I wonder if Einstein would agree to this "out of space" equation!
Einstein absolutely believed in God---I don't think, because of his Jewish background, that he believed Jesus as Messiah, but I dunno fer sure. But I can't imagine Albert having any problem with the concept...
Think of
water: in a glass, you have water, ice, and vapor---three distinct and different forms,
yet all is water. This is a good analogy of the Trinity in one sense, but poor in the sense that ice-can-become-water-can-become-steam, but the Son cannot become the Spirit cannot become the Father etc...
Jesus SAID that HIS doctrine COMES from God (John 7:16). Jesus TAUGHT: he is a MAN (John 8:49) and the FATHER alone is the ONLY true God (John 17:3). Thus, Jesus' doctrine says: he is a MAN and God is only ONE in the ONE "person" of the FATHER.
I'm not sure why you keep posting this argument, as if it proves your position---it does not. Jesus WAS a man, He was FULLY Human; but that does not remove His
also being fully God. And that John17:3 says "the Father is the only true God, and they may KNOW God and the Son You sent", does not contradict the premise that the Son can exist as
part of the ONE TRUE GOD and still be sent by the Father. No contradiction, your verses do not contradict the "Trinity"
thing.
I have shown you the Today's English Version of Heb. 7:3
I am not really concerned with any given translation---I can go to the Greek and find out what it really says. But
you must carefully filter verses to fit in with your belief system---I mean this respectfully, but, wouldn't it just be easier (and more honest) to simply read what it says?
Just for you, please go to BLUELETTERBIBLE and see the Greek for yourself:
click here. Click on each bracketted number and see if you find, "no
record of birth-or-death", or if it says "no BEGINNING/ORIGIN nor END/TERMINATION-OF-LIFE"?
Do you understand how we see your argument? Hebrews says,
"...where JESUS entered as a fore-runner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. For THIS Melchizedek..."
---but you say THIS is really THAT OTHER,
not JESUS".
It says, "without father/mother/beginning/end"---but YOU say "it's only the RECORD of His beginning..."
It says, "...but made
like the Son of God..."---but you say "it's ANOTHER Melchizedek not JESUS"---as if there is ANOTHER
ANYWHERE who is "like THE Son of God"...
SPEAKING of Greek and "Hebrews", did you ever comment on 1:8?
But unto the Son [He, GOD, saith], Thy throne, O God, [is] for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness [is] the sceptre of thy kingdom. Noooowwww, to ME, that shore sounds like GOD-THE-FATHER callin' Jesus,
GOD...
And you accept that "only GOD can be worshipped" and "there is only ONE SAVIOR", but then you turn and say, "WELLLL, God
gave Jesus both of those priveledges". So you bulldoggedly cling to JESUS-WASN'T-GOD, you cannot deny the verses that clearly assert "only GOD can be worshipped, only GOD is the Savior", but then you present
reasons why
Jesus-the-MAN now has those priviledges
previously only held by the FATHER!
Do you understand why we don't see credibility in your arguments, Ed?
And your UNDERSTANDING is SIMILAR to the Jews who killed Jesus!!
Ahhh, now I see; you believe that if Jesus had only
told them the TRUTH, He wouldn't have been crucified! Do you realize the full impact of that concept?
JESUS DIED FOR A LIE!!!
Tell me Ben, what did Jesus DO or SAY that MADE the Jews THINK that he was making himself equal to God or made himself God?
You tell me---
you have access to a Bible and to the Greek...