Could A Good God Permit So Much Suffering?

[Cypress]

Saying"divine nature" covers a lot of territory including a human who has insights to God or the supernatural. A palm reader can be seen as having a "divine nature".

9 Faith Groups That Deny the Trinity Doctrine

The Trinity doctrine is central to most Christian denominations even though the term is not in the Bible. Non-trinitarian faiths reject the doctrine.

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The doctrine of the Trinity is central to most Christian denominations and faith groups, although not all. The term Trinity is not found in the Bible, and the concept is not easy to grasp or explain. Yet most conservative, evangelical Bible scholars agree that the Trinity doctrine is clearly expressed within Scripture....

....9 Non-trinitarian Faiths
The following religions are among those that reject the doctrine of the Trinity. The list is not exhaustive but encompasses several of the major groups and religious movements. Included is a brief explanation of each group's beliefs about the nature of God, revealing a deviation from the Trinity doctrine.

Right, the Trinity wasn't doctrine until the 4th century. But even before then, all major early first and second century Christian groups considered Jesus to be more than a man. They thought he was divine.

I thought you were making the case that Christians could just view Jesus as nothing but a human teacher. That's what Muslims believe, but I don't know of any early or traditional Xtian groups that thought that.

The deists and Universalists thought Jesus was just a human teacher for sure.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Right, the Trinity wasn't doctrine until the 4th century. But even before then, all major early first and second century Christian groups considered Jesus to be more than a man. They thought he was divine.

I thought you were making the case that Christians could just view Jesus as nothing but a human teacher. That's what Muslims believe, but I don't know of any early or traditional Xtian groups that thought that.

The deists and Universalists thought Jesus was just a human teacher for sure.

The resurrection a major part of the myth. As you and I have discussed before, it's possible for a human man to have survived that relatively short time on the cross including being stabbed in the side.