tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post6162878793453802016..comments2024-03-26T00:16:48.402-07:00Comments on Our Founding Truth: Refuting Samuel Barrett's (1825) 100 Scriptural Arguments For the Unitarian FaithOur Founding Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-3178542560813306722022-09-15T00:44:32.001-07:002022-09-15T00:44:32.001-07:002) Your treatise upon "persons" of YHWH ...2) Your treatise upon "persons" of YHWH is quaint, but...what is the DIFF then...between a "person" of God, which you have made explicit as...DISTINCT from each other...and different GODS sir?<br /><br />You don't know the difference, because there IS no difference. Distinct "persons" makes for distinct GODS sir. The Athanasian CREED could not tell us the diff.<George Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15173165426297443925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-9583965988820734112022-09-12T00:39:54.241-07:002022-09-12T00:39:54.241-07:00You first agree Jesus WAS MADE a man.
Gee whiz, t...You first agree Jesus WAS MADE a man.<br /><br />Gee whiz, this cannot be God Almighty right from the GIT-GO sir. God is MADE ennyTHANG, ennyTHANG at all? The Koine-ers couldna say instead HE MADE HIMSELF a man?<br /><br />Giddy up, yon free thankers. Thank ye the L(l)ord some-mighty Jesus. Expound upon the scripture MORE, and be MORE confused as you go. It only gets BETTER further down the George Dunnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15173165426297443925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-31676144250649186942010-06-22T23:46:36.374-07:002010-06-22T23:46:36.374-07:00Tom,
I think you should talk to Jon about OFT and...Tom,<br /><br />I think you should talk to Jon about OFT and American Creation.King of Irelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-50923737292575336922010-06-21T15:18:48.340-07:002010-06-21T15:18:48.340-07:00You hit it on the head TVD!You hit it on the head TVD!Our Founding Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-81578092355578626752010-06-20T16:29:53.226-07:002010-06-20T16:29:53.226-07:00Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed: "...<i>Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed: "the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God." In this Trinity of Persons the Son is begotten of the Father by an eternal generation, and the Holy Spirit proceeds by an eternal procession from the Father and the Son. Yet, notwithstanding this difference as to origin, the Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-59605538024072394552010-06-20T16:29:44.724-07:002010-06-20T16:29:44.724-07:00Heheh. Jon Rowe's certainly got under your sk...Heheh. Jon Rowe's certainly got under your skin.<br /><br />Historically speaking, the "unitarians Christians" of the Founding [and mostly post-Founding era] believed Jesus was sent from God above all other men, and the scriptures contain Holy Writ.<br /><br />This is "Christian" enough for historical purposes, as no other religion or philosophical system comes close.<br Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-86270268248955279032010-06-19T09:42:55.099-07:002010-06-19T09:42:55.099-07:00I agree with you forcing doctrine on anyone is wro...I agree with you forcing doctrine on anyone is wrong. If the trinity was established at Nicea (324?) I doubt most of the early church understood what it was. Even though Jesus claimed to be equal with God, the doctrine hadn't been extrapolated until later. <br /><br />In Phil 2:5-8, Paul said this equality mindset was in Jesus.<br /><br />However, I don't claim to hold the truth. It is Our Founding Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01072993191810565535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730381796968566097.post-50077931696973455192010-06-19T07:29:29.112-07:002010-06-19T07:29:29.112-07:00I have yet to study this out since reading many of...I have yet to study this out since reading many of Jon's posts on this. I am however totally disturbed by the fact that the doctrine of the Trinity was made the doctrine of the church by force not conviction by Constantine. Since many errors have been made in history when religion is usurped by the empire it is in I am open to the Trinity being one of those things and that some of the versesKing of Irelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com