Why do "Oneness" believers claim that Jesus is God then deny it in the same paragraph?

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I believe that Jesus is God 1000%..God bless.

Southern Apostolic..You are once again denying that Jesus is God..And cutting and pasting somebody elses article helps nothing..God bless.

Answer 1

I didn't know that. Thanks, but I believe in the Godhead, TheTrinity : God, the Father, His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, who came to save us from our sins, and The Holy Ghost.

God speed, Juanita

Answer 2

Some people simply fail to grasp the concept.

There is a saying: For those who believe, no proof is necessary; those who do not believe, no proof is possible. Take into consideration creation, creatures, and the only creature created in God's image.

DEMONSTRATING EXISTENCE OF THE HOLY TRINITY:

The HOLY TRINITY is defined as:
A term used since A.D. 200 to denote the central doctrine of the Christian religion. God, who is one and unique in his infinite substance or nature, is three really distinct persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The one and only God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Yet God the Father is not God the Son, but generates the Son eternally, as the Son is eternally begotten. The Holy Spirit is neither the Father nor the Son, but a distinct person having his divine nature from the Father and Son by eternal procession. The three divine persons are co-equal, co-eternal, and consubstantial and deserve co-equal glory and adoration.

We need to know how we are created in God's image to grasp the concept of the Holy Trinity and I think your question is a good one.

To understand this better, chart it out or use a diagram of two triangles of equal proportions like the Star of David. This allows an easier understanding of the relationship between the Essence and Existence of a thing. The following words should be distinguished in the following categories: Physical, Mental, and Spiritual. These three words encompass everything in the Universe and make up the CREATIVE PROCESS to help describe the Creator, creatures, and creation.

God is spirit. He cannot be seen. If you were to examine all the creatures, the CREATOR has made a pattern emerges: angels and demons are intellectual creatures without a body; plants and animals do not have an intellect but a body and mortal soul. IT IS ONLY LIVING, HUMAN, BEINGS, that have a MIND, BODY, and SOUL. Only human beings have all three. Now, living, human, being is the existence of man. Those words describe the essence of man's mind, body, and soul. The Body is living, the Mind makes us human and distinguishing us from animals, and our Soul makes us the being that we become (good or evil).

Now, even Muslims will agree Allah is omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing), and omnipresent (ever present). These words describe the existence of God. So, what is the essence of God? I will hold off answering this question till the end.

Now, if you think about the existence of a person they have a triple existence: physical (body), mental (mind), and spiritual (eternal soul). In fact, whenever we create something it has all three of these parts. When we cook we have a recipe (in our mind), we gather all the raw ingredients, and we cook (don't burn it, ha ha) what it is we are making. Cooking has the physical, mental, and spiritual parts. Same with engineering or technology it has three parts: the blueprints (to convey an idea), the raw materials (physical), and the workmanship (spiritual). If something goes wrong investigators will look for a design flaw, material flaw, or faulty workmanship. THIS DEMONSTRATES CREATION HAS THREE PARTS LIKE THE CREATOR.

Now, in the Bible it says Jesus is the visible likeness of the invisible God. (Colossians 1:15) The ESSENCE OF GOD IS: Father (mental), Son (physical), Holy Ghost (spiritual). ONE TRUE GOD IN THREE JUST LIKE A PERSON. THREE PARTS ONE PERSON. When you are sick you send for a doctor; when you are mentally troubled, a psychiatrist; when spiritually seeking you seek out a holy person.

Answer 3

Proverbs 30:4 tells you that answer. Jesus is the Son of God.

Answer 4

whats depressing is that some people ACTUALLY do not realize how nonsensical >>"One God, one trinity."<< sounds... "tri" is not "one" and thus is directly contrary. you either believe in one, or you believe in the trinity, these 2 are DIRECTLY contradictory. pick which side your on.

if you believe in jesus as God, you are an Idolotor and polytheist. get over it.

edit: how is this not obvious? One-ness does NOT require a long explanation. if it requires a long explanation, its likely NOT "one" but "more than one" dressed up as "one"

1=1 is self evident, obvious, and simple.
Infinity = 1 is less obvious, but not nearly as complex as some would try to make it.

1+1+1=1 is nonsense, and requires a long contorted meaningless explanation, when simply it is a lie.

Answer 5

confusion in terminology from trying to explain the trinity.
I get lost in between the definition of the Holy Ghost and the Father. Don't see much difference. Father and son is easier.

Answer 6

Id really like to answer this question, but it doesn't make much sense to me. Give me more info. What is the rest of the paragraph?

Answer 7

"One love, one life you got to do what u shoouuld. One life but we're not the same we get to carry each other. - Love is a temple -love is a higher law." u2 's lyrics but Mary J Blige 's voice. Sorry to quote a lovely song for an answer but bare with me, in my head, God is life, God is light, and if God is those, He is also the source of LOVE- love is God's, and life is all from this source of light & love. sorry so wordy but it does tie together ~ as we are all one with God :o]

All that truly love are truly at one with God.

Answer 8

Jesus is God. What are you trying to say?

Answer 9

i think you mean that they say jesus is god the father then that he isn't god the father.

this heresy goes back a long way.

arianism, modalism, socinianism, and a few others isms.

trinitarians say jesus is god but that he isn't the father.

Answer 10

One God, one trinity.

Amen