How does Trinitarianism reconcile all the verses that portray Jesus (the Son) AT THE SIDE of God (the Father)?

Question

Why not simply acknowledge that Jesus and Jehovah really are two different spirit beings with near-identical personalities who work well together?

Ps 110:1 The LORD says to my lord: "Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool"

Luke 20:41-44 David himself says in the Book of Psalms, `The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet.' David thus calls [the Christ] Lord

Acts 7:55,56 [Stephen] gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God

Rom 8:34 Christ Jesus… who is at the right hand of God

Eph 1:20 [God] accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places

Col 3:1 Above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God

Heb 12:2 Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith… is seated at the right hand of the throne of God

1 Pet 3:21,22 Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God

Answer 1

Okay, take your Bible and see how many times you see a reference to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The trinity is NOT spoken of directly in the Bible, but if you realize how often the three are referred to as one, it becomes understanding how the trinity came to be. There is also some symbolic meaning to three that escapes me at the moment.

Once again, I understand that I am many parts of one whole...I am a daughter, an ex-wife, a mom, a grandma, a friend...yet there is just one ME.

The right hand simply signifies "the favored son", it does not mean literally sitting at the right side.

Please take note...and Christian brothers and sisters I speak to the unbelievers here...during the Nicene Conference, the issue of the Trinity was hot...so hot that it took nearly 300 years to resolve it.

Is there a Trinity in factual space, or is the trinity a concept of the parts of God? And either way, does it really matter in the bigger picture. cal

Answer 2

Jehovah God is referred to as "The Alpha and the Omega, or The Beginning and The End, or The First and the Last", or some combination of these titles in the following verses: Isaiah 44:6, Revelation 1:8, 21:5&6, 22:12&13, and then The First and The Last tells John in Revelation 1:17&18 that he is the living one who "became dead, but look! I am living forever and ever and I have the keys of Death and Hades". So when did Jehovah God die? The First and the Last apparently did, so when did the Father die? This person who did die applies one of God's titles to himself and said he died before. Again, when did Jehovah die? Jesus died. Jesus called himself God, and the Holy spirit is called God too. The trinity is, and has been the Christian teaching from the beginning.

Answer 3

Very simple. The Trinity is made up of three equal pesrons: the Father, The Son and the Holy Ghost. If you look at orthodox icons you can see an image of God (although the church doesn't consider it ok, because God doesn't have a face), at His right the Son and above them the dove, the Holy Ghost. I guess nobody really imagines that the Holy Ghost is really a bird? That is only a symbol

Answer 4

it might help in case you all started out with a correct understanding of the Trinity doctrine. God the daddy, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are 3 separate and different persons who, mutually, incorporate the godhead. God the daddy has on no account been on my own. God the Holy Spirit has continuously been with God the daddy. God the Son willingly gave up his glory and condescended to cope with human sort and alter into referred to as Immanuel, God with us. that's the divine nature of God the Son, the human, that makes each and all of the adaptation. it is why, while Jesus gave up his spirit, God did not die. Neither did the Holy Spirit die. Jesus, the human, died and his physique descended into the grave for 3 nights and 3 days. As you're conscious, that variety into mandatory. whilst Jesus replace right into a human his Father replace into extra suitable than him. whilst Jesus replace right into a human he did not know the day or the hour. whilst Jesus replace right into a human he did the will of his Father. whilst Jesus replace right into a human he died. yet, and right here is the bit no Jehovah's Witness can ever settle for, it replace into Jesus' physique that variety into resurrected and his glorified physique that ascended into heaven. you recognize completely properly why Jesus, the human, had to die. however the Son of God nonetheless lives! Jesus replace into not purely a perfect human - and neither replace into Jesus ever created as a spirit creature referred to as Michael the Archangel. Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning up and the tip. Jesus is Saviour, he's King of Kings and Lord of Lords and there is not any different call under heaven by which we are able to be saved (Acts 4:12). listed under are a pair of hyperlinks that supply the Christian attitude. the 1st hyperlink explains very purely, and by skill of a diagram, what the Trinity is and, much extra significant, what that's not. the 2d hyperlink explains how and why that's that Jesus died notwithstanding that's not conceivable for God to die. I actual have my doubts which you may ever examine them, yet I stay in wish. As you're saying, that's Friday afternoon and we would desire to continuously all be chuffed, so right here is going besides... Edit: here hyperlinks contain scriptures from the Holy Bible - a techniques too many to record in my view - circulate verify 'em out!

Answer 5

i definitely agree, when i actually began studying the scriptures i had to come to the belief that is contrary to what modern christianity call the truty.
Most trinitarians are told what theyare supposed to believe, i think this is a Flaw with the human Ego and the super Ego. People are proud and will not hear or see the truth. they are deaf dumb and blind and therefore cannot be saved without trueknowledge.
true knowledge cannot be given except through a prophet and through revelation, some people are taught personal revelation which agrees with what prophets teach. but until a person humbles themselves before God, they received Either.

Answer 6

"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness;
but unto us that are saved it is the power of God."
1 Corinthians 1:18
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools".
Romans 1:22
"The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Corinthians 2:14 (New International Version)

Answer 7

Trinitarianism?? Sorry, The Trinity is not an "ism". It just "is". Well, in matters of God, Since he is incomprehenible--our meager human brains cannot remotely wrap our heads around who he is and what miracles he is done. That is why we call them miracles. Because there is no explaination. In many places in the Bible it speaks of God in three persons. It's difficult to understand, but we know that it just is and thankful for what each part gives us. God bless.

Answer 8

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Scriptures quite plainly demonstrate that Jesus and the Almighty are separate distinct persons, and the Almighty created Jesus as His firstborn son.

(Colossians 1:15) the firstborn of all creation

(Mark 10:18) Jesus said to him: 'Why do you call me good? Nobody is good, except one, God.

(Revelation 3:14) the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God

(Philippians 2:5-6) Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God's form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God

(John 8:42) Neither have I come of my own initiative at all, but that One sent me forth

(John 12:49) I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment as to what to tell and what to speak

(John 14:28) I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am

(1 Corinthians 15:28) But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him

(Matthew 20:23) this sitting down at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give, but it belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father

(1 Corinthians 11:3) I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; ...in turn the head of the Christ is God

(John 20:17) I am ascending to my Father and your Father and to my God and your God.

(Deuteronomy 6:4) Jehovah our God is one Jehovah

(1 Corinthians 8:4-6) There is no God but one. For even though there are those who are called "gods," whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many "gods" and many "lords," there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him

Thanks again for an opportunity to share what the bible actually says about the distinct persons of Jesus Christ the Son and Jehovah God the Father!

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Answer 9

Look up the phrase "three persons in one substance". Also check out the definition of "henotheism", as this fits Hinduism, also.

Answer 10

I don't profess to understand the mind of God.
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