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To: Mrs. Don-o
This is not quite patent from the quote.

I think it is, given the context. Mr. Taylor is asking about having a transformative encounter with God. The way the question is stated seems to make a significant difference between God and Jesus even though Jesus said "I and the Father are one. The encounter he wants can only come through Jesus.

13 posted on 12/24/2015 12:55:21 PM PST by tbpiper
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To: tbpiper
I think you are overinterpreting Mr Taylor. The whole theme of his article is, in his words, "this disturbingly odd manner that the son of God becomes incarnate of the virgin Mary, by the Holy Spirit's power.?

If that ain't Trinitarian, I don't know what is.

Merry Christmas, tbpiper!

O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver
the hope of the nations and their Savior:
Come and save us, O Lord our God
.

Isaiah had prophesied:

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the virgin is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Emmanuel. Isaiah 7:14

O EMMANUEL!

GLORIFY HIM!

16 posted on 12/24/2015 2:43:30 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("God wills that all men be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth." (1 Tim. 2:4))
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To: tbpiper

Christ Also says that He and His followers must also be one with him, that does not make His followers God. If the Trinity is a mystery we shouldn’t get upset if people have different ideas of what it is. There are plenty of scriptures in the New Testament to give a person a good reason for having a “different” view of what the Trinity is, whether it was Stephen seeing Jesus at the right hand of God or the voice of God recognizing Christ as His Son at His Baptism by John or even Christ praying to His Father to have the Cup removed but instead agreed to do His Fathers will or perhaps admitting that He didn’t know when the end would be that only His Father knew that.

What is important is that Jesus Christ The Son of God condescended to come to the earth to be punished and die a miserable death so that we could all rise if we follow Him.

This is the season that we celebrate the gift that The Father gave to the world of His son via the Holy ghost. I don’t think I particularly care about the nuances of the Holy Trinity and certainly I am not going to give someone else a hard way to go about their understanding of it. The important thing is to follow Christ Jesus, then we will have perhaps and eternity to understand the Trinity.


19 posted on 12/24/2015 7:31:27 PM PST by JAKraig (my religion is at least as good as yours)
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