Jesus (though God) came in the form of man to pay the price for man's redemption and to be our perfect example.
Like Him we are to be filled with the Holy Spirit, do only the Father's will and then only in the power of the Holy Spirit. Each a different distinct personality, each a different form or function yet all = 1 God.
The questions of how ' God can fill God'(Luke 4:1) or why the holy spirit is likened to water (Isa 44:3), nor how one can sin against Jesus and be forgiven but not against the holy spirit (Matt 12:32), were never answered, but rather were pushed aside. This is no different than the Pharisees avoiding the question that Jesus asked them concerning the baptism of John, whether it was from heaven or from men.(Matt 21:24-27)
The Pharisees were unwilling to reason on the scriptures, but had closed their minds to all of the evidence that Jesus was the Messiah. On another occasion, the Pharisees were unwilling to reason on the sabbath, teaching a distorted view.(Matt 12:1, 2) As a religious group, they had shut their minds and hearts to Jesus fulfilling the role of the Messiah and the purpose of the sabbath. They were biased and fought against him.
As a result, almost the entire nation of Israel were duped to believing what they taught, "Hellenized Judaism", for Jesus told a group of Jews that "you are searching the Scriptures, because you think that by means of them you will have everlasting life; and these are the very ones that bear witness about me."(John 5:39)
These Jews searched the Scriptures with a closed mind, not letting the Scriptures speak for themselves. Likewise of the trinity, for many have followed in the same "rut" as their religious leaders, never reasoning on the Bible for themselves, nor doing any sort of "homework" on the Bible, but just accepting what is told them by the religious leaders of Christendom or what is the "orthodox" view.
For example, for Eagle Eyes to say that "Jehovah of the Old Testament is the Jesus of the New Testament" is without question being biased, failing to do his "homework". How could this be since Jesus excluded himself when called "Good Teacher", with Jesus replying: "Why do you call me good? Nobody is good,
except one, God."(Mark 10:17, 18) If Jesus was God, then this response would have been out of place and a lie.
In addition, had Eagle Eyes dug a little deeper, he would have come to recognize that the words "God was manifest in the flesh" at 1 Timothy 3:16, as rendered by the
King James Bible, were spurious, having been tampered with. The word "God" was
not in the
oldest manuscripts, such as the Codex
Siniaticus of the fourth century C.E.(discovered by Konstantin Von Tischendorf) and the Codex
Alexandrinus, also of the fourth century C.E.,(discovered by John James Wetstein of the early 1700’s, who was charged with tampering with the text and speaking against the doctrine of the trinity). He found the words "he who" to be the correct wording, not "God".
Sinaiticus (produced about 350 C.E.) was made many years before any Greek manuscript reading “God.”
Bruce M. Metzger in his
Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament concludes concerning 1 Timothy 3:16: “No uncial (in the first hand) earlier than the eighth or ninth century . . . supports θεός [the·os´, God]; all ancient versions presuppose ος or ο; and no patristic writer prior to the last third of the fourth century testifies to the reading θεός [the·os, God´].” Thus,
it revealed that there had been a later corruption of the text.
Had Jesus been God, then why did he reply to Satan concerning doing just one act of worship to him: "Go away, Satan! For it is written (at Deuteronomy 5:9 and 10:20), ‘It is
Jehovah your God you must
worship, and it is to
him alone you must
render sacred service.’” ?(Matt 4:10) Even the
King James Bible reads: "Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and
him only shalt thou serve."
In addition, if Jesus was God, then why did Jesus say in prayer: "This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of
you, the
only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ." ?(John 17:3) If Jesus was God, then he would have lying in saying that his Father was "the
only true God."
Furthermore, the apostle Paul wrote: "For even though there are those who are called “gods,” whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many “gods” and many “lords,” there is actually to us
one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him; and
there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and we through him."(1 Cor 8:5, 6)
Paul made a clear distinction between God and Jesus, saying that there is only "
one God the Father", excluding Jesus, but rather calling him just "one Lord." Thus, that is why Jesus said that his Father is "the only true God" in prayer, separating himself as being the one "sent forth"
by God.
Paul also wrote that "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."(1 Cor 11:3) How could God be "head of the Christ" if the Christ is equal with God, being God ? People who are unreasonable or wish to accept the "orthodox" view that the trinity is true, will do just as the religious leaders have done throughout the centuries, remain "blind".(John 9:41) On the other hand, there are those who let the Bible speak for itself rather than what the churches have taught, can clearly recognize that Jesus is not God but is
subservient to God.
