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You pray to God the Father separately from Jesus?!
"Separately" is a word YOU introduced into the discussion. I never uttered a word about "separately" or "separation" or "separate".
Being deliberately blind as a bat, you apparently didn't see the words "always to God".
I wrote: Sometime to the Father. Sometimes to the Son.
"Always to God."
@divegeester
I enjoy the Divine "We". Jesus said "We" - He and the Father, would come and make an abode with the lovers of Jesus.
John 14:23.
@kellyjay saidDo you believe you might be thrown into the "Lake of Fire" for your "glaring faults"?
When we stand in judgment day the truth will be there, and all of our arguments
and words will show what we claimed and knew. None of us will have an excuse
so I'm not overly concern with another's faults, when mine are so glaring to me.
@sonship saidDoes divegeester risk "damnation" for not interpreting it the same way as you do?
With some who are ambiguous and for whom it is not easy to tell where they stand, if they ATTACK the revelation of the Triune God, I will spend some time to show them where they are wrong. Divegeester is such a person. If he were not so much on the attack against a trinitarian belief, I might not labor as much. But he INVITES it. He taunts Christians about it.
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@divegeester
One thing I notice about your response is that you permit yourself to be long winded and careful. When others write as much to make themselves clear you mock them as "waffling" and using "hairdryer" methods.
You also mock by asserting that no one is reading it anyway.
This hypocrisy you should stop employing.
God is one,
In the booklet The Beliefs and Practices of the Local Churches which you brought to my attention, concerning "Our Beliefs" a section says [my bolding]
The local churches believe that God is the only one Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—co-existing equally from eternity to eternity (1 Tim. 2:5a, Matt. 28:19).
The local churches believe that the Son of God, even God Himself, became incarnated to be a man by the name of Jesus, born of the virgin Mary, that He might be our Redeemer and Savior (Jn. 1:1, 1:14, Matt. 1:23).
I assume that except for the word "Triune" you would probably be in agreement with the rest. Except you might also not agree with the phrase "co-existing equally from eternity to eternity".
Am I right?
-Removed-Your logic is flawed. You're ignoring what the scriptures teach in favor of what you think.
And you draw irrational conclusions based on a corrupt understanding of what the Bible teaches.
No body is saying that God isn't one God, or that God changes, or that God isn't eternal.
Making those comments does nothing to validate your argument. It's childish.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
Anyone with a third grade education can see there's two Devine entities right there in that verse.
"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."
Oh, looky there. "He shall teach you.."
I think maybe you haven't been paying attention to Him.