Alaska Baptist Convention

Traditional Southern Baptist state organization.

Alaska Baptist Convention

Southern Baptist organization features history, newsletter, associations, and links to churches.

Alaska Baptist Convention

Traditional Southern Baptist state organization.

Alaska Baptist Convention

Southern Baptist organization features history, newsletter, associations, and links to churches.

Astrologer and Numerologist Glenn Key

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Astrologer and Numerologist Glenn Key

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Baha'i Matsu Cluster

Providing Baha'i services for the Wasilla, Palmer or Copper Center areas.

Baha'i Matsu Cluster

Providing Baha'i services for the Wasilla, Palmer or Copper Center areas.

Churchangel.com: Alaska Churches

List of churches, by denomination, in selected localities.

Churchangel.com: Alaska Churches

List of churches, by denomination, in selected localities.

"BasicallyBlues" writes:

>>The trinity is idolatry.
>
>>So you say. But you have not offered one shred of evidence to suggest
>>this.
>
>Being that I've decisively shown the "trinity" isn't in the Bible nor
>believed by Christians prior to the 3rd Century I think that qualifies
>the trinity as "pagan".

But you haven't dones this decisively. It's based on a fallacy. All
you have done is "proved" a tautology - that the exact, specific
language of Nicea was first used at Nicea. But this proves nothing
about the belief in the Trinity before Nicea. In fact, to show that
your position is wrong, finding clear statements of Jesus being the
"very God" is all that is necessary - for this is something that the
JW's deny.

I had an exchange with anonther anonymous JW (which is itself interesting,
as except for Sarah, the JW's that come here all want to be anonymous)
where I showed clearly that there was belief that Jesus is "very God"
before Nicea, which puts paid to the whole JW theory (at least as was
espoused by this poster) that Nicea "made Jesus God."

I've appended the exchange below.

As for the post you included - note well that you have not answered
the key question about your inaccurate translations of John 1:1, to
wit:

>Here's the last post you responded to me:

>- These are hardly a representative set of the best scholarship
>-on John 1. Not to mention the following:
>-
>->1950 "and the Word was a god" New World Translation of the
>-> Christian Greek Scriptures,
>-> Brooklyn.
>-
>-Translation? Really? Do tell, who translated it and what were
>-his/their qualifictions to do such a translation?

Still waiting for the answer to this question about who did the
translation of the "NWT."

As notted, Here's the exchange between 'skw' (a JW) and me:

"skw" writes:
>>>>>>> You said:
>
>Arius lives on............
>
>=====> My answer is:
>
>Arianism was a "Christian" movement of the fourth century that denied the
>divinity of Jesus Christ. Arius taught that God is unbegotten and without a
>beginning. The Son, because he is begotten, cannot be God in the same sense
>that the Father is. The Son did not exist from all eternity but was created
>and exists by the will of the Father.

He taught that, but was wrong. And it was against the teachings of the
church, from the Apostolic period!

>Arius's teaching is scripturally precise. Because, Arius was taught by the
>ante-Nicene Fathers how to use the scriptures the correct way.

You clearly do not know what the Fathers wrote. And I'm sure that you
didn't read them. I