The HIGH Cost of Deity of Christ Interpretations: Dishonoring Father
Deity of Christ Interpretations of the Bible Dishonor the Father, the Only True God.
If Jesus is God, then God the Father is not the one true God. The claim that “Jesus is God” becomes the main building block used by humans to construct a multi-person god. If Jesus is one member of a multi-person (or a Triune god) then the multi-person god is the one God, and the Father is not.
Mainstream Christians agree that there is one God. “Weare monotheists. We believe in one God”. But for mainstream Christians, the one God is made up of three persons.
Either the Father, a singular self, is the one true God, or a multi-person god is the one God.
But if the Father is the one true God, then the claim that “Jesus is God” (that God is multi-persons) is an attempt to denigrate the only true God -- the Father. What deity of Christ and Trinitarian interpreters are doing is attempting to put another god on the face of and in the place of our God and Father.
The HIGH cost of any “deity of Christ” interpretations is an attempt to claim that the Father is not the one, the only true God. Christians need to decide: who is your God. Either the Trinity, or the Father alone. Your God can’t be both.
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