Yes, but that's not the point. You are not 100% body AND 100% soul AND 100% spirit ─ there isn't 300% of you, there's only 100% of you, the sum of body and soul and spirit.
True, if you want to think of it naturally and literally. But if
you want, you could view it as 100% God in all of His attributes and capacities as the Father, Son and/or Holy Spirit.
It is still 100% God.
If I look at my body... it is 100% me. Yet, if you look at my spirit it is still 100% me.
Whereas the doctrine of the Trinity says that God is both one, and three 'persons', Yahweh, Jesus and the Holy Ghost, who are distinct from each other AND that each of these is 100% of God AND that this doesn't make sense and so has to be called a 'mystery in the strict sense'.
It makes sense to me... I am both one and three persons, spirit, soul and body.. and all are distinct from each other AND each of these is 100% me... makes perfect sense.
In Mark, the earliest gospel version ie the original story (at Mark 1:10), Jesus is simply an ordinary human until, at his baptism, Yahweh adopts him as his son, in the Jewish manner ─ not just Psalm 2:7, which Acts 13:33 specifically mentions, but also 2 Samuel 7:14 and Psalm 89:26-27. When the authors of Matthew and of Luke (the other two synoptics) took Mark's text and reworked and added to it, they brought in a virgin and a divine insemination (which are from Greek tradition).
That isn't a claim to be God, or the equal of God. It's perfectly consistent with Jesus' claim to be the agent of God, deriving any power he has from God.
A fair point. I should have said, 'uncontradicted by Jesus', not just 'uncontradicted'.
Again, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO see the difference between the Word and when the Word was made flesh when He voluntarily decided to empty Himself of His God attributes... then you would be correct bit you are wrong.
PS... I don't believe there was a "divine insemination" if you are thinking naturally where a sperm enters an egg but, more scripturally, "a body He has prepared for me"... God created the body by the the power of His word which was spoken and by which Mary said "Be it unto me according to your word"/
So which do you prefer, the word of Jesus or the word of Thomas? They can't both be right.
Au contraire... they were both right. As a 100% man, Jesus was correct to make us understand that as a man, the second Adam, he endured all things legally to take back the authority Adam gave to Satan. But as 100% God, he was still Lord and God. Had he sinned, we would have a different story.
This distinguishes two characters, Jesus and God. It says (Philippians 2:6) ὃς ἐν μορφῇ θεοῦ ὑπάρχων οὐχ ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγήσατο τὸ εἶναι ἴσα θεῷ ie that Jesus had 'the form of God' (morphē theou) but 'did not count equality with God (isa theō) a thing to be grasped (harpagmon)' ie realized equality with God was not possible. It never says Jesus is God or that Jesus and God are the same person.
I disagree and your definition is wrong... In that there are no other gods but one, to be EQUALand to have His very nature is to be God.
John Gill "he is nothing but nature and essence, he is the (Greek letters) , the Jehovah, I am what I am; and so is his Son, which is, and was, and is to come, the fountain of all created beings... ...this phrase, "the form of God", is to be understood of the nature and essence of God, and describes Christ as he was from all eternity"
It is understood.
No, relentlessly and totally contradicted by Jesus himself. Here's a longer list of things Jesus said by way of making it perfectly clear that he wasn't God:
Mark 2:10 “the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins”
Mark 12: 29 Jesus answered, “The first is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one;” ... 32 And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher; you have truly said that he is one, and there is no other but he;
Matthew 20:23 “to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
Matthew 24:36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.”
Luke 18:19 “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.”
John 5:19 “the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing”
John 5:30 “I can do nothing on my own authority; [...] I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.”
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John 20:17 “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”
Please show me where Jesus contradicted any of these statements.
Again, IF YOU DON'T WANT to see the difference between the Word made flesh as Jesus where He emptied Himself of God attribues and The Word
BEFORE he was made flesh ... then you would be right... but you are wrong as they are two distinct periods of time. So EVERT statement from above would be correct as it was in the time period that he was no longer EQUAL to God with the same NATURE as God and thus... "humbled himself to become a man"
And where anyone in the NT says the Holy Ghost is God, not just God's errand boy.
To many to list and many by works and by implication.
Eph 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. (It is the Holy Spirit of God - not some errand boy -- with multiple OT support)
John 14:16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever—AMP (Another- one just like me)
John 14:16 and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another comforting Counselor like me, the Spirit of Truth, to be with you forever. (Only God is a Spirit of Truth)
And please explain why there was no doctrine of the Trinity before the 4th century.
Oh... but there was!!
Come near me and listen to this: “From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret; at the time it happens, I am there. “And now the Sovereign LORD has sent me, with his Spirit. This is what the LORD says - your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go (Isaiah 48:16,17).
The Word is speaking designating the Sovereign Lord (The Father) with his Spirit (Holy Spirit) and then declares, the one who came as Jesus, that he is "I am the LORD your God" as confirmed by Thomas.
2nd Century:
Ignatius:"Study, therefore, to be established in the doctrines of the Lord and the apostles, that so all things, whatsoever ye do, may prosper both in the flesh and spirit; in faith and love; in the Son, and in the Father, and in the Spirit; in the beginning and in the end; with your most admirable bishop, and the well-compacted spiritual crown of your presbytery, and the deacons who are according to God. Be ye subject to the bishop, and to one another, as Jesus Christ to the Father, according to the flesh, and the apostles to Christ, and to the Father, and to the Spirit; that so there may be a union both fleshly and spiritual. —
Epistle to the Magnesians, Chapter 13 [SR]
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"After the foregoing instructions, baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in living [running] water…. If you have neither, pour water three times on the head, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." —
Didache 7:1
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Many more.
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And why the doctrine of the Trinity is incoherent in the manner I mentioned and so has had to have been given the special excuse (by express church doctrine) that it's 'a mystery in the strict sense' and 'not contrary to reason but above reason' and similar nonsense.
Very coherent to me. Have you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior?