Do you have to believe in the Trinity to be a Christian?

daqq

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Divinity isn't just a "kind" or "species" of being/s. It includes inate attributes, including uncreatedness and uncaused beginning, etc.

Since we are intrinsically created with a caused beginning, we are not and do not become divine. Those who believe the actual biblical Gospel of Jesus Christ by faith (rather than esoteric mumbo-jumbo about becoming divine), are partakers OF the divine nature.

Man has never been, is not, and does not become... divine. Instead, we are partakers OF the divine nature by being IN Christ. The Gospel is knowing exactly what that means, as revealed by the Spirit and the Word.

There is NO other Gospel.

And that is how and why the man Yeshua is the first to genuinely and fully partake of the Divine nature; becoming the Captain or Author of what true "salvation" really means. The Divine nature descended upon the man Yeshua at his immersion under Yochanan when the Son descended from the heavens in the somatiko-bodily form of a dove, (for all flesh is not the same flesh as Paul clearly teaches us). Anyone who denies that the Divine Son of God descended in somatikos-bodily form therefore denies that the Mashiah YHWH has come in flesh, (for all flesh is not the same flesh: if there is a soma psuchikos, then there is a soma pneumatikos).
 

PneumaPsucheSoma

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Once you shed this body or tomb of flesh you return to where you came as did the prodigal, the first born of the flesh/matter is just a host for the Divine seed that is the second born 1Cor15:45, same motif as Galatians 4:24-26. Which seed of the Divine is the mystery we will find out at the twinkle.

No. Our phenomenal existence is not eternal nor pre-existent to our initial spiration of life in the womb, which includes our physicality.

Our beginning is at spirit/body joining in procreation at conception/implantation.
 

RevTestament

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Hebrews 1:5 KJV
5. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

Hebrews 5:4-6 KJV
4. And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
5. So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
6. As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.


Did the Father make the Psalm 2:7 decree to Yeshua while he was yet in the womb of Mariam?
Obviously not.
Did He make it to Yeshua in eternity past where no one else could hear?
No
Did He make that decree to Yeshua in his eternity future, after he was resurrected, as you insist by how you have reinterpreted Acts 13:33?
Don't know where you get that from...I don't insist that at all. How could the Son be resurrected again by referring to the future?
Where did the Father speak these words from Psalm 2:7 to Yeshua?
The answer is staring you in the face in the verses you cited - "6 As he saith also in another place."
And if they were never spoken audibly to him then the author of Hebrews has no true evidence for writing what he states in the passages quoted above.
I agree totally, which is why the Nicene Creed is wrong by trying to tell man that Christ was begotten before all ages or worlds. The creeds make Christ unbegotten, and make the Word of God of none effect. If the scriptures at the time had said Christ was begotten at his baptism as you insist, this debate would never have raged for the century or so it had. The truth is the scriptures never said that as you insist. It was left mostly open that God could do His strange work.
And if the Father never spoke these words to Yeshua while he was a man walking the earth then Yeshua exalted himself to be made a High Priest after the order of MelkiTzedek because he took it upon himself to believe that the decree from Psalm 2:7 was his own when the Father never actually spoke those words audibly to him to begin with.
Not if the Father had spoken these words to His Son at His prior resurrection - being that here He was raised "again."
You have effectively eliminated the witnesses to the very truth of the statement by eliminating the words of the Father spoken to Yeshua at his immersion just because you apparently do not wish to accept the fact that Yeshua was ever actually begotten, (even though the Scripture still says that he was in other places). You therefore by your doctrine make God a liar, as well as Yeshua, and as well the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews.
Yeshua too said He was to be raised again according to the KJV as the word had the connotation of repeated rising as from daily sleep.
You destroy the truth just as the "church fathers" did so that you can continue to believe what you want to believe regardless of what the Scripture actually says as a whole. The above passages are not going anywhere; allow them to burn into your forehead and brand your heart.
They have indeed, which is why I tell you the truth that Yahoshuah was raised again. And since He came into this world as the only begotten Son, He was obviously begotten "in another place" and thus was already a member of the priesthood in the same order as Melchizedek was.
To restate, He was begotten as the Son on a prior earth.
Just as this is not the only world that God has created, and not the only world He will create.


Isaiah 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
 

Zeke

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No. Our phenomenal existence is not eternal nor pre-existent to our initial spiration of life in the womb, which includes our physicality.

Our beginning is at spirit/body joining in procreation at conception/implantation.

Conscience existed prior to our incarnation, we are part of that eternal Conscience, the first Adam carries the Seed/Spark of the Second Adam a life giving Spirit that Jesus represented in man a temple made without hands Galatians 4:26, not a observable spirit among flesh and blood that John/Moses represented Matt 11:11, all allegorical and Esoteric about the inward wrestling Gen 32:30 and none observable Luke 17:20-21.
 

RevTestament

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Once you shed this body or tomb of flesh you return to where you came as did the prodigal, the first born of the flesh/matter is just a host for the Divine seed that is the second born 1Cor15:45, same motif as Galatians 4:24-26. Which seed of the Divine is the mystery we will find out at the twinkle.

:thumb:
Hey Zeke, I agree with you basically! Except we can progress from whence we came if we undertake the promises...
 

daqq

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To restate, He was begotten as the Son on a prior earth.
Just as this is not the only world that God has created, and not the only world He will create.

You still are not hearing the points which have been made. You are out of my "loop" of available information from which to formulate doctrine. Neither I myself, nor anyone else here, nor any of the apostolic writers including the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews was on any "prior earth" to hear the statement when the Father spoke it to Yeshua. Do you not see where the scribes accuse him of blasphemy for sending away/forgiving sins? This is because the Kohen Gadol was the only person on earth at the time vested with the authority from on High to send away/forgive sins, (and that was only once in a year at Yom Kippurim Atonements). If you are correct in your doctrine then the scribes were indeed correct in that Yeshua was usurping the authority of the Kohen Gadol without the Testimony of the Father to back up what things he did during his physical ministry recorded in the Gospel accounts, (see for example Matthew 9:2-6). It is UNRIGHTEOUS for a man to simply come along and usurp the authority of God vested in the High Priest through the Torah and then for others to be condemned simply for not believing him. Again, you have eliminated the WITNESS of the Father spoken at the immersion of Yeshua which bestowed upon him the authority and right to do what things the Father did through him throughout his "earthly" ministry. It was not some other "prior earth" but this earth! :crackup:

And it was when he was immersed: and Luke 3:22 clearly states that the Holy One descended in SOMATIKO-BODILY form as a dove! :)
 

RevTestament

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No. Our phenomenal existence is not eternal nor pre-existent to our initial spiration of life in the womb, which includes our physicality.

Our beginning is at spirit/body joining in procreation at conception/implantation.
You speak of the creation of our soul.
But where does this spirit come from? God did not create it from the dust, but "blew" Adam's spirit into him.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
 

PneumaPsucheSoma

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And that is how and why the man Yeshua is the first to genuinely and fully partake of the Divine nature; becoming the Captain or Author of what true "salvation" really means. The Divine nature descended upon the man Yeshua at his immersion under Yochanan when the Son descended from the heavens in the somatiko-bodily form of a dove, (for all flesh is not the same flesh as Paul clearly teaches us). Anyone who denies that the Divine Son of God descended in somatikos-bodily form therefore denies that the Mashiah YHWH has come in flesh, (for all flesh is not the same flesh: if there is a soma psuchikos, then there is a soma pneumatikos).

This is Adoptionism. And it isn't the "how" any more than Classic Trinitarianism, Sabellianism, Arianism, Binitarianism, or many other historical formulaics.

The divine nature (physis) didn't descend on Christ at His baptism. The very term physis would preclude that, since "physical" is drawn from it in direct derivation.

If one understands the hypostatic conception in Mary's womb, other explanations are not necessary (including Adoptionism).
 
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Grosnick Marowbe

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No. Our phenomenal existence is not eternal nor pre-existent to our initial spiration of life in the womb, which includes our physicality.

Our beginning is at spirit/body joining in procreation at conception/implantation.

Do you find it difficult to speak to your fellow posters in words
that everyone is able to understand? You seem like a guy who
thinks highly of himself and wants others to give him the
adoration he feels he deserves. In other words, why not tone
down the fancy word phrases a bit? I'll bet you spend your
weekends holding up a sign that says: "Look at me, I'm smart."
 

PneumaPsucheSoma

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Conscience existed prior to our incarnation,

No. Conscience is a faculty of the human spirit that is breathed into us at conception through procreation as mediate creation. Our spiration at conception is our inception. Nothing phenomenal of us has any reality of existence before spiration and filiation in the (physical) womb.

we are part of that eternal Conscience,

No. We are spirated with a human spirit that is capable of communion WITH the eternal conscience of God. Intuition is the means of such communion, all three being faculties of our being (ousia) as individuals (hypostases) with an outward physical appearance (prosopon).

You should learn of Anthropology Proper rather than occultic esoteriscist speculative nonsense.

the first Adam carries the Seed/Spark of the Second Adam

No. The first Adam spiritually died, bringing forth sin and its wages as physical death. The second Adam came to redeem us from all that.

a life giving Spirit that Jesus represented in man a temple made without hands Galatians 4:26, not a observable spirit among flesh and blood that John/Moses represented Matt 11:11, all allegorical and Esoteric about the inward wrestling Gen 32:30 and none observable Luke 17:20-21.

No. Not a false binary of either/or. Both.

Your false esotericism won't accomplish it. Only the hypostatic union which results from faith. You hybridize the actual Gospel with new age pseudo-mysticism and humanism.
 

PneumaPsucheSoma

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Do you find it difficult to speak to your fellow posters in words
that everyone is able to understand? You seem like a guy who
thinks highly of himself and wants others to give him the
adoration he feels he deserves. In other words, why not tone
down the fancy word phrases a bit? I'll bet you spend your
weekends holding up a sign that says: "Look at me, I'm smart."

If you don't like my posts or my style of expression, don't read them or respond to them.

That should be simple enough for an arrogant ignoramus like you, Gramps. But some aren't illiterate like you, Grossy. Others have multiple functional brain cells.
 

PneumaPsucheSoma

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You speak of the creation of our soul.

Yes. Mediate creation, spirated through parents as procreation.

But where does this spirit come from? God did not create it from the dust, but "blew" Adam's spirit into him.

This needs correlation of pneuma/psuche/soma to hypostasis/ousia/physis/prosopon and other facets.

Man became a living soul by God spirating the breath (spirit) of life within the body.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Aspiration, respiration, expiration. Birth, life, death. All relative to the physis (nature) of our ousia (being). But the hypostasis underlies the ousia and its physis.

Anthropology Proper is crucial, just as is Theology Proper.
 

RevTestament

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You still are not hearing the points which have been made.
I have heard your "points" and have scripturally refuted them.
You are out of my "loop" of available information from which to formulate doctrine.
Perhaps you need to expand your loop to accept more of the Word.
Neither I myself, nor anyone else here, nor any of the apostolic writers including the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews was on any "prior earth" to hear the statement when the Father spoke it to Yeshua.
And I suppose you reject the words of Isaiah that you will be on a subsequent world in which this one will not be remembered?
Do you not see where the scribes accuse him of blasphemy for sending away/forgiving sins? This is because the Kohen Gadol was the only person on earth at the time vested with the authority from on High to send away/forgive sins, (and that was only once in a year at Yom Kippurim Atonements). If you are correct in your doctrine then the scribes were indeed correct in that Yeshua was usurping the authority of the Kohen Gadol without the Testimony of the Father to back up what things he did during his physical ministry recorded in the Gospel accounts, (see for example Matthew 9:2-6).
You assume that the Kohen Gadol still had that authority, but I say He did not, but that it was a figure of the true authority to come, since it was necessary for Christ to go in spirit after His crucifixion to the spirit world in order to teach the unrighteous spirits that they could have an opportunity to be resurrected with Him. 1 Peter 3; John 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
Further, the "Kohen Gadol" appointed by Rome did not have that authority, as he was not appointed by God. Sometime after Moses and Aaron, the High priesthood was taken from the earth until the days of Jesus. It was obviously not operational by the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, and the temple was desecrated. To underline that fact, under the Maccabees the High Priest became a Roman appointment, rather than an appointment recognized and chosen by God. To even further underline that fact, Judaism is left without an earthly temple or an earthly Kohen Gadol.
It is UNRIGHTEOUS for a man to simply come along and usurp the authority of God vested in the High Priest through the Torah and then for others to be condemned simply for not believing him.
As I have indicated by the time of Jesus, the Kohen Gadol was not vested with authority from God and the Torah, but from Rome... Jesus did not simply usurp the authority of God, as He was the legal representative of the Father per the law and the manifestation of the power of the High Priesthood. He plainly spoke who He was, and was not accepted. Jesus was baptized to fulfill all righteousness as our example, and not in order to be begotten, as that occurred at His resurrection according to the plain words of Acts. Since He was begotten as the Son in His resurrection, and yet was declared as the Son of the Father from the beginning and at His baptism, He obviously was begotten as the Son in His prior resurrection.
Again, you have eliminated the WITNESS of the Father spoken at the immersion of Yeshua which bestowed upon him the authority and right to do what things the Father did through him throughout his "earthly" ministry.
According to the Codex Bezae? :crackup: Sorry, it is vice versa. I prove the witness.

And it was when he was immersed: and Luke 3:22 clearly states that the Holy One descended in SOMATIKO-BODILY form as a dove! :)
Here you are improperly mixing scripture. Jesus is the Holy One of the Father and Israel per scripture. He cannot descend upon Himself........
 
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Grosnick Marowbe

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If you don't like my posts or my style of expression, don't read them or respond to them.

That should be simple enough for an arrogant ignoramus like you, Gramps. But some aren't illiterate like you, Grossy. Others have multiple functional brain cells.

I see that I've gotten you angry and out of sorts. I realize you have
sensitivities that go beyond the norm. Perhaps, you ought to seek
counseling? When you get upset, there's a tendency for you to lash
out like some dim-witted misanthrope. Does that interfere with your
home life? I certainly hope you don't have aggressive issues that,
cause you undue stress? I've known you for a while and I see a
very insecure little man with very low self esteem. Sorry, but I
call them what I see them. You feel inferior so you compensate
by using words/phrases you've gotten off the Internet. This helps
you to put yourself in a better light. It's called: "Pseudo-intellectuality."
I wish the best for you. Please get some counseling?
 

PneumaPsucheSoma

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I see that I've gotten you angry and out of sorts. I realize you have
sensitivities that go beyond the norm. Perhaps, you ought to seek
counseling? When you get upset, there's a tendency for you to lash
out like some dim-witted misanthrope. Does that interfere with your
home life? I certainly hope you don't have aggressive issues that,
cause you undue stress? I've known you for a while and I see a
very insecure little man with very low self esteem. Sorry, but I
call them what I see them. You feel inferior so you compensate
by using words/phrases you've gotten off the Internet. This helps
you to put yourself in a better light. It's called: "Pseudo-intellectuality."
I wish the best for you. Please get some counseling?

LOL. Your lame attempts at cognitive assessment are as hilarious as your false theology. I'm not angry in the least; and since I find my worth in Christ alone, I'm neither insecure nor arrogant.

You're just an annoying bigoted heretic attempting to validate thousands of meaningless drive-by posts with no content.

Your assessment above is a self-assessment from projecting. Let us know if you ever get the counseling you're recommending.
 

daqq

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This is Adoptionism. And it isn't the "how" any more than Classic Trinitarianism, Sabellianism, Arianism, Binitarianism, or many other historical formulaics.

The divine nature (physis) didn't descend on Christ at His baptism. The very term physis would preclude that, since "physical" is drawn from it in direct derivation.

If one understands the hypostatic conception in Mary's womb, other explanations are not necessary (including Adoptionism).

That is "God-man" theology with its foundation based in taking allegories, parables, idioms, "old wives tales", "Jewish fables", (i.e. "virgin births") and making them into the literal physical realities of a carnal mindset. Mariam is the final typology of Jerusalem of above, (the "women" are the cities are the covenants, Galatians 4:22-26). Man is the earth; both the erets-outer-bounds-commons-profane, and the fertile adamah-soil of the heart, (Parable of the Sower). The earth brings forth fruit of herself; first the garden, (feminine) then the stalk (masculine) then the full head of grain in the stalk. Therefore every upright genealogy of the holy seed line is father to son because those born of Elohim are not born of women but of the SEED of the WORD of Elohim.

Bonus Material: :)))

Matthew 2:23-3:1
23. And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called Nazaraios.
1. Moreover in the selfsame days [En de tais hemerais ekeinais] came Yochanan the Immerser preaching in the desert of Yhudah:
 

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LOL. Your lame attempts at cognitive assessment are as hilarious as your false theology. I'm not angry in the least; and since I find my worth in Christ alone, I'm neither insecure nor arrogant.

You're just an annoying bigoted heretic attempting to validate thousands of meaningless drive-by posts with no content.

Your assessment above is a self-assessment from projecting. Let us know if you ever get the counseling you're recommending.

Gross loves himself. 18000 posts of drivel.

Do not be too hard on him, he is lost.

LA
 

daqq

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Here you are improperly mixing scripture. Jesus is the Holy One of the Father and Israel per scripture. He cannot descend upon Himself........

Luke 3:22 W/H
καὶ καταβῆναι τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον σωματικῷ εἴδει ὡς περιστερὰν ἐπ' αὐτόν, καὶ φωνὴν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ γενέσθαι Σὺ εἶ ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός, ἐν σοὶ εὐδόκησα.

http://biblehub.com/text/luke/3-22.htm

If you want to be strictly literal without dropping anything these are your options:

1) "τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον" ~ "the Holy the Spirit"
2) "τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον" ~ "the Spirit the Holy"
3) "τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον" ~ "the Holy One the Spirit"
4) "τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον" ~ "the Spirit [of] the Holy One"

Neither is my understanding improper mixing as he is called "Qdowsh Yisra'el".
Go ask HaNavi Yeshayahu thirty times over about the Holy One Yisrael . . . :)
 

Grosnick Marowbe

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LOL. Your lame attempts at cognitive assessment are as hilarious as your false theology. I'm not angry in the least; and since I find my worth in Christ alone, I'm neither insecure nor arrogant.

You're just an annoying bigoted heretic attempting to validate thousands of meaningless drive-by posts with no content.

Your assessment above is a self-assessment from projecting. Let us know if you ever get the counseling you're recommending.

I see you're in "self-denial" as well! You're projecting your instabilities
onto me. It seems you're worse off than I originally thought!
 

glorydaz

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LOL. Your lame attempts at cognitive assessment are as hilarious as your false theology. I'm not angry in the least; and since I find my worth in Christ alone, I'm neither insecure nor arrogant.

You're just an annoying bigoted heretic attempting to validate thousands of meaningless drive-by posts with no content.

Your assessment above is a self-assessment from projecting. Let us know if you ever get the counseling you're recommending.

I keep thinking you can't get any more ignorant or arrogant, and you keep proving me wrong. :chuckle:
 
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