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Originally Posted by Light
This is a common pattern with you when you have no answer. You a change the subject.
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You're projecting again! This is precisely what you did in your 1033 in order to avoid responding to the passages and my argument in 1031, since you could not answer the issues I raised therein.
And by the way, just for your info: The Trinity is intimated in Ex 3:14. Note how many times "I AM" is spoken by God:
Ex 3:14
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And God said to Moses, "
I AM WHO I AM";
and He said, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, '
I AM has sent me to you.'"
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Also, I AM is God's
name. I AM is not what God is, but as the passage says above WHO God is.
Ex 3:15
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And God, furthermore, said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' [b]
This is My Name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations.
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And once again, the Trinity is intimated in this passage with
Eloheey ("God of") used three times after He claimed to be the God of the Hebrews' fathers.
Jesus also, on several occasions, claimed the Name for himself, claiming to be
I AM -- who existed
BEFORE Abraham and existed with the Father
BEFORE the world was created. The Jews understood perfectly what He was saying and they wanted to kill him right on the spot in Jn 8:58 because they thought he was blaspheming God.
Jesus very clearly taught the Trinity in this passage:
Matt 28:19-20
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"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in THE NAME of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20
teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. "
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Note carefully: The One Name is in Three Persons, which is another way of saving the One Divine Essence is in all Three Persons. Jesus is a person, His Father is a person and he Holy Spirit is a person. Because the Divine Essence is in all Three, the Three formed a perfect union. They were perfectly united. In this sense, therefore, They are One! This is why "Elohiym" (God) is a
collective noun in Deut 6:4 and many other places in the OT. And collective nouns always mean more than one. Always. And collective nouns always take singular verb forms.
