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1) Because of Phil 2:6 He existed in the form of God, yet he gave no thought to seizing equality with God as his supreme prize. 7 Instead he emptied himself of his outward glory by reducing himself to the form of a lowly servant. He became human! 8 He humbled himself and became vulnerable, choosing to be revealed as a man and was obedient. He was a perfect example, even in his death—a criminal’s death by crucifixion!
The trinity was a vulgarization of the Universal Power and people who ruled it put together. There's no reason to put the two together anymore.
Religion is predicated on logic, and it must co-exist with logic or else it is meaningless.
I don't think so. I think trinity is gnosticism. It is trying to go beyond what is written. Deut 6:4. It does this cunningly, by reducing God to the level of a person, and then dividing him. From the very outset, people have sought to go beyond the revelations.
I'm not questioning your intelligence. You seem to be informed. I'm just debating also. I don't claim to hold the truth. I just know who does hold it. That would of course be God.
I went to Catholic school for 12 years. We had religion class 5 days a week for the entire time, so I'm pretty familiar with their doctrine. Much of it didn't make sense to me, but I went along with it. One day I met someone who knew the Bible and they showed me that the things the Catholics say are quite often at odds with the scriptures.
Tradition has it's place, but only if it agrees with the Bible. Jesus talked about tradition to the Pharisees, the religious leaders at that time.
I think you are referring to:
Yes, God was in Christ.
The word god is applied to many people in the Bible. Moses was called a god in Ex 7:1 for example. In John 10:34-35 Jesus called the Jews God because they had the word of God. The Hebrews understood the word "god" differently than we do. It behoves us to see what went through their mind when reading the word "god."
I think all of that is true. But I don't see how any of it makes Jesus God. That has to be a preconceived idea that is read into the scriptures. After all, who doesn't already "know" Jesus is God before ever opening the book for the first time. The church has had 2,000 years to promulgate the lie of Jesus being God. Much of the time the unbeliever would be put to death. That is quite an incentive to compromise on the truth. It sends chill up my spine to think that a mere 500 years ago I would have been burned at the stake for my beliefs. I'm lucky because they have pretty well indoctrinated everybody into the lie and a few hold outs are no longer a threat to their coffers. It is beyond me how such an institution can be the guide for truth for millions of people.
Where does it say Jesus was a carpenter in the Bible? Don't bother to look. That is tradition and it serves to prove my point that on a whole Christians are more into tradition than truth. Everybody seems to know what the Bible says without ever having actually read it.
The meaning of words often change. I understand that in this day and age a myth is considered a literary form. But the Bible was not written last year in New York. It was written some 2,000 years ago in Middle East, a time and culture vastly different than ours. It is irrelevant what we think about myths today. The question is, what did the Hebrews/Greeks/Romans think of it at the time?
I appreciate your honesty also. You are right on. I do presuppose the Bible to be the truth. Otherwise I wouldn't bother with it. But that is the only supposition I make about it. Once I accept it as truth it is simply a matter of reading what it says free from any other preconceived ideas. When that is done it suddenly makes way more sense than much of Orthodox Christian doctrine.