I also know the Bible is true, which means when God said:
Deuteronomy 6:4
4 "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!
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He did not mean 3 in 1. And when Jesus said:
John 17:3
3 "And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.
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He did not mean as compared to pagan gods.
I also believe Peter over the church councils that denied the inerrancy of the Bible and ignored Peter's sermon in Acts 2:
Acts 2:22-24
22 "Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know-- 23 this Man, delivered up by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. 24 "And God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.
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I also agree with Paul who made a point of writing:
1 st Corinthians 8:6
6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
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I also believe Jesus will reign on earth for 1000 years before the 2nd Resurrection in this doomed creation because God made covenants with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as well as with David that have yet to be fulfilled and God keeps His promises.
In John 14 Jesus said:
"I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am". When he returns Jesus will return to where he left.
Acts 1:11
"Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven."
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Zechariah prophesied:
Zechariah 14:1-5
14:1 Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. 2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished, and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. 3 Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle. 4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south. 5 And you will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with Him!
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One of the Messiahs titles is "Holy One".
Psalms 16:10
10 For Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Sheol;
Neither wilt Thou allow Thy Holy One to undergo decay.
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In Acts 5 Peter said:
Acts 5:28-32
29 But Peter and the apostles answered and said, "We must obey God rather than men. 30 "The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had put to death by hanging Him on a cross. 31 "He is the one whom God exalted to His right hand as a Prince and a Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. 32 "And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him."
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Yes, I have rejected the traditions developed by the Catholic/Orthodox church councils because like Peter I feel I must obey God not men.
As to Thomas' statement, in the Hebrew mind and culture any agent of Yehovah can be addressed as "god". Jesus pointed this out to the Pharisees:
John 10:34-39
34 Jesus answered them, "Has it not been written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'? 35 "If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), 36 do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world,' You are blaspheming,' because I said,' I am the Son of God'? 37 "If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; 38 but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father. "
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Jesus is the unique Son of God, however Jesus was born a man, died as man, was resurrected a man, and is the only man sitting at the right hand of the Father as our High Priest, intercessor, mediator, and God's Anointed One (Messiah). And we do have eternal life with the Lord and will rule with the Lord on earth - not in heaven. Jesus promised the Apostles they would sit on 12 thrones and govern the sons of Israel. Have you studied Ezekiel 40-48?