2ndWitness:
It is time for you to slow down. I gave you a three-line answer and rather than accept the Scripture you answered with three paragraphs of sophistry.
This is the arrogance of Judeo-Christians which you have so readily reflected. YOUR Bible verses do not prove Bible verses cited by others to be wrong. That is asinine, but it is exactly how people like you act when you want to promote an opinion rather than seek the truth.
Christ was the rock in the desert. 1500 years before He was born in the flesh. Yahweh God was the pillar of smoke, and the pillar of fire, among other things. The entire "
trinity" premise is flawed from its foundation.
1) To WHOM did Jesus pray?
Yahshua Christ is God in the Flesh: the "fullness of the Divinty bodily", as Paul described Him. There are many other supporting Scriptures in Isaiah, Matthew, the Revelation and elsewhere.
No Bible verse which you can provide will somehow disprove other Bible verses. Therefore it is your interpretations of things which you must reconsider.
Christ prayed to the Father as an example for men. The purpose of His incarnation was not to be God on earth, but to live and die as a man.
2) Whose voice came down from Heaven and called Jesus His Son?
God can be everywhere and anywhere at once.
3) To Whom are we to pray in Jesus name?
Praying to Him in the name of Christ recognizes His sacrifice for us. His enemies the Jews claim to pray to G-d, but they do not have Him and their rejection of Christ proves that. Without Christ their is no approach to God, as Paul explained quite well.
4) Whom did Jesus call the Father, and how are His will and commandments said to be different from those of the Lord Jesus?
His commandments are not different. He is God and His commandments are in the Old Testament.
5) Whose throne is Jesus currently seated upon?
The bodily Christ is the physical manifestation of the invisible God. It is therefore illustrated that they are together. So we see language such as this in the Revelation: "12 Behold! I come quickly! And My reward is with Me to render to each as is his work! 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End." Since Yahweh claimed to the the First and the Last in Isaiah, they must be one and the same.
Christ said "I and my Father are one" and "He who has seen Me has seen the Father".
How many can you count to get to "one"?
6) Into whose hands does Jesus commit His spirit?
Many of the plain statements of Christ and of the prophets of Christ prove that He is Yahweh God. Many of the actions of Christ in His ministry portray Him as man living under God. That is because He lived not as God, but as man as an example for men.
7) And how on earth do you reconcile the whole picture of Revelation 5? The Ancient of Days is clearly shown to be seated upon the throne, the seven Spirits of God are around the throne and the Lamb of God stands before the throne and takes the scroll... all three Persons of the godhead are there.
Funny, Revelation chapter 4 says that the seven spirits are only lamps of fire burning before His throne. These are allegorical symbols, not literal descriptions of what is God. In Revelation 3:1 it is the words of Christ, and it is a reference to Christ where it says "he that hath the seven Spirits of God", so your paradigm is easily broken.
Isaiah chapter 9 wrote: 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Depart from your sophistry.
