Believer wrote:
Unlike you, I don't declare prophecies and evidence as false made-up stuff that was put in the Bible. That's an all time weak argument.
Jesus's virgin birth is a testament to His divine origins. Jesus is God as a Son of Man, the Son of God.
Show me one post where I stated that any prophecy was false made-up stuff. The virgin birth in no way indicates that Jesus is God. It tells us that a virgin would conceive.
The Madonna and child...so Mary never held Jesus?
Mary is the mother of Jesus, but not the mother of God. Your reverence for dead people through the use of images violates God's commandments.
Transubstantiation is based on the Last Supper, it's not of pagan origins.
The Last Supper was instituted as a remembrance of the Lord's death, not as a continued sacrifice where we eat and drink the actual blood of the Lord.
The Book of Wisdom is a good book to read, but it is not Scripture. Why not read Proverbs 8?
Why, because Martin Luther didn't accept it? It's part of the Canon of the Church for a very long time, and it porecedes Christ's life. It's a shock tha tyou would slough off such a great prophecy! Jesus boasts that God is His Father, and that He is the Son of God!
The Jews were given the authority of the OT not pagan influenced Greeks. Jesus said:
Matthew 23:34-36
34 "Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city, 35 that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 "Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
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Wisdom was not even written until sometime between 120 B.C. and 100 B.C. by a Hellenistic Jew and long after the death of Zechariah.
The Holy Spirit is the presence of God because the Holy Spirit is God (not another person in the Godhead). The Son although not God did proceed from the Father first as a thought, then as His predestined plan for the redemption of mankind and finally as the man Jesus Christ born of a human woman who had the same human nature as all of us.
No scriptural evidence states that Jesus was a thought in the Father's mind.
Jesus was not conquered by death because he was God, another evidence that Jesus is divine is the ressurection of Christ itself!
For a man who values prophecy you seem to ignore it when it is convenient.
Psalms 16:10
10 For Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Sheol;
Neither wilt Thou allow Thy Holy One to undergo decay.
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Now have you read Acts 2, especially this part:
Acts 2:22-28
22 "Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know-- 23 this Man, delivered up by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. 24 "And God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power. 25 "For David says of Him,
'I was always beholding the Lord in my presence;
For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.
26'Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue exulted;
Moreover my flesh also will abide in hope;
27 Because Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades,
Nor allow Thy Holy One to undergo decay.
28'Thou hast made known to me the ways of life;
Thou wilt make me full of gladness with Thy presence.'
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Like I posted the Messianic prophecies put the lie to your thesis and show that the Messiah is not God.
The Spirit proceeds from the Father and is referred to as "he", a personality.
All that is the Father's is the Son's. The Son will judge all of us at the end. The Son could forgive sins Himself, only God could do this.
the scriptures are rich with evidences for the Trinity.
God is also called He, so the use of the masculine pronoun for a neuter noun is not proof that the Holy Spirit is a distinct person from the Father.
The Trinity is an invention of men.