jehovah's witnesses and mormons do not believe in the trinity, i.e. that jesus is god, but they do believe that he is the son of god. that's as close as they get.
2006-06-14 03:40:22
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answer #1
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answered by Aayah 3
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No. Christian means little Christ, the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch, because they act so much like Christ. Acts11:26 To be a Christian one has to believe that Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of God John 3:16
2006-06-14 11:00:21
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answer #2
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answered by PREACHER'S WIFE 5
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Jesus Was God From the Beginning Of His Human Life
God was manifest in the flesh through Jesus Christ, but at what point in His life did God indwell the Son? The Bible unequivocally declares that the fulness of God was in Jesus from the moment when Jesus' human life began.
1. Matthew 1:23 says, "Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us." He was "God with us" even at his birth.
2. The angels worshiped Him at His birth (Hebrews 1:6), Simeon recognized the infant as the Christ (Luke 2:26), Anna saw the babe as the redeemer of Israel (Luke 2:38), and the wise men worshiped the young child (Matthew 2:11).
3. Micah 5:2 ascribed deity to the Messiah at His birth in Bethlehem, not just after His life in Nazareth or His baptism in Jordan.
4. Luke 1:35 explains why Jesus was God at the beginning of His human life. The angel told Mary, "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." Jesus was born of a virgin, His conception being effected by the Holy Ghost. Because of this ("therefore"), He was the Son of God. In other words, Jesus is the Son of God because God, and not a man, caused His conception. God was literally His Father. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son…" (John 3:16). To beget means to father, sire, procreate, or cause. Jesus was begotten by God in the womb of the virgin Mary.
Isaiah 7:14 also links the virgin conception with the recognition that the Son thus born would be God. In other words, at the moment of conception, God placed His divine nature in the seed of the woman. The child to be born received its life and the fatherly side of its nature from God at this time. From the mother's side it received the human nature of Mary; from the father's side (God, not Joseph) it received the nature of God. Jesus obtained His divine nature through the conception process; He did not become divine by some later act of God. The virgin birth of Jesus establishes His deity.
Some believe that Jesus received the fulness of God at some later time in His life, such as at His baptism. However, in light of the virgin birth and Luke 1:35 this cannot be so. Jesus received His nature of deity as well as the nature of humanity at conception. The descent of the Holy Ghost like a dove at the baptism of Jesus was not a baptism of the Holy Ghost; Jesus already had all the fulness of God within Him (Colossians 2:9). Rather, His baptism, among other things, occurred as a symbolic anointing for the beginning of His earthly ministry and as a confirmation to John the Baptist of His deity (John 1:32-34). (For more on the baptism of Jesus see Chapter 8 - NEW TESTAMENT EXPLANATIONS: THE GOSPEL.)
2006-06-14 10:53:59
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answer #3
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answered by askglory2 2
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no that is what the muslims think, and if i thought that then i will be a muslim , and i do wanta too.
I belive that christianity is the true religion, and that is because i ask anything in jesus name, and happens immediately,what else do i want my lord to do for mmeee
bye
2006-06-14 10:40:06
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answer #4
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answered by lalala 3
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Did Jesus give up Saturday for us?
Jesus? Christianity? .
If Jesus died, he could NOT have been God.
Gods do not die? Do they?
If Jesus 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was sacrificed?
If Jesus died for our sins, he should be dead,dead, dead!
2006-06-14 10:40:24
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answer #5
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answered by Anonymous
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No, because then this groups would not be truely Christian based on the satement that Messiah would build His congregation on the belief that Yahu'shua the Messiah is the Son of the living Eloah, Yahu'eh:
Matthew 16:13 When came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
16:14 And they said, Some say that thou art John[Yachanon] the Baptist: some, EliYah; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
16:16 And Simon Kepha answered and said, Thou art the Messiah, the Son of the living Eloah.
16:17 And answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Kepha, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
*note: This statement is not saying Kepha is the rock but that the revelation Kepha would share with different people groups(Jews, Samaritans, then the Gentiles or all other nations, Acts of the Apostles chapters 2,8, 10 and would be the key to unlocking the Kingdom of heaven or of Yahu'eh who dwells in the heavens. Our foundation is first in Yahu'shua the Christ Ephsiens ch 2 verse 20 with the apostles and prophets pointing to him as the Son of Eloah or in Arabic Allah.)
16:20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was the Messiah.
Here Phillip the Deacon gives this affirmnation to the Ethiopian of son of Kush in the Acts of the Apostles:
chapter 8 verse 37: And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that the Messiah is the Son of Eloah[Allah].
This is the message of the entire New Testament and the Word of Eloah/Allah that was spread bythe Apostles throughout the known world.
**note The name of the crescent moongod is Allah and is not to be confused with my use of the older use of the title Allah in Arabic as a term denoting deity. This happened a lot with Hebrew titles also. For instance ba'al meaning husband a title became the name of the Ca'cnite diety Ba'al, Adonai or Adoni became Adonis, el became the chief idol El etc....and is quite common for this to happen in Semitic languages. The crescent moon images are identified with the tribes of Ishmael in the Holy Bible; Judges chapter 8 verses 23-26, if one researches the Hebrew original words used in this passage long before Mohammed the false Prophet declared Allah the crescent moon idol to be the only true God. I say this not to offend but to show a love for anyone reading this to tell them the truth so they will not be decieved.
After reading many other responces I could say alot about the humanity and divinity of the Messiah being combined in Yahushua the Son of man born of the virgin Mariam but will refrain from doing so. Many ancient Christian sects did not accept the current "orthodox" belief in the Trinity. Myself I am a concurrent modalistic monarchian who believes in the pre-existence of the Son as a visible manifestation of Yahu'eh as the angel of Yahu'eh in the Tanach and as the Son of Eloah a virgin born Son of man or human. He also contained all the fullness of the Eloah bodily, Colossians chapter 2 verse 9. So he was Yahu'eh the Father the invisible Eloah which is a Breat or Spirit fully manifested as a human being. John declared this in his gospel chapter 10 verses 24-33.
I would note that I would accept as Christians, Jehovah's Witnesses just as much as I would Roman Catholics or Southern Baptist which all have thier counterparts of beliefs in the earliest forms of Christianity. The Arians were Christians that followed the teachings of Arius of Alexander which disputed before the Bishops at the Niceane Council when Roman Catholicism has it's very beginnings in the Emporer Constantine the Great's desire to unite all Christians under one belief and doctrine as the state religion of rhe Roman Empire.
One more point is to be made. There is much evidence that the Roman Catholic Church in their desire to exterminate thier enemies within the Christian fold thus being apostate in my opinion because another central tenent of Christianity "They shall know that you are my disciples because they have love one for another", helped to create the Islamic religion which effectively destroyed those that would not accept the Nicean Creed.
2006-06-14 11:06:29
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answer #6
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answered by echadone 2
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I think that's what the Jehovah Witnesses believe!?
2006-06-14 10:38:55
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answer #7
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answered by Fire-Dawg 4
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They wouldn't be Christians, they'd be misled
2006-06-14 10:39:27
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answer #8
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answered by trace 4
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Check this out --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Beliefs_of_the_Iglesia_ni_Cristo
2006-06-14 10:44:59
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answered by nosivaj 4
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