@futilevoice Said
It's very telling when you ignore posts that prove you wrong or at the very least challenge your beliefs.
Again, how do you explain bible verses that indicate there may indeed be a Trinity?
I never knowingly ignore posts, I do miss some, but I have no reason to ignore any. What were you referring to? If you can point me to them, I'll have a look. More often than not I only get to see replies the system notifies me of.
That is simple.
In the case of John 1:1 it has been shown to almost certainly be a deliberate mistranslation.
If you look in the Emphatic Diaglott with interlinear column, in that section it has the Word as a god, small "g" and yet in the English only column it has changed it to God, no "a", capital"G". A sure sign of a deliberate alteration. Greek scholars still argue over it now.
The rest of the scriptures which can be read as supporting a trinity are basically too ambiguous to form definite proof, especially in something translated from one langue into a language as ambiguous as English can be.
The same cannot be said for the number of scriptures that counter any idea of a Trinity, they are completely unambiguous, and they outnumber the ambiguous ones significantly.
What is ambiguous, from instance about (1 Corinthians 11:3) "But I want YOU to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is the man; in turn the head of the Christ is God". which shows a clear and unambiguous line of responsibility from God to Jesus to man to woman. If Christ has a head, in that sense, then he cannot be equal so no trinity. This creates no contradiction, simply shows you how understand the more ambiguous ones.
How about (1 Peter 1:3) "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for according to his great mercy he gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead", (2 Corinthians 1:3) "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort"
or (Ephesians 1:3) "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for he has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in union with Christ". All of which show that Christ himself has a God, a superior being, one in authority over him.
With such unequivocal scriptures of these how can anyone think that the trinity is even a possibility?
How about Jesus own words when he said (Mark 10:18) "Jesus said to him: “Why do you call me good? Nobody is good, except one, God".
Jesus,a s yet say, knew his place despite being a perfect human being, the first and only one since Adam.