Recent content by Alfred Persson

A summary? Without direct quotes I can verify were correctly cited in their context, your reply didn't address the facts given. Moreover, the admission you didn't study the early church fathers to verify their beliefs, shows a shocking carelessness. This is too important, due diligence...

I asked ChatGPT for comment on your "apostate church" theory. Here is one of the two replies it gave: The theory that the concept of "God the Son" was developed by an "Apostate Church" and endorsed by an assembly of bishops at the Council of Nicaea in the 4th century can be contradicted by...

Again you fail to see the main point of the figurative language. Jesus as Yahweh's Arm of salvation, is hidden, His glory as God the Son the Redeemer is not seen: 36 "While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and...

I failed to be accurate. The "infinitely complex" notion is wrong if it implies God has "parts". I don't think of it that way, He certainly doesn't have parts. It is best to stick with an Orthodox definition: "Divine simplicity means that God is not composed of parts or attributes that are...

John refers to Jesus' glory as the "arm of the LORD [Yahweh]", that's what darkness can't comprehend. The Word despised by men, "was God" in the flesh. My arm is me, your arm is you, the "arm of Yahweh" is Yahweh God. Therefore, the glory darkness cannot comprehend is that Jesus is Yahweh God...

You lost John's train of thought. Yahweh's "arm" is Yahweh. Jesus is "Yahweh's Arm". Therefore, Jesus is Yahweh, that is the glory Isaiah saw but no one believed because of Calvary, because Jesus was rejected, despised. Compare John 1:1, 4 "The Word was God...and the darkness did not...

John 12:37–41 (KJV): 37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: 38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? 39 Therefore they could...

Paul was sermonizing at the time. I find it odd the context is ignored by many expositors. Paul was correcting a "strong delusion" upsetting the Thessalonians at the time, that the Day of Christ had come, and they were left behind (2 Tim. 2:18): 1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our...

The Septuagint mistranslated? Their translation proves they knew Hebrew and Greek.

No, God is not material. He is the infinite substance Jesus called "Spirit", but perhaps the term "essence" is better. As in Him all things consist (Col. 1:17) it logically follows He is "more substantial" than everything combined, to the infinite degree---the underlying reality that never...

You replied to Post #98 with a "Sad" icon. Likely you forgot what began the discussion about "logic": The most logical conclusion from Genesis 1:26-27 and Psalm 8:5 is that the One God, Yahweh, God the Father invited the Angels to participate in the creation of man in God and the Angels image...

Logic isn't shallow, it is either sound or unsound. To ignore the usage of the Plural "Us" "Our" which imply a plurality of Persons, you put Genesis 1:26-27 in "lower than the angels" Psalm 8:3-6 box. So I ask: "what relevancy does 'made lower to the angels' have with the Plural pronouns in...

Man being made a little lower than the angels has no relevancy to the image of God in man. If it did (as you imply), then God's image and likeness are "lower than the angels." That is your reasoning. I asked you to defend it.

26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 So God created man in His own image; in the...

I believe that Genesis 1:26-27 is the One God, Yahweh, God the Father inviting the Angels to participate in the creation of man. Psalm 8:5 also confirms this.-TrevorL The conclusion of your statement requires the premise "image and likeness" and "nature" are the same. Therefore, it is YOU who...