Nothing ironic here my friend, just a lack of understanding on your part. If the Bible is not taken as a WHOLE, then it is like unto a jigsaw puzzle whereby pieces of the puzzle are missing and the Whole Picture is not seen. I often wonder if you see the whole picture?
I think the "whole picture" here involves you bringing up specific verses and then, when it is shown the verse does not say what you need it to say, you appeal to generalities.
How can 1Cor.8:6 be merely a "piece of a puzzle" regarding this issue? Paul distinctly tells us there is only one God (which you claim to believe) Is that just a piece of the puzzle? No? Then WHO does he tell us the "one God" is here?
John 10:30 - I and my Father are one.
Since in this verse Jesus claimed that He AND His Father are One, does this make two Gods?
There's only one God - "for us there is but one God" - who is that God?
What you still fail to realize as the natural man is the Union of the Son with the Father. So in the above passage, is Christ separate from the Father or is Christ the same person?
Seperate in "being" - "one" in ACCORD, very simple.
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since He used both "AND" in addition to "ONE" Furthermore if there is but one Body of Christ and many members, does the exclusion of member names discard the fact that it still remains one Body as Christ as its head?
I don't understand the question - maybe you can restate it.
Please explain to me what Good Logic is?
Kind of hard to explain to someone who may not possess it...
So-called Good and Reasonable Logic says that God cannot send a finite man who is only able to commit a finite amount of sins to an Eternal Punishment in the Lake of Fire, would a Loving God really do such an act?
Of course not. Either there's no eternal (conscious) punishment, or, if there is, God is not really "loving" - THAT'S "good logic".
Why such an act would seem incomprehensible in the HUMAN MIND. Your limitations of God reveals the reason why you cannot attain the understanding of the Spiritual man.
Well if God is said to be "all loving" then I would have to "limit him" (expect from him) all-loving behaviour. Infinite punishment for finite sin is not all-loving behaviour. How I know that is I would even be more merciful than that, and I am NOT "all-loving".
Here's a thought -
What if Satan were in control instead? Do you think he could come up with a worse fate for the majority of mankind than INFINITE PUNISHMENT? I kinda think he'd come up with the same thing? (whoa - would that make Satan "all-loving"?)
Created and Uncreated makes much difference, on earth, a self-aware, morally and emotionally cognizant entity can never be in Absolute Unity, Nature and Essence and agreement with ANOTHER as to where each distinct member of the Godhead does not decide to become One with another but have always been ONE in Essence, Nature and accordance. We are distinct in person, however we are not the same as in essence, unity, judgment and agreement. Understand this my friend, me trying to reason with you can only be difficult as you trying to reason with me,
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Oh but we (humans) do have the same nature (human nature) - what do you mean we are not the same "essence"?
1 Corinthians 2:14 - But (the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God): for they are foolishness unto him: NEITHER CAN HE KNOW THEM, because they are spiritually discerned.
You know, I have a feeling that a TRUELY "spiritual man" would not constantly claiming he was a spiritual man. Think about it...