Jesus Was not a Trinitarian
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The following is in response to a blog concerning Anthony Buzzard’s book: “Jesus Was Not A Trintarian.”
Buzzard, unlike Arius, denies the deity and the prehuman existence of Jesus. While I do not like the labeling of “Arian”, Anthony Buzzard could hardly be called an “Arian”.
So far, however, I have not found any thing in the Bible about the God of Jesus as being three persons, and that Jesus is a person of his God. The idea has to be imagined, assumed with assumptions on top of other assumptions, and then based on the imagined assumptions, the idea then has to be added to, and read into, each and every scripture that is presented to allegedly support the added-on assumptions. I agree with Buzzard that Jesus was not a trinitarian, but I also agree with Arius who believed that Jesus did have a prehuman existence with his God and Father before the world was made (John 17:3,5), and although divine — a mighty one — in that existence with the only true God (John 1:1,2; 17:3,5), that there was time when Jesus did not exist. — Colossians 1:15.
So far, in all the arguments I have seen presented against the “Arian” view in favor the trinitarian dogma are actually based on what has to be imagined, assumed, added to, and read into the scriptures, rather than what the scriptures actually say. The scriptures are completely harmonious within themselves without adding the imaginations and assumptions that are necessary to add the story of three persons in the God of Jesus, and making Jesus a person of his God.
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El Elohim — Words for “God” (Hebraic Usages)
