What is meant by the expression fully God? The bible tells us that there is just one who is autotheos and thus entitled to absolute worship.
1Corinthians8:6NIV"yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came..."
John17:3KJV"And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God,..."
Biblical theology tells us that there are four qualities that set the Lord JEHOVAH apart as uniquely qualified to receive absolute worship.
1. He is both necessary and sufficient as the source and sustainer of life and everything required for its flourishing.
2. He is superlative in authority being without equal or even approximate.
3. He is totally immutable.
4. He is omnipotent/omniscient.
Can any member of Christendom's trinity thus be considered fully God in any meaningful sense?
Obviously no member of Christendom's triad can be both necessary and sufficient, as a first cause if any of the three are sufficient as a first cause the other two are made unnecessary and if all three are necessary none are sufficient.
As per the dictionary definition of superlative one can either be superlative or coequal but not both, thus none of Christendom's triad would qualify as superlative.
Malachi3:6ASV"For I, Jehovah, change not; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed."
According to Christendom, JEHOVAH'S plain declaration that he is not subject to even the least change actually means he is subject to infinite change thus he could become a creature subject to death. We reject the fantastic leaps of logic and mental contortions needed to concur with such nonsense. Thus here too, the members of Christendom's triad fail the test of Godhood as determined by Scripture.
Genesis17:1ASV"And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect."
The declaration that JEHOVAH is the almighty God does not merely suggest that the Lord JEHOVAH is mightier than any other but that he is mightier than all others combined. Indeed he is bottomless reservoir of potential energy.
Isaiah40:28ASV"Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, JEHOVAH, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding."
If their are in fact two(or is it three) others as mighty as one then one is clearly not the mightiest thus we are forced to give the members of Christendom's triad another fail in the test of true Godhood.
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