MHGinTN
Actually ... you have not provided one Iota of evidence that Mary was a surrogate. Your only motivation to assume this is your attempt to twist the scriptures to conform to the ‘Homoousis’ requirement of +4th Century Creeds/Doctrine of the Trinity.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (1 Tim 2:5)
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. (1 Cor 15:21-28)
Your interpretation would negate these as well as another dozen similar scriptures because Christ would have no relationship to Adam.
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As for John 4:24 God is many things, God is knowledge, God is truth, God is light, God is justice, God is Spirit .........
I notice you didn’t address my other scriptural quotes/reasoning regarding God having a body.
You need to look at the broader scriptural evidence rather than base your whole Christology on one out of context scripture.
And your wrong, we do have permission from God to break away from the ‘Homoousis’ confines of a 4th Century Roman Emperor and consider other interpretations (you Creed/Trinity guys can’t execute us for that anymore!).
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Most of all you didn’t respond to my ascertion that God lived before he created the Word in the “Beginning” .... but we probably had a few too many issues in a single post.
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MHGinTN,
I would like to thank you for discussing scriptural disagreements. It’s not often that I get intelligent thought from you guys, and I admire your education/intelligence and sincere belief in Christ.
But alas .... tomorrow I am leaving town for a week and will not have internet access. So possibly we could take this up another time.
Scriptures are at times ambiguous, and even if we disagree in interpretation, I think we could at least learn a little more about how the other side thinks.
Take care, and may God continue to bless you.
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Most of all you didn’t respond to my ascertion that God lived before he created the Word in the “Beginning” ...
AWWWwww…
Are you not getting YOUR questions answered? Remember what Professor Millet has taught...
If you sell that house; on the one way street you're currently living on; you might find the neighborhood more to your liking.
Did you miss the part that said; "And the WORD was GOD."?
It's in your quad.
The first part.
Evidently the most important part; too.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/john/1?lang=eng