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Originally Posted by Jaymoss
your very bible disproves it
Before John the Baptist baptised Christ he had no idea who he was. The dove came down and anointed Christ with holy spirit and he then knew who he was. Then he went into the wilderness to be tested and Prayed to God ( Something Jesus did a lot, remember the garden before his arrest?)
So at this point if the Trinity is true God sent himself down and anointed himself and then went off to pray to himself.
Why did Jesus pray if he was praying to himself?? and why would he ask himself to forgive those who were taking his life?
And then if you look at Genesis 3:15 right at the point of initial sin God makes it clear that there is a 3rd party who will make it all right.
We could argue this all day but Chris who are you to judge if I am a Christian or not? it is certainly not very Christian of you to judge my faith as less than yours. Only God can do that
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I could repost an essay on this from my 3rd year trinity module, but it wouldn’t advance the argument much. Your governing organisation (I suspect it’s the Watchtower, from the way you express yourself, but feel free to correct me) issues standard answers for all of these things and in my experience it’s difficult to get a JW to go off script and engage with the arguments without simply reverting to reciting the stock responses, as you have done here.
As for who am I to judge - well it’s very easy actually. Religions aren’t the only organisations that have a set of foundational principles members are meant to be in agreement with. Political parties and other secular campaigning organisations do. Understanding who agrees with the basic principles and who doesn’t is all part of the thing. It isn’t controversial.
If you don’t accept who Christ is, you are not a Christian. That’s just how it is. Relax, though - the Watchtower says I’m not a Christian, because I don’t take my teaching from them. I can live with that.
