CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION
Omega, ‘Believer’ & Alpha …
I have done my best to address all your queries and questions. In answering them, I have also tried to show that many of the words and expressions that you used such as ‘Jesus= a body’, essence, essences, the soul remaining after death, the immortal soul, Jesus’ soul always existing, Jesus not being related to any human being, eternal day, etc; have their roots in Greek/Hellenistic philosophy and Platonism.
These philosophies we are told to beware of.
We must allow Scripture to interpret Scripture. Any ‘difficult’ verses ought to be interpreted in the light of the majority of the clear verses.
Remembering that the Bible is essentially a ‘Hebrew’ book; written by inspired Hebrew men, who used Hebrew expressions and idioms; we ought to seek to understand the Bible with their mindset.
The Prophets, Jesus, Paul and the Apostles were not Grecian or Hellenistic in their thinking; they were not Philosophers. They were NOT steeped in the same thinking and mindset, as were Origen, Clement of Alexandria, Arius, Athanasius, the so-called Church Fathers, and others …
No, they were GOD-fearing monotheists who had no concept of trinitarianism or binitarianism.
Although the NT was written in Greek, it was written with a Hebrew/Jewish mindset that went hand in hand with the Hebrew Bible (the OT).
Therefore, we ought to put away our predominant Grecian/Gentile thinking and seek to understand the scriptures as the early church (and Jesus our Teacher) would have understood them.
The early church were believers in ONE GOD & one man whom the ONE GOD had made ‘Lord’
(1 Cor 8:6) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Please look at each of the points that I have made. Be ‘Berean’ about it. [Acts 17:10-11]
(1 Th 5:21) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
(2 Pet 1:2) Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord
Sources used:
- The Babylonian Talmud
- BDB = Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968 )
- Colin Brown’s article: ”Trinity and Incarnation: In search of Contemporary Orthodoxy,” Ex Auditu (7), 1991.
- Isaiah 9:6: What is Meant by the Messiah being “God” and “Father”? by Frank Toth
- Journal of Radical Reformation.
- The Doctrine of the Trinity (Christianity’s Self-Inflicted Wound)
by Anthony Buzzard and Charles F. Hunting (Lanham: International Scholars Publications, 1998 )
- Also cited various articles written by Anthony Buzzard.
I can also supply URL links to most of the subjects that I used if anyone is interested.