5 Things You Lose When You Stop Believing Jesus is Almighty God.
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