Go to
Christian Forums and start a post claiming Jesus is not God. I guarantee you will be condemned to eternal suffering before getting banned from the site. They have the complete gamete of Christian sects there, Catholics and Protestants of all flavors.
Let's take John 1:1. That is the number one verse that trinitarians use to prove Jesus is God.
The verse says,
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
Most Christians read it as,
"In the beginning was Jesus, and Jesus was with God, and Jesus was God."
They read it that way because that's how they've been taught by the churches. Do a little research on that word "word" and you will see it is the Greek word "logos" which had a very rich meaning to the 1st century Jew or Greek. Basically it means a plan, a blueprint. That's what was with God in the beginning. He knew the man Adam would sin and bring death into the world. A good question might be, "why didn't God just come down right after their disobedience, wave his magic wand and make everything right again? The short answer is free will. He wanted children to love him because they wanted to, not because they were programmed.
Since it was by free will that Adam disobeyed it would follow that some other man with free will would have to obey him to rectify the problem the first man caused. That's where Jesus comes in. Jesus is called the Second Adam in the Bible. He was a man just like Adam, you, and I. He, like all people, had free will. Whereas Adam disobeyed and caused death to enter the scene, the man Jesus always obeyed to the very end, thus freeing man from the pains of death.
The plan (the logos) God came up with is nothing short of genius to the nth degree. True, that plan involved Jesus, but it also required that Jesus be a man and not a god-man of some sort. Simply reading Jesus instead of logos is demeaning to both God for coming up with the plan and to Jesus who, as a man, carried out the plan to the letter. If he were God, what's the big deal if he obeyed himself? But for a man to be obedient, even to a most hideous death, is something altogether different and worthy of our credit and allegiance. It's simply brilliant. Reading "Jesus" instead of "logos" ruins the whole enchilada.
Now I don't expect you to believe anything I say, but after saying what I've said, I think it prudent to at least have some knowledge outside of church doctrine before making a decision. Trust me, the churches and the Bible are virtually at opposite ends of the spectrum. I can say with complete assurance that you don't know the Bible message if your only source of teaching as been Catholicism or any other mainstream church.