re: Is the Christian God the same God of Judaism?

Jews don't accept Jesus as divine. Jesus was God manifested in flesh. In order for fallen man to be in direct commune with God, a perfect sacrifice has to be offered. In the old testament it was sheep, goats, etc. which people brought brought the Temple priest to be sacrificed. Jesus was was perfect because of his divinity(no sin). In the Temple was the Holiest of Holies where God's presence
dwelled in the Ark of the Covenant, it was seperated by a veil. Only priest could enter.
When Jesus died on the cross, the veil was ripped. There no longer is anything between man's access to God.
Jesus was the fulfillment of Old Testament (Jewish) prophecy.

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If they don’t accept Christ as their savior they will go to hell just like anyone else.

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I don't agree with the Trinitarian formula. God is one. It's not hard to understand. Just as I am a father to my son, a son to my mom, and a brother to my brother, yet I am one person.
Same difference. Different manifestations of one God.
The Father in Creation. The son in Atonement. Holy Spirit working his will after Jesus.
Jesus said it himself, if you have seen me, you have seen the Father.

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Doesn’t make much sense for the Father to be talking about Himself in saying He is well pleased in the Son at His baptism, nor for the Son to pray to Himself (the Father) before His arrest. It’s also quite strange for the Son to ask why He has forsaken Himself when He asks that of the Father on the cross.

As difficult as it is to understand the concept of three persons sharing one divine nature, it makes even less sense for the Father, Son, and Spirit to be one person.


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God is also not a father exactly like we are fathers, nor a son exactly like we are sons. The Father didn't create through sexual union and the Son wasn't born of a woman prior to His incarnation (and even at His incarnation, He wasn't the product of sexual union). The Son is begotten of the Father eternally (He had no beginning), and the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son eternally, so that all three persons have a co-equality and existence in a way that we do not have with our fathers or sons.

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Doesn’t make much sense for the Father to be talking about Himself in saying He is well pleased in the Son at His baptism, nor for the Son to pray to Himself (the Father) before His arrest. It’s also quite strange for the Son to ask why He has forsaken Himself when He asks that of the Father on the cross

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The flesh crying out to the spirit. Makes more sense to me than trying to explain three seperate persons are singular.
Similar to baptism. Jesus said baptize in the NAME of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Read in ACTS how the disciples baptized. In the name of Jesus. My belief is when I arrive in heaven (hopefully I do), I will see Jesus. Not 3 separate persons.
Personally, I don't think it's a salvific issue. You do you.

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Why?

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Idk. I was telling my brother about a Muslim woman in my cohort who is from Jerusalem. We started talking about Palestinians and Jews in the region and then he posed that question.

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The correct answer is yes.

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Correct, but the Jews are just blind to God's fullness at the moment as a whole...blindness IN PART has happened to Israel until the fullness of the church happens in the Rapture then at the shout of an Archangel, it will awaken Israel as the Ecclesia Church is raptured.

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(Please, be gentle)

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May God forgive me if I am not gentle with my brothers and sisters in the faith. I want to be firm about the truth about God but I don't want to harm my brothers in the faith at the same time. Hopefully I am not doing that.

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I think there is. I realize that I could be completely wrong, but, hear me out. I’m interested to hear your thoughts on this perspective.

Genesis 1:26 (NASB95): ?Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;

We are triune beings- consisting of mind, body and spirit. I’m not saying that we are gods, but that we are created in the image of God. Your thoughts?

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I agree that we are created in the image of God, but we are not the exact image of God (like the Son is as stated in Col. 1:15-16), even prior to the fall. There are communicable attributes and incommunicable attributes that God has, and God has vested humanity with communicable attributes like love, goodness, and kindness, yet has not vested us with incommunicable attributes like His aseity, omnipotence, or omnipresence.

While there are examples of unity and trinity in certain senses in our experience, there is no exact analogy to God in our experience. One of the reasons for this is that God is simple rather than complex, meaning He is not made up of parts, and God is fully God in all three of His persons.

In the example of mind, body, and spirit, our mind is part of who we are but not all of who we are, and it is the same with our body and spirit; those three things are parts of our singular being but one part can exist without the others. However, the Father is not merely a part of God, nor is the Son merely a part of God, nor the Spirit merely a part of God, as all three are fully God, as God doesn't consist of parts nor consist separately from the other persons. This analogy seems to be consistent with the view called partialism.

Please let me know if I'm misunderstanding the analogy, though.

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I suppose what I’m saying is that whenever someone has trouble understanding the concept of the Trinity, need look no further than their own existence.

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I use the H2O analogy...water, steam, and ice are three distinct manifestations but in their essence, they are all H2O...

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I use the H2O analogy...water, steam, and ice are three distinct manifestations but in their essence, they are all H2O..

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I understand the desire to do that, but as I said previously, pretty much all analogies used tend to do more harm than good in explaining the Trinity.

The example of water (water, ice, and steam) actually teaches the ancient heresy of Sabellianism, otherwise known as Modalism. This heresy teaches that God is essentially one person that manifests himself in three different ways at different times; sometimes as the Father, sometimes as the Son, and sometimes as the Spirit, just as water cannot be water and ice at the same time, or ice and steam at the same time. A few folks in this very thread actually seem to understand God in this very way.