Bibles delivered to Iran!
https://backtojerusalem.com/bibles-for-iran-%f0%9f%99%8f%f0%9f%93%96/
This is very good, they can read the Bible and get rid of the apostate Christianity.
As an example they can read 1 Tim 2:5-6: “For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all”
They will learn that there is one God, no “Triune God”, they will learn that the mediator between God and men is the man Christ Jesus not the “God-Man, Second Person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ”
By believing in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, they would save their souls, the “Triune God” can’t save anybody because he doesn’t exist. The “God-Man, Second Person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ” doesn’t exist either, that is apostate Christianity since the 4th Century.
@otso @sinbach It is indeed very good because they can read the Bible and come to a knowledge of God. What can Psalm 45:6-7 mean other than that Jesus is not only a true man, but also God?
Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness; you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.
These verses are applied to Jesus, whose throne is forever, and who is anointed by God the Father, in Hebrews 1:8-9.
There's a nice article on the Old Testament basis of our understanding of the Trinity by Jews for Jesus,
https://jewsforjesus.org/learn/a-jewish-view-of-the-trinity-based-on-the-hebrew-scriptures/
Also Jesus said things that show he believed himself to be God, for example Matthew 26:63-65, where he said he would be seated at the right hand of God and coming on the clouds. Cloud riding was understood to be something gods, not humans did, so he was convicted of blasphemy (which was only untrue because he is God)
You can’t turn the Bible against Jesus Christ.
Jesus cited the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shema_Yisrael as the greatest commandment of all whereupon the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him.” (Mark 12:32)
Jesus and his disciples had the same God: “my Father and your Father” “my God and your God” (John 20:17)
To know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he sent to the world is eternal life.
To know the Triune God and the Second Person of Trinity is not said to be the eternal life.
“And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” (John 17:3)
“to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.” (Jude 1:25)
@otso No one can say "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit (I Cor 12:3) and we are both saying "Jesus is Lord". Salvation is by knowing Jesus, not by the excellence of our theology (although wrong theology can get in the way of knowing Jesus).
The church's answer is one God in three persons. Does anybody really fully understand that? Probably not. Most simple explanations which give God three roles (the same man can be the son of his parents, the husband of his wife, and the father of his children) seem to fall into the heresy of modalism, where you only have one person.
But should we really expect such a complete understanding of God? Can we understand wave-particle duality in a clear way? We can recite the wave behavior of photons encountering slits and the particle behavior demonstrated by the photoelectric effect, but I at least can't say I understand it. And the seraphim flying around God's throne are said to see something new about Him every circuit.
