Hi, Paul,
Let's say it's both, inquiry and challenge.
Well, the problem with that is that God's "entourage" did not create.
Only the "us" created.
So "us" doesn't refer to his entourage.
Do you have the cart before the horse here?
Whom do you think first referred to the sovereign ruler as "us," a human sovereign or the divine sovereign?
Who do you think copied whom?
That human sovereigns use "us" shows only that human sovereigns followed divine usage.
It does not show that divine usage refers to royalty, instead of referring to plural persons.
Agreed.
He was fully God and fully man, he was not half God and half man.
And he also stated that he was the
Son, not the Father.
So Father and Son were two separate agents.
Granted, the word "Trinity" is not in Scripture.
But that is not why "you never hear the disciple arguing about it."
There was nothing for them to argue about, they all knew from Jesus about the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
The argument began only when some began to deny the three separate divine agents presented by Jesus, to whom Jesus referred with the pronooun (him, he) of
personhood (Jn 14:17, 16:7, 8, 12, 13, 14), not the pronoun of the neuter (it).
Well, what was
prophesied was Ps 2:7:
"You are
my Son; today I have become your Father." (Ac 2:33; Heb 1:5, 5:5)
Paul, you've presented some serious Biblical problems with your statement above:
1) On what authority do you change the Scriptural text of Mt 16:16 to mean other than what it clearly states: "You are the Christ, the
Son of the living God."
If we are at liberty to change what the text clearly states, then we have no truth from God, we have only our own truth from our own mind.
2) Women do not beget.
Beget is "to father, to sire."
Jesus was sired by God, the Father.
That is why God is "Father," Jesus is "Son" and Mary is "mother."
"God has brought us into the kingdom of the
Son he loves. . .by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible,. . .all things were created by him and for him. . .he is
before all things, and in him all things hold together." (Col 1:13-17)
God's
Son didn't come into existence 30 years before Peter stated: "You are the Christ, the
Son of the living God."
God's
Son existed
before all things, and
created all things.
That is the revelation of Jesus (Heb 1:1-2), given through his apostles in the NT.
Well, Paul, your revelations likewise present Biblical problems in themselves.
1) The Holy Spirit does not illumine contrary to Scripture.
He is the author of Scripture (2Tim 3:16; 2Pe 1:21), and he does not contradict himself.
However, as shown above,
your revelation contradicts
Jesus' revelation (Heb 1:1-2) given through his apostles in the NT, that he is the
Son of the living God (Mt 16:16).
2) And then you completely alter the text of Jesus' revelation (Mt 16:16) so that it does not mean what it plainly states.
Paul, you really need to evaluate where your understanding comes from.
Because it is not coming from the clear text authored by the Holy Spirit.