"If He never says he's God, why do you think He is the Father then?
Also, Jesus does claim to be God but not the Father."
Stop ducking my question. Answer my question first. Answer mine then I'll answer yours.
Scripture says decently and in order.
My question was first in the order.
Jesus never said the words "I am God". Does .....this ..mean.... he is not God?
Stop displaying yourself a fool.
Just answer yes or no to the question.
I'm not responding to your repetitive points that does nothing to counter my actual counterpoints.
"The Son is called God. Jesus is called the Son of God multiple times."
Get scripture that says the exact words "God the son" or admit you were taught or learned the phrase "God the son".
I got EXACT SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS "GOD THE FATHER".
Now get scripture that you haven't got yet that says "God the son" and stop playing dumb.
"I listen to the Church, not some random person on the internet or what my mind thinks."
Why is Jesus Lord if you're not going to listen to what he says?
The church is your Lord and you got no scripture to say listen to the church.
See you believe in receiving from man along with the bible. You're one of those, right.
But this is a scriptural topic so anything you get from a man from whatever so called church you're talking about is invalid in this topic.
You either get scripture to back up your point or you forfeit.
Scripture says received not of man but revelation from Christ. You supposed to receive this of Christ through whatever God called God sent man of God , a single preacher or preachers. Not a blanket church. Not everyone in the church is a preacher.
Are all preachers? No . Are all apt teach? No. Do all have the same gift of tongues? No.
All scripture inspired by God , not by the church.
I see you're repeating your rehearsed talking points. Go back to whoever taught you, show the person these objections I'm raising and get the answers that appear to help you.
"If He never says he's God, why do you think He is the Father then?
Also, Jesus does claim to be God but not the Father.
When being tempted by the devil, He said:
"It is written again: Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." (Matthew 4:7)
He called Himself God:
"Amen, amen I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am" (John 8:58)
I am means Yahweh, God."
He never said "I am God".
So you can deflect like you normally do and be dishonest instead of admitting he never said the words "I am God".
So the point of him never saying he was Father God falls on the same line because he never said "I am Father God" nor "God" who is the Father.
By the way before Abraham was, the Father was " I am" .
The bible does not teach the Father is separate from God. You and any other trinitarian teaches that.
The bible does not teach this is God but not God the Father.
The Father said I AM . So where do we get another God that is not Father out of "I AM"?
WE DON'T.
The bible says there is NO GOD BESIDES ME.
The trinitarian doctrine tries to explain scriptures in the new testament that are great is the mystery of godliness but can't account for scriptures in the old testament that refutes the doctrine.
"I am means Yahweh, God."
Get scripture that says what it means. Not taking what you say. Scripture says let your words be few so speak as the oracles of God.
"One passage:
"But to the Son: Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of justice is the sceptre of thy kingdom" (Hebrews 1:8)
The Son is called God. Jesus is called the Son of God multiple times.
I listen to the Church, not some random person on the internet or what my mind thinks."
Thanks. The son is called God , not God the son.
I accept your concession on that. If the book don't say "God the son", you don't make it up saying it does.
Scripture says God the Father. It doesn't say God the son .
Scripture doesn't say have we all one son, have not one God created us?
Where in Scripture does it say listen to the church?
Jesus said Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word . He didn't say whoever hears or listens from the church.
Where did you get "listening to the church from" because it's certainly not scripture, do you believe in "church fathers" along with the scriptures as inspired doctrine?
"You forgot the second part. He said one God and one Lord.
" "Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him" (1 Corinthians 8:6)
Where else is "one Lord" used?
"Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord" (Deuteronomy 6:4)
It affirms two divine persons by giving them each different titles that are fully divine." "
HE NEVER SAID PERSONS SO WHERE DID YOU GET "PERSONS" FROM ?
"Jesus is the Son and is called one Lord? The Son is God, therefore He's God the Son."
The bible say be prepared to give an answer.
I ask again ....
Why is it unacceptable that the one God is the Father ?
"You need good definitions of Father and everlasting. Jesus can be our father but not necessarily God the Father. Saying the Son is everlasting doesn't mean the Father isn't."
I'll just make this easy.
If you don't say "yea" to this.....the bible say let God be true and every man a liar.
Is there only one God Almighty and is he the Father?
"He claims that when Jesus says "myself" He means his body and when He says "Father" He means his divinity. Pro has separated Jesus into two persons. "Myself" refers to a person. You would never call your body "myself" but your soul another person. Fatherhood refers to personhood, not substance. You never say your father is just the father of your body but you (a person).
Pro arrived out Nestorian differently than Nestorius. Nestorius denied Mary was the Mother of God, but pro denies God was the Father of God."
The opposite side is rejecting Jesus in the flesh. If you are actually a believer in the scriptures, you're a posing hypocrite.
The book says "And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God."
Proving that man made doctrine such as trinitarian doctrine, has giving these folks the spirit of antichrist.
See I give book to explain and prove my points. The opposite side uses the church and man made input which is why many things the opposite side says was not shown in scripture at all .
Just like I'm about to show you now that these scriptures are teaching Jesus which was in the flesh teaching about his Father which is spirit. Jesus wasn't teaching he was one person and the Father is the first person or whatever ranking these trinitarians like to make up.
I'm going from debating mode to teaching mode, let's go.
John 8 and verse 2.
"2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them."
What sat down exactly if it wasn't flesh?
See, here's where you tell the truth or be a liar.
"20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come."
Laid hands on him....whattt??? ....laid hands on him.....land hands on him.
What on him could a man lay hands on?
Jesus said handle me for a spirit have not FLESH and bones.
So we know flesh is abled to be handled people..
"22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come."
The Jews asked will he KILL himself?
Now ....what do the Jews know?
They know that FLESH.....can be killed. Can be dead , can die.
The scripture says put to DEATH in the FLESH.
Let's read some more.
"29 And he that sent me is with me"
Jesus said " he that seeth me seeth him that sent me".
Did they which see him see FLESH?
The FLESH to whom the arm of the Lord was revealed that they could not CONFESS the report of he that is come in the flesh because of the Pharisees, that should not SEE the miracles before them done in the FLESH ?
Is all this bible?
Did I really have to itemize all this for the opposing side to believe what this report said of Jesus being in flesh?
The eyes of the opposing side are blinded and the heart thereof is that hardened, that instead of saying amen, Jesus was in the flesh in John 8 speaking of his Father, like the folks that could not CONFESS he was in the flesh or has come in the flesh because of men, the praise is so much to men rather than God who sent him in the flesh made of a woman, not a SO CALLED SECOND PERSON, the opposing side did not say "yes he was in the flesh, so we have flesh and spirit, that's all it's teaching".
We have flesh and spirit......flesh and spirit............flesh and spirit........flesh and spirit.
I broke down the book of John that teaches Jesus in flesh and the Father which is spirit.
A private interpretation, a private one....creates a doctrine of two persons and we can't even read that.
Why should we believe something we can't read?
Scripture says who have believed our report?
Where's the report?
Written in Isaiah, written about in John.
Reading on in John 8
"37 I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you."
"kill me".......put to DEATH IN THE FLESH......" kill me "
.....put to DEATH IN THE FLESH......" kill me "
.....put to DEATH IN THE FLESH......" kill me "
Jesus didn't say they couldn't kill him because as long as HE..... lays it down.....lays it down from the sheep....all this because he was flesh. Flesh..... flesh.
"40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham."
A MAN........A MAN.....Jesus said "me, a man".
"51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death"
If a man keeps his saying he shall not or never SEE DEATH.
BUT CHRIST......WAS PUT TO DEATH IN FLESH.
SO HE, A MAN....WAS FLESH....IN John 8.
Scripture teach you can do nothing against the truth but say amen. Even if you're in a debate, you can be humble and say amen to the truth.
Scripture says flesh of men.
The opposite side is not breaking scriptures down. Quoting verses and running with whatever seminary lesson was taught, instead the opposite side is not showing any of the explanations from scripture at all .
We have Jesus in the flesh son of man referring to himself speaking of his spirit, Spirit of Christ the comforter that will soon be with them. See I'm lining it all up because the scripture is not broken...the helper will soon be with them after Christ departs.
No longer God with them in the flesh but in spirit.
Spirit and flesh , Father and son, spirit and flesh, Spirit and son. Where are we reading that these are two persons?
We're not . That language is being added.
I'm leaving it just as is. Father .....God...which is spirit....Jesus ....which is man.... flesh.
Still One God at the end of it and we've got nothing more than that because this God said ....THIS GOD SAID ....THERE IS NONE ELSE.
The opposite side is adding someone else and someone else with God by having MULTIPLE PERSONS AND OR THREE PERSONS.
GOD didn't even say he's God with three persons.
Who else is WITH YOU GOD?
GOD SAID....THERE IS NONE....ELSE.
Now the opposite side ought to say amen to that because that's the truth and scripture says , say amen to God and scripture calls God, God of truth.
I'm finished with John 8.
"So He sits at His own power and glory? If Jesus is the Father, then the Father has His own physical right hand."
It's true what the scripture says. These things you're just not going to understand because you have a natural carnal understanding. An actual atheist understanding.
I just explained the right hand so it really has no bearing on the topic.
You duck the question as well as others which is straight disqualification.
Audience, keep track of the questions and the ones that go unanswered by the opposing side to avoid refutation.
I mentioned about Jesus never saying he's God as your point about him never saying he's Father is moot.
You actually believe there is God but he's not the Father when the scriptures teaches God is the Father. It's a complete contradiction.
You realize when you say God you're saying Father. This is the contradiction trinitarians can't overcome but they exchange the truth of God for a lie.
"Jesus is a person, right? Who gave Jesus the power? Another person, the Father."
You answering your own question. Here's a request that I won't fulfill for you .
Give me scripture that says the Father is another person.
"Well, if you believe it would mean the Father lost power, it's even more problematic for you. Who gave Jesus power? If you believe Jesus is the Father, He gave Himself power but somehow lost it while giving it to Himself.''
Being that the Father is Almighty, but Jesus son of God was given all power, Jesus would be the Almighty himself.
The book of revelation teaches this.
Titus 2 says "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ".
There IS NO SAVIOUR BESIDES GOD AND GOD IS THE FATHER.
The opposite side has not shown one time anywhere God the Creator is NOT THE FATHER.
Just making that clear because the bible condemns that .
"Clearly shows one divine person doesn't judge while another does. This is not some body-divinity distinction that a Nestorian modalist would make."
Why can't we read "one divine person" instead of "clearly shows"?
"What about this?:
"For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ" (2 Corinthians 2:10, emphasis added)"
"Person" of Christ. Didn't say "persons". You killed your own point.
Like I said. The apostles never said persons. I don't know why you're saying it.
"Plus, "let us" in Genesis 1:26, 2:18, 11:7. "Us" means more than one person."
I'm not arguing WHAT YOU MEAN by "us".
Point is , what does the scripture say it means.
Since you have nothing to refute me , I'll go into a lesson on this to help you.
Genesis 1:26 say "And God said, Let us make man in our image"
More than one, right, when talking about "us".
Just like where scripture says "let US go up.....unto the house of the God of Jacob".
Scripture says the words ....many shall go and say. So "us" is not one.
But verse 27 is talking about one God.
"27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
It says "he"....."he"...."he".
We know "he" is singular or one because the scripture say have not ONE GOD CREATED US.
There's the word "us" again. But "us" here is referring to male and female.
But we have understanding that there's male and female. But we only have "he" when it comes to God so why is there an "us" .... I'll tell you why .
God said there is none else so it appears as a contradiction.
To clear up what appears to be conflict, people add to the bible trying to acknowledge someone else that even God doesn't acknowledge.
HE the Lord HE is God said there is NONE ELSE.
But there's an "us" a "many" concerning creation but yet one God that is he the Lord.....that is the Father.
This is where revelation comes in. We don't have to add but receive the revelation of Christ.
Scriptures says in..." Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints"
Manifesting is revealing .
What was revealed in Hebrews 11
"3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear"
Does the opposing side believe ? Does the opposing side have faith in the scriptures teaching that the WORD framed the worlds?
By the word of God , HE (SINGULAR).... HE SAID (PLURAL) made everything of the world by making the world.
His word, he said let there be ....and it was so. God spoke, Him and his word , the
" US", God said.....then he created.
Do we follow?
God , the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters....said his word.....from his word....it was so.
We're not adding"persons"...... we're not adding"personalities "..... we're not adding"modes".... we're not adding"God but not the Father ".
We reading just what the scriptures say. In the beginning was the WORD .
The word that God said and it was so . That's it. We can read this ....we don't have to add nor take away.
In the beginning the heaven/s and the earth was created. This earth is the world framed by the word in the beginning from verse one onto subsequent verses in Genesis chapter one .
We can conclude the debate and finish the remaining rounds for Q and A on Genesis 1:26.
I'm done.