I believe Jesus is God, This does NOT mean that I am Trinitarian...?

Question

Im Apostolic, not all people who believe Jesus is God are Trinitarian, I don't believe in Three divine persons, I only believe in One God who manifested himself in Three ways, this isn't the Trinity, this is one God meaning one person manifesting himself in three ways, God is our Father in Creation, Son in Redemption, And Holy Spirit in Regeneration. Three persons seem polytheistic if you ask me, Im strictly monotheistic, Please learn more about our belief before jumping to conclusion and Assumptions like most do, lol. God bless

Answer 1

If Jesus isn't Divine, then the whole purpose of His mission to save man was a delusion.
If a brother or sister in Christ cannot see the divinity of The Son of God, it is because they truly have no relationship with Him.
In the verse below Jesus said,"upon this rock I will build my church."
This rock is the revelation Peter received which is our foundation of the house we are building for Gods kingdom. The foundation of the very Gospel itself!
It is personal, it is freely given to all, but it must be sought after. No mumbo jumbo, repeat these words after me and you are saved.......We call that "the born again club!
You must seek Him with all your heart and then you will truly find Him and understand Him as Peter did in the below verses.

Answer 2

I'm not sure if I agree with you that They are all the same person. The Bible tells us about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.



http://www.ficm.org/newsite/index.php?command=whoisfreedom


There is one true God, eternally existing in three persons–Father, Son, and Holy Spirit–each of whom possesses equally all the attributes of Deity and the characteristics of personality.

The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to men. He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them, continually indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth, and seals them until the day of redemption. His fullness, power, and control are appropriated in the believer’s life by faith.

Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body, which is composed of all men, living and dead, who have been joined to Him through saving faith.



http://www.billygraham.com/LFA_Article.asp?ArticleID=34


Q: Can you explain the Trinity to me?

A: The Bible shows very clearly that there is only one God, and yet that there are three personal distinctions in His complex nature, traditionally referred to as "three Persons in the Godhead"—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Each is distinct from the others but never acts independently. They are one in nature and purpose. This mystery is called the doctrine of the Trinity, though that term is not used in the Bible. The teaching, however, is present in seed form in the Old Testament and is revealed explicitly in the New Testament. Note passages such as Matthew 28:19; John 10:30, 14:26; 2 Corinthians 13:14.

Our finite minds cannot understand or explain this mystery of God, which is nevertheless a fact. We must accept the truths found in the Word of God by faith even though we ourselves cannot comprehend them fully; read Hebrews 11:1,3,6 and 1 Corinthians 2:5-10;14; 13:12. It is really not surprising that the infinite God should be complex in His nature beyond the ability of finite humans to comprehend! This doctrine is absolutely essential to New Testament Christianity. Theologians have pointed out that if it were not true, the Bible would be unreliable, Christ would not be divine, and His death on the cross would not atone for our sins, being merely the death of a martyr.

Answer 3

I'm agnostic, but the way i look at it, Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit are different representations of the same thing. It was like when there were 6 competing string theories which all branched from the original string theory, but later on, they found it was all different versions of the same thing.

Besides, if god was omnipotent, omniscience, and omnipresent, then wouldn't it be logical to consider Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit the same thing, a single God?

Answer 4

if one God manifested himself in three ways, why would Jesus plead in prayer to his Father, if he was his Father? or when Stephen in the New Testament saw God the father and his son both side by side?
But i do believe that Jesus is a God, that's why the Pharisees stoned him once. for blasphemy.
But I believe that there is God the Father, and God the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Three distinct individuals, because that is what the Bible says.

Answer 5

The Trinitarian doctrines arose out of the controversies just before and surrounding the Council of Nicea. If we had a comparable "council' for Christianity now it would be to decide the heresy or not of Psychotherapy. Jesus is the Word of God, Incarnate. The Book of John, Chapter One, clearly explains that. the "Trinity" is not an old testament (aka Old Covenant) concept at all. It is a CATHOLIC doctrine.

Answer 6

Interesting. Well. Do you know Him intimately? I mean, have you had and experience where He manifest himself to you as He said He would in John 14:21? Have you received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit? Because if you haven't but want to...ASK! Wow! There is nothing to compare to His presence.

Answer 7

I must admit I am not keen on the term triniuty but do understand how God has shown himself in 3 ways but Jesus did say
The Great Commission matthew 28
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Answer 8

I'm sorry that I have to tell you.

If you believe Jesus is God,

If you believe God manifested himself in Three ways

'You believe the trinity'

It is just your version is not the 'accepted' understanding of the trinity.

If Jesus is God, then Jesus couldn't have died for us.
If Jesus is God, The he lied when he said he was God's Son.
If Jesus is God, who is his God? (Rev 3:12)

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Answer 9

How is that different from Sabellianism? As Martin Luther said about John 1:1, "The the lack of an article is against Sabellianism; and the word order is against Arianism."

Answer 10

Jesus is not God. He is God's Son. (John 10:36) At John 17:3, Jesus called his Father the only true God.