Not one verse in Scripture says Yeshua is the only true God. His Father is (John 17:3; Exodus 3:6; Acts 3:13). If you are not going to quote Scripture to support your beliefs, then there is no reason to continue. I will NEVER submit to the traditions of the so called Catholic church. I left that despicable organization a long time ago and do not plan on returning.
Please answer these questions for me.
1) If the Father is separate from the Son, and the Holy Spirit is a separate person from them, then who is Messiah's father?
Matthew 1:18-20 reads, "Now the birth of Yeshua Messiah was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of YHWH appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit."
Is the Holy Spirit Yeshua's Father and not YHWH? The only way to understand this is through Luke 1:35, "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and
the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of Elohim." The Holy Spirit is the power by which YHWH caused the conception.
2) Why doesn't the Apostle Paul invoke the Holy Spirit in the introduction to his epistles as he does the Father and the Son? This would seem rather offensive to the Holy Spirit if he were a co-equal person.
3) Why is the Holy Spirit never depicted as sitting on or standing near the throne as are the Father and the Son? (
Acts 7:55,
56;
Colossians 3:1; and
Revelation 5:1-9;
7:10). We do not even see an empty throne for him.
4)
1 Corinthians 11:3 gives a hierarchy in which women, men, and Messiah each have a head with God (YHWH the Father) being the uppermost in authority. Where is the Holy Spirit?
5)
Ephesians 5:5 tells us the "kingdom" that believers shall inherit is "of Messiah" and "of Elohim." Why is the Kingdom not of the Holy Spirit as well?
6) The Father and the Son converse with each other, but why don't they converse with the Holy Spirit?
Unbelievers die in their sins. Believers die to sin. Yeshua was not just a man. He is the only begotten Son of YHWH who has no earthly father and who was GIVEN all authority to forgive sin and whose sinless blood is efficacious to cleanse sin.
Any man on earth can possess the full authority of God IF YHWH GIVES it to him. You teach assumptions based on whatever you feel like reading into a text.
You words alone prove you are manipulating Scripture by reading your beliefs into the text. Eis to onoma says absolutely nothing about divinity.