with the Father and the Son, and was joined with them in substance, coming from the Father through the Son in some way. The Godhead is three in sequence (who came first), aspect, and manifestation (how they show themselves), but one in quality (they are perfect and complete), substance (whatever it is that makes God god, all three are), power (all three can do anything), and purpose (their aim regarding the created universe is precisely the same). He calls the Spirit "the third name in Divinity, and the third degree of the Divine Majesty".

It is hard for the Muslim to understand this, for Muhammed made Allah a very anthropomorphic character, that is, Allah is made by Muhammed to behave very much as man behaves. The God of the Bible manifests himself as One God in Three Persons, and this cannot be reduced to physical earthly definitions. It is a mystery which God asks us to believe. If the Muslim insists in an Allah who behaves like a man, then he cannot have The God of the Bible, Father, Son, nor Holy Spirit, as his Savior and friend. Allah, and the God of the Bible, are 100% alien to one another.

Now, the issue of who God is-- Allah, or the God of the Bible-- is a critical issue. Jesus Christ is not the Madhi, or, some good old fellow who will come back, marry a wife, and have a family. He is God with us, He is God who died for our sins in our place, he is God who came back from death to give us eternal life, and He is God the coming Judge of all man. Jesus Christ is one of Three Persons in the Godhead taught in the Bible. This truth is only believed by faith. It is not possible to explain God completely. All religions have their mysteries which cannot be explained. Muhammed's mysteries were all about how special he was, how he and Allah worked out Islam, and how you must believe that all Sharia law will make you holy. The mysteries of the Bible have to do with who God is and how he saves men and cares for them. If you will not accept the God of the Bible on HIS terms, you cannot have ANYTHING he offers. This is why the "Jesus" of Islam is a counterfeit and we reject him as an invention of a blasphemous prophet, Muhammed. The only true Jesus Christ is the Jesus of the Bible.

The data in Scripture is very, very clear: there are three individuals in the Bible who may be called YHWH without error and without blasphemy, who interact with one another and with us. These three individuals affirm, however, that there is only ONE GOD.

the Athanasian Creed reads, "We worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity; neither dividing the substance nor confusing the persons."

"Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[1] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit"" -- Matthew 28:18-19

Note that the word ‘name’ is singular, showing that all three Persons are one Being.

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Postby H2O » Thu Oct 28, 2004 03:53 am

Alpha wrote:If you are a Christian, you have to adhere to biblical teaching. The Bible clearly teaches Jesus is God. This was known before Muhammed was even born. God prophesies, He does not edit.


If it was so clear as you say, then you wouldnt have numerous Christian movements out their like the Unitarians and Assyrian Christians who do not believe Jesus is G-D.

There is major discrepancy among the Churches through out history in conflict about if Jesus was divine or not that lead to massive blood shed. The Church of Alexandrea which was the second to largest Christian movement next to the Roman Church denied Jesus being divine.

These people read Greek/Aramaic/and Hebrew whom had much more better understanding of the scripture than you or any other Christian that only reads english.

I personally find your statment to be a bit ironic, when it is a matter of interpretation and which Bible your reading that is prefered amongst the Christian churches.

Alpha wrote:..God prophesies, He does not edit


According to your beliefs when Jesus came and died for your sins it abrogated you from being subject to the Torah. This is an edit, a change in the law. The New Covenant replace the Old Covenant, this is and EDIT.

Would you like to see more EDITS in ENGLISH BIBLE that you claim to be inspired ?

1 John 5 (KJV)
5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.


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1 John 5 (NIV)

5Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
6This is the one who came by water and blood--Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 7For there are three that testify: 8the[1] Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.


:o Verse 7 in KJV does not exist in NIV

Where did it go :-?

NIV commentary states : "5:7,8 Late manuscripts of the Vulgate testify in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. 8 And there are three that testify on earth: the (not found in any Greek manuscript before the sixteenth century) "

Seems the greek christians did some editing in the later manuscripts to support their Jesus is G-D part of a trinity ordeal if it didnt exist in the early manuscripts.
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Postby H2O » Thu Oct 28, 2004 04:22 am

Loki wrote: First : To have a Christian understanding of the Trinity is to eliminate all materialistic ideas of Allah.


Do you mind providing proof of Allah being taught as a "materialistic idea/concept/ideology ? To make such a statement if you cannot produce clear proof from the Quran it self shows you utter ignorance of our religion.

Loki wrote:- Seccond : It is important to recognize that the Qur'anic concepts of the Trinity are wrong and are not useful to understand the Christian conception of the Trinity.


Mind to explain ? The understanding that you have is merely based on Christian propaganda that you have adopted. So please do us a favor and explain this "WRONG" concept.

I would love to entertain you in this to expose you error. :wink:

Loki wrote:- Third : The doctrine of the Trinity does solve the difficult question of the nature of the Qur'an (Al-Kalaam) itself. How can the Qur'an be uncreated and eternal? This was an important question in the early development of the religion of Muhammad. This conundrum arose because, if the Qur'an were uncreated and eternal, there would be two eternal and uncreated entities: Allah and Al-Qur'an. This duality shatters the concept of One Eternal and Uncreated Being.


This is a good point. Yes it is true that certain muslims in the past fathomed as to the nature of the Quran, if the Quran is created or not. Personally I think those who came up with this sick concept were influenced by christian concepts per Jesus the Logos or word of God that is uncreated according to Christian ideology.

Loki wrote:It is hard for the Muslim to understand this, for Muhammed made Allah a very anthropomorphic character, that is, Allah is made by Muhammed to behave very much as man behaves....If the Muslim insists in an Allah who behaves like a man, then he cannot have The God of the Bible, Father, Son, nor Holy Spirit, as his Savior and friend. Allah, and the God of the Bible, are 100% alien to one another.


Produce proof and we will also get into the Bible how it makes G-D so Humanistic. Yapping isnt doing anything. Talk about acting like a man. Didnt your G-D go to the bathroom, breath air, eat, bleed, and had the devil yanking him all over the place in temptation ? Isnt this acting like a man mereless a human being. Again produce proof from Quran of this acting like a man.

Loki wrote:Now, the issue of who God is-- Allah, or the God of the Bible-- is a critical issue. Jesus Christ is not the Madhi, or, some good old fellow who will come back, marry a wife, and have a family.


Not universally excepted by all muslims. The return of Jesus amongst a portion of other Muslims is symbolical not literal.

Loki wrote: Muhammed's mysteries were all about how special he was, how he and Allah worked out Islam, and how you must believe that all Sharia law will make you holy.


Read the fist Psalms what does it tell you ? TO do the will of G-D is to love him and to obey him, not making up stuff that you think is his will.
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Postby Phiz » Thu Oct 28, 2004 01:16 pm

Hello :D

This is my understanding. I hope it helps.

In the Old Testament the Creator revealed himself to the Israelites as the one true living God. (Deuteronomy 6:4) He made it clear that he is a jealous god who does not tolerate his people worshipping any other god, and who expects his people to rely totally on him for all their needs, and to be united to him exclusively in love, trust, and obedience.

Then 2000 years ago a man called Jesus of Nazareth appeared who staunchly affirmed the Old Testament and at the same time made some staggering claims about himself.

He called people to give him their ultimate allegiance. (Matthew 10:39)
He expected his followers to love him so intensely that their love for themselves and their family seems like hatred in comparison. (Luke 14:26)
He expected his followers to deny themselves and relinquish everything for his sake. (Luke 9:23-24)
He invited people to depend on him for help, peace, rest, joy and everything else they need to cope with life. (Matthew 11:28, John 14:1)
He claimed to be the only thing which will truly satisfy a man's soul. (John 6:35)
He defined eternal life as knowing him in addition to knowing God. (John 17:3)
He claimed to have the authority to forgive sins committed against God. (Luke 7:48 )
He declared that we need his help if we are to please God. (John 15:4-5)
He expected us to esteem him as highly as we esteem God. (John 5:23)
He claimed to have the authority and the ability to judge all people. (Matthew 25:31-32)
He claimed to have existed before he was born and to have shared God’s glory. (John 17:5)
He claimed to have authority to dispatch the Spirit of God. (John 16:7)


The message of the Old Testament prophets was: “Come to God. Follow God. Obey God.” But Jesus’ message was thoroughly egocentric: “Come to me. Follow me. Obey me.”

Jesus' first followers were Jews who were imbued with Old Testament monotheism. But their encounter with Jesus led them to say some outrageous things about him.

Paul was a former Pharisee who obeyed the Old Testament law scrupulously. He wrote this:
"Jesus Christ died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live to please themselves but to please Jesus." (2 Corinthians 5:15)
"I am not only willing to be put in jail for the Lord Jesus. I am even willing to die for him in Jerusalem." (Acts 21:13)


John, another monotheistic Jew, wrote this:
"No one who denies the Son has any part with the Father, but affirming the Son is an embrace of the Father as well." (1 John 2:23)
"Everyone who has faith in the Son has eternal life. But no one who rejects him will ever share in that life." (John 3:36)


On one occasion Peter, another monotheistic Jew, fell on his knees before Jesus and said, "Oh, Lord, please leave me - I'm too much of a sinner to be near you." (Luke 5:8 )

I do not understand any definition or explanation of the Trinity. But I think we should either dismiss Jesus of Nazareth as an egotistical blasphemer or we should do what Peter did and fall down on our knees before him. If you don’t reject Jesus outright, then you cannot merely respect him as a prophet. That would be a gross insult to him and a denial of what he claimed about himself. Jesus appeared to have no cognitive dissonance about accepting people’s worship and at the same time declaring God to be one.

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Postby KhristosAnesti » Thu Oct 28, 2004 02:07 pm

H2O:

If it was so clear as you say, then you wouldnt have numerous Christian movements out their like the Unitarians and Assyrian Christians who do not believe Jesus is G-D.


Errors both factual and logical, all in the one sentence, dear oh dear, where shall we start?

Lets start with a factual error; correction: Assyrian Christians do in fact believe Jesus is God. Where the Assyrian church differered with the original Christian church is over the personhood of Christ. If you had done a little historical research into the council of Ephesus, you would have known this. Secondly, i think at this stage we need to define the term “God”, because technically speaking, unitarians do not deny that Christ is 'god', in fact they (and their founder mr arius) never did (maybe there is some unknown sect out there that does, however its unknown to me – its surely not the prominent unitarian sects such as Jehova's Witnesses, mormons etc.).

Now the logical error. Your argument lies on the premise that the clarity of a Biblical doctrine would necessitate universal and uniform acceptance of that very doctrine. You therefore conclude, that because of an extreme minority dissent on a particular doctrine, that that doctrine is thus not clearly taught. All i have to say is 'res ipsa liquitor' to the prudent mind.

There is major discrepancy among the Churches through out history in conflict about if Jesus was divine or not that lead to massive blood shed.


Lets quit the hyperbole. “Major” does not qualify the discrepancy – unless you would like to refine what that means. “Massive” does not qualify the bloodshed over the issue, unless again you would like to clarify that very term.

The Church of Alexandrea which was the second to largest Christian movement next to the Roman Church denied Jesus being divine.


The church of Alexandria denied the divinity of Christ? Oh boy...

You do understand that at every single ecumenical council to which the “Church of Alexandria” had partaken in, they were in fact always in communion with the Rome and Constantinople on the issue of Christs Divinity. I mean...seriously, do you have any idea what you're talking about? Much is owed to the “church of Alexandria” for some of the greatest scholars of Christianity who promoted and defended Christs divinity, absolutely annhilating the arians in their writings – we have St Athanasius, St Cyril, Origen, Dionysius, St Clement. If you are alluding to the fact Arius, was briefly ordained a bishop – then you are committing a serious fallacy and/or deception if you want to argue that Arius and his doctrine reflected the “Church of Alexandria” - Arius was an individual who was condemned a heretic once his heterodox teachings were known and he was later ex-communicated. He never represented the church of Alexandria.

These people read Greek/Aramaic/and Hebrew whom had much more better understanding of the scripture than you or any other Christian that only reads english.


I assure you, that during the stages in which doctrine was being formulated into creedal form, and being ascertained and discussed ecumenically i.e. the very foundations of the church itself; NO-ONE would have been speaking or reading the scriptures in english....so seriously, do you have any idea of what you are on about?

According to your beliefs when Jesus came and died for your sins it abrogated you from being subject to the Torah. This is an edit, a change in the law. The New Covenant replace the Old Covenant, this is and EDIT.


Lets correctly rephrase your opening few words from: “According to your beliefs” to “According to my misunderstanding”.

There is no such thing as “abrogation” in Christianity, lets get that straight, we speak only of progressive revelation. First of all, im not quite sure what you personally mean by the New and Old “Covenant” - I will assume you are speaking of the 'agreement' between God and man, concerning mans salvation. The plan for mans salvation was never “edited” it was never “changed”, it was destined and established from 'eternity'. What we have is two classes of people, living in two different time periods so that in effect, theyre independent salvation is dependent on the 'progress of revelation' i.e. The extent that was revealed unto them at their particular time. Now before i assume much from that one sentence that you spoke, i shall wait for you to elaborate and be more specific concerning what your argument is exactly so i dont waste my time.

Would you like to see more EDITS in ENGLISH BIBLE that you claim to be inspired ?


NIV commentary states : "5:7,8 Late manuscripts of the Vulgate testify in heaven: the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. 8 And there are three that testify on earth: the (not found in any Greek manuscript before the sixteenth century) "

Seems the greek christians did some editing in the later manuscripts to support their Jesus is G-D part of a trinity ordeal if it didnt exist in the early manuscripts.


You really need to be careful with the kind of claims you make, because to assert something so confidently as if the issue is so conclusive would recquire you to show that it is logically necessary, and not merely logically possible. I would like you to slowly now read what im about to say, because i am one who chooses my words carefully:

The fact we dont have physical evidence of a manuscript before a said time, containing the said verse, does not necessitate that the said verse did not exist in a manuscript before the said time.

In fact, we can promote the plausibility of the argument, that the said verse did in fact exist in manuscripts before the said time, due to the fact it was quoted 51 known times, from 168 AD until 1520 AD, in the works of various Christian writers.

The safest argument you can propose is that there is nothing conclusive on the issue. The fact remains that this verse never was fundamental or central to the doctrine of the Trinity, obviously, further emphasising the irrelevance of whether it is to be included or not.

I personally believe there is a sufficient cause that i give its inclusion the benefit of any doubt. My reasons for doing so are succintly summarised in the following article: http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/1john57.htm

Loki wrote:
- Seccond : It is important to recognize that the Qur'anic concepts of the Trinity are wrong and are not useful to understand the Christian conception of the Trinity.


Mind to explain ? The understanding that you have is merely based on Christian propaganda that you have adopted. So please do us a favor and explain this "WRONG" concept.


Oh would be delighted to explain. I shall express below some fundamental ideas of the Trinity doctrine, founded in scripture, defended by the apostolic Fathers at the councils, and formulated into creed – expressing the Christian beliefs, and then i'll explain the quranic misrepresentation of these doctrines, and than you will see that the only propaganda being thrown around, is blatant lies about what Christians believe (beliefs expressed clearly in creeds and councils by the very 'representatives' of the church hundreds of years before muhammed was even born), by your very own quran.

Key idea #1: Jesus Christ is the only-begotten Son of God.
Quranic strawman: "Wonderful Originator of the heavens and the earth; how can He have a son when He has no consort?" 6:101
Correction: Christs Sonship does not result from Gods taking part in a carnal act. The term begotten if to be qualified in human terms, would be labelled an “intellectual generation”.

Key idea #2: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit constitute the Holy Trinity. St Mary was never in anyway related to the Godhead nor was she ever considered a divine figure of any kind. She was simply the vehicle for Christs incarnation, and it was of her that Christ took His very flesh.
Quranic strawman: 5:116 "O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah?"
Correction: Christians believe Christ made a self-claim to divinity, claims to an intricate and unique relationship with God, such that He would be included within the unique identity of the Godhead. NEVER have Christians ever believed Christ made Himself a separate deity to the one true God – and NEVER has St Mary ever been a third deity of three.

Key idea #3: God is One being, existent in three persons.
Quranic strawman: 5:73 They disbelieved who say: Allah is one of three: for there is no god except One God.
Correction: God is not one of three. God is one and three (of different categories) simultaneously.


This is a good point. Yes it is true that certain muslims in the past fathomed as to the nature of the Quran, if the Quran is created or not. Personally I think those who came up with this sick concept were influenced by christian concepts per Jesus the Logos or word of God that is uncreated according to Christian ideology.


I have a couple of things to say on this issue.

#1 – This “sick concept” was the traditional and classical orthodox view of quran. The Mutazilite sect which sought to oppose it, were temporarily in authority until the traditionalists later regained power. This “sick concept” has been the “mainstream” islamic view, and has remained unchallenged in the Sunni world today. Im guessing therefore that you are a shi'ite, or maybe a Kharijite?

#2 – Yes i agree that those who came up with this concept were influenced by the Biblical and Christian idea of Christ as The Word. However, i would have to also argue that the analogy is based on a fundamental misunderstanding on what it meant for Christ to be “The Word”. The mutazalite attempt to oppose traditional islam, on the basis that the Christian concept of Christ as The Word led to a compromise of the divine unity because of some strange idea of an assent to a mulitiplicity of beggingless divine entitites, was fundamentally flawed. They were superficiially acquianted with metaphysics and Christian theology, which became the ultimate result of their fallacious teachings.

Talk about acting like a man. Didnt your G-D go to the bathroom, breath air, eat, bleed, and had the devil yanking him all over the place in temptation ? Isnt this acting like a man mereless a human being.


Only if we attributed such functions to the divine, which we dont.

Read the fist Psalms what does it tell you ? TO do the will of G-D is to love him and to obey him, not making up stuff that you think is his will.


I dont discern Gods will from a single Psalm, thanks for the schorlarly opinion though.

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Postby Alpha » Thu Oct 28, 2004 03:23 pm

Well done KhristosAnesti

H2O wrote:The New Covenant replace the Old Covenant, this is and EDIT.


Not really, because in Jeremiah, God prophesied about the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31). In fact, since the New Covenant involves Jesus, God prophesied this in Genesis (Genesis 3:15). As opposed to the god of the Qu'ran which waits 500 years after the fact, then contradicts revelations which were already established. That my friend is editing!

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Postby God'schild » Thu Oct 28, 2004 04:35 pm

Hebrews 9:

11) But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
(12) Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
(13) For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
(14) How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
(15) And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
(16) For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
(17) For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
(18) Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
(19) For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
(20) Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
(21) Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
(22) And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
(23) It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
(24) For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
(25) Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
(26) For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
(27) And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
(28) So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
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Postby H2O » Tue Nov 02, 2004 08:29 am

I am still waiting for you to address my post in the "God is one not three" thread, since i already addressed the issue of your quran which has deceptively and/or ignorantly misrepresented the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity. Maybe you can explain how acknowledging persons (such as the eternally generated and subsisting divine knowledge or wisdom) within the Godhead classifies as a "partner" of God Himself.
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I forgot about this thread. I was busy making APPLE SAUCE :lol:


Quranic strawman: "Wonderful Originator of the heavens and the earth; how can He have a son when He has no consort?" 6:101

Correction: Christs Sonship does not result from Gods taking part in a carnal act. The term begotten if to be qualified in human terms, would be labelled an “intellectual generation”.



Lets see and you take this as a Christian to be refering to the Christian relgion huh ? I would like to know WHERE in that contect is is directed to Christianity specifically ? This is called reading the Quran with a Biased mind in a Christian perspective. Was Christianity the only religion that had a "Son of G-D" belief ? Absolutely not, in which the Quran says you Christian merely mimic what the pagans do.

The Jews call 'Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Al-Masih the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the Unbelievers of old used to say. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth! 9:30


In 6:101 it is a general statement applied to any people that believe G-D had a son, the Christian is no the only religion that has such a belief.

Key idea #2: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit constitute the Holy Trinity. St Mary was never in anyway related to the Godhead nor was she ever considered a divine figure of any kind. She was simply the vehicle for Christs incarnation, and it was of her that Christ took His very flesh.
Quranic strawman: 5:116 "O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah?"
Correction: Christians believe Christ made a self-claim to divinity, claims to an intricate and unique relationship with God, such that He would be included within the unique identity of the Godhead. NEVER have Christians ever believed Christ made Himself a separate deity to the one true God – and NEVER has St Mary ever been a third deity of three.


I bet you got this one from Christian propaganda. You didnt come up with it. Obviously you didnt clearify the misconception you consumed.

Read closely :

5:116 "O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah?"

Please count, you do know how to do that right ? Where in that verse does it allude to trinity when Allah is excluded as being worshipped or being part of those two. The verse demonstrates 2 gods being worshiped not three for a trinity.

We muslims understand this verse to refer to the Christians who worship Jesus as a god (the Protestants) and Maryam as a god (Catholics) despite you two sects are each others throats as to who is a true Christian or not.

Key idea #3: God is One being, existent in three persons.
Quranic strawman: 5:73 They disbelieved who say: Allah is one of three: for there is no god except One God.
Correction: God is not one of three. God is one and three (of different categories) simultaneously.


Lets look take a closer look:

[5:72] Indeed those have disbelieved who say: "Allah is Al-Masih the son of Maryam." But said Al-Masih: "O Children of Israel! Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord." Whoever joins other gods with Allah, Allah will forbid him the Garden, and the Fire will be his abode. There will for the wrong-doers be no one to help.

[5:73] Indeed those have disbelieved who say: Allah is one of three : for there is no god except One God. If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy), verily a grievous penalty will befall the blasphemers among them.


In verse 72 it is specifical addressed to Christians, in verse 73 it is a GENERAL ellaboration as Christianity is NOT the ONLY religion with a Three that are one or One that is three making up a godhead belief ie trinity. Remember, Muhammad came to deliver the message of the Quran to ALL MANKIND. Verse 72 already condems the belief that Jesus is Allah which automatically condemns any ideology surrounding it that aids such belief.

The verse you are looking for that sepcifically is directed to Christians was already revealed:

O People of the Book! commit no excesses in your religion: nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Al-Masih 'Isa the son of Maryam was (no more than) A Messenger of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Maryam, and a Spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His Messengers. Say not "Three": desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is One God: glory be to Him: (far Exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs. 4:71



And as a reminder the Quran it self does not say "TRINITY" it only says "thalaathah" meaning "THREE". Your concept of interpreting the Quran is merely following another according to his interpretation ie Christian circulated propaganda and Chrisitian perspectives that does not constitute a REALITY.
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Postby KhristosAnesti » Tue Nov 02, 2004 09:38 am

H20:

Lets see and you take this as a Christian to be refering to the Christian relgion huh ? I would like to know WHERE in that contect is is directed to Christianity specifically ?


Huh? Its Absolutely irrelevant whether the verse refers to Christianity to the exclusion of other sects/religions or not – concentrate with me here. The fact it is a reference to Christianity nonetheless (whether that be exclusively or inclusively) as you yourself have acknowledged by bringing up 9:30 means the fundamental flaw remains. For clearly the very concept of the “son of God” in 6:101 is being rejected on the very basis that God has no consort – which very explicitly suggests that the Son of God concept arises from a belief that God carnally generated a Son. Since the Christian belief in the Son of God does not lie on this reasoning – the author of your quran is either deceptive and/or a liar.

To further emphasise this we only need to look at Surat 19:88: “Those who say: ‘The Lord of Mercy has begotten a son,’ preach a monstrous falsehood, at which the very heavens might crack, the earth break asunder, and the mountains crumble to dust. That they should ascribe a son to the Merciful, when it does not become the Lord of Mercy to beget one!”

19:88 is SPECIFICALLY referring to the concept of a “BEGOTTEN SON” - which is the Christian belief of Christ as the only begotten Son of God. When we take into account Surat 72:3 we find that it associates the concept with CARNAL generation: “He (exalted be the glory of our Lord!) has taken no wife, nor has He begotten any children. The Blaspheming One among us has uttered a wanton falsehood against God, although we had supposed no man or jinee could tell of Him what is untrue.”

Christian do not believe in God carnally begetting Christ. Explain this straw man and/or lie.


5:116 "O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah?"

Please count, you do know how to do that right ? Where in that verse does it allude to trinity when Allah is excluded as being worshipped or being part of those two. The verse demonstrates 2 gods being worshiped not three for a trinity.


Obviously you are inept. The verse says nothing about the worship of Jesus and Mary to the exclusion of God. Its talking about Jesus and Mary being taken up as two separate deity's BESIDE (not to the EXCLUSION of) allah. Hence suggesting a tritheism of allah, Jesus, and Mary.

Now you didnt address even ONE of the issues i addressed in my clarification of true Christian doctrine, which the above verse has clearly misrepresented. Lets go through them one by one.

1)Christians believe Christ made a self-claim to divinity, claims to an intricate and unique relationship with God, such that He would be included within the unique identity of God we DONT believe as your quran suggests that Jesus taught that he is “a god” BESIDES God.

2) Christians believe Mary is a mere HUMAN – that has always been the Christian belief concerning Mariology (Catholics and Orthodox included). We DONT believe as your quran suggests that Mary is “a god” BESIDES “Allah”.

3)The Trinity constitutes of three persons namely; The Father, The Son and Holy Spirit – and NOT as your quran makes implicit – a tritheism of God, Jesus, Mary.

In verse 72 it is specifical addressed to Christians, in verse 73 it is a GENERAL ellaboration as Christianity is NOT the ONLY religion with a Three that are one or One that is three making up a godhead belief ie trinity.


Thanks for pointing out the irrelevant. You have not denied that the verse refers to the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, the only thing your saying is that it doesnt refer EXCLUSIVELY to the Trinity doctrine. (putting aside the obvious problem with that assertion at this stage since it is irrelevant in the first place) Let me repeat the Christian doctrine of the Trinity does NOT suggest that God is “ONE OF THREE” it is a belief of Gods being simulataneously one and three (of different categories ofcourse).

Christian circulated propaganda


So far the evidence speaks for itself - the only propoganda being circulated is within your very own book. Taking the above to its logical conclusion – the author of the quran has either deceptively misrepresented Christian doctrine or he (or her or they or it) is simply ignorant.

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Postby H2O » Tue Nov 02, 2004 01:57 pm

Huh? Its Absolutely irrelevant whether the verse refers to Christianity to the exclusion of other sects/religions or not – concentrate with me here


It makes every right of relevance.

The fact it is a reference to Christianity nonetheless (whether that be exclusively or inclusively) as you yourself have acknowledged by bringing up 9:30 means the fundamental flaw remains.


Does 9:30 make mention of your beliefs, or the saying of such a thing. Your utterance of such a thing is what is condemned regardless if it is literal or not.

For clearly the very concept of the “son of God” in 6:101 is being rejected on the very basis that God has no consort – which very explicitly suggests that the Son of God concept arises from a belief that God carnally generated a Son.


How so? Many beliefs their is a G-D and a Goddess that were not carnal that bore a son that were married. To the fact you are supposing this is carnal belief but in fact the statement is so general it has no fixed determined meaning to support your interpretation of whom it is refering to. Your accusation is an assumption. For a person who is acquinted with world religion will not see such a statment to be refering to Christianity.

Christianity utters "Mary is the Mother of the Son of G-D" while in the same instance the Quran rejects such an UTTERANCE by throwing a wrench into the wheel of such a constructed saying with a general logical refutation that if he has no consort then how could "Mary be the mother of the Son of G-D" if she has no marital disposition to G-D inorder for G-D to have a son by her. This has nothing to do with carnalism

The issue of the Quran stating about Allah not having a consort to assert what you are saying is nonsense, when the Bible speaks of being Married to Christ. The same language is used but of course the christian belief is different which is not held literally on what it says while the Quran puts emphasises on the SAYING rather than the beliefs which gives the interpretation of the saying.

Remember what the Quranic verse EMPHASIS on. It is the "SAYING" OR "CALLING" which does not get specific into the "BELIEFS".

To further emphasise this we only need to look at Surat 19:88: “Those who say: ‘The Lord of Mercy has begotten a son,’ preach a monstrous falsehood, at which the very heavens might crack, the earth break asunder, and the mountains crumble to dust. That they should ascribe a son to the Merciful, when it does not become the Lord of Mercy to beget one!”

19:88 is SPECIFICALLY referring to the concept of a “BEGOTTEN SON” - which is the Christian belief of Christ as the only begotten Son of God. When we take into account Surat 72:3 we find that it associates the concept with CARNAL generation: “He (exalted be the glory of our Lord!) has taken no wife, nor has He begotten any children. The Blaspheming One among us has uttered a wanton falsehood against God, although we had supposed no man or jinee could tell of Him what is untrue.”


This is going to become an issue of translation, which are not the Quran that have interpolations on the translators behalf.

019.088
YUSUFALI: They say: "(Allah) Most Gracious has begotten a son!"
PICKTHAL: And they say: The Beneficent hath taken unto Himself a son.
SHAKIR: And they say: The Beneficent Allah has taken (to Himself) a son.

019.089
YUSUFALI: Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous!
PICKTHAL: Assuredly ye utter a disastrous thing
SHAKIR: Certainly you have made an abominable assertion

019.090
YUSUFALI: At it the skies are ready to burst, the earth to split asunder, and the mountains to fall down in utter ruin,
PICKTHAL: Whereby almost the heavens are torn, and the earth is split asunder and the mountains fall in ruins,
SHAKIR: The heavens may almost be rent thereat, and the earth cleave asunder, and the mountains fall down in pieces,

019.091
YUSUFALI: That they should invoke a son for (Allah) Most Gracious.
PICKTHAL: That ye ascribe unto the Beneficent a son,
SHAKIR: That they ascribe a son to the Beneficent Allah.

019.092
YUSUFALI: For it is not consonant with the majesty of (Allah) Most Gracious that He should beget a son.
PICKTHAL: When it is not meet for (the Majesty of) the Beneficent that He should choose a son.
SHAKIR: And it is not worthy of the Beneficent Allah that He should take (to Himself) a son.


Does the quran actually mention "begotten" ? NO, as the word in english is the translators interpolation.

Your issue on 19:88 is irrelevant as it is a general statment that does not reflect on what they belief but what they say.

Obviously you are inept. The verse says nothing about the worship of Jesus and Mary to the exclusion of God. Its talking about Jesus and Mary being taken up as two separate deity's BESIDE (not to the EXCLUSION of) allah. Hence suggesting a tritheism of allah, Jesus, and Mary.


Of course it is english you can interpret "BESIDES" how you want cause it ambiguous. So in your case you would settle of course for the meaning that would benefit you to hold your stance in the arguement that you have not fully comprehended. Please check your english dictionary and tell us what you find and how and where did you come up with that "BESIDES" in the context does not mean "not ot the EXCLUSION of". Seems your picking your own meanings.

The Arabic word in which "BESIDES" is translated from is " min dooni" which means "without, excluding or with the exception of" that clearifies the meaning of "BESIDES".

Thanks for pointing out the irrelevant. You have not denied that the verse refers to the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, the only thing your saying is that it doesnt refer EXCLUSIVELY to the Trinity doctrine. (putting aside the obvious problem with that assertion at this stage since it is irrelevant in the first place) Let me repeat the Christian doctrine of the Trinity does NOT suggest that God is “ONE OF THREE” it is a belief of Gods being simulataneously one and three (of different categories ofcourse).


Again you mention THREE. Verse 5:73 is not specifcally refering to Christians that emphasises on "THOSE WHO SAY" not "THOSE WHO BELIEVE" or what you beleifs are.

O People of the Book! commit no excesses in your religion: nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Al-Masih 'Isa the son of Maryam was (no more than) A Messenger of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Maryam, and a Spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His Messengers. Say not "Three": desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is One God: glory be to Him: (far Exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs. 4:71


This verse is specifically refering to Christian that cannot help to say "THREE" in the explantion of the Divinity of G-D. This is the issue the Quran address not on your interpretive beliefs in the trinity or Three or the sonship of Jesus with G-D. It is a matter of your UTTERANCE of such a thing not the beliefs. Illiminate the saying first the beliefs which interpret the sayings will crumble.
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Postby Loki » Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:21 pm

Huh? Its Absolutely irrelevant whether the verse refers to Christianity to the exclusion of other sects/religions or not – concentrate with me here


It makes every right of relevance.


No it is irrelevant, since the trinitarian concept is based upon a literal interpretation of the gospels. The same gospel wich is used in every christian denomination. All denominations are dependant upon the gospel so therefore it is essential to analyse the gospel. If you wanna see wich interpretation is the most correct one you need to analyse the gospel and thus excluding heretic or unsupportable interpretations by sects. And not the other way around.

The fact it is a reference to Christianity nonetheless (whether that be exclusively or inclusively) as you yourself have acknowledged by bringing up 9:30 means the fundamental flaw remains.


Does 9:30 make mention of your beliefs, or the saying of such a thing. Your utterance of such a thing is what is condemned regardless if it is literal or not.


Is Allah a linguist or so? He doesn't like people explaining the triple manifestations of the ONE GOD ?

The fact that astonishes me is that Allah is so gullible to see three different natures and say they are three different God's, that like saying me talking, me singing and me being quiet are three different people.

Christianity utters "Mary is the Mother of the Son of G-D" while in the same instance the Quran rejects such an UTTERANCE by throwing a wrench into the wheel of such a constructed saying with a general logical refutation that if he has no consort then how could "Mary be the mother of the Son of G-D" if she has no marital disposition to G-D inorder for G-D to have a son by her. This has nothing to do with carnalism


Since both Islam and Christianity agree that Jesus came into existence trough virgin birth. May i ask you, H20 who Jesus' father was? Who said "BE"?

Then if you resolved who this person is who created the prophet Isa in Marry's womb... who can you call the father then? and why wasn't that person that created it in her womb not married to her?

O People of the Book! commit no excesses in your religion: nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Al-Masih 'Isa the son of Maryam was (no more than) A Messenger of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Maryam, and a Spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His Messengers. Say not "Three": desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is One God: glory be to Him: (far Exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs. 4:71


This verse is specifically refering to Christian that cannot help to say "THREE" in the explantion of the Divinity of G-D. This is the issue the Quran address not on your interpretive beliefs in the trinity or Three or the sonship of Jesus with G-D. It is a matter of your UTTERANCE of such a thing not the beliefs. Illiminate the saying first the beliefs which interpret the sayings will crumble.


pure perversion of what Islam really beliefs, wich is christians being polytheists, believing in three God's... as the verse cleary says in it's defence "...Say not "Three": desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is One God...". If you read it literal and plainly then he's saying "say not three God because allah is one God"... Christians never claimed otherwise that God is one. Yet Muhammed is asserting that christians don't believe that God is one but three and this false assumption of muhammed is repeated in other verses as well.

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Postby KhristosAnesti » Fri Nov 05, 2004 01:36 pm

H20:

Does 9:30 make mention of your beliefs, or the saying of such a thing. Your utterance of such a thing is what is condemned regardless if it is literal or not.


Are you serious? Are you telling me that the implication of that utterance is not relevant at all this discussion? lol i cant believe what im dealing with here...

Lets put forth an analogy. The word “gay” in western society can connote two things – happiness or homosexuality. Lets assume you are an old-fashioned pensioner who still uses the term to express happiness – and openly you say of Mr X “Mr X is gay”. I then rebuke your utterance of such a thing, and later on i say something along the lines of “How can Mr X be gay when he has no interest in the same-sex?”. It necessarily follows that i am IGNORANT, for i have just rebuked this mans untterance on the BASIS of what i IGNORANTLY thought his purpose was.

Are you following here? Or are you lost yet? 9:30 rebukes anyone claiming that God has a Son. 6:101 expresses the basis of this condemnation. Therefore the author of the quran is an ignoramus.

How so? Many beliefs their is a G-D and a Goddess that were not carnal that bore a son that were married.


Stop trying to evade the obvious. If i am rebuking/ridiculing the idea of having a son by exclaiming "How can i have a son if i dont have a wife" it is implicit that the absurdity of the idea of me having a son in the first place is due to the very fact i have no consort with which i can engage carnally with to produce a son (forget carnally - it is suggestive of the very and EQUALLY FALLACIOUS fact that the existence of the Son has "something to do" with a consort - which really begs the question - if not carnal, then WHAT?). Thus to the prudent mind; when your allah is rebuking the Son of God concept - which you have admitted is a condemnation of Christians (regardless if it includes other sects or religions) by implying that the very absurdity of it lies upon the fact he has no consort - it is implicit that he supposes that all who adopt this concept are suggesting God carnally generated a son. Christs Sonship has NOTHING to do with a consort, NOTHING to do with carnal generation, NOTHING to do with Mary.

Stop trying to squirm your way out of this.

To the fact you are supposing this is carnal belief but in fact the statement is so general it has no fixed determined meaning to support your interpretation


Read above. I am not supposing anything, i am extracting what it obviously implicit.

Your accusation is an assumption.


No it is logic and common sense. Read above.

Christianity utters "Mary is the Mother of the Son of G-D"


Your quran does not rebuke a Christian utterance of “Mary is the Mother of God” or “Mary is the mother of the Son of God”. IT states explicitly that we have taken Mary as a separate deity. Lets go back to this “Mother of God” title nonetheless - what are their intentions and purposes in uttering this very phrase? To promote the idea that she is the source of the humanity of Christ; who possesses in addition an eternal divine nature of which Mary has nothing to do with. For your quran to suggest that the very utterance of this title makes Mary a separate deity from God means your quran is deceptively misrepresenting the very reason as to why she is SAID to be the Mother of God, OR the author of the quran is IGNORANT for he (or she or they or it) need to be CORRECTED with regards to what Christians "utter" concerning Mary.

while in the same instance the Quran rejects such an UTTERANCE by throwing a wrench into the wheel of such a constructed saying with a general logical refutation that if he has no consort then how could "Mary be the mother of the Son of G-D"


LOL Mary's being labelled the “Mother of the Son of God” has nothing to do with her being a consort of God (JUST AS MR X'S BEING LABELLED GAY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS INTEREST IN MEN)

You call this general logic? LOL If this is the argument your quran is promoting you have just proven a STRAW MANS. The very argument presumes that only through God taking upon himself a consort can Mary be the Mother of Christ The Son. Do you understand the stupidity of this? Christians "utter" the title "Mother of God" simply to promote the fact that she was the source of His very humanity - your allah obviously doesnt understand this. So we agree he is ignorant upon the basis of his condemnation of Christians.

The issue of the Quran stating about Allah not having a consort to assert what you are saying is nonsense, when the Bible speaks of being Married to Christ.


lol I cant believe you drew this parallel. Being married to Christ is a metaphorical expression, there is nothing in the context that suggests we should take it literally. Your quran asserts that GOD cannot have a son if he has no consort. Now tell me, what kind of metaphorical relationship could arise between God and a consort that would give rise to God Himself having a Son? And again, we have the same blatant error, Christs SONSHIP in Christianity has nothing to do with Mary, nothing to do with any consort, nothing to do with a carnal generation.

The Arabic word in which "BESIDES" is translated from is " min dooni" which means "without, excluding or with the exception of" that clearifies the meaning of "BESIDES".


Yes you are right. I stand corrected on this fact, yet not on the argument itself. This does not get you off the hook, for Christians do not believe (and hence as common sense would dictate – would never utter) that Jesus is to be worshiped alongside his mother to the exclusion of God. Look at how many lies there are in that very sentence: Lie 1) The implication that Jesus is taken up by Christians to be a separate deity from God to the exclusion of God. Lie 2) The implication that Mary is taken up as any sort of deity let alone a deity to the exclusion of God Himself.

Again you mention THREE. Verse 5:73 is not specifcally refering to Christians that emphasises on "THOSE WHO SAY" not "THOSE WHO BELIEVE" or what you beleifs are.


Again, what is the logic in a Christian SAYING that God is one out of three, if this is NOT THEIR BELIEF. Do you have any common sense at all?

Does the quran actually mention "begotten" ? NO, as the word in english is the translators interpolation.


Ok lets look at “taking up” a Son which is STILL nonetheless problematic – and AGAIN the very fact the idea of a “consort” is brought into the picture, is SUGGESTIVE of the fact the consort played an integral role in the existence of this Son. Christs Sonship in Christianity has nothing to do with Mary or a consort - hence the error you have yet to (and cannot possibly) resolve.

Surat 112:3 - Lam yalid walam yooladu. It is implicit that this was said in the face of Christians who believe that Jesus Christ is the “begotten God” who is Himself “begotten by God”. Unless you want to argue that your allah arbitrarily wants to make a statement about begetting.

our issue on 19:88 is irrelevant as it is a general statment that does not reflect on what they belief but what they say.


AGAIN – Christians do not believe that God “took upon Himself a Son” THEREFORE WHAT IS THE LOGIC IN A CHRISTIAN UTTERING SUCH A PERVERSE THING. Christs Sonship is BY NATURE, it is HOW GOD EXISTS. He didn't arbitrarily and in time “take up” a Son. So again, i ask for you to please appeal to common sense, WHY WOULD A CHRISTIAN UTTER A THING CONTRARY TO HIS OWN BELIEFS?
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Postby kingzson » Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:37 pm

alifaia........the reason you feel confused about the trinity is because you are trying to see the 3 in one...........try it from this angle..........God is only 3 in modes or expression such as......He(God)is Father in creation,Son in redemption,Holy spirit in infilling emination.
you must understand when you try to look at the trinity as 3 persons in the Godhead you will run into all kinds of problems.
please read 1tim.3:16.
to put my views into perspective i would have to say......all christians have a ministry of reconciliation that is to be a bridge to restore the lost and dying back to their place as sons and daughters of God.

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Postby (Omega) » Wed Nov 24, 2004 01:58 am

Hold it right there my friend, if your going to preach the Truth then teach the Truth, God is three Eternal Persons without beginning nor end. Would you Like me to start another thread then we can go from there and I would be glad to refute you there. For starters the word manifested is phaneroo (fan-er-o'-o) which means to make known by teaching or to reveal a mystery which was previously unknown. If what your saying is True(Modalism) then how is possible that the Father is within Jesus, this makes it two Spirits. Was Jesus Praying to Himself? Please explain to me what this verse refers to and to whom is Jesus talking to , is it Himself in another mode?

John 17:24 - Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for (thou) lovedst (me) before the foundation of the world.

So who is Loving Jesus before the Foundation of the World?
2 Inescapable Facts within that verse, the words "Thou" and "Me" or more easily understood as You and Me, now does You and Me constitute as One person or Two?

Furthermore if you have two witnesses how is then that the Son is the Same as the Father?
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John 8:18 - I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.


You have been taught a false doctrine my friend and it is time that the Truth is taught unto you, IF you are willing to accept correction.

And believe me I can write an entire book which will prove the Oneness Heresy(Modalism)clearly unbiblical.

There is a reason as to why God is Three Eternal Persons, there is beauty in it and Harmony which cannot be expressed in human words. There is a reason why Jesus prayed that we can all be one one day even as He and His Father is one. Are you and me two or one person? The beauty in the Triune God is three Eternal Persons whithout beginning. Do you understand this beauty?

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Postby kingzson » Wed Nov 24, 2004 09:04 pm

omega you sound like a pretty rational human being except for one major flaw............you state there are 3 persons in the Godhead of which God is one of those..........my big problem with this is that God is a spirit and has no gender but he does have both feminine and male qualities such as when he hovered over the waters he was brooding which shows his feminine qualities........but lets get back to my point.
Let us examine what makes up a person..........there are 3 parts to man he is Body,Soul,Spirit..........if there are 3 persons in the Godhead were are the 3 bodys i only read of one being created.
The bible states that God emptied himself from heaven into the body which he created........I only read of one Body not 3.
to put my views into perspective i would have to say......all christians have a ministry of reconciliation that is to be a bridge to restore the lost and dying back to their place as sons and daughters of God.

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Postby kingzson » Wed Nov 24, 2004 09:09 pm

ps:The strictest translation to manifest is to show..........God showed himself in human form as the christ.
to put my views into perspective i would have to say......all christians have a ministry of reconciliation that is to be a bridge to restore the lost and dying back to their place as sons and daughters of God.

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Postby kingzson » Wed Nov 24, 2004 10:13 pm

I must apologize omega i jumped the gun in my explanation to you please allow me to relate in detail why i hold my position.
You must understand a few key points:
1 The Church is the bride of Christ
2 Gods whole reason for the salvation of mankind is to have a bride one without spot or wrinkle.
There is much more i could go into here but for now allow me to just cover these two points.
Omega you must understand after the fall of Adam God had to ransome(purchase)back a bride so how could he do this?
Are you familiar with the kinsman Redeemer...............it was by this he chose to work.
According to Jewish Law if you made a covenant with some one you could not send some one else to fulfill it you must do it yourself.
It was man who lost his covenant through Adam so it would take a man to Redeem it...........And that man would be Jesus christ.
Do you remember John 3:16-For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son..........
You being a very well educated man i would suppose would be very aware that this is a mistranslation of the KJV.
the older manuscripts state ..........God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten life.
So by this God by use of the law was able to purchase back fallen man.
to put my views into perspective i would have to say......all christians have a ministry of reconciliation that is to be a bridge to restore the lost and dying back to their place as sons and daughters of God.

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Postby (Omega) » Wed Nov 24, 2004 10:56 pm

Hello!

What Major flaw? Take a look at your post and see who made the MAJOR FLAW?

Ok, so if God has no gender who is God the Son, was He a man as the Scriptures state or was He a Spirit? Are you trying to tell me that Jesus was not a man? And if He is then is He God? is not a man a gender?

You have further proved that there are three persons in the Eternal Godhead. God is indeed Spirit, the Father is Spirit, the Scriptures prove this:
John 5:37 - And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.


The above verse is referring to God the Father, it is the Son who became flesh and died on the Cross, not the Father. Common Logic, your making it so confusing. Furthermore answer my questions, is not you and me referring to one person or two? How is you and me both one person when Jesus himself referred to his"father" as you and Himself as "Me"

I was afraid that you would not understand, you have been veiled from the Truth. Once again God is not the author of Confusion. I am busy at work but apparently you seem to be mislead. I have studied God and know him at a extremely personal Level. And I have studied the Deity of Christ and its Triune Nature from every single angle and from every single point of view. I have heard all sides of arguments such as yours and in the end mine will prove to be inerrant and irrefutable. But if you would like to continue then in a while I will further prove to you that God is Three Eternal Persons in One absolute Essence!

The Question is whether or not you will humbly accept correction?

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Postby (Omega) » Thu Nov 25, 2004 01:41 am

Before you make an attempt to rationalize what I have posted with your own understanding, please take into consideration what I am about to say because I have taken your illogical assumption and now am here to show the errors within them.

If Jesus was also the Father then who was He praying to? If you have the Eternal Spirit of God and the human spirit of man then you have two distinct spirits, you do not have one God taking on another role. In other words Jesus was praying to Himself. Example of God is represented in Three Eternal Persons:

Matthew 28:19 - Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of (the Father), and of (the Son), and of (the Holy Ghost):


Notice within the above passage it says in The Son, The Father and etc...The word (tou)the is used here in each name Father, Son and Spirit, and each is separated by the word kai which is (and). So within this verse we see that three distinct individual persons are being spoken of here: ...in the name of (tou) Father and (kai tou) Son, and (kai tou) Holy Spirit. Now if this had been referring to one person only then it would have been written or read as, "In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit or the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and not of the Father and of the Son and etc...Do you understand this?

Another Example would be found within this passage in Scripture:
John 1:18 - No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Furthermore it states that Jesus is seated at the right hand of God the Father and is still called the Only Begotten Son of God, so if it was merely a role that God took on then Jesus would not longer remain the Only Begotten SON of God, He would then be the Father according to you. But as the scriptures clearly state that He is still called the Son, do you understand where I am coming from?

Another verse that will clearly disprove that God is one person in three modes:
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you (another) Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. John 14:16,17


John 14:23 - Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make (our) abode with him.

Now does we mean one or two? Or what about our? The Scriptures are crystal clear on this, and God is not the Author of confusion, for confusion comes from the wicked and at times programs the humand mind that is unwilling to change because it does not submit to the Holy Spirit which is the Spirit of Truth!

kingzson wrote:Do you remember John 3:16-For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son..........
You being a very well educated man i would suppose would be very aware that this is a mistranslation of the KJV.


No it is not, I don't know where you got that bogus information from and even if it did, this Scripture below you will further strenghten my point!
Read below and understand my friend, and while were at it, please show me proof that it was mistranslated.

John 5:26 - For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he (given) to the Son to have life in himself;


"If God were your Father, you would love Me; for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me. John 8:42
Proceeded forth{exerchomai} never refers to a point of origin or creation but means that the Father has sent Him forth, so we have one who has no beginning who was sent forth from the Father indicating another person since Jesus was not sent on His own initiative. Further proving God existing as three Eternal Persons. Key words are, we, another, our, me and you. Think about it my friend! Please do not bypass my questions and try and not to lean on your own understanding, it's quite dangerous at times.

The Father is God, The Son is God, And The Holy Spirit is God!

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Postby kingzson » Thu Nov 25, 2004 03:05 am

Ok omega i thought you were a well educated man but now i see you are only puffed up by your own knowledge it seems to me that you havent taken that much time to study the word out.......let me explain why i say there is not 3 persons.
I will not even use my own opinions to correct you but the very words of God himself........So if you have a problem with this explanation take it to God because it is his answer.
COLOSSIANS 2:9-FOR IN HIM DWELLETH ALL THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY.
1TIMOTHY 3:16-AND WITHOUT CONTROVERSY(argument)GREAT IS THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS:GOD WAS MANIFEST(shown or reveled)IN THE FLESH,JUSTIFIED IN THE SPIRIT,SEEN OF ANGELS,PREACHED UNTO THE GENTILES,BELIEVED ON IN THE WORLD,RECEIVED UP INTO GLORY.
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Postby kingzson » Thu Nov 25, 2004 03:11 am

ps: it is speaking of only one person not 3 that all or the totality of the God head would indwell.
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Postby kingzson » Thu Nov 25, 2004 03:14 am

colossians 1:19--FOR IT PLEASED THE FATHER THAT IN HIM SHOULD ALL FULLNESS DWELL.
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Postby (Omega) » Thu Nov 25, 2004 03:49 am

Hello kingzson!

I find it very disturbing how you call me puffed up in my own knowledge :( , I have been taught by God and once again your blinding yourself to the Truth, when there is evidence that is put right in front of your very eyes. I pray for you my friend that your heart will be willing to be opened to the Truth instead of criticizing me for speaking such Truth out of Concern for you. So much for your humble response my friend. I’m not trying to criticize you, I am trying to rebuke you with the Truth, It is not my Truth by it is Gods Truth, and if you still fail to realize this then it is because you may have been indoctrinated or programmed to except such false doctrine as Truth either at and early age, or maybe pride is hindering you from excepting the Truth and to except correction.

Once again if you have read my post carefully then you would have realized before you responded that I had already explained what the manifestation of God meant, pleased re-read it.

The Doctrine that you have been taught it called Modalism and dates back to the 3rd century. It teaches that God took on different roles and that God is One person in a numerical sense. If your trying to compare God to as a Spirit, Body and Soul then you have a serious problem and that problem is it is as ludicrous as one who refers to Himself as we referring to His spirit and body, do you call your spirit and Body we?

*The doctrine of the Trinity was formed because it was necessary to answer many errors and among them is Modalism,(Oneness)theology or should I say heresy! Your teaching of Modalism teaches that it was the human spirit of Jesus that prayed to the Divine Spirit within that one body of Christ! So in other words you have Jesus praying to Himself! Try picturing a person with two spirits in one physical body that can talk with each other, now ask yourself how logical or illogical that sounds, think about it. Let us take a close examination at the word one that defines ONE GOD. The word one in Hebrew is echad, and the root word is {achad}, which basically means to unify or to gather or collect together, in other words to unite. Take a look at this verse in Scripture and see how Jesus uses the Word (One)

And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are (one): I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. John 17:22,23


kingzson wrote:colossians 1:19--FOR IT PLEASED THE FATHER THAT IN HIM SHOULD ALL FULLNESS DWELL.


Christ indeed has all the FULLNESS OF the divine God. Within Christ is the fullness of the very substance of that of God the Father. It is that same Divine Nature of the Father which is fully withinin the Son. And as the Father possesses a fully Divine, the Son also possesses a fully divine nature or is fully divine.

Another example to further prove that Jesus is the Second person of the Triune God is found here in this passage in scripture:
Luke 23:46 - And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.


So whose spirit was it? Jesus’ or the the Fathers? If Jesus and the Father are the same person then He could have just said "Into thy hands I commend your spirit???" If you disagree than you can go back to where the star* is, as to avoid going in circles.

You have entirely bypassed my past responses and have not answered any of them whatsoever put have just posted Scriptures. Rightly divide the word of Truth my friend if your going to respond in regards to biblical doctrine.

Proverbs 9:9 - Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.


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I bet you that a Christian cannot mention or infer in the theology of G-D with out making mention of three.
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Postby (Omega) » Thu Nov 25, 2004 05:53 am

H2O wrote:I bet you that a Christian cannot mention or infer in the theology of G-D with out making mention of three.


1 Timothy 3:16 - And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:(God was manifest in the flesh), (justified in the Spirit), (seen of angels), (preached unto the Gentiles), (believed on in the world), (received up into glory.)


The Problem with proud theologians such as yourself is exactly that, PRIDE! And it is pride that cause the veil to be put in front of your eyes, to me the above passage is the Theology of God in a nutshell given by the Holy Spirit!

Psalms 31:20 - Thou shalt hide them in the (secret of thy presence) from the (pride of man): thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

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Postby kingzson » Mon Nov 29, 2004 09:27 pm

Ok omega in your own words.......sorry i mean by the revelation which God gave you.......please explain to me the trinity and its orgin........Oh and by the way please explain to me when the word trinity actullay came into existence.
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Postby kingzson » Mon Nov 29, 2004 09:48 pm

oh and by the way please share with me the roots of trinitairinism........
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Postby (Omega) » Tue Nov 30, 2004 03:35 pm

kingzson wrote:Ok omega in your own words.......sorry i mean by the revelation which God gave you.......please explain to me the trinity and its orgin........Oh and by the way please explain to me when the word trinity actullay came into existence.


Regardless of your sarcasm.......... and critical attitude based on lack of experience. I have"In my own words" been trying to explain to you the Triune Nature of God but unfortunately your spiritual clock has not been ticking correctly. You can continue to mock me but I can assure you that you have absolutely no clue to my relationship with the LORD. Pride, jealousy and envy is not going starting on in the right foot with me my friend. I have compiled more than enough information that explains the Triune Nature of God in many of my posts here, Seek an Ye shall find, ask and you shall receive, knock and the door will be opened. If your truly interested in finding more about the Triune Nature of God then search, I have many posts here on this thread regarding that subject, look on this thread in previous pages. You feel frustrated because the Word Trinity is not found in the Bible, well my friend neither is the word Rapture, nor are the words"The second coming"

Closing your heart and keeping and open mind that is susceptible to false doctrine is striving against the Holy Spirit.

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Postby kingzson » Tue Nov 30, 2004 10:13 pm

Omega correct me if im wrong.
Trinitarianism in its simplest form purports that there are 3 persons in the Godheadand that these 3 persons are coeternal.
Even though the doctrine of the trinity does not deny the deity of Christ,it divides deity into 3 distinct persons,essentially creating a polytheistic image of God.
In contrast,the Scriptures state that the Godhead(deity) dwelt in Jesus Christ and that God, who is eternal Spirit, was manifest in the flesh.(See Colossians 2:9; I Timothy 3:16.)
It was not a person who coexisted with the heavenly Father that was manifest in the flesh, but God(deity)Himself became flesh.
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Since God is an invisible Spirit, He could not die for the sins of humanity without becoming flesh.Thus, the Holy Spirit overshadowed the virgin Mary and caused her to conceive a child.
Jesus Christ was more than just a man...........He was that fleshly tabernacle which God emptied Himself from heaven and chose to indwell(the incarnation).
Although Mary carried Him in her womb as a fleshly son of David, He was by incarnation(indwelling of deity)the God of Abraham, Jehovah-Savior. He was the Word made flesh, the embodiment of all that is perfect, holy, and undefiled.
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God came into the world in the flesh through the incarnation(indwelling of deity). In Jesus Christ He took on the nature of Abraham. (See Hebrews 2:16.)He did not come in the form of an angel or in the likeness of any other heavenly being, but he came in human form. The eternal God became flesh and dwelt among us.
The eternal Spirit that spoke the world into existence manifested Himself in an earthly body of flesh. He came in flesh that He might reconcile mankind unto himself by Christ's atoning death on the cross.(See II Corinthians 5:19.)
When Philip asked Jesus to show them the Father, Jesus answered, "Have i been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me,Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." ( See John 14:9-10).

Jesus Was the Visible Image of the Invisible God.

God is an invisible Spirit who has manifested Himself in various forms at various times in history. He has appeared as:
1) The angel of the Lord
2)A burning bush
3)A pillar of cloud
4)A pillar of fire
5)A shining light
6)Smoke that filled the Tabernacle of the Lord.
All of these temporary manifestations of God came short of revealing the exact visible image of His essence and glory. This wasreserved for those who should behold the Son(life) of God, the pattern by which God created mankind.
to put my views into perspective i would have to say......all christians have a ministry of reconciliation that is to be a bridge to restore the lost and dying back to their place as sons and daughters of God.

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ps: omega even though the words rapture or secondcoming are not mentioned in the bible by name........yet unlike the trinity they are alluded to often............the bible speaks of a falling away which means to be drawn out or plucked out which is giving refrence to a rapture because it also says that man of sin cannot be revealed -the anti-christ........as long as the church is here he can not appear so we must be plucked out or raptured out if you will.......................and on the 2nd point (the second coming) Christ alludes many times about His return(the second coming).
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Postby (Omega) » Wed Dec 01, 2004 02:13 am

Dear kingzson,

Before we start, PLEASE try and respond to my refutations that DISPROVE God being a single person. Did you or did you not read any of my responses and the questions that were addressed to you? You have not answered any of them because you CANNOT. You failed to answer any of my refutations but purposely bypassed all my questions and make an attempt to bombard me with your responses which BTW are so easily explained away. I haven't forgotten about my question. Do you know how debates work? I have seen many try and worm their way out of my questions by meticulously explaining their beliefs away in numerous words so as to make me forget what I once had addressed to them, well my friend I don't forget, Please answer my questions.

If I may clipboard my responses here once again so that you are not able to avoid them, here we go!

  • John 17:24 - Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for (thou) lovedst (me) before the foundation of the world.

    So who is Loving Jesus before the Foundation of the World?
    2 Inescapable Facts within that verse, the words "Thou" and "Me" or more easily understood as You and Me, now does You and Me constitute as One person or Two?
  • Furthermore if you have two witnesses how is then that the Son is the Same as the Father?
  • Hold it right there my friend, if your going to preach the Truth then teach the Truth, God is three Eternal Persons without beginning nor end. Would you Like me to start another thread then we can go from there and I would be glad to refute you there. For starters the word manifested is phaneroo (fan-er-o'-o) which means to make known by teaching or to reveal a mystery which was previously unknown. If what your saying is True(Modalism) then how is possible that the Father is within Jesus, this makes it two Spirits. Was Jesus Praying to Himself? Please explain to me what this verse refers to and to whom is Jesus talking to , is it Himself in another mode?
  • John 5:37 - And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

    The above verse is referring to God the Father, it is the Son who became flesh and died on the Cross, not the Father. Common Logic, your making it so confusing. Furthermore answer my questions, is not you and me referring to one person or two? How is you and me both one person when Jesus himself referred to his"father" as you and Himself as "Me"
  • Ok, so if God has no gender who is God the Son, was He a man as the Scriptures state or was He a Spirit? Are you trying to tell me that Jesus was not a man? And if He is then is He God? is not a man a gender?
kingzson wrote:Omega correct me if im wrong.


You actually expect me to believe you? I have already corrected you in my past responses and yet you still somehow manage to avoid my questions that disprove your theology of God!
kingzson wrote:Trinitarianism in its simplest form purports that there are 3 persons in the Godheadand that these 3 persons are coeternal.
Even though the doctrine of the trinity does not deny the deity of Christ,it divides deity into 3 distinct persons,essentially creating a polytheistic image of God.
In contrast,the Scriptures state that the Godhead(deity) dwelt in Jesus Christ and that God, who is eternal Spirit, was manifest in the flesh.(See Colossians 2:9; I Timothy 3:16.)
It was not a person who coexisted with the heavenly Father that was manifest in the flesh, but God(deity)Himself became flesh.


How is He polytheistic? If you have one egg that consists of the white, egg and the shell, does it not make it one egg? Do you what polytheism means? Unlike polytheism the God of the Bible is Triune, which means that He is neither tri-theistic or polytheistic in nature. The one nature of God is composed of three distinct eternal persons without beginning. What makes all three the one God is that they share the same nature. Try carefully reading the Bible from beginning to end and if studied carefully you will see that this is the most basic description of the God found within the Bible. God is one in substance, it is designating one Eternal God in Unity, yet existing in three eternal persons which the members are equal in nature, distinct in person and subordinate in duties. This is neither polytheism nor tri-theism.

kingzson wrote:Since God is an invisible Spirit, He could not die for the sins of humanity without becoming flesh.Thus, the Holy Spirit overshadowed the virgin Mary and caused her to conceive a child.
Jesus Christ was more than just a man...........He was that fleshly tabernacle which God emptied Himself from heaven and chose to indwell(the incarnation).
Although Mary carried Him in her womb as a fleshly son of David, He was by incarnation(indwelling of deity)the God of Abraham, Jehovah-Savior. He was the Word made flesh, the embodiment of all that is perfect, holy, and undefiled.


Lets first start out with the emptiness of God and who exactly was emptied, If God the Father and the Son are the same, then who existed in Heaven? Unlike your responses, I will back my response with Scripture and explain it in depth. Lets see:
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men Philippians 2:6,7


The word for emptying in Greek in Kenosis, now it clearly states that is was the Son who emptied Himself, once again before I proceed further. If your trying to state that God had emptied Himself to become Christ the Son then we have a serious problem. To whom would Christ be praying to? To a God who all of a sudden ceases to be God? Who is it that wrought miracles? Eaxmple:
  • John 5:19 - Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
  • John 5:30 - I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
  • John 8:28 - Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.

If God the Father is the same as the Son then according to you God is helpless. More verses to prove otherwise:
John 8:29 - And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
So how often do you please your own self If I may ask? Now let us continue on the meaning of (kenosis) which basically means that He “made Himself of no reputation” which literally means that Christ the Son of God emptied Himself!. He was veiling His Glory and taking on Himself a true but sinless nature and voluntarily submitting to the will of the Father.
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kingzson wrote:God came into the world in the flesh through the incarnation(indwelling of deity). In Jesus Christ He took on the nature of Abraham. (See Hebrews 2:16.)He did not come in the form of an angel or in the likeness of any other heavenly being, but he came in human form. The eternal God became flesh and dwelt among us.
The eternal Spirit that spoke the world into existence manifested Himself in an earthly body of flesh. He came in flesh that He might reconcile mankind unto himself by Christ's atoning death on the cross.(See II Corinthians 5:19.)
When Philip asked Jesus to show them the Father, Jesus answered, "Have i been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me,Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." ( See John 14:9-10).

Jesus Was the Visible Image of the Invisible God.


Nearly All you have stated above in no ways disproves the Triune nature of God, what is missing hear is the lack of understanding on your part of your own words for some reason???

When Jesus said if you have seen Him then you have seen His Father, do you know what that means? This is stating that there is no attributes of deity that the son does not possess, whatever is True of the Father is also True of the Son, they are of one essence. Furthermore If I may explain to you how you misunderstand the word(Seen) Example:
Jn 6:46 "Not that any man has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father."

Now please explain to me in this verse if Jesus the Son did not exist before His incarnation but switched roles from Father to Son, then how is it possible that Jesus saw God the Father before coming down to the earth if He had no previous existence?

kingzson wrote:God is an invisible Spirit who has manifested Himself in various forms at various times in history. He has appeared as:
1) The angel of the Lord
2)A burning bush
3)A pillar of cloud
4)A pillar of fire
5)A shining light
6)Smoke that filled the Tabernacle of the Lord.
All of these temporary manifestations of God came short of revealing the exact visible image of His essence and glory. This wasreserved for those who should behold the Son(life) of God, the pattern by which God created mankind.


All the primary examples which you have listed are called theophanies which is the essence of God manifesting itself in forms, this is distinct from Christophany which is the Son of God incarnate who appeared as the angel of the LORD or the preincarnate Christ. Your list does not dsiprove the Triune Nature of God at all, You seem to be confused! Your responses are not disproving anything but is only strengthening my point.

kingzson wrote:ps: omega even though the words rapture or secondcoming are not mentioned in the bible by name........yet unlike the trinity they are alluded to often............the bible speaks of a falling away which means to be drawn out or plucked out which is giving refrence to a rapture because it also says that man of sin cannot be revealed -the anti-christ........as long as the church is here he can not appear so we must be plucked out or raptured out if you will.......................and on the 2nd point (the second coming) Christ alludes many times about His return(the second coming).


What does this have to do with the Word Trinity? Are you still trying to tell me that with all the common sense and logic and spiritual understanding that has been given to you by Scriptures that you cannot see the Triune Nature of God?

You told me to correct you if your wrong and I did, the question is are you willing to accept correction my humble friend?

1 John 5:10 - He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that (God gave of his Son.)

God Bless!

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Postby Sevryn45 » Wed Dec 01, 2004 03:55 am

Omega forget about doctarines and traditions that were tought, this is the reason why I am a none-dominational Christian. It pains me to see this, no wonder there's so much paganism and false doctarines in the churches today.

Jesus is Yahweh, not because I say so but because HE SAID SO.

Person is defined by Webster as “a human being, a man, a woman, or a child.” Yahweh created these so He isn’t these. However, He can manifest Himself as one of these. The next definitions of “person” are equally errant when applied to Yahweh. They are: “the individual personality of a human being,” and “the body of a human being.” By the time we reach the 4th through 7th definitions, we still are missing the mark with “person:” “the body in its external aspect,” “a partnership or corporation, recognized by law as having rights and duties,” “a grammatical category applied to pronouns and verbs used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance, the person addressed, and other people or things spoken about.” The 8th and final definition, in order of preference in common usage is: “any of the three modes of being in the Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.” Here, the word is simply used but not defined and thus it has no meaning. And worse than having no meaning, one has to disregard the 7 most common actual definitions of the word to understand a use that is not defined. Thus according to Webster, using “persons” to define Yahweh’s nature is senseless.

Now, let’s turn to the word I prefer to use. Webster defines “manifestation” as: “the act of manifesting, to make the nature of something clear, an outward and perceptible indication, a public demonstration.” All four definitions fit perfectly.

Daniel is the only place where the word the Hebrew word Messiah is used. Consider what Gabriel, the source of this revelation had to say about Him.

While predictions regarding the Messiah’s nature, advents, mission and message permeate the Tanakh, the title itself can only be found twice in the entirety of Yahweh’s Scripture. Both occurrences are right here in Daniel. With that in mind, we must look very carefully at what is being said…“until the Mashiyach (Anointed, Consecrated, Messiah), the Nagiyd (from nagad—the one who stands out front, boldly and opposite, manifesting and announcing, exposing, predicting, explaining, praising, certifying, declaring, denouncing, expounding plainly as a messenger rehearsing the report; an honorable leader in all aspects of life—physical and spiritual, a Governor and a Prince)…”

“Anointed” means to be covered by or filled with Yahweh’s Spirit. And while that’s important, let’s examine what “Nagiyd” says about the nature of the Messiah. He will be a “manifestation who announces and exposes” specifically what Yahweh is like and what must be done to reach Him. The “Anointed One will stand out in front of men”—a very clear and accurate presentation of the purpose of Yahweh’s Messianic manifestation. God took the form of a man to demonstrate His nature in front of men.


Yahweh preaches Oneness, so there is nothing incorrect about “oneness.”

But from that point on, the “Oneness” position articulated is a grossly inaccurate. For example, I demonstrate that Yahweh’s Scripture is fixated on personal relationship—beriyth—so to rebuke me based on the silly notion that I see Yahweh as “a unipersonal monad,” is a straw man.

Incidentally, the preferred meanings of “monad” are derogatory. Webster’s most preferred definitions says it means “flagellated—or whipped, punished, berated, runner-like and branched like a strawberry.” The second definition of monad is “a protozoan, an element or atom.” Webster’s third most popular definition claims it means “a group having a valence, or a chemical binding of atoms, of one.” Next, Webster claims a monad is something that is an “indivisible, metaphysical, thus highly abstract and abstruse, hard to understand and esoteric entity that displays extensive imagination and conceit while having an autonomous life.” I cannot even fathom why anyone would make up such a disgusting view of Yahweh.

Moving on from “unipersonal monad” we discover that according to some, believing that Yahweh is One, somehow suggests that He is “temporary.” There is nothing temporary about Yahweh. It is one of the many reasons understanding and using His name, “I Am,” is so important; . I Am means Yahweh is infinite in the dimension of time. Therefore, by definition, Yahweh’s manifestations as the Holy Spirit and as Yahshua cannot be temporary.

The Messianic savior and spiritual Comforter manifestations of Yahweh do, however, serve specific roles in their ministry to mankind, so at least that portion of the “oneness” definition is accurate. A manifestation is distinct in the way water, when heated turns to vapor and when chilled turns to ice. These manifestations of the one thing—water—are distinctly different even though they are made of the same substance. And they perform different roles when in their different manifestations.

The quote’s use of “absolute” is also correct. According to Webster, absolute means “being fully or perfectly as indicated, complete and free from restriction or limitation.” And while there are some things that Yahweh cannot do, like lie, be immoral, and visit hell, I agree that the most common definition of absolute fits Him.

But sadly, the authors of this position go astray at “solitude.” Webster defines it as “the state of being or living alone and in seclusion, remoteness.” It is thus the antithesis of personal relationship and therefore the antithesis of the Scripture’s presentation of Yahweh.

As we move on, for the position piece’s "hence" and "therefore" to have merit, what proceeds them must have merit. Since what went before “hence” is cesspool of blasphemous words, hence is rendered moot.

As for “deny,” I see Yahshua exactly as Yahshua presented Himself when He was asked by His disciples to “show us the Father.” It is why I quoted and amplified John 14 and in both Yahshua said that He is Yahweh and that He is the Holy Spirit. And you know what I BELIEVE HIM.

”Coequal” is a very divisive term when it comes to Yahshua and the Holy Spirit. Reason and reality chafe at easy and comfortable definitions. It’s hard to fathom the Yahshua manifestation of Yahweh as coequal as it would mean that all of the substance, spirit and energy of Yahweh, as well as His infinity in time, would fit into the body of a man. And it would require the transfigured and the resurrected Messiah to be identical to Christ on every other occasion, thus rendering the purpose of these things moot. And it fails to contemplate what required Yahshua to ask why Yahweh’s Spirit had left Him on the cross. Equally odd would be the idea that the Holy Spirit as He resides in us is all of Yahweh—thus His complete equal. Manifestations of the same thing do not necessarily have to be equal. For example an ice cube and an iceberg are both frozen water but they are not equivalent in mass.

Trinitarians, as they call themselves, are fixated is on the word “Persons”—something that was derived from the Greek philosophers of old. When Christian theologians first conceived the word “Trinity” and applied it to Yahweh, they used Greek philosophy to make their point. I have read two scholastic articles that were derived from a rebuttal of the Islamic claims that the Trinity of three Persons makes Christianity pagan. Both scholars went to the root inception of the doctrine of the Trinity and thus they exposed the origins of “persons.” In that the Greek philosophical usage was synonymous with today’s definition of “manifestations,” I believe that the first scholars to tackle this subject were right. But when we consider the word “persons” out of the context of Greek philosophy, it has an entirely different meaning. So today, based upon the common understanding of the word “persons” it would mean that there are three distinct gods and AND THIS IS NOT TRUE.

The last line of the quote from the Trinitarian site, simply proves why creating and defeating straw men is a fool’s folly. “In the end, their theology is decidedly unitarian, which denies the the Person Jesus Christ as revealed in Scripture.” Jumping to this conclusion based upon their definition of their opponent is an abomination.

Here is another quote from the same website. Quote: All non-Christians cults have one definitive commonality: they deny that Jesus Christ is eternal God. By asserting that God is unipersonal (one Person) Oneness leaders teach that Jesus Christ (as the Person of the Son) did not exist before Bethlehem. As with Jehovah's Witnesses, Oneness theology teaches that the Person of Jesus Christ was created at a point in time. Hence, Jesus is reduced to a mere temporary "manifestation," "role," or "office" called the "Son." (or "dimension" as Oneness advocate T .D. Jakes)

This clip is worse than the one before it. The Scripture says that Yahshua is Yahweh and that Yahweh is eternal. That is what I believe. As for “son,” Yahshua clearly meant something different than our common use of the word as the common usage would make Yahshua a second generation god. Since that is not true, I believe that Yahshua used the terms “son of man” and “son of God” to demonstrate in a tangible way for us the kind of up close and personal relationship He wants to develop with us—Father-son.

I’m a believer that Yahweh is one God, not three.

By way of quick review, we know that Yahweh chose to manifest His Spirit inside of some of His prophet’s of old. We know that at Pentecost—the Miqra of Weeks—Yahweh sent His Spirit to dwell in, empower, instruct, and comfort His Ekklesia. Once joined, His Spirit will never leave us. The Anointed, Messianic, Yahshua manifestation of Yahweh existed in eternity and yet came to earth 2000 years ago and will come to earth again on the Miqra of Tabernacles . His mission is defined in His name—Yah-Saves.

The Yahshua manifestation, like the Holy Spirit manifestation of Yahweh, are Yahweh and thus they exist—infinite in the dimension of time. Yahweh does not have to cease being Yahweh, nor is Yahweh diminished or even divided when Yahweh manifests Himself in the form of Yahshua or the Holy Spirit. Yahweh uses these manifestations of Himself to “make the nature of something clear, an outward and perceptible indication, a public demonstration.” These manifestations can obviously exist at the same time as Yahweh did not vanish when Yahshua appeared on earth and Yahweh did not evaporate when He sent His Spirit to reside in us.

Omega my friend you would be wise to get a Hebrew bible, get a Hebrew dead Sea Scroll Copy as well as a copy of Greek NT scripture use a Hex or a codec to amplyfy the scripture INSTEAD OF SPEWING the same old doctarines that Man made up. Use Scripture to interpret scripture, not Bibles which by the way have been edited and manipulated by MEN TO PROVE their point, Yahweh will judge them and YOU for corrupting his scripture.
"On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you."
John 14:20

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Postby Sevryn45 » Wed Dec 01, 2004 04:47 am

Interestingly, Yahshua is saying that He is the Spirit—that He and the Spirit are one in the same. Let’s examine the totality of this profound truth within the context in which Yahshua made this reality known to His disciples. The conversation is recorded in the 14th chapter of John’s Gospel. It provides the ultimate insight into the nature of God—our ultimate destination.

Read carefully because it's amplyfied; THIS IS FOR YOUR BENEFIT NOT MINE. This is Greek, translated and amplyfied.

“Iesou [Pronounced EE AY SU, was designed to transliterate Yahshua, Hebrew for savior. There was no “Y” or “SH” sound in Greek. And the “A” at the end of His name couldn’t be added without violating grammatical rules. Since we have the ability to replicate the correct sounds toady, Yahshua] said, ‘I Am [Yahweh means “I Am”] the hodos (way, route and means) and the truth, and the life; no one erchomai (appears before or accompanies) the Pater (Father), but through Me. If you ginosko (know or understand) Me, you ginosko My Father also. You have horao (seen, experienced, beheld) Him.... He who has horao Me has horao the Father. [Yahshua is claiming that He is Yahweh in the flesh.] Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father meno (abiding or dwelling) in Me [Yahweh’s Spirit] does His works. Pisteuo (trust in or rely upon) Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise rely upon the account of the works themselves. [Christ performed countless miracles to confirm his deity.] Amen (This is trustworthy) what I say to you; he who pisteuo (trusts in and relies upon) Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I poreuomai (traverse, or go) to the Father. And whatever you aiteo (ask, desire, or require) in My onoma (name, authority, or character), that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Huios (Son, as in figurative kinship). If you ask Me anything in My onoma, I will do it. If you agapao (love in a moral sense) Me, you will tereo (keep an eye on) My entole (prescriptions). And I will ask the Father, and He will didomi (give or bestow upon) you allos (a) Parakletos (Intercessor, Advocate, Comforter), that He may meno (abide, indwell, or be with) you aion (forever); that is the Pneuma (Holy Spirit) of Truth, whom the world cannot lambano (receive), because it does not theoreo (discern, experience, consider, or behold) Him or ginosko (know or understand) Him, but you ginosko Him because He meno (abides or dwells) with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you orphanos (bereaved, comfortless, or fatherless); I will erchomai (come back and enter) you. After a little while the world will see Me no more [He’s predicting his crucifixion]; but you will theoreo (experience, behold, or look upon) Me; because I live [He’s predicting his resurrection], you shall live also. [That’s the Gospel: we get to live forever with Him because He sacrificed Himself as payment for our sins—the final solution.] In that day you shall know and understand that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.”

The Spirit of the Messiah, Yahshua, is the Holy Spirit, which is Yahweh. And collectively these manifestations of Yahweh created us and called out the ekklesia. These are all manifestations of the same thing. It’s not three persons like Matthew, Mark, and John. It’s Yahweh the Spirit, the Creator, the Savior, the Comforter. For example: my name is Dom; there is only one of me. Yet I am a father, a son, and a comforter to my family. Water’s three forms—ice liquid, and vapor—are all pure water. Their substance does not changed—just their manifestation as a result of their level of energy.

Quick answers and sound bytes do more harm than good, And what I believe is unimportant—it’s what Yahweh’s Scriptures say that counts.

As you know, Omega, the word “Trinity” does not appear in the Bible. Yahweh never says he’s three. Most of the OT prophecies regarding Messiah are in Yahweh’s voice. And Yahshua’s words in John 14 are very clear: Yahshua is Yahweh in the form of a man and the Holy Spirit is Yahweh’s Spirit.

One of the most powerful prophecies in the Bible is found in Psalm 22. Yahweh predicted His own crucifixion and resurrection 500 years before the torment was invented, and 1000 years before His body and Soul rose from the dead. What you are going to read may be the most important prediction ever made. It has profound implications on where we will spend our eternity and how we will get there.

It begins with Christ’s last words on the cross and explains why he was hanging there. “My God, my God, why have you azab (relinquished, left or forsaken) me? Far from my deliverance are the words of my groaning. O my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer; and by night, but I have no rest. Yet You are Holy, O You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel. In You our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you did deliver them. To You they cried out, and were delivered; In You they trusted, and were not disappointed.” (Psalm 22:1-5)


I do not understand the mechanics of this miracle. But fortunately, I do not need to know how it happened to appreciate why it happened—or to benefit from it.

Yahshua is Yahweh in the form of a man. His name, I Am, defines Him. He is eternal. The immortal cannot die, thus God could not die on the cross—only the flesh His Spirit occupied and His human Soul could endure that indignity.

God can, however, feel pain. Psalm 22 will go on to detail the most torturous elements of His suffering. It was at the end of a long day. He had been tried, spit upon, beaten, and whipped by His own creation. His Spirit and the temporary body it occupied had suffered, sacrificed, and bled beyond our comprehension. We nailed God to a cross. But when His body neared death, Yahweh’s Spirit departed. That is what this question affirms: “My God why have you forsaken me?” To forsake is to abandon, to separate—to damn in a Biblical sense. The Hebrew word is azab; it means “to relinquish,” to “leave destitute.”

The abandonment is explained in the next verse. “Why are You so rachoq (far removed or remote) from yasha (helping me, or keeping me safe) from the moaning roars?

The middle portion of the passage affirms that this question will be posed in agony. In Hebrew, it says that He will call out to God by name, but that He will not respond. The following verse confirms the pain He will endure that day and the torment that the Soul which resided in the broken body would bear in the darkness of the long night that would follow. The Hebrew word translated night, layil, actually defines hell—“the adversity of being away from light.” There would be no rest as Yahshua’s Soul, not Yahweh’s Spirit, descended into the darkness of hell—the one place God Himself could not go. Hell, the home of the Adversary, is Lightless. Yahshua’s Soul would suffer there, as His body had suffered on the cross—all for our benefit.

But this was to be good news, not bad as the rest of the passage so boldly proclaims. Yahweh, the Holy or Sacred One of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, would through this act of ultimate sacrifice deliver those who had and would come to trust Him. By the deed predicted in this Psalm, all those who had, and those who would cry out to Yahweh, would be delivered from damnation and into His company. The Hebrew word palat means to “escape” or to be “carried safely away.” Remember those words, as they will become synonymous with the coming rapture. We are told that those who trust Him will not be disappointed. This is the Gospel being manifest. It is the ultimate Good News.

The closer one looks, the more magnificent God’s Scripture becomes. So you can more fully appreciate the magnitude of Yahweh’s prophecy, I have amplified the Psalm by providing the range of meanings actually conveyed by the Hebrew words Yahweh inspired and David inscribed. They present the torment of flagellation and crucifixion. “But I Am a tola (crimson grub—i.e., bloodied pulp), and not iysh (extant, present as a person), [I Am] cherpah (rebuked and reproached) by adam (mankind), and bazah (despised, scorned, and disdained) by the am (people, specifically the tribe of Israel). All who see me laag (deride, speak unintelligibly about, and mock) me; They patar saphah (emit language—figuratively shoot off their mouth), they shake their heads, saying, ‘He galal (trusted or committed) himself to el (the God) Yahweh to palat (escape, carry safely away or deliver) him. Let Him natsal (snatch away, rescue) him, because He chaphets (is pleased with, delights in) him.” (Psalm 22:5-8)

Yahweh used three different words for man in one sentence and it wasn’t by chance. After accurately describing the condition and appearance of His wiped and crucified body, He said that He was no longer present as a person. He said that he was being accused by adam—symbolic of both the first man’s sin and of taking on the sin of all mankind. That was brilliant beyond words. Then, a millennia before it actually happened, Yahweh told us that He would be rejected by His chosen people, the Jews. These carefully crafted and chosen words reveal the nature, character, and intellect of God.

Roman crucifixions were executed along popular roadways so that the victim’s humiliation and the deterrent effect his pain would have on the eyewitnesses would be magnified. That is why Yahshua says that people were gawking at Him, shaking their heads, and saying senseless things—mouths running faster than their brains.

The final lines of this passage are particularly revealing. Written around 967 B.C., they predicted that in one thousand years, 33 A.D., a man who would trust a God named Yahweh would preach that He would deliver mankind to Yahweh and carry men away from death, yet that He would not rescue Himself. That only happened once in all of human history.

The Davidian Psalm ultimately ends by telling us that the individual hanging on this cross would be God, but so we wouldn’t miss the fact that this manifestation of Yahweh would be Yahshua, the Messiah—God in the flesh—it explains: “Yet You [God] are He who giyach (caused me to come forth) out of the beten (womb as in body); You caused me to trust when I was upon my mother’s breast. I was shalak (thrown down) from the rechem (womb as in matrix).” (Psalm 22:9-10) Yahshua is saying that Yahweh sent Him via a woman’s womb from the matrix—an eternal four dimensional construct we call heaven. This “man” who was beaten to a pulp by Roman whips was God in the flesh.

With foreboding words, the future sacrificial Soul pleads again, asking God not to remove Himself from Him. He tells us that He is headed to a rendezvous with Satan, the Adversary, where He will be afflicted. He knows that nothing exists that can protect him from this tribulation. “Do not rachaq (recede, remove or distance) Yourself from me, for tsarah (the Adversary’s affliction, anguish, and tribulation) is qarob (near or approaching); for ayin (nothing exists) that can azar (protect or aid) me. Many par (wild, strong, and powerful animals) surrounded me and they have kathar kathar (besieged and crowned) me (in hostile fashion causing suffering). They patsah (tear apart, separate into parts with force and violence) me with their peh (blows) as they taraph (pluck off or pull away pieces) with shag (rumbling and roaring moans) of ariy (piercing violence). (Psalm 22:11-13) The passage reveals that the Spirit from heaven will be besieged by strong men and crowned in hostile fashion. Long before the Romans developed their metal tipped flagellum scourging whips that pulled hunks of flesh from men’s bodies, a prophet described the effect they would have on God’s. And five centuries before crucifixion with ropes was invented by the Assyrians or perfected with nails by the Romans, we have a preview of their piercing violence. If nothing else, we are discovering that Biblical prophecy is very precise.

Crucifixion causes the fluids of the victim’s body to drain into their lungs. While dying of thirst, they drown. While bones are not broken, both shoulders are dislocated. Oxygen depletion due to the inability of the person being crucified to stretch their diaphragm, causes a carbon dioxide toxin to build up in the bloodstream such that all strength melts away, starting with the heart muscles. We know this today, but not 3,000 years ago, which is when these words were inscribed on a scroll. “I Am poured out like water and whole bones are parad (separated or out of joint). My heart is like wax; it is masas (melted away, wasted, or faint) in my tavak (core or bisection) of my meeh (intestines or abdomen—i.e., my diaphragm isn’t working). My koach (vigor or strength) is yabesh (withered or failed) like cheres (sun-baked dust or clay). My tongue cleaves to my mouth, and you have brought me to the aphar (dust or the earth). (Psalm 22:14-15) That is precisely how crucifixion kills.

It’s painfully clear that the Psalm was predicting public flagellation followed by crucifixion, Roman style. “For the keleb (yelpers/attackers) have sabab (surrounded) me. The assemblage of raa (spoiled and wicked evil doers) have naqaph (surrounded and struck me violently). They pierced my hands and my feet. I can saphar (record/count) all my bones [i.e., nothing is broken]. They stare at me. (Psalm 22:14-15) They struck blows, pounding nails into hands and feet, piercing them. His shoulders were ripped from their sockets. And we, spoiled and wicked men that we are, taunted God.

In the Gospels we are told that the Romans who crucified Christ, cast lots for the garments they had stripped from him. It shouldn’t have been a surprise. Psalm 22:18 predicted it: “They divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.”

With Christ’s last words on the cross, Yahweh’s Spirit departed, leaving Yahshua’s Soul to bear the sins of all mankind. He pleads: “Do not remove Yourself from me Yahweh. Your power is my protection, eager to help me. Natsal (Snatch away) my Soul from the chereb (cutting instrument, sword, or destructive effect), my yachiyd (beloved, lonely, life, or only son) from the yad (hand or power) of the keleb (yelping attackers). Yasha (Keep me safe) from the piercing violence, for You have anah (responded) to me from the qeren (peak of the mountain or power) and raam (lifted me up). (Psalm 22:19-21) There are several ways to interpret these passages, all of which would be correct and prophetic. Yahshua’s side was pierced by a spear and yet the whole affair, as well as what lay ahead, was destructive. He was loved, lonely, and the only Son of God all at the same time. He was hung on Yahweh’s mountain, Mount Mariah—the symbol of His power. And indeed, He was lifted up.

This would be no ordinary Soul being flayed alive, pierced, and crucified. We are told that those who revere Yahweh will praise Him—something that would violate the Ten Commandments if the willing sacrifice were not God Himself. “Those who yare (revere) Yahweh praise Him. All descendants of Jacob glorify Him. Stand in awe of Him, all you descendants of Yisrael (Israel—He will rule as God). For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the aniy (humble, lowly, needy, poor). Neither has He hid His paniym (face or countenance) from him. When he shava (cried out to be free) to Him, He heard.” (Psalm 22:23-25) This verse proclaims that the crucifixion victim has parity with Yahweh—making Him God. The second part of the passage says that Yahweh chose the cross and that Yahshua went there willingly because He heard our cries. He hung there for you and me.

The prophecy continues with prophetic echoes of the Sermon on the Mount. “The anav (the needy, meek, and especially the saintly) shall akal (be fed) and saba (be completely satisfied). They shall praise Yahweh that darash (seek, follow, and worship) Him, your lebab (heart or understanding) shall live forever.” (Psalm 22:26) There were no capitalizations in paleo Hebrew so the final “you” could be saying that Christ and his teachings shall live forever or that the understanding and souls of those who “seek, follow, and worship” Him shall endure for all eternity—or both.

The final four verses of the 3000 year old prophetic Psalm reveal that Yahweh knew that evil men would brutalize Him in the manner He has just detailed ten centuries before He allowed it to happen. Yet one thousand years after He inspired this Scripture, Yahshua entered our world in the form of a man to fulfill His mission. That defines love. He proclaims that ultimately, when the last chapter is written and the last act is played out, we will remember His sacrifice and turn to Him because He has done this. “The entire world shall remember and turn to Yahweh and every family and nation shall worship before Him. For the realm is Yahweh’s. He has mashal (dominion, and is the Governor) of the nations. From the prosperous to those who have descended into the dust, they will all bow to Him, as no one can keep his own soul alive. Posterity shall serve Him, and it shall be saphar (recorded or inscribed) to the Lord for dor (a revolution of time, an age). They shall come and nagad (expose, predict, explain, manifest, announce, and declare) his tsedaqah (receptiveness, objectivity, justice, moral virtue, and righteousness) to a people that shall be born that He has asah (done, bore, accomplished, bestowed) this.” (Psalm 22:27-31)

I do not know how anyone can read this and not be moved to conviction, to tears, to action. Prophecy doesn’t get any more relevant than this. No words sing more beautifully or more clearly. Yahweh predicted his role in the single greatest act in human history. He committed it to writing three thousand years ago so that when it happened we would know that He bestowed His gift—His sacrifice—because He loves us and wants us to live eternally with Him.

There is just one God. All of God, however, could not fit inside the man. Much of the dynamic of the inter-relationship between Yahweh and Yahshua was for us—for us to understand the kind of relationship Yahweh wants to have with us—father-son. I intend to expand on the nature of Yahweh/Yahshua as He is comprehensively presented in His Scripture. But for now, to answer your question, Yahweh does not have three personas, nor three personalities, nor are there three of Him. Yahweh can manifest Himself in many ways, however. Two of these manifestations are Yahshua and the Holy Spirit. And both of these manifestations only exist for a singular purpose—TO DRAW US TO HIM.

We misunderstand why Yahshua used the term son. Yahshua was not a second generation Deity, which means he could not have been Yahweh’s son in the sense we use the word. In the Messianic manifestation, Yahweh demonstrated the kind of relationship He was seeking with us by establishing a tangible example in Yahshua.


You and I will not fully understand the nature of Yahweh while we are three dimensional and mortal. But I can tell you that you can’t go wrong with the first summation above.

When scholars choose which word they think fits, they are at best guessing. But that's not the biggest problem. No language translate word for word to another. And many Hebrew and Greek words have many meanings and important shadings--all of which are lost when we read word for word translations. A great example is the Hebrew word "shem." It is always translated "name." But that is one of 13 meanings--and by no means the most important one. By not amplifying the Hebrew to include them all the reader is cheated out of 90% of what Yahweh was telling us. And one of the benefits of Biblical Hebrew and Greek being dead languages, the meanings of words no longer shifts in those languages like it does in our own. So when Strongs or others say that shem meant character, position, nature, mark and authority in addition to name when Yahweh inspired it to be used by His prophets, it still means all of those things.

Now, as for my point, while it's possible that Yahweh wants us to know something that He does not explicitly say, it's not as likely as if He actually said it. And that's all I meant by the word Trinity not being there. It is less likely that the concept of Trinity is important to Him if He doesn't say it or explain it, that's all.

Thanks to Constantine and the RCC, much of what Christians practice as Christianity is actually Satanic. The more I study, the more concerned I become with how lost the church has become.

And I have read very old and very well researched pieces on the creation of the Trinity doctrine and how and why the word "persons" or "personas" was first used as a subset of Greek philosophy. It's too long to cover here, but the bottom line is that in the context of the time the position was first articulated, persona in a philosophical sense meant manifestations. The word meaning has shifted over time giving folks the wrong impression that persona was to mean three individuals.


issue is Hebrew and Greek both had a word for three and didn't use it as it relates to God. That's significant, although not totally conclusive. Therefore, the concept of Trinity is extra Biblical in any language. And there is no problem having a discussion of the Bible using words that convey concepts foreign or extracurricular to the Biblical writers. But when we do, we are not on nearly as strong a doctrinal footing as we would be when we use appropriate and full translations of Scriptural nomenclature.

While I've covered this before, the fact that neither the Hebrew or Greek writer were inspired over the course of 1500 pages to link the word three with God is very significant. It is evidence, not proof in and of itself. That is why I said it in one brief sentence and then provided you with several hundred sentences which provided much more important evidence. Again, if one sentence were sufficient to demonstrate an important Divine truth, Yahweh wouldn't have given us so much Scripture.

I hope that your schedule allows you to read some of what I've discovered by amplifying Yahweh's Scriptures . He has revealed things that are the antithesis of what most Christians practice. And please understand, I am now way suggesting that you fall into this group, although I once did. The issue of Trinity has roots in the Babylonian religion, yet unlike Christmas and Easter, a case can be made for it using Scripture. The place where you and I seem to differ is persona vs. manifestation. I believe that Yahweh is Yahshua is the Holy Spirit and thus that Yahshua and the Holy Spirit are just manifestations of Himself that Yahweh used and uses to reach out to us, to show us what He's like, to demonstrate His love, to atone for our sins, and to comfort and empower us.

We do have confirmation from Yahshua of the OT canon. He quoted from most books and didn't refute the appropriateness of any. And we know precisely what the OT canon was, and precisely what each book said during the days Christ preached. The Dead Sea Scrolls act as irrefutable confirmation. So, as a believer that Yahshua is Yahweh, the fact that He validated the Scriptural canon of what we now call the OT is, absolute proof.

And by they way, Yahweh almost never, if ever, inspired a prophet, wise man, or scribe to write "thus saith the Lord," or "the word of the Lord." He almost always used His shem--Yahweh. And that's real important.

Yahweh tells us that the purpose of prophecy is to demonstrate that He is the inspiration behind His words. You seem to be more concerned with doctarine than I am or that Yahweh is. All I know is that only Yahweh can maneuver in time and thus correctly predict the future all of the time without exception. And I know that a quarter of the Bible was prophetic when it was written for a reason--it proves that it was inspired by God.

Sonship as we use the word requires the son to be a generation after the father. So, in that sense, Yahshua would have had to be a second generation Deity if He were literally Yahweh's son as we use the word. Since Yahshua wasn't a second generation Deity, His Sonship is meant to imply a spiritual truth and to convey an important example for us to emulate.

I am worn out :lol:
"On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you."

John 14:20

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Postby Sevryn45 » Wed Dec 01, 2004 07:42 am

BY the way if you wanna debate me on this you better know scripture AND NOT BIBLES or I will school you. Do yourslef a favor and get the copies of Hebrew and Greek scripture, you can pretty much get that online and use a hex or codec to amplify the scripture.


1 century Jewish Christians did not believe in this nonsense, this is because they were right until the stupid Goyim came and corrupted scripture and made up fase doctarines.
"On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you."

John 14:20


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