He Was More than Just a Man

[tbpew]

Originally Posted by Nina

Adoptionists taught that Jesus was tested by God and after passing this test and upon His baptism, He was granted supernatural powers by God and adopted as the Son. As a reward for His great accomplishments and perfect character Jesus was raised from the dead and adopted into the Godhead.


TBPEW , Raven and Foreverblessed,

Is this what You believe?

No. I do not see any kind of plurality in the Godhead. The simplicity of one is fully revealed in creation, and bears witness of the invisible; the Godhead.

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Nina, as long as we have posters like Prax (and many others) involved in online discussion, we will have mouthpieces who loudly proclaim (and affix) titles pertaining to theological categories. To these zealots, the world is just one big conglomeration of sects awaiting their wisdom to properly come along and pronounce the unabridged cateloge of theological genome. It's a celebration of academia; a celebration of the carnal mind's acumen.

I am one who believes that the vast majority of Oneness teachers are carried by a calling to renounce the error of a triune/triplexed person/personalities of God and they advocate (as a substitute) a triune/triplexed concurrent manifestations of God. I have been told MANY times since posting these kind of views (since March of 2003), EVEN TRINITARIANS believe that God has a Son. Well of course THEY DO, because they do not struggle with the separate and distinct imagery of a Father and Son the way a multi-manifestation view would. But their view of the Son of God (framed as, God the Son) also requires some special revelation to somehow reconcile how three can be one, and one can be three.

I will let their philosophers wrestle with that...in the same manner that I will let oneness philosophers wrestle with concurrent manifestations and dual governing natures being at work in their view of the "Son" manifestation.

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You asked earlier who taught me the view I am stating here....well I guess it was predominantly influenced by John, but David, speaking by the spirit, was also a very compelling basis to examine the question, posed by the Son himself: Concerning the Christ, whose Son is he?

Since then, I have asked folks to tell me why believing that scripture reveals that God has a begotten Son condemns me or leaves me running off the side of the road into some ditch filled with blind folks? The most often provided answer is that that I deny that the SON is God. They completely understand that I believe the scripture reveals that God abides with, indwells his Son, but (as Prax will tell you over and over and over)....that is NOT ONENESS! Oh well, I feel more comfortable choosing the scriptural witness.

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I will not be online today. I will be around computer-access over the weekend.