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Hail the Incarnate Deity? Celebrating Christmas Without the Trinity

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H ow do you top God becoming a baby? Is there a narrative quite as compelling or wondrous as the Almighty laying aside His Privilege and Power to be born into poverty as a human? Since celebrating my first Christmas two years ago as an "arian" (I believe Almighty God is the Father alone and that Jesus is the first and greatest thing God brought into existence), I have twirled this question around and around in my mind. Christmas after Christmas, I had affirmed (at differing levels of comprehension and clarity) that at the virginal conception, the Second Person of the Triune Deity, God the Son, added to his divine person and divine nature a human nature, a hypostatic union, becoming the God-Man. Today, I read that sentence and shake my head, not in derision of my brothers and sisters for whom this is still a precious reality, or even of the description itself, but in disbelief at how something once so familiar feels now so foreign. It’s like walking past a former friend, silen
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5 Things You Lose When You Stop Believing Jesus is Almighty God.

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  I n 2019, after six years of studying how to defend the doctrine of the Trinity from the Bible, I realized I no longer believed that "one God eternally existent in three persons" was a biblically accurate way of describing the relationship between God, the Son of God, and the Spirit of God.  Included in this change of perspective, was coming to affirm that the Logos of God, who would later be incarnated as Jesus of Nazareth, was literally the beginning of the creation of God (Rev. 3:14). In other words, Jesus was brought into existence by the eternal Almighty God (cf. Prov. 8:22), God the Father, and so was not himself the eternal Almighty God. Just as plucking a solitary strand of a spider's web sends reverberations through every part of the web, this doctrinal change sent shock waves out towards other aspects of my Christian belief and walk.  Some things were gained.  Other things were lost. In this post, I want to mention five things I lost when I stopped believing J
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