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Q: How do Trinitarian Christians respond to these differences between Jesus Christ and God

So Few Against So ManyHow do people who believe in the theology of The Holy Trinity respond to these clear differences between God and Jesus Christ? # The Father Jesus Christ 1. God is not put to the test (Deut 6:16) Jesus was put to the test in the wilderness 2. God is not mocked(Gal 6:7) Jesus was mocked on...

Could you add numbers to the list of differences? That would make the answers more precise, I think.
Also, you should show more clearly why you say that "Jesus Christ received the breath of life from God like the two witnesses of The Book of Revelation".
This question is simply pointing out the difference between Deity and manifested humanity. It must be abundantly clear that the above fully supports Trinitarian doctrine. I cannot fathom what 'response' is being invited or expected.
@Conrado, sure thig, didn't understand what you meant initially, thought you were referring to the book of numbers
@SoFewAgainstSoMany Would you mind explaining where Jesus Christ received the breath of life? I ask because the Holy Spirit is often described as the breath of God and the breath of life. Also, at John 20:22 Jesus said to His disciples, "Receive the Holy Spirit."
@Mr.Bond, the Bibe compares Adam and Jesus because through one the curse of death and sufffering entered into the world and through the other salvation and life entered into the world so both Adam and Jesus had lifeless bodies at some instance of their lives and the breath of God had to enter them for them to be alive again, do ye not know that Adam receiving the breath of life from God was a foreshadow of what God intended to do with his Son thousands of years later?
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@SoFewAgainstSoMany I noticed in just about all your post you make "assumptions." When or where did Jesus Christ ever have a lifeless body that God His Father had to enter Him for Him to be alive again? At John 1:1-5 explains that Jesus was with God and He is God. Vs2, He was in the beginning with God. Vs3, All things came into being by Him etc. Vs4, "In Him was life, and the life was the light of men." This is in the past tense. This kind of life was in Greek is the "zoe, the highest form of life. The "Word/Jesus Christ is the author/source of life. In short, Jesus had life in Himself.
@Mr.Bond, Jesus died and remained at the heart of the earth for three days, it is the breath of life from God that entered into his body and he regained his consciousness. The Father is the source of all life, the river of life flows from his throne and so does the breath of life which entered into the body of Jesus, the dead will also receive that same breath and regain their consciousness and go into judgment, we also rely on the Holy Spirit to understand these things.
No, Jesus is Life; He says so Himself. If He wasn't God, this would conflict with God being Life, but He is God, so He rightly says that He Himself is Life. He also says He takes up His own life, not that someone else gives it back to Him. And there are so many other Trinitarian proofs, e.g. both God and Jesus described as the sole Creator and the sustainer of Creation.
Be careful Mathew, you remember that prophecy about the elect being deceived into the worship of a false Jesus who shows up in the sky with light and holes in his hands and feet claiming to be God? trinitarians will most likely fall for that trap because they believe Jesus to be God
You mean... the one in John 20? Acts 1? John 8:58? You can't deny that Jesus is God without rejecting most of the New Testament and at least some of Isaiah. Beware yourself; if you persist on denying that Jesus is God, you may find Him saying "I never knew you; depart from me". (Or, more accurately, "you never knew me".)
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bob
The title appears to assume your conclusion and as such could be reworded. By crude analogy if you believed Bruce Wayne not to be Batman (very crude analogy I know) and asked “How to explain these differences between Bruce Wayne and Batman” you’d be implicitly saying “Bruce Wayne isn’t Batman” in the title for the question “Defend your assertion that Bruce Way is Batman given these apparent differences between the two persons who may or may not be the same individual”.
Also could you provide Scripture references for all of your points? You did for some but not for all.
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@bob, the rest are obvious to believers as they are themes that dominate the gospel and prophecy but I will look into it
bob
bob
God allows himself to be mocked for a time (people often get away with it for a short time) but he will not ultimately be mocked by anyone (all who reject Jesus spend eternity in hell). Jesus could and still can be mocked for a short time, but all who mock by denying him without repentance will in the end suffer the consequences. So Jesus cannot be mocked in the same way that it is said in Galatians that God cannot be mocked, so your difference #2 isn’t a difference.
Hebrews explains your #1 showing that’s why Jesus took on flesh in part so he could be tempted. It was his humanity that he took on that permitted that. It was additive not subtractive.
For #3 Jesus covered that when he said he had power to raise his life back up. Mere men cannot raise themselves back to life. But Jesus being God in the flesh—yep!
Jesus actually said this multiple times, so either he is God as he claimed or he would be a liar. There’s no middle ground here.
I'd say the far more difficult challenge would be to explain the difference in character between God in the old testament and Jesus, to reconcile all the mass murder and whatnot with the more loving message of Jesus (and the idea that God is all-loving). Although this problem isn't unique to trinitarianism. (There are some apologetics to try to explain that away, but it doesn't stand up to much scrutiny.)
bob
bob
There is no difference in character. Jesus’ mission in his first coming was to seek and save that which was lost. His second coming will be to conquer and judge and he will slay with the double-edged sword from his mouth and cast into the lake of fire. There is both love and judgement in Jesus’ person every but as much in the Father’s person as seen in the OT. They are the same. Much love and mercy is present in the OT when you realize that God’s people devolved into abject idolatry just over the threshold of Egypt and God spared them. And continued to, over and over again…
…He sent his prophets knowing they would be mistreated and killed, in love desiring to lead Israel to repentance, culminating in sending his Son Jesus to die for their sins (and the sins of the Gentiles) and to bring them back to himself. Jesus carried out that exact mission on the earth. They are one and the same.
Note that God’s judgement is always just and right. We don’t understand it, we don’t understand the severity of our sin, we think we and all other people are basically good and so think ourselves worthy of good and God wrong when he punishes us in any way, when the reality is the reverse: we all deserve death in hell, but he shows goodness and mercy to us daily and we don’t realize it. Much of the OT is hard to understand I think partly because our world now is so different but more so because we neither understand how sinful we are nor how holy God is.
Each of us is the servant in the NT parable who owes the effectively infinite debt (10,000 talents or billions and billions of dollars) to God because of our sin. Jesus was right when he called us wicked. But God is merciful and patient.

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