Zemirah wrote:
I've seen most every Bible translation in major Bible stores, and have never seen one that ever even insinuated that Eve had sex with Satan.
As the famous Theologian, Francis Schaeffer said, "God has spoken, and he does not stutter."
If the Holy Spirit had wanted to say that Eve had sex with a serpent, he would have inspired Moses to write it down that way.
It was their disobedience that was the sin. They were told not to eat the fruit, and did so anyway. They disobeyed God.
Jesus said He had ever taught openly, and in secret had said nothing, so it's not decipherable from a "secret code."
John 18:20 "Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing."
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I've seen most every Bible translation in biblehub.org and PC Study Bible, and have never seen one that ever even insinuated that God is a Trinity of persons in one substance.
As the famous Theologian, Francis Schaeffer said, "God has spoken, and he does not stutter."
If the Holy Spirit had wanted to say that God was a Trinity of three persons in one substance, he would have inspired Moses to write it down that way.
It is disobedience that is the sin. We all have been commanded to believe "Yahweh is one", and we're commanded not to go to the gods of the nations round about them. Trinitarians disobey God.
Jesus said He had ever taught openly, and in secret had said nothing, so it's not decipherable from a "secret code."
John 18:20 "Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing."
Jesus openly taught and affirmed that God is one He, not three "them":
One of the scribes came, and…asked him, ‘Which commandment is the most important [or first] of all?’ Jesus answered, ‘The most important is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, [grammatical number: singular] the Lord is one [grammatical number: singular]: you shall love the Lord your God [grammatical number: singular] with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment... The scribe said to him, ‘Truly, teacher, you have said well that He [grammatical number: singular] is one, and there is none other...’ When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, ‘You are not far from the Kingdom of God.” (Mark 12:28–34)
"The Lord our God (grammatical number: singular) is one* (grammatical number: singular)" Mark 12:29
*One: Greek "heîs, hice; a primary numeral; one" -Strong's
God is one, not three, according to Jesus.
Zemirah wrote:
The parables of Jesus are understandable. He does not "bait and switch" between eating a piece of fruit and having sex with a serpent.
Puffing oneself up with self-importance, believing one has "secret knowledge" which others do not is the ancient error of Gnosticism.
"For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned" Matthew 12:37
The commandments of Jesus are understandable. He doesn’t bait and switch. He doesn't say believe God is one "he" when he really meant three "them". The doctrine of dual natures is one of the ancient errors of Gnosticism, in fact it is THE reason John wrote to expose and condemn antiChristians:
"Therefore did the Lord also say to his disciples…’Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead, and that repentance for the remission of sins be preached in his name among all nations.’ Now this is he who was born of Mary; for he says: ‘The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected, and crucified, and on the third day rise again.’
The Gospel, therefore, knew no other son of man but him who was of Mary, who also suffered; and
no Christ who flew away from Jesus before the passion; but him who was born it knew as Jesus Christ the Son of God, and that this same suffered and rose again, as John, the disciple of the Lord, verifies, saying: ‘But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have eternal life in his name,’ –
foreseeing these blasphemous systems which divide the Lord, as far as lies in their power, saying that he was formed of two different substances. For this reason also he has thus testified to us in his Epistle: ‘Little children, it is the last time; and as ye have heard that Antichrist doth come,
now have many antichrists appeared…’” Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book 3, Chapter 16, par. 5