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» Migisi - Is Jesus God?

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There is only ONE God. In Isaiah 44, God makes exclusive statements about himself: "... I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." and vs 8 "...Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any." Could that be any clearer? In verse 24, God states "I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; "Myself" and "alone" mean that there was no other person present. Why would God be so emphatic about oneness, if he were three persons? In Isaiah 45:5-7, God proclaims "5I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. 7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." Again, if God was really three persons, why didn't he say so? If one of the Trinity members is speaking here, would it be honest for him to say, "There is none else?" Wouldn't he be forced to admit, "Me, and my other two persons"? In Isaiah 46:9, God says 9 "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me," Here, there is ONE God speaking (no "we" or "us"), and that singular God says that there is NO ONE like him. NO ONE, no other gods, and certainly not a man-deified HUMAN named Jesus.

-- posted by Migisi