I'm willing for us both to stand in front of the mirror...and admonish each other. The arrogance in your posts is palpable...It's as if you think the more arrogant you sound the more forceful your argument. It's really only more entertaining, because when you try to define my character, your projection would make a good movie...and since it comes from the darkness you've enforced on yourself, the picture is all the more clear.
LOL! I guess you really can't help it that you don't know the difference but there is a big, big difference between someone being arrogant and someone who is just completely confindent in what he knows to be the truth of the scriptures and which is what true faith is in those who HEAR the RHEMA of God and unlike those who only hear what the flesh reveals.
It's quite amazing what you assume about strangers. You clearly are not used to civil discussions with those who disagree with you...does your cult have no leadership at all? Is your religion invented by you alone out of whole cloth? I know your friend won't set foot in a "religious building." Are the two of you in the same cult? Do you meet with others who are equally deceived, to encourage one another according to Hebrews? What happens when there is disagreement among you?
You need to quick thinking you have the gift of knowledge, for I don't belong to any religious group at all but I am a complete loner because I believe that they are all tainted with apostate false doctrine including many Unitarian groups but especially your Trinitarian cult, which is the Mother of them all.
I went to a kingdom hall once, by invitation, for a friend's sake. They were much more friendly than you are...and they boasted that in their cult, around the world, they all do exactly the same prescribed thing in each meeting, and follow the prescribed program. There is never disagreement. The Watchtower is all the authority they need, and outside the Watchtower, there is no teacher. Is that like your cult?
I have never been in one myself and the only groups that I have ever belonged to or learned from were those who taught the trinity doctrine like the cult you still belong to, the first one was The First Baptist Church of Nokomis Fl. and I went to that for a little less than a year and after that it was only interdenominational Charismatic Churches and the one I belonged to the Longest was affiliated with the Assemblies of God.
That was the whole point, though, wasn't it? God is sharing His glory with another...which He said He doesn't do.
"Substance" and "essence"? In what way was Jesus not the essence?
Wow are you ever showing your ignorance here, for again, the original text that Paul was using was from Isaiah 45 and about God bringing all of the people under the servitude of Cyrus and because they were made to bow unto Cyrus his anointed King over them, they in turn would also bow to Yahweh and whether they would by their own will or not also.
So let me ask you then, did God share his glory as being Yahweh God with Cyrus also?
Oh for certain God allowed Cyrus to have his glory as God's appointed and anointed King over the people but nothing in that text would suggest that God shared his glory as Yahweh God with Cyrus and therefore neither is Paul saying that Yahweh God shared his glory as Yahweh God with Jesus either and only because he gave him a name above every other under his own.
Acts 4:12 "Neither is their salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven (under that of God himself) given among men (among men) whereby we must be saved".
The word "glory" can apply to many different things like the glory of one star from another, so just because God gives someone glory, doesn't mean that he is sharing his glory as Yahweh God with them, not by a long shot.
In what way is Jesus not the Word? And what does God do without the Word...outside the Word...beyond the Word? This is your confusion, not the historic church's.
More Trinitarian ignorance, for the word (Logos) of God didn't literally become flesh, but what that means is that every instruction that God ever gave for men to obey was obeyed by Jesus and thus he became the word made flesh in this way.
That is what he meant when he said, "think not that I have come to destroy the law and the prophets, for I came not to destroyed them but rather to fulfill them".
Then he went on to say this, "for I say unto you that until heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or tittle of the law shall in any way be removed from it until, Until, until all of it is fulfilled" and how would Jesus have to do this, how would he fulfill it all?
By perfect obedience unto it, including obeying the Sabbath law which your delusional version of Jesus broke along with his claiming that he was God in violation to the first 2 commandments and which would have made the man Jesus the man of lawlessness and son of perdition that Paul spoke of rather than the Human Son of God.
And Paul called this a delusion that God would sent upon all them who do not love the truth, and do you know what a delusion is?
It is something that men and women believe to be real that isn't and never was either, kind of like believing in imaginary ghosts that don't exit.
I'll let the Lord judge between you and me.
That would be wise being the only judgment you could possible give would be from your flesh and which is where you get your knowledge of the scriptures and God and Christ from instead of by the Holy Spirit like we who truly believe the truth do.
Just trying to help you understand...and maybe learn a little bit more about those whom you've taken on as the enemy.
You need to stop trying to help others and get some help for yourself by repenting from your false doctrines and by turning to The Only True God and His True Messiah King who he sent, so he can help you.
Oh and by the way, while you think in your obvious arrogance and pride that you can help someone else, I don't claim this, for only God is able to help someone with the truth, for all the minister can do is sow seeds or water them but it is only God who can give the increase period.
