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Looking through the Bible the closest thing I could find is that at most Jesus was the son of god. In fact, several times Jesus made a distinction between god and himself. (The notion that he was one of "three coeternal consubstantial persons" wasn't finally formulated until 381AD.)
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The rumor that the Trinity was only created in the 4th century by the Catholic Church is a lie. There are many old sources that prove that the
first Christians already believed that Jesus is God.
(many of these Christians were therefore persecuted, mocked and executed.)
For example:
Justin Martyr:
- 150 AD Justin Martyr "Christ is called both God and Lord of hosts." (Dialogue with Trypho, ch, 36)
- 150 AD Justin Martyr "Therefore these words testify explicitly that He [Christ] is witnessed to by Him who established these things, as deserving to be worshipped, as God and as Christ." - Dialogue with Trypho, ch. 63.
- "For, in the name of God, the Father and Lord of the universe, and of our Savior Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit, they then receive the washing with water" (First Apol., LXI).
Tertullian (160-215). African apologist and theologian. He wrote much in defense of Christianity:
"We define that there are two, the Father and the Son, and three with the Holy Spirit, and this number is made by the pattern of salvation . . . [which] brings about unity in trinity, interrelating the three, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They are three, not in dignity, but in degree, not in substance but in form, not in power but in kind. They are of one substance and power, because there is one God from whom these degrees, forms and kinds devolve in the name of Father, Son and Holy Spirit." (Adv. Prax. 23; PL 2.156-7).
170 AD
Tatian the Syrian:
- 170 AD Tatian the Syrian "We are not playing the fool, you Greeks, nor do we talk nonsense, when we report that God was born in the form of a man" (Address to the Greeks 21).
Origen (185-254). Alexandrian theologian. Defended Christianity and wrote much about Christianity:
"If anyone would say that the Word of God or the Wisdom of God had a beginning, let him beware lest he direct his impiety rather against the unbegotten Father, since he denies that he was always Father, and that he has always begotten the Word, and that he always had wisdom in all previous times or ages or whatever can be imagined in priority . . . There can be no more ancient title of almighty God than that of Father, and it is through the Son that he is Father" (De Princ. 1.2.; PG 11.132).
"For if [the Holy Spirit were not eternally as He is, and had received knowledge at some time and then became the Holy Spirit] this were the case, the Holy Spirit would never be reckoned in the unity of the Trinity, i.e., along with the unchangeable Father and His Son, unless He had always been the Holy Spirit." (Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds., The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975 rpt., Vol. 4, p. 253, de Principiis, 1.111.4)
"Moreover, nothing in the Trinity can be called greater or less, since the fountain of divinity alone contains all things by His word and reason, and by the Spirit of His mouth sanctifies all things which are worthy of sanctification . . . " (Roberts and Donaldson, Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 4, p. 255, de Principii., I. iii. 7).
177 AD
Athenagoras:
- 177 AD Athenagoras "The Son of God is the Word of the Father in thought and actuality. By him and through him all things were made, the Father and the Son being one. Since the Son is in the Father and the Father is in the Son by the unity and power of the Spirit, the Mind and Word of the Father is the Son of God. And if, in your exceedingly great wisdom, it occurs to you to inquire what is meant by `the Son,' I will tell you briefly: He is the first- begotten of the Father, not as having been produced, for from the beginning God had the Word in himself, God being eternal mind and eternally rational, but as coming forth to be the model and energizing force of all material things" (Plea for the Christians 10:2-4).
"He alone is both God and man, and the source of all our good things." (
Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks. A.D. 200).
"For our God, Jesus Christ, was conceived by Mary in accord with God's plan."
(Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Ephesians. A.D.
110).
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"In fact, several times Jesus made a distinction between god and himself."
Paul explains to us why Jesus sometimes made statements in which it seems that He is not God:
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,2
7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,3 being born in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (Philippians 2:5)
Jesus came into the world to be recognized as a human being and not as the True God, although he is. He wanted to be like the people, weak and low. He wanted him to be treated like a human being. For Jesus did not come into the world to be served, but to serve. (Mark 10:45)
Only after his death did Jesus resume his divinity. As an example, when Jesus was still on earth, a rich young man came to Jesus and said to him: "Good teacher". And Jesus replied directly: "Why do you call me Good? No one is good but God alone" (Luke 18:18-19)
Do you see how sensitive Jesus reacts? Alone by the title "Good" does he deny who he is, in order not to be recognized as the one he is.
But when Jesus died and was resurrected, he took his divinity again because the time as a man on earth was over for him. And when Thomas saw the resurrected Jesus, he said to him: "My Lord and my God". And Jesus did not deny this, but affirmed it. (John 20:28-29)
Jesus is the true God who became man. The Old Testament shows that Jesus is YHUH.
Behold:
God is the Lord of Lords(
Deuteronomy 10:17)=Jesus is the Lord of Lords(
Revelation 19:16)
There can't be two different persons claiming this title.
God is the First (the Origin) and the Last (the goal) (
Isaiah 44:6)=Jesus is the First and the Last(
Revelation 1:17)
There cannot be two different persons claiming this title.
God is the husband (
Isaiah 54:5)=Jesus is the husband (
2 Corinthians 11:2)
Two different persons cannot marry the same woman.
God is the only Saviour(
Isaiah 43:11)=Jesus is the Saviour(
Luke 2:11)
God is the rock (
1 Samuel 2:2)=Jesus is the rock(
1 Corinthians 10:4)
God will be the pierced(
Zechariah 12:10)=Jesus is the pierced(crucifixion)
For God the way is prepared (
Isaiah 40:3)=For Jesus the way is prepared (
Mark 1:3 ;
Matthew 3:3)
Jesus and YHUH are God (Psalm 45:7-8) =Jesus and YHUH are God (
Hebrews 1:8-9)
God created the world (
Genesis 1:1)=All things were created by Jesus, through Jesus and for Jesus(
Romans 11:36) (
Colossians 1:16-17)
Jesus is God and the father(
Isaiah 9:6)
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The New Testament also shows us that Jesus is God:
(Yahusha = "Jesus" ; Aluah = God)
Yahusha is omnipotent (Revelation 1:8) (Matthew 28:18)
Yahusha is called Aluah (Romans 9:5) (1 John 5:20)
Yahusha is the image of the invisible Aluah (Colossians 1:15)
Aluah became flesh (human) and Yahusha is this flesh (John 1:1+14) (1 Timothy 3:16)
Yahusha accepts prayers (John 14:13-14)
Yahusha and Yahuah are one (John 10:30)
Who has seen Yahusha, has seen Aluah (John 14:9)
Whoever believes in Yahusha believes in Aluah (John 12:44)
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But how can one imagine that? Do we have 3 gods? No, of course we don't. We only have one God.
Let us take "time" as an example. There is the past, present and future, they are three but still only one thing and that is "time".
Or we humans are also a small Trinity, we consist of body, soul and spirit and these three things form the " human being ".
It is the same with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are three but only one God.
