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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Have Orthodox Christians Lost the Ability To Reason?

Argument #1

No one has ever seen God. (John 1:18)

Jesus was seen.

Therefore, Jesus was not God.

The Orthodox and other Trinitarians use the popular argument that Jesus was "fully God and fully man", "two in one", a human nature and a God nature. For one to have never seen God, this argument would require that people who walked with Jesus only saw his human nature.

Argument #2

God cannot die.

Jesus Died.

Therefore, Jesus was not God.

Again, the Orthodox and other Trinitarians use the popular argument that Jesus was "fully God and fully man", "two in one", a human nature and a God nature. For Jesus to have died, this argument would require that it was only Jesus' human nature that died on the cross and not the God nature.

However: Have you forgotten your own Counsel of Chalcedon? This creed was adopted at the Fourth Ecumenical Council, held at Chalcedon, located in what is now Turkey, in 451, as a response to certain heretical views concerning the nature of Christ. It established the orthodox view that Christ has two natures (human and divine) that are unified in one person. However, according to the Orthodox belief, Jesus' two natures cannot be divided:

"...be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten, God the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ."

Orthodox doctrine requires that Jesus' two natures cannot be divided therefore, if 

1. No man has seen God and people saw Jesus and 

2. God cannot die and Jesus died... 

JESUS IS NOT GOD according to your own doctrine. 

Conclusion:

The Creed of the Counsel of Chalcedon is heretical and contradicts scripture. It was a continuation of the heretical Trinity doctrine that crept into the church at the latter part of the second century.

Truth: There is ONE God and no other. 

Jesus in the son of God, not God the son, and was immaculately conceived as a human. 

The Holy Spirit is the power and presence of the Father.

There is no Trinity, there is no three-part entity called God. This is a pagan, greek, Babylonian philosophy that is in direct contradiction of the scripture.

Christianity is and has always been Monotarian not Trinitarian.

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