TRINITY:
According to most Christians, Jesus was
God-incarnate, full man and full God. Can the finite and the infinite
be one? "To be full" God means freedom from finite forms and from
helplessness, and to be "full man" means the absence of divinity. 1.To be son is to be less than divine
and to be divine is to be no one's son. How could Jesus have the
attributes of sonship and divinity altogether? 2.Christians assert that Jesus claimed
to be God when they quote him in John 14:9: "He that has seen me has
seen the Father". Didn't Jesus clearly say that people have never seen
God, as it says in John 5:37: "And the father himself which has sent me,
has borne witness of me. You have NEITHER HEARD HIS VOICE 3.Christians say that Jesus was God
because he was called Son of God, Son of Man, Messiah, and "saviour".
Ezekiel was addressed in the Bible as Son of Man. Jesus spoke of "the
peace makers" as Sons of God. Any person who followed the Will and Plan
of God was called SON OF GOD in the Jewish tradition and in their
language (Genesis 6:2,4; Exodus 4:22; Psalm 2:7; Romans 8:14). "Messiah"
which in Hebrew means 4.Christians claim that Jesus
acknowledged that he and God were one in the sense of nature when he
says in John 10:30 "I and my father are one". Later on in John 17:21-23,
Jesus refers to his followers and himself and God as one in five places.
So why did they give the previous "one" a different meaning from the
other five "ones"? 5.Is God three-in-one and one in three
simultaneously or one at a time? 6.If God is one and three
simultaneously, then none of the three could be the complete God.
Granting that such was the case, then when Jesus was on earth, he wasn't
a complete God, nor was the "father in Heaven" a whole God. Doesn't that
contradict what Jesus always said about His God and our God in heaven,
his Lord and our Lord ? Does that also mean that there was no complete
god then, between the claimed crucifixion and the claimed resurrection? 7.If God is one and three at a time,
then who was the God in heaven when Jesus was on earth? Wouldn't this
contradict his many references to a God in Heaven that sent him? 8.If God is three and one at the same
time, who was the God in Heaven within three days between the claimed
crucifixion and the claimed resurrect ion? 9.Christians say that: "The Father(F) is
God, the Son(S) is God, and the Holy Ghost(H) is God, but the Father is
not the Son, the Son is not the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost is not
the Father". In simple arithmetic and terms therefore, if F = G, S = G,
and H = G, then it follows that F = S = H, while the second part of the 10.If Jesus was God, why did he tell the
man who called him "good master" not to call him "good" because
accordingly, there is none good but his God in Heaven alone? 11.Why do Christians say that God is
three-in-one and one in three when Jesus says in Mark 12:29: "The Lord
our God is one Lord" in as many places as yet in the Bible? 12.If belief in the Trinity was such a
necessary condition for being a Christian, why didn't Jesus teach and
emphasize it to the Christians during his time? How were those followers
of Jesus considered Christians without ever hearing the term Trinity?
Had the Trinity been the spinal cord of Christianity, Jesus would have
emphasized it on many occasions and would have taught and explained it
in detail to the people.
13.Christians claim that Jesus was God
as they quote in John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God". This is John speaking and not
Jesus. Also, the Greek word for the first occurrence of God is HOTHEOS
which means "the God" or "God" with a capital "G", while the Greek word 14.Wasn't the word "god" or "TONTHEOS"
also used to refer to others as well as in II Corinthians 4:4 "(and the
Devil is) the god of this world" and in Exodus 7:1 "See , I have made
thee (Moses ) a god to Pharaoh"? SALVATION:
Christians say that "GOD LOST His only
son to save us". To whom did God lose Jesus if he owns the whole
universe?
15. If it was agreeable with God's
Majesty to have sons, He could have created a million sons the like of
Jesus. So what is the big clear deal about this only son? 16.Why does the Bible say that Jesus
wanted to die on the cross, when the one on the cross was shouting "My
God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" according to Matthew 27:45 and
Mark 15:33?
17. If God had wanted to save us,
couldn't He have done that without sacrificing Jesus? 18. God is Just, and justice requires
that nobody should be punished for the sins of others, nor should some
people be saved by punishing other people. Doesn't the claim that God
sacrificed Jesus to save us because He was Just, contradict the
definition of justice?
19. People sacrifice things they have to
get something they don't have when they can't have both. Christians say
that "God SACRIFICED His only son to save us". We know that God is
Almighty; to whom did He sacrifice Jesus? |