When did Christians deviate from the true Gospel? From the very beginning, while the Apostles were still alive, there were some Christians who were leading and being lead away. This is recorded in the Scriptures. This corruption was further spread by the Council of Nicaea and pushed upon the world by the Roman Catholic church through persecution and bloodshed.
Yes there are a group of preserved Christians who hold the truth and have been throughout history but it's not the mainstream Christianity that you see around you.
You also hold the same corrupt Christian beliefs that helped birth Islam.
fundamental doctrines(e.g., Jesus' death, resurrection, and deity)
This is the problem. You have taken the blasphemous view that Jesus is deity. This teaching is purely the tradition of men and is not only not found in the Scriptures but the Scriptures speak against it.
Jesus is a man, the perfect man. He was born of God and sent by God to our Savior. The Messiah is not God and to worship him as God is to give God's glory to another, breaking God's greatest commandment. Many are blind to this truth.
Islam is not the way, but if you don't understand where you yourself went astray then you cannot help them find the right way, for you are both lost.
True Christianity has one God who is the Father alone, Creator of all and God of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the last Adam, a perfect man who was chosen and sent to reconcile the world back to God. We put our faith in Christ because through Christ we may know the true God, not because he is God.
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Which means what? That Jesus is the Father? No. Jesus is the image of God and God's presence was indwelling within him.
An image is a representation of a person or thing, not the thing itself. This basic English negates Jesus from being God. If Jesus is the image of God then he cannot be God and worshiping him as God is to worship an image of God in His place, which is idolatry.
If they could not see the Father in Jesus, through his nature, works, and words, they weren't looking. That is the point of Jesus's words. It's very simple.
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"Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him." ~John 5:22-23
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Yes, you can see that the Father is God alone. He alone has the power to give to His son. The Son does nothing of his own, but is entrusted with authority and is sent by God.
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That ALL may honor the Son JUST AS they honor the Father...
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I don't see anything wrong with that. Though in your view it makes little sense that one God had to entrust the other God with judgement so that men would honor him. Wouldn't he be worthy of honor regardless? You are missing the simplicity of the Bible to cling to a lie, even a strong delusion perhaps?
Knowledge of basic English negates Jesus from being God. The trinity is a mystery because it's not in the Scriptures and it doesn't make sense. At best you worship falsely and at worst you worship a false god and I am trying to wake you up and every other person reading.
Why is it so difficult to accept the truth as Jesus, the Apostles, and the prophets of old taught it?
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(John 17:4-5 NIV) I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. {5} And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
(John 8:56-58 NIV) Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad." {57} "You are not yet fifty years old," the Jews said to him, "and you have seen Abraham!" {58} "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!"
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You can read yet you cannot understand. There are many faithful non-trinitarian Christians who believe that Jesus pre-existed and still was not God and there are many who believe that he did not pre-exist and still these verses cause no trouble for either. The Father of all things knows the end from the beginning. He chose and glorified Jesus from before the foundation of the world for his appointed position as Messiah. Abraham saw Christ's coming and rejoiced, because he had faith that it would be.
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