[QUOTE="BluRayHiDef"][QUOTE="mindstorm"]Jesus Christ is, as the name Christ implies, the savior and redeemer of the world. Jesus is the physical manifestation of the second person of the Trinity, the Word and Son of God. Jesus emanates forth from God, is the visible image of the invisible God, and is God himself. Jesus is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, and the great I AM. By means of Jesus all that exist came into being and through him every good gift is born. He gave up an aspect of his divinity and took upon himself the nature of man, lived a perfect life, died our death, resurrected from the dead, and will one day return to fix this broken world. He did not simply create this world but died so that he might save it.mindstorm
You Trinitarians make Christianity look really bad. Neither Jesus nor his diciples taught that Jesus was God or equal to God or that God is three persons. They taught that God is one and that Jesus is seperate and subordinate to God - though he is God's Son. A son is not his father and by the very definition of the word "son", a son comes AFTER his father, which means that God has always existed but there was a point at which Jesus came into being. God is one and has no equals. To be a Christian and a Trinitarian is the same thing. You claim that Jesus is a created being. I ask, at what point was he created as according to the Scriptures? God the son is not a created being but has always coexisted with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.The problem with you is that none of your assertions are based on Biblical text, but ALL of mine are, as shall be shown. For example, your term "God the Son" does not ever appear in the Bible; it is a man-made, heretical term. Anyhow, here are texts which show that Jesus had a beginning:
15The Son is the imageof the invisible God,the firstbornover all creation.16For in him all things were created:things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities;all things have been created through him and for him.17He is before all things,and in him all things hold together.18And he is the headof the body, the church;he is the beginning and the firstbornfrom among the dead,so that in everything he might have the supremacy.19For God was pleasedto have all his fullnessdwell in him,20and through him to reconcileto himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven,by making peacethrough his blood,shed on the cross.1 Colossians
Note that this verse calls the Son - Jesus - the IMAGE of the invisible God, not God himself. There is a difference between being the image of something and being that something itself. Jesus's righteousness is a reflection of God's righteousness. As Jesus is the only Human to ever live without sinning, he is a perfect reflection of God, which is what Humans were meant to be (Genesis 1:26 - "Let us (God and his Son Jesus) create man in our IMAGE.") I know you're going to try to take the fact that Jesus is called the image of God and use it to show that Jesus is somehow equal to or the same as God. However, with that logic you'd have to say the same thing about Humans (before they sinned) because Genesis 1:26 said that Man was created in God's image. Hence, it is obvious that "image" does not refer to God's nature as Alimighty, but to a trait of God that created beings can share - righteouness.
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