Thank you for being kind and not harsh. I seem to be much alone in accepting God as himself and the idea that he is able to converse openly and does with his beloved son Jesus. Two individuals that carry on a conversation. Did not Jesus pray to God quite often! I believe in his prayer, his father was speaking back to him; like when Jesus stood over the grave of Lazarus.
I have an abundance of faith, but little ability to accept what I conceive as nonsense. I can believe and see scripture as true, especially the New Testament, without tearing it apart or throwing characters away, because my mind stumbles over what seems as inconsistencies in what was written. I can see that the Father is an individual and his son is also, yet they love each other, and by that, they are one in heart and spirit as well. I don't need the workings of a formula of sorts to understand the oneness through loving each other. It may be, that when we are in heaven, that we could dwell as one also, but we remain individuals. Perfect love isn't a concept that should be played with or figured out, especially through some feebled attempt of high-jacking our faith with foreign materials. I do not believe that we should add to God's word or even seemingly trump it with our mental exercises such as in the theology of Trinity.
You know it is hard to stand here alone before others who don't seem to comprehend the problems with interfering with God's word with something outside of just faith to accept the awesomeness of Him. It is quite uncomfortable to bother others about Trinity and some other things. It would seem that I am causing trouble and could hurt some weak Christians' faith in Christ. Yet, I am not really worried, for their faith isn't even in Christ, if it can even be called faith, because it is in their ability with their minds and logic to try to make God's word consistent (Trinity theology). Why is it that I don't have to make any changes and I am not bothered by what others call inconsistencies of God's word?
By Jesus being an individual in the flesh like us, then this lowly existence (being understood by all people around him) allows us to see our own pathways in following him, a simple human being to the Father (salvation is very possible.) It is extremely important to see that Jesus was 100% in the flesh as a mere human being like us. He had great faith and knowledge, so could guide us with our little faith yet accepting him. If Jesus was of the Trinity, then would he not be God, all powerful in the flesh, glorifying flesh. This would not be like us and could never be. Where would our hope and faith be, if we could not follow him being that he was all powerful and our little faith would be invisible indeed? I have no problem seeing Jesus in the flesh as we are, same type of body and our weaknesses. I would also think that he was married at his age. None of this takes away anything, but only glorifies the Father more and also the son. The New Testament sternly warns on more than one occasion that the spirit of the Anti-Christ does not want us to believe that Christ came in the flesh and so preaches this.
I am thankful that people have been civil here and accepted a forum in discussions on this. For me to open up about Trinity and to speak against it, bothers me, yet I get courage, peace & purpose in doing so. The coward in me wants to erase all that I wrote against Trinity and even fear it, but the courage in me wants to stand for the way that I believed before examining Trinity years ago, when I had decided to see if I could accept it or if I truly believed in it. I am trying to stand my ground. This morning, it seemed easy to just back down and delete my entries for I don't want to harm the faith of others. I may not realize the damage that I could inflict on other people. So, what do I do. I don't value cowardness or superstitiousness. I value standing for what you believe and see in life.
I see a world of trouble with the Trinity insertion, an accepted tradition of man. I see it as having manipulated itself into our faith over the centuries through the spirit of the Anti-Christ. I see warnings written about this attempt coming from the Anti-Christ in the New Testament (Peter wrote about this). We are all seemingly innocent in these forces working against the Word, but I am the one who started to ask God and still do. Here is one of the manipulations for inserting the Trinity theology (there are better sources to find it than here):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_Johanneum Ever wondered why Trinity is so important to not believe in it, besides the warnings in the NT about this will of the Anti-Christ? Could it be that a wall is erected in persons who believe in it for they are joining in with this Spirit's intentions (keeping us from the Father)? We worship God and believe in his son and follow him. If I ever met Jesus in the person, I believe that either I would worship him or be friends with him, or could it be both, I don't know, but here and now, I don't add or seek to alter the Gospel of Jesus for my true fear of God. How many people truly fear God and will not distort their faith with this thing? You can see why Trinity supporters give a name like
heretic towards those who oppose their power grab (another play through the Anti-Christ's attempts into our faith, especially with Trinity). Those for abortion will call the baby a fetus (piece of flesh of the woman), but those for the baby will call it by its real name, baby. Because I ask people to truly fear God and not man or superstition or even his lack of comprehending the greatness of God, then I am a heretic for not believing by fear or intimidation in something blatently added next to our faith in Christ. Pollution is what it is. I'll keep the pure Word of God.
There was no such thing as Trinity in the days of Paul & Peter. They had to not worry about members weakness of faith to try and compose such new traditions, but instead of actual attacks on the church through persecutions, immorality and false doctrines.
For those of you, who believe in Trinity, I am going to suspect checked it out in detail as I and came up with your own conclusions. I don't want to hurt you or your faith. I just don't see the need of having to believe in anything other than our Lord Jesus Christ and obey our Father in Heaven who said to listen to his beloved son and obey him. I spent hundreds of hours and almost a year research things like Trinity before coming to my conclusions. It was a scary time to step-outside of this theology, but God wants us to be children of light (children of truth).