Refuting The Trinity
Kings are called sons of God, and even gods, all throughout the bible. That doesn't mean the kings are God!
In Psalm 45:7 (therefor god, your God has anointed you with the oil of gladness), he is calling the king god, but he acknowledges that the king has a God who is greater than him. The God who anointed him to the position of king.
God is the anointer, Jesus is the anointed! This is why he is called "The Christ"!
Christ comes from the Greek word χριστός (chrīstós), meaning "anointed one". The word is derived from the Greek verb χρίω (chrī́ō), meaning "to anoint." In the Greek Septuagint, χριστός was a semantic loan used to translate the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Mašíaḥ, messiah), meaning "[one who is] anointed".
Jesus said in Mark 10:45, "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many".
And don't you know that He called them gods, to whom the word came?
Let's not presume that everyone who is called god, or son of God in the bible is actually God.
Jeremiah 23:5-6 ‘The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, 'a King' who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.’
*** The King that will seat in David's throne is called 'lord', doesn't mean he is God the Creator.
Also, in Isaiah 7:14 it actually says "the young lady will conceive".
If you read that chapter, it's a prophesy predicting the fall of the Assyrian forces by the time a young lady who is already pregnant conceives. That means, it will happen within 9 months.
And she did conceive some few months later. And the prophesy came true! Hezekiah was victorious against the Assyrians. So the child was aptly named! God was with them!
But the child was not himself God. Surely you would concede that.
The New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman explains Philippians 2:5-12 as a description of a preexisting divine being, probably an angel, since Paul refers to Christ as an angel in Galatians 4:14 and in Philippians 2:6 he says, “who, though he existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped” (NRSVUE, emphasis added). “Grasp” meaning to reach for something you don’t have.
Then in verse 9 , “Therefore God exalted him even more highly” (NRSVUE, emphasis added) this verse is in line that Christ is exalted, whether that be after his resurrection or at his baptism or at his conception. The key here though is “even more highly”. How is one exalted more highly if one is already God?
Hebrews 1:5-9 explicitly says that Jesus is greater than the Angels
For to which of the angels did God ever say,
“You are my Son, today I have begotten you”?
Or again,
“I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”?
6 And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says,
“Let all God's angels worship him.”
7 Of the angels he says,
“He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.”
8 But of the Son he says,
“Your throne, The God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. 9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”
*** In the Bible, a scepter is a symbol of authorith, and is often described as a staff or a baton held by a king.
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The Correct Greek translation of Psalms 45:6
Psalms 45:6 "Ὁ θρόνος σου ὁ θεός εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος" - Your throne is the God forever and ever.
If it meant to say "Your throne oh God" it would be written differently, like "Ω θεε" with Ω=Omega
In Greek "O=small omicron" is translated "The" and not "Oh". Therefore it is translated wrong.
It should read, "Your throne is the God forever and ever."
It also says "therefore God your God has anointed you with the oil of rejoicing" meaning he has a God who annointed him, therefore he can not be God The Creator since it was God The Creator that annointed him.
Psalms 45:6 Ὁ θρόνος σου ὁ θεός εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος, ῥάβδος εὐθύτητος ἡ ῥάβδος τῆς βασιλείας σου. 7 ἠγάπησας δικαιοσύνην, καὶ ἐμίσησας ἀνομίαν, διὰ τοῦτο ἔχρισέν σὲ ὁ θεὸς ὁ θεός σου ἔλαιον ἀγαλλιάσεως παρὰ τοὺς μετόχους σου.
Psalms 45:6 Your throne is God forever and ever, the rod of righteousness is the rod of your kingdom. 7 You have loved justice and hated iniquity, therefore God your God has anointed you with the oil of rejoicing before your shareholders.
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God cannot be tempted. Christ was tempted all ways, just as we are.
Christ prayed alone in the wilderness and was stressed to the point he shed blood from sweat. And he prayed not MY WILL, but YOUR WILL. How did God have a will separate from God?
How does Christ not know the time nor the hour?
This is the image of the Son of God. One being with the Father. One leads, the other follows. One commands, the other obeys the commant.
"This us eternal life, that they come to know you, the only True God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." God states several times, and here is one of them, that He is God alone. Isaiah 45:5 "I am the Lord, your God, there is no God besides me." When asked what the greatest commandment was, Jesus responded with the Shema, "Hear I israel, the Lord our God is one Lord." Jesus said He had come to reveal the truth by teaching us how to have a personal relationship with God (You must be born again from above), and how to bring God's perfect Kingdom here on earth.
In John 17:21 it reads, That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. He is referring to his disciples. He is talking about one in purpose, not one in person.
So to put it simply, I'd say, next time Trinitarians tell you God humbled himself by being man, ask them to very very specifically tell you how that's done. And whatever reasons they give you, see if they are of the divine nature, or the human nature, and remember that these two natures are not to be confused in the creedal traditions of the Trinity" (in 431 and 451 at Ephesus and Chalcedon, respectively).
The one and only true God and Creator says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee."