Please help me to respond to some of my non-trinitarian friends

Is God a man?

Is God a man?

Hebrews 1:3

1God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

This book distinguishes Jesus from the Father as distinct "persons" as we see here. It uses that third person possessive pronoun to say that Jesus is the express image of the Father's person. There's the Son's person and there's the Father's person. Throughout the Old and NT we see the distinct persons of the Father described, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

No, God is God.

God is not a man; but there is a man who is God.

God is not a man; but there is a man who is God.

So God Almighty purged sins?

Man's soul is created in God's image.

Since no one can see God (John 1:18) ? God must use a means to make Himself knowable to us.

God's genius utilizes the humanity of Christ to manifest all we can possibly know about God,
by manifesting God in a way we have the capacity to relate to and understand as humans.

That is why a Greek word that means "exegesis" is used in John 1:18.
Its to tell us that Jesus is God's means to exegete God for man's understanding.

The Amplified Bible even translated John 1:18 with that factor of exegesis in mind.

Here is a typical translation.
It is lacking in the depth needed to convey exegesis.

New International Version



And here is what the Amplified Bible provides to give us closer understanding to what is intended in the Greek.


That is why Jesus made it known to his disciples....


John 14:9


Since God when unfiltered and interpreted would be incomprehensible to man?
God has His Son (humanity and God in union) to exegete what he knows, and we can not understand.
Unless it is demonstrated and explained to us in a manner that we as humans are being able to grasp.

In other words? If Jesus is not God? He is all the God we can know! That is why He is the Word. For we use words to comprehend
reality. God simply knows all things. God does not really need to speak within the Trinity. The Trinity is always knowing all things without need for explanation.

Yes, by His own blood on the cross.
He suffered the torture and pain that we deserve for those sins. He was crucified so we can choose to receive the gift of salvation/ Everlasting life that He purchased and secured when he bodily arose on the third day.

And that man died. Did God die?

How can you know God, then? God transcends everything you are.
If we had no words to convey thoughts? Could we know God?

Is Jesus the Father?

No, God can not die.
Nor did God need to die. (which would have been impossible)

Jesus, being a union of God and humanity, adjusted himself to be a man. (Philippians 2:6-8)
A man who died as the substitute for all men.

I ask you…

Can an amphibious car be a boat? Yes.
But, the boat aspect of the amphibious car in itself is not a car.

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Jesus is being the translator of God whom we can not see, and revealing God to us in "human speak."

Instead of being bilingual.
Jesus is uniquely bi-natured.

Being bi-natured he knows and can express two different natures.
One nature we can not understand as men unless he translates it for us into human terms.



Jesus through his humanity translates God to us in "human" terms.
Presenting God in ways that we as men can and will understand.

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I learn about God by reading His word and try to apply it in my life.

So God came in the PERSON of the Jesus Christ which makes the Biblical definition of a person a human.

Is Jesus the Father? Not speaking of His flesh.

And that man died. Did God die?

So why did Jesus say that it was his father in heaven who revealed to Peter who Jesus really was?

"the father isn't the holy spirit" right? So, why is it the "holy spirit" that "wouldn't lead one to come to such an erroneous conclusion".

Trinitarians are the ones who reveal the trinity... with that stupid tetrahedron diagram- given to ME by MAN and not by God. Not from heaven; but from the philosophy of man. Requires no revelation from God at all; so easy a caveman can do it.

But you go ahead and think of me as an unbeliever; because I believe what the bible says in it's own words instead of your little diagram.

Try these.... eye glasses


They saw something alright. But it was not God, as God is.
It was God allowing them to see what represents Him to their limited way of thinking.

Are you thinking?
Tell me this .. How can anyone see omnipresence???

Omnipresence is not in front of you. Its everywhere.

How can you see that???

Impossible.