There is something to that but still you intertwine it with idiosyncratic interpretation which causes problems. Monarchical Trinitarianism is a thing and there is what we call in Orthodoxy Monarchy of the Father where the Son is eternally begotten from the Father and the Spirit eternally proceeds from the Father. Thus everything comes "from the Father," "through the Son," and "in the Holy Spirit." That doesn't mean the Father is superior or has anything the other persons don't have though - all three persons are equally God and they share the same power and will (and they have identical perspective on things).
The Trinity is probably the most complex doctrines in Christianity and it's easy to get things wrong if you don't read what the Church fathers wrote about it but go on intuition and your own reasoning. The nature of God transcends the limits of time, space and our limited mortal reasoning. We didn't come to knowledge of Him through reasoning and observation of the world but through divine revelation. God is the ultimate mystery. But gnostics believe they can arrive to knowledge about God (the Truth) through rational means, denying the limits of their reason. Gnosticism is the ultimate folder-chasing and many conspiracy people fall pray to it. It's all because of bad theology and lack of humility.
Find me where in the Bible it says "God is Trinity".
That's well known. 33 is also the number after 32 and before 34 so there's that.
Long story short, I found that the Father doesn’t need a name as there is only one but I AM is a sort of descriptor name because the Father is infinite life itself and therefore the Father can point to anything in reality and say “I am that tree” or “I am that table”. Even the Christ, the lesser creation of God is made out of the fabric of the “I am”.
You started good and then crashed miserably by saying Christ is "a lesser creation of God". If Christ shares the nature of the Father (and you say He does), He can't be a creation or lesser than the Godhead. No, Christ sharing the divine nature means He's uncreated just like the Father and the Spirit while also being omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. The Trinity can't be separated. This is evident from John 1 where it is stated that the Word was in the beginning before all creation and He was in God and He was with God and everything was created through Him - there wasn't a time when Christ didn't exist.
Just like with other folks here, who come from protestant and gnostic background you fall prey to ancient heresies that have been refuted by the Church fathers. This particular heresy is called Arianism and was condemned by the 1st Nicaean ecumenical council where St. Nicholas (Santa Klaus) went on to slap archbishop Arius who was the originator of the heresy.
Is this why the NT is filled with references to the OT and is literally the fulfilment of all the prophecies there? Jesus Himself refers to the OT and both Mathew and Luke give us His genealogy from king David.
You're doing freestyle interpretation of a text while being outside of the tradition that conceived it, kept it, and posses the correct interpretation of it - the Apostolic Church where the Holy Spirit resides. The chances of you getting to the correct interpretation on anything concerning it are very slim and you, as every other Bible enjoyer gnostic or protestant out there who thinks they are the sole authority on scriptural interpretation, immediately fall pray to ancient heresies. Rejecting the OT is known as Marcionism and the Church fathers deboonked it a long time ago.
Didn't you read my previous reply? What do you think Jesus means by "Before Abraham was, I AM?"
If "No one has seen the Father" and "No one comes to the Father except through Me (Jesus)", then who did Abraham and Moses see and talk to?
Show me a single statement by Jesus that says “Yahweh is my father”
This sounds a lot like "show me where in the Bible the word Trinity is used?" argument against the Trinitarian nature of God.
Jesus identifies Himself as Yahweh - God of the OT who appeared to the prophets (the theophanies). If that was your point, you're correct.
Read again - Jesus IS Yahweh. "No one has seen the Father" and "No one comes to the Father except through me". So who did the prophets see and talked to?
And God said to Moses, 'I AM WHO I AM';
Exodus 3:14
Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
John 8:58
Do you start to get it now?
And you interpret that as meaning I AM is literally God's name? The name of God (the Son) talking to Moses is Yahweh. Again, God calling Himself I AM (as He does in John 8:58) is a riddle and it is not to be taken literally. The meaning is He's the alpha and the omega, the ever existing, ever becoming and everlasting.
Of course they do - Jesus is Yahweh. This is the Orthodox position.
And God said to Moses, 'I AM WHO I AM';
Exodus 3:14
Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
John 8:58
Correct, Yahweh picks out the Son - Christ.
Sounds like rapper Will I AM. His name is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Where does God say "My name is I AM"? No, He answers "I AM who I AM" meaning that God is self-referential because He's the creator and ultimate standard for everything, it's not His name.
In other news: water is wet. The question is why did deep state propaganda outlet WSJ publish such a report now?
It's a front the technocratic and banking elite uses to destroy sovereign states and enslave their people. People have granted the EU authority over their lives just like they did with any one world government institution - IMF, BIS, WHO, UN, WEF, NATO.
An important document. Here's the whole thing:
NT was written by Paul mostly plus 4 apostles and John The Revelator. Mostly versus were removed from the first 4 books and 70% of the Revelations book was altered completely.
What's the source on this and why should we trust it? Maybe it's the case but you'd have to prove it somehow.
Paul must have been quite the writer because he managed to write all the gospels in different styles and from a different perspective. He even went as far as to give two different genealogies of Jesus in Mathew and in Luke. Then there's the problem with the other apostles who were with Christ, evangelized and established churches in different parts of the world as seen in Acts. Was Peter in on the conspiracy too?
The thing is Christianity doesn't rest on the Bible as protestants believe, but the other way around - the Bible is a product of the living apostolic tradition which is traced back to Jesus and to the prophets of the OT. That tradition is kept unchanged by the Church, lives to this day and will continue to live until the end of times as Christ Himself has promised. This means Christians were practicing their religion before the Bible was compiled and we even have surviving evidence attesting to that.
That's the OT. What about the NT?
When were those alterations made?
Why didn't you answered the other part - who's at fault for jews sitting at the top of the world and enslaving it with debt and degeneracy? Who handed them the keys to the world kingdoms? Assume responsibility otherwise you're no better than the perpetual victims themselves.
Christians believe the Bible is God's revelation to man. Not parts of it - the whole thing. The Biblical canon and especially the gospels are crucial to the Christian faith. What are the parts that were altered?
Your views on God are not Christian and are all based on ancient heresies long refuted by the Church fathers.
Abortion is only banned in 13 out of 50 states. You're still losing. https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/dashboard/abortion-in-the-u-s-dashboard/
Whatever. It's a matter of principle - does abortion ought to be illegal or not?
Jews. The people who own Trump. c/TheZOGnald
Wrong. Jews were behind this, it was the people who let them do this. Are a few hundred wealthy jews more powerful than the people of the world and if they are now, who let things turn that way? No, people were weakened by their own sin and failed at their duty to protect their community and that's how the jews took over.
Christians, listen up - the Bible is faked and your religion is a psy op.
Dude, that's pretty much what the devil would say. The question is why should anyone lend credence to any of this gnostic nonsense? How do you back up those bold claims and how do you know this is not yet another psy op? If you spent 10 years studying this, not only did you lose your time, but you've also lost your mind.
Nothing will convince the truthers. It's a cult.
Abortion in the USA is mostly the same as it was before. Still available. Also millions of White women are still eating the jew birth control pills.
Who's to blame for that? Trump? You can't expect cultural change to happen overnight. I know that making abortion illegal is a step in the right direction. There is no hope for the US because it has long been a country that idolizes "muh freedums" over universal truth and duties and that applies to both ends of the fake dialectical spectrum. It's a liberal society that serves Mammon (the free market, debt, greed and consumerism). It's inevitable that such a society will debase itself over time with a philosophy like that. Women will eat the jew birth control pills and procure abrotions because the free market meets the engineered demand created by indoctrinating them through culture and education into marxism and sexual liberation.
But who let things devolve into this? It's not single politician's fault - it's the fault of each and everyone of us who was weak, cowardly, deceived and spiritually deficient. What we see today is thanks to the failings of our forefathers. Let our children inherit a better world.
I follow the Orthodox doctrine of the Trinity because I believe it to be the true unchanged apostolic tradition going back to Jesus Himself and the true historic Church Christ established and where the Holy Spirit resides after He was sent by Christ on Pentecost.