[OLD REGGIE]

Ok. So just to make sure I have your view correct:

Jesus is divine.
Jesus is not God.
God the Father is the only God.

Would this be correct?

What of the Holy Spirit? Divine but not God also?

I'm beginning to feel as if I am on the witness stand with a prosecuter doing everything in his power to trip me up. The structure of your quesioning is such that there is no answer I could give which would not result in an "Aha I gotcha"!

My answer:

Jesus never claimed to be God. He is the Divine Son of God.

The Holy Spirit and God are one.

How can I distinguish between the two "and's"? It is a mystery.

"Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me." *

Now, if you don't mind, I am through with that line of questioning.

* Legend only. Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms.

[D-fendr]

Thanks for your reply.

No gotcha. Usually when someone “recognizes the divinity of Christ” it means they believe He is God. So clarification is needed to distinguish.

Those who say they don’t believe Jesus to be divine usually mean He is not God. So, again, it’s a different theology. I think it would be a common agreement among Protestants and Catholics that this wouldn’t be considered “Christian” theology.

“God and the Holy Spirit are one” - without Jesus - is certainly nonTrinitarian. Dunno if there is a Dinitarianism. :)

Anyway your differences with Christianity - speaking here of Protestantism and Catholicism - are great, all the way down to the nature of Christ.

What is perplexing is with such a great disagreement with Christianity on its core belief, why bother with differences on sola scriptura, the Assumption and other, taken in perspective, minor points?