It sounds like your issues are “invisibility” and “temptation”....is that right?
Abraham ate dinner with the Lord prior to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Didn’t he?
Temptation: It says that God can’t be tempted with evil? Jesus wasn’t tempted because the temptor came to him. In fact, the point of the story was that He was NOT tempted
Both synonyms and various usages of the same word are common in most languages. That is true of Greek and Hebrew as well.
One usage of “temptation” is “enticed to sin.” God cannot be enticed to sin.
Another usage is “put to the test.”
In Jesus’ case, Satan put Jesus to the test, but Jesus was not enticed.
As I said before: you are not in the tradition of historic Christianity, EE.
Nope. If anyone has issues with them it isn't me. I certainly believe God is invisible and that no one has seen him at any time. You don't.
You believe that Jesus is God and therefore God was seen.
Abraham ate dinner with the Lord prior to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Didn’t he?
Are you seriously trying to say because of the word Lord (referring to God) you are making a case that Jesus is God? Remember, God is one and there is one God. Saying that God has multiple personalities or beings is more like baal worship than worshipping El Shaddai, the father of Jesus Christ who had not yet been born when Abraham was alive.
Temptation: It says that God can’t be tempted with evil? Jesus wasn’t tempted because the temptor came to him. In fact, the point of the story was that He was NOT tempted
Speakinf Jesus: Hbr 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.
Yes, Jesus WAS tempted even though you disagree. The Bible clearly says he was.
Jam 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
God cannot be tempted. Jesus was tempted. If he was not enticed then there was no testing, no proving of anything!
Jesus is different than God. When the Bible says God it means God and when it says Jesus it means Jesus, the two are not interchangable.
It actually encouraged me to be separated from historical traditional Christianity. I have the heartfelt belief that the Church was infiltrated just as was Isreal's priesthood. The parallels between worshipping The Baalim and The Trinity are too uncanny to be coincidence.
And face it, if Baal worship wasn't a seduction then there would have been no deciept or trickery involved.
You have remarkably demonstrated straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel!
You reject the obvious and dwell on the sublime.
Hey, my place isn't to convince you, it is just to present it to you. If I do that then when you reject it, and you will, I have done my part.
You haven't refuted any of the scriptures I have presented, you have only tried to play 'gotchya' with isolated verses sometimes taken terrible out of context.
This is something that a child can grasp easily; Jesus is God's son by miraculous conception. God is the father of Jesus. The son is not the father and the father is not the son. They are two, but one in purpose. Remember, they even had separate wills...Jesus prayed that not my will but thine be done? How can God say that to or about himself?