So then Jesus couldn’t have created anything, since he was a created being is that your stance?
Because ..., see if He wasn’t from the beginning and He wasn’t God ... He naturally couldn’t have created anything.
And what does Paul mean when he said that he ‘emptied himself’ and became a ‘bond-servant’?
If He was merely God’s Spirit in man (a claim the heretical Gnostics made) then He wouldn’t be emptying Himself, He would be FILLING a man.
And why does Paul want us to bend our knee to Him? And why does Thomas not qualify as a Baal worshiper?
John 20:28 Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
Again, what sect are you from?
You have a terrible understanding of Biblican figures of speech...this is one called hendiadys as well as a terrible understanding of the role and function of Jesus.
Jesus REPRESENTS God...is the VISIBLE image of the INVISIBLE God...who acts in God's stead.
We cannot know God apart from Christ, we must go to Christ to get God...he and God are so unified in purpose and Christ is such a precise representation of God that to see him is to see God...that we canno worship God without worshipping Christ we cannot respect God without respecting Christ.
Jesus is still subordinate to God. Believers subordinate themselves to Christ as an act of obedience to God.
Failure to understand and respect Jesus' place sitting at the right hand of God shows a failure to understand and respect the authority of God.
In the beginning GOD...not Jesus...created.
So simple a child could understand it.
The trinity takes brainwashing to believe...to take clear verses that say there is one God and that one God is one and then turn right around and say that God is THREE!!
Isreal was fooled by baal worship because it resembled Jehova worship so closely. Baal and other similar dieties are plural gods. Jehova is a single unified God. God is ONE.