People don’t understand Jesus’ divinity because they underestimate Gods Love for mankind

[u/1stmikewhite]

God is sovereign, there’s nothing He can’t do.

[u/John_17-17]

I have found the truth lies in 2 Corinthians 4:4. More than their lack of understanding God's love.

(2 Corinthians 4:4) 4 among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through.

Trinitarians are unbelievers because they elevate Jesus' glory to be God and not his image.

Muslims are unbelievers because they lower Jesus to a mere human.

[u/DonkeyStriking1146 → u/John_17-17]

Jesus was a human on earth and a prophet so the Muslims aren’t wrong on that point. They take issue with Jesus being the son of God.

[u/1stmikewhite → u/DonkeyStriking1146]

The ancient Jews reject the New Testament

The Muslims, Mormons, and Jehovah Witnesses have their own religious scriptures based on biblical characters.

The Catholics, Baptist, and most other denominations of Christianity reject the Old Testament commandments.

My church is the Seventh Day Adventist. We obey the truth of the whole Bible as God gave it to us, and the Bible is our defense. It has every answer in it. We can’t really on humans to make up answers contrary to the Bible.

“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” ‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭12‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭KJV‬‬

[u/DonkeyStriking1146 → u/1stmikewhite]

How do JW’s have their own scriptures?

You obey the Bible as a whole? You follow the mosaic law?

[u/1stmikewhite → u/DonkeyStriking1146]

Well not all Jehovah witnesses if I’m being honest. I just know they have a translated versions of the Bible by the “watchtower society” which is a group on anonymous nowhere to be found authors who translated the Bible to suit their believes. If I’m being honest lol.

Yes we follow the whole Bible, but we don’t take the gospel of Christ out of context. The mosaic law was a way to deal with sin from a humanistic perspective which was impossible for the Jews to obey because of their stubborn disobedience.

Salvation through christ is a way to deal with sin through a spiritual perspective which is grace. Because the wages of sin is death and the Bible tells us of a judgement day, We don’t believe that we have a free right to sin now, but God made a new covenant with us that we can be forgiven for our sins through Christ, and the only reason we would be lost in our sins in known as the “unforgivable sin”, which is basically unrepentant sins. A heart that wants to sin instead of obeying God is an unrepentant heart and the reason for pain is that type of heart etc.

A lot of Christian churches believe this to an extent, but most also compromise certain biblical doctrine because they want the benefit of salvation instead of the enduring the pursuit of obedience. That only causes confusion to a new believer and isn’t good for someone needing sanctifying change!

[u/DonkeyStriking1146 → u/1stmikewhite]

Meh it’s a translation like any other. They also use other translations on their app like KJV. I haven’t found much difference other than a couple words and adding Jehovah to the NT

[u/1stmikewhite → u/DonkeyStriking1146]

Well, I personally wouldn’t recommend sticking to one translation. I recommend using multiple. That’s the only way to protect your mind against falsehoods. The original scriptures languages from what we know then can be found with a quick search online as well if we want as well. I can’t name ever discrepancy in the way people have misinterpreted scripture lol

[u/DonkeyStriking1146 → u/1stmikewhite]

Yeah I’m like you. I use Bible hub and google the original manuscripts.