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To: Elsie
The verses at Matthew 26:63-66 say that Christ is the son of God, or sitting at God's right hand (a favored position) not that he was a part of a Godhead, co-equal and co-eternal. Basically, I was asking where does the Bible say that Christ is the same person as God, part of a trinity.

That he is in heaven in a superior position to the angels is not disputed.

466 posted on 12/22/2009 6:02:10 PM PST by FreedomOfExpression
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To: FreedomOfExpression; Elsie; NoGrayZone; ejonesie22
Basically, I was asking where does the Bible say that Christ is the same person as God, part of a trinity.

John 10:30-34

30 I and the Father are one."

31Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, 32but Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?"

33"We are not stoning you for any of these," replied the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God."

Even the Jews knew that Jesus said He was God.

494 posted on 12/22/2009 9:00:13 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: FreedomOfExpression
I was asking where does the Bible say that Christ is the same person as God...

Your question does not make sense because it is based on a category error. If you asked where does the Bible teach that Christ is the same NATURE (or essence) as God at least your question would make sense. As it is, though, your use of the word "person" here is incoherent because you are confusing the Divine Persons and dividing the indivisible nature of Deity.

The Greek word theotetos, used of Christ in Colossians 2:9 is one of many, many places in Holy Scripture that teach the absolute Deity of Christ. The word means, "the state of being God". In other words, the verse is saying that whatever it is that makes God God, in all its completeness, Christ is in human form.

There are so many other irrefutable proofs of Christ's Deity in Scripture that one has to twist Scripture beyond recognition to deny this truth.

Cordially,

499 posted on 12/22/2009 9:16:39 PM PST by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: FreedomOfExpression
Matthew 26:63-66

WhatEVER they say; it was enough to get JESUS killed.

His JUDGES sure thought that He equated Himself with GOD.

525 posted on 12/23/2009 5:51:01 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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