Unitarian vs. Trinitarian

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Here is some excellent analysis of John 1:3 -

biblicalunitarian.com/html/modules.php

This is just one example among many of how the Greek New Testament has been interpolated into English to support a particular theological view.

Peace,
Griffin
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  • Re: Unitarian vs. Trinitarian

    Sun, June 25, 2006 - 10:43 PM
    My thoughts on the Trinity (based on very little study, but seems logically sound) --

    God the Father is Perfect. Hence, He exists. It is better to exist than to not exist, just as it is better to have a perfect spouse than to imagine having the perfect spouse. Moreover, the Father is supremely unknowable, as His character is infinitely rich. Yet perfect character implies perfect knowledge of oneself, and so His knowledge must have an existence as well. This perfect knowledge is called God the Son. The exchange of knowledge is also perfect, having an independent existence. Hence, The Holy Spirit -- The Holy Breath of Inspiration.

    God shares Himself with us through the word Jesus Christ, just as we share ourselves with others through everyday language. The main difference is that our words evoke images, whereas Jesus evokes the deepest mysteries of God, things the imagination cannot contain.

    The problem arises when we begin to think of the Trinity in terms of process. Process implies before and after, but as it is stated in John, the Word was with God before the world was created. There was never a time when God did not know Himself perfectly. Moreover, there was never a time when God did not want us to know Him perfectly, even though He is invisible to us.

    We are all blind in the light of God's Love. Anybody who says anything different is selling something.
    Yet Jesus is the intimate sharing of God's deepest desire. Jesus exposes the invisible heart of God.

    Through the Passion of Christ, we were told the most hidden secret of all, and we were given the greatest knowledge of all, which is the knowledge of God's Love.

    Ignorance has no power over one who listens to the Word as it was spoken -- one who refuses to add or subtract according to taste and simply believes according to what they were told.

    Doubting the Word of God revealed the pharisees great hypocrisy. They claimed to love God, yet they did not really trust Him, as they did not want to hear His Word. Where is Love without Trust?

    Trust is like the ground at the base of a mountain -- when the rain comes, the deeper chasms are filled with water, but the shallow ones receive little to nothing.

    You know that even Jesus couldn't heal in places where faith was lacking, so it's all the more important for us to abandon ourselves to a complete trust in the promise of God.

    Trust is a showing of Love. Where there is greater Trust, there will be greater Charity.

    Best wishes,
    Denny

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