(Saturday, March 12, 2011, 5:22 AM)
Fra Angelico, Annunciation (El Prado, Madrid, Spain)
At a superficial glance, it may seem that Strict Monotheism is saying more or less the same things that Jehovah's Witnesses affirm.
Of course, both Jehovah's Witness and Strict Monotheism reject the doctrine of the "trinity", but we cannot gloss over the serious, and, I believe irreconcilable differences:
• Jehovah's Witness believe that Jesus Christ is a creature of God, perhaps God's first and most perfect creature (apparently one and the same as the Archangel Michael), but still a creature, that pre-existed his incarnation. In this their position is virtually identical to that of Arius (ca. 250 - 336 AD) and Arianism.
• Strict Monotheism affirms that Jesus Christ is NOT a creature of God, but, literally, His Son, the God-man, the Incarnation of God's eternal Word/Logos (John 1:1-18) generated by God's Holy Spirit from the Blessed Virgin Mary in a specific time and place (ca 6 BCE, Bethlehem), who, having been raised from the dead by God, the Father Almighty and "taken up" to heaven to sit at the Fathers right, has received by the Father a status (a "name") equal to the Father's (Phil 2:9-11).
What really matters, anyway, is that our conscience is not divided, but that we all sincerely seek the Truth.
Fra Angelico, Annunciation (El Prado, Madrid, Spain)
At a superficial glance, it may seem that Strict Monotheism is saying more or less the same things that Jehovah's Witnesses affirm.
Of course, both Jehovah's Witness and Strict Monotheism reject the doctrine of the "trinity", but we cannot gloss over the serious, and, I believe irreconcilable differences:
• Jehovah's Witness believe that Jesus Christ is a creature of God, perhaps God's first and most perfect creature (apparently one and the same as the Archangel Michael), but still a creature, that pre-existed his incarnation. In this their position is virtually identical to that of Arius (ca. 250 - 336 AD) and Arianism.
• Strict Monotheism affirms that Jesus Christ is NOT a creature of God, but, literally, His Son, the God-man, the Incarnation of God's eternal Word/Logos (John 1:1-18) generated by God's Holy Spirit from the Blessed Virgin Mary in a specific time and place (ca 6 BCE, Bethlehem), who, having been raised from the dead by God, the Father Almighty and "taken up" to heaven to sit at the Fathers right, has received by the Father a status (a "name") equal to the Father's (Phil 2:9-11).
What really matters, anyway, is that our conscience is not divided, but that we all sincerely seek the Truth.
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