Like you, I believed in this for many years until I got to thinking about it. It seems hard for me to believe that Jesus and God are the same entity since Jesus refers to "His Father" a whole lot and Jesus prays to someone a couple times. If you add this to the first time the word God appears in scripture, the Greek shows it as "Elohim" which is a plural word. Literally translated, Genesis 1:1 should read "In the beginning, Gods created the heavens and the earth".
In all practicality, it would be pretty hard for Jesus to sit at the right hand of Himself.
Chris.
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Jesus and the Father are not "the same entity," they are two divine persons sharing a single divine nature with the Holy Spirit.
If you add this to the first time the word God appears in scripture, the Greek shows it as "Elohim" which is a plural word. Literally translated, Genesis 1:1 should read "In the beginning, Gods created the heavens and the earth".
This is really ridiculous, cultish nonsense.
So you're saying that, when the shema says "Hear, O Israel, the LORD your God, the LORD is one" ... it doesn't really mean it?
And then there's Is 43:10, which says there's only one God ... and there it is again in Is 44:6 ... only one God again ... and Is 44:8 ... only one God again ... and Is 44:24 ... only one God again ... and oh, there it is again, in Is 45:6 ... only one God ... and Is 45:14 ... only one God ... and Is 45:18 ... only one God ... oops, there it is again, Is 45:22 ... only one God.
Do you want me to go on, or should I put up a bunch of 18pt, bright blue silliness declaring that "the Bible wins again," because, in fact, it does, against all of the false doctrines you teach.