The Trinity:A Metonymic View

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Sun, 2 May 1999 10:37:46 EDT (00925673866, 6c140d1b.245dbd3a@aol.com) 

JOE

If Jesus Christ were truly God, or if there existed such a co-egual and 
co-essential oneness between the Father, and the Son that they constituted 
but one being,then what is true of one is true of the other,and a change of 
names and titles from one to the other cannot alter the sense of the text.

Let us,then, substitute the titles found applied to the Son in the New 
Testament,to the Father,and observe the effect:

John 14:28, "My Son is greater than I."
John 5:19, "God can do nothing of Himself."
John 5:43, "I am come in my Son's name,and you did not recieve Me."
John 1:18, "No one has seen Jesus at any time."
Matt.27:46, "God cried,Jesus, why have you forsaken Me?"
Eph.3:9, "Jesus created all things by his Son."
Luke 22:69, "God sat down at the right hand of Jesus."
1 Tim.2:5, "There is one Jesus,one mediator between Jesus and men."
1 John 4:9, "Jesus sent his only begotten Father."
Mark 13:32, "God knows not the hour,but Jesus does."
Acts 17:31, "God is ordained by Jesus."
Matt.28:18, "Jesus gave all power to God."
1 John 2:1, "We have an advocate with Jesus,God the righteous."
Luke 6:12, "God prayed all night to Jesus."
John 6:38, "God came down from heaven to do the will of Jesus."
John 20:17, "Jesus is God of the Father."
Phil.2:9, "Jesus has exalted God,and given Him a more excellent name."
Heb.2:9, "Jesus made God a little lowerr than the angels."

Now, the question arises,is the above representation a true one? Most 
certainly it must be,if Jesus and the Father are but one almighty Being. A 
change of names cannot alter the truth nor the sense.
The above reversal of names and titles of Jesus and the Father may sound very 
unpleasant to Christ-adoring Christians,simply because it is the 
transposition of the titles of two very scripturally dissimilar 
beings,instead of being, as generally taught by orthodox Christians, "one in 
essence,one in mind,and one in body or being."
If Jesus is God and there is but one God, then the foregoing transposition 
cannot mar the sense nor alter the truth of one text quoted.

Joe