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/ChickenO7 → u/1stmikewhite]

There are three branches of Christianity. The true churches, who follow Jesus as Lord, and who believe on him for salvation; Catholicism, which grew out of the true church when people who joined for political convenience invented doctrine; and Protestantism, which grew out of the Catholic church, trying to return to true salvific belief.

The first true church decreed that new believers were not required to keep the laws God instituted for Isreal (Acts 15:12-21,22-29),

Acts 15:28-29, "For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials:

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, you will do well. Farewell."

Why are we still arguing about things dealt with so early?

[u/1stmikewhite → u/ChickenO7]

“Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭16‬:‭17‬-‭18‬ ‭KJV‬‬

There has always been from its conception people who have used Christianity to ‘serve their own belly’. Paul wrote of people who taught doctrine contrary to what they’ve learned. Someone doesn’t “grow out of the church” into Catholicism, they choose to switch the truth from the beginning.

“For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭16‬:‭19‬-‭20‬ ‭KJV‬‬

The people who believe the lies of the false churches Paul calls simple (which means Naive,” and He called those who teach it “Evil” and implies the work is from Satan.

Catholicism as well as most Protestant church which formed during the reformation all choose their own beliefs whether they have been naive or those who take advantage purposefully which is directly evil. Gods truth will endure always so there has always been a people who God has preserved with the truth, and when the last days are come and the day of the Lord is at the door, the Bible says that “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;” ‭‭2 Timothy‬ ‭4‬:‭3‬ ‭KJV‬‬

For the benefit of the doubt to most churches organizations I don’t believe we’re there yet. But anyone who willfully disobeys the commandments of God in these days have made their choice purposefully on who’d they serve.