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To: BroJoeK

No one on this thread has denied the divinity of Christ.
But many followers of Christ — now and historically — do not agree that “divinity” necessarily means Jesus was God Himself.
***Jesus was a first century jew and so were his first followers, all believing that there was only ONE God. If you deny that He was that one God Himself, you deny His divinity and you are properly labelled a heretic. Jesus calls such false teachers ‘sons of the devil’.


2,491 posted on 12/29/2013 3:18:54 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Kevmo
Kevmo: "***Jesus was a first century jew and so were his first followers, all believing that there was only ONE God.
If you deny that He was that one God Himself, you deny His divinity and you are properly labelled a heretic.
Jesus calls such false teachers ‘sons of the devil’."

Jesus words, which you so delight in repeating, came in response to people who threatened him with murder as a "God Damned Blasphemer".
Today such murderous intent is sometimes seen in those who accuse others of being "God Damned Heretics".

Your theological problem -- of maintaining the Unity of God along with the Divinity of Christ -- did not trouble the earliest Christians.
It only became an issue of life-or-death after the Council of Nicaea in 326 AD.
I suggest that since these are matters the whole truth of which are totally unknowable to us, we should not concern ourselves with them.

Sufficient for us should be John's words (20:30):


2,555 posted on 12/29/2013 10:29:40 PM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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