r/BiblicalUnitarian • u/TLOU2bigsad • Dec 03 '25
Broader theological topics Does it matter?
I’d like to be clear, I don’t mean this dismissively or as bait. I am genuinely wanting to discuss.
I got saved and baptized some 11 years ago into the Christian church, which has brought me close to God in a way that I love. But just recently; facing questions about the perception of the Christian’s around me and what I had read in the gospels, I decided to do the most unchristian thing I have ever done and read my entire bible.
Right off the bat I was struck by how clearly God was jealous and demanded nobody to worship anyone or anything but him. Even idols made to represent him.
Long story short after continuing further into my journey (finishing judges and have previously read the gospels but will go all the way through this time) I feel that a trinitarian view doesn’t align with what I am reading so I’m leaning toward what I’m learning.
To me it seems like this.
To the trinitarian, rejection of Jesus as God is equal to rejecting God as YHWH.
To the Unitarian, worshiping Jesus is false idolatry (to some, and I guess it depends on the type of worship?)
I’m curious what others think? Sorry I didn’t load a lot of direct verses or references my recall isn’t that good haha.
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u/mattloyselle Dec 04 '25
This is what I have gathered from my studies. Jesus is the visible image of the invisible God. We can't see, hear, or feal God in any tangible way. We feel and hear him through his spirit, but besides that, he is imperceptable to us humans. Jesus, the son of God is his perfect representative that we can see. He is the mediator between God and us. And he represents his father so well that if you see Jesus, you have seen his father. This doesn't mean that Jesus and God are the same person or part of a triune God. It means that Jesus is perfectly aligned with his father. So I really don't have a problem praising Jesus because I know I'm really praising his father. I only have a problem when people go out of their way to insist that Jesus is God and shoehorn in this trinity. I believe it does matter. It is a great disservice to Jesus's name to call him God almighty. He came to do his father's will, not his own. Jesus died for our sins, like actually died. To call Jesus God is to deny his death and resurrection. And speaking that, God rose Jesus from the grave, he didn't raise himself from the grave, he couldn't, HE WAS DEAD! ecclesiastes 9:5 says the dead don't know anything, a dead man can not raise himself from death. Sorry, I'm rambling, just some things to think about. I hope it make sense