It proves He and the Father are one. In Him dwells all the fullness of the Deity.
The Biblical Meaning of "Son of God"
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b. If a Unitarian affirms the Lord Jesus is the only despotēs of every Christian, then that would contradict Acts 4:24.
Colossians 2:9
For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form.
1. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains: the nature or state of being God (12.13, theotēs, page 140, J. P. Louw and Eugene Nida).
2. Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: the state of being God (theotēs, page 288).
The Deity doesn't dwell in the Father as He is that Deity. As Jesus, the head of the body of Christ, calls Him the only true God.
Your issue is with Him not me.
Perhaps you should ask Him to assuming you have that relationship.
Which means the Deity would dwell in Him for that is what He is.
Biblical unitarians believe Jesus is a glorified man. They believe Jesus's spirit and body began in Mary's womb. Sort of like you in that regard.
The Son who was, His spirit, descended and was in that body and we read the Father was living in Him.
Which totally evades how the "only despotēs" of every Christian applies to both the Father and to the Lord Jesus.
If He was Deity why the need for it to dwell in Him? The Him apart from that Deity is the spirit of the Firstborn
From your perspective why the need?
And again, when God brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”
I think not.
1 Corinthians 8:6 (From) vs (Through) A distinction was made between God and Lord that's not captured by orthodox trinity statements.
You like logic?
God is our Father. Jesus is not our Father.
God is Jesus's God and Father.
If it didn't dwell in Him then He wouldn't be the Deity.
Does this mean the Father is not the Lord of the Christian?
...just staying with your "logic".
Col 1:19 -from the will of another and I disagree with your reasoning. If He was Deity then there would be no need to dwell in Him.
It proves Jesus is the Almighty in that He is the proper recipient of prayer.
Robert Bowman and J. Ed Komoszewski: In context, Paul is referring to the incarnation. He is saying that God was pleased to be fully incarnated in the human Jesus of Nazareth. "It is the same Jesus, crucified and buried but risen again, and now alive for evermore as Christ the Lord, in whom the totality resides" (Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ, page 77).
What could Paul state to make it more clear to you?
To us there is only one true God the Father? I doubt even that would satisfy you as you didn't believe Jesus when He stated so.
Again God is our Father. Jesus is not our Father. A distinction made.
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
James 3:9
With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God
The Father is referred to as "Lord".
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Because He exists as the "state of being God".
