I just have to ask, brother, what has some Trinitarian done to you that you use the term so negatively? <smile>
When I was fifty, I first ventured onto an internet website. I had been to Trinitartian churches for over thirty years, there had never been a problem. I had friends in them, helped out at church clubs, no doctrinal problems whatsoever.
But when I reached the tender age of 50, I ventured onto a Christian intenet website. There was a debate entitled
'Did Jesus claim to be God when he walked this earth'
In my simnplicity I simply wrote 'no' in a post, and left the debate, but I was immediatley hounded, and told I was misleading people, I was shocked. after all I had never heard any minister in any Trinitarian church I had ever been to say Christ was God Himself.
And I was harrassed to discuss the subject, one after another wanted to prove to me I was wrong and couldn't be a Christian unless i accepted Christ was God. And the names I was called. It didn't matter how much scripture I brought forth to support my views, I was told I was a heretic, damned in need of psychiatric help etc, and all because I believed Jesus was simply the Son of God. And so now I know now this is officially the doctrine of the churches, you must believe Christ is God, though they don't preach it from the pulpits(or hardly any do)
Well to me scripture is the bottom line. I don't mind anyone believing Jesus is God Himself if they want to, but when you are mercilessluy attacked for standing on the plain words of Christ when he walked this earth and called the names I have been it does unfortunately leave a sour taste in your mouth
Thiough to be fair, it is always a tiny minority who attack you as such and in nearly every case they vare people who look to scholars and theologians to learn, and rarely mention the Holy Spirit in their posts
Strange though, that official Trinitarian belief demands a person believes Christ is God Himself unto salvation but I have never heard any mnister actually prteach it, just the fanatics on websites like these
It has left me endeared to non Trinitarians at times, as they seem friendlier and less judgemental, than a few that undoubtedly give Trinitarianism a bad name