I will have to disagree...there is no trinity in either OT or NT scripture. It is the central teaching of Christendom....NOT Christianity. Never the twain shall meet I'm afraid.
If you think that the disunited rabble that passes for Christianity today is remotely similar to the Christianity started by Christ, then I have to wonder at your definition of Christianity. (1 Corinthians 1:10)
Ah, again that explains a lot. There is a reason why Jesus did not choose the wise and intellectual ones of his day who were educated at the accepted schools back then. They taught errors....traditions of men disguised as God's word. Jesus did not have a good thing to say about those men. (Acts 4:13) If the teachers have it wrong...so will all of their students. Imagine.....the whole Jewish system operating in Jesus' day got it wrong about their Messiah. You think it can't happen again?
In regard to Adam’s creation it is good to read carefully what the Bible says. Moses, in compiling the book of Genesis referred to written records or “histories” that predated the Flood. Someone else wrote those histories.....Moses committed them to to what became God's word, so that he preserved them for God's people.
The first of these begins with Genesis 1:1 and ends at Genesis 2:4 with the words,
“This is the history of the heavens and the earth . . . ” The second historical document begins with Genesis 2:5 and ends with verse two of chapter five. Hence we have two separate accounts of creation from slightly different points of view. In the second of these accounts, in Genesis 2:19, the original Hebrew verb translated “was forming” is in the progressive imperfect form. This does not mean that the animals and birds were created after Adam was created. Genesis 1:20-28 shows it does not mean that. So, in order to avoid contradiction between chapter one and chapter two, Genesis 2:19, 20 must be only a parenthetical remark thrown in to explain the need for creating a “helper” for man. So the progressive Hebrew verb form could also be rendered as “had been forming.”
These two creation accounts in the book of Genesis, though differing slightly in the treatment of the material, are in perfect agreement with each other on all points, including the fact that Eve was created after Adam. So not until after this event did the sixth creative day come to an end. Exactly how soon after Adam’s creation is not disclosed.
“After that [Adam and Eve’s creation] God saw everything he had made and, look! it was very good. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day.” (Gen. 1:31) After the sixth creative day ends, the seventh one begins.
What makes you think I haven't? In every article or book I have ever read on the theory of evolution, I see the same terminology.....that something "might have" or "could have" happened a certain way. This is not the language of facts....it is the language of supposition and quantum leaps of such with no solid evidence that any of it is true. Evolution is only a proven fact to those who swallow the fairy story. What a study of natural science teaches us is that the diversity seen in creation is no accident, nor is it the result of God putting evolution to work for him. Design is seen everywhere and clever design requires a clever designer.
In the study of bio-mimetics, clever humans take something clever in nature and try to duplicate its properties. If it requires clever men to imitate a clever original, how is it that the original doesn't require a clever designer?
What purpose-built piece of technology that we use today, did not require a designer and manufacturer with qualifications?
At last! Some scripture to examine....
Genesis 6:6
"And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart."
What does immutable mean to you? God's standards do not change...his laws do not change....his purpose does not change...but he is a free willed being so his feelings about things can change....remember Moses' dealing with the golden calf incident, and God wanting to exterminate his wayward people because he felt regret? (Exodus 32:7-10) What about the flood of Noah's day? Did God really want to eliminate all flesh from existence? (2 Peter 3:9)
How about Jonah and the Ninevites? Can God change his mind if he has a good enough reason to?
Hosea 11:8:
How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, O Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
How can I treat you like Zeboiim?
My heart recoils within me;
my compassion grows warm and tender."
Here we see another change of heart in the opposite direction. We are made in the image of this God who has emotions like we do. Would we rather him be stiff and unmovable?
His mercy and loving kindness are contrasted but perfectly balanced with his abhorrence of wickedness and the importance of justice.
Since it matters a great deal to me who your teachers are, I beg to disagree. Because I will probably reject most of what you have been taught (for the same reasons that Jesus rejected the accepted teachers of his own day) it helps to remind ourselves that what "we" accept as truth may well be the opposite to what God accepts.
