Originally posted by josephw
That's too bad robbie.
The scriptures bear abundant testimony that Jesus Christ is God, but you are deeply entrenched in the doctrine of the Watchtower.
It's a funny thing. You seem to be even more intelligent than me. I'm sure you are. Yet you refuse to see the truth of what the scripture teaches.
When I was 28 years old I didn't know what the Bi ...[text shortened]... is indeed odd that you will not actually address even one verse. You seem to be afraid.
i have debated this at great length with Jaywill, with Epiphaneus, with Conrau, with yourself, with Deucer and Manny the Apostate, and i have come away even more convinced of its pre christian and pagan origin. Jaywill also highlighted that the trinity is to be experienced, Epiphaneus highlighted that Christ is to be honoured and tried to construe that this was akin to worship, Conrau, tried through a study of semantics and the definition of philosophical terms to explain it, and i know quite clearly, that once you realise that Christ is a created entity, all other things become crystal clear.
Believe what you want Joseph, but i will not nor cannot accept the dogma, it was unknown to Christ, Paul or any of the early Christians and by admission, it only became completely adopted, 800 years after Christ was gone. I am quite sure that if Christ had wished to reveal such an important doctrine, would he not have done so at great length, perhaps he might even have mentioned it, but nothing. Nor can you try to blame the Watchtower, for i never believed it even when i was a nominal Christian.
You people believe, that God created himself, that he was born a carpenter, , that he prayed to himself, that while he was dying he cried out to himself, that when he was dead he resurrected himself, that when he rose he appeared before himself and waited until he himself had subdued his enemies, then afterwards, he hands the kingdom back to himself, its just a nonsence, believe what you will.