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Is belief in the Trinity necessary for salvation?

I disagree. I believe the Bible makes a clear distinction about his humanity and his divinity.

Explain how he can be the son of God when he is the eternal God. How he can be begotten and the alpha at the same time. I explained, now it is your turn.
 
CoreIssue said:
I disagree. I believe the Bible makes a clear distinction about his humanity and his divinity.

Explain how he can be the son of God when he is the eternal God. How he can be begotten and the alpha at the same time. I explained, now it is your turn.
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Do you have a son?
 
Yes. But he has a beginning, spirit and flesh, via sex. The spirit of Jesus does not have a beginning or father, who is sexless.
 
CoreIssue said:
There has always been three persons in a unity of One God. Jesus is not God, He is the flesh that the second person of the Trinity inhabits.
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Of course, Jesus is God, the second Person of the Trinity, fully human and fully divine, because he claimed to be God with his seven "I am" claims and John's declaration in his gospel.
 
God has no mother. Jesus does.

God has no flesh. Jesus doe.

God cannot die. Jesus died.

Jesus is 100% man in his flesh and 100% God in his spirit.
 
CoreIssue said:
There has always been three persons in a unity of One God. Jesus is not God, He is the flesh that the second person of the Trinity inhabits.
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Why do you say that Jesus is not God, CoreIssue, when he claims seven times with his seven "I am" statements in the Gospel of John and when John claims Jesus is in the first chapter. He is fully God and fully human, capable of dying as human and rising permanently from death as God.
 
and we are one person with flesh anhnd spirit natures.

death separates flesh and spirit.
 
CoreIssue said:
and we are one person with flesh anhnd spirit natures.

death separates flesh and spirit.
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You're right about us, but Jesus was different, since he was miraculously fully God and fully human. The whole Gospel of Mark shows us that truth about Jesus.
 
Heather Frank said:
Wow, that's a delicate balance. Many historical noble people have believed in only one God before and after Christ, not all of them from Israel. People like that have usually been persecuted, and had to fight, because kind of watery weak inclusion and politically correct types thought they were disruptive. I think most people believe in the holy spirit, that's a human sense issue, and it seems very common for people to sense that, even in pagan weird polytheist societies. But a true trinity, with JUST Jesus as the third member of the Godhead, that's pretty rare. Usually, if you get close, you find out the believer is just some dumb bloke who thinks that Jesus being a man rubs off on him because he's one, and you find out that he's no better than a polytheist or a Hindu, and its just a guy thing.
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Heather, read the Gospel of John through. Notice Jesus' seven ("I am") claims to being the second of the three members of the Trinity and then his presentation in chapters 14-16 of the third Person, the Holy Spirit. The biblical fact that God is one God in three Persons is a mystery that we praise him for but can't understand. He is God; we are not.
 
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