Beware

 Illuminating prophecy is a major ministry of the Holy Spirit. If we can we a few decades, we might live long enough to see the three-part ‘Beast’ empire system fully formed, with a two-part system spreading its propaganda to bring people everywhere into worship of it. It is all probably already in existence. Instead of the one true God, most will settle for this Beast. Beware.

What sensible humans seek

 Sensible humans seek the topmost, ultimate being as the recipient of their prayers and their worship—and this requires a real being of creatorship, and ultimate authority as the one true God. Jesus Christ came, sent by the Father, to testify that the Father is this very being, this one true God. Jesus died for you to bring you to this one true God. Jesus is your light, to illuminate with the truth. His death on the cross is to deal with your wrongdoing, so that it need not separate you from God, and then forever you can live in fellowship with him and with the Father. But this fellowship has an essential requirement. This requirement is that you believe he is the light sent from God, and that you hold to his light-giving teachings. We can also all have fellowship with each other, if we meet these requirements, by the power of his name. We then all become like a Bride for him, the Bridegroom, as we become a many-person, many-faceted people all given eternal life in him. Such a marvellous mystery. 

God

 For their prayer and worship, humans seek a being who:

1. Can hear and respond reliably,
2. Cannot be overruled by anyone else, and
3. Provides a permanent, stable focus for prayer and worship.

In other words, humans sensibly seek the topmost, ultimate beingas the recipient of devotion—and that requires creatorship, and ultimate authority as the one true God.

Jesus Christ came, sent by the Father, to testify that the Father is this very being, this one true God. 

Scripture vs Theology

 Giving the impression of trying to tie philosophical theology in to scriptures has been rather a dishonest practice over the centuries. Honesty requires a distinction between what scriptures actually say, and what is added as an interpretative overlay. Deity as a concept is found in scripture of course. The Christ coming in the flesh having already existed in spirit, that is there too. The becoming flesh is there. The substance (essence, being) of God is there. But it is what gets inferred from the scripture references that is dishonest: inserted concepts which are not explicitly there. The theology and philosophy of church history is full of dishonesty, worldly. The Spirit of truth leads into all truth and has no dishonesty. We should seek the truth through this Spirit. We might be led into all truth, and have the encouragement of what scriptures genuinely teach, and have fellowship with the Father and the Son as a result, but then church historical theologies are imposed on us by established ecclesiastical structure, possibly against our will, divorcing us from the sublime fellowship with God. We must resist, and with honesty remain in the genuine teachings of Christ. 

Be honest

 Personally I find the doctrine of Sola Scriptura to be paradoxical. It says essential doctrines must be from scripture. Yet I cannot see scripture saying this. So I find it paradoxical. But if you believe it, what do you do about the doctrine of the Son as being eternally begotten? Were it not for Trinitarian ideas, there is nothing in scripture alone to say the Son is eternally begotten. So it is not in keeping with Sola Scriptura. Is it honest? How can it be truth if it is dishonest? And is Sola Scriptura an honest doctrine anyway, if it is not found in scripture? Go figure. Be honest. 

Not really biblical

 If “eternal begetting” were scriptural in the same way that the scriptures unambiguously assert that the Christ came in the flesh (flesh which is clearly something created), there would not have been centuries of church debates and schisms. Were it not for Trinitarian ideas, there is nothing in scripture alone to say the Son is eternally begotten.

Not vain glory

 The Jews of Jesus’ time, as recorded in John’s gospel, when Jesus said he was the Son of God, thought he was saying it for vain glory, but he was saying it to save them from their sins.

Satan tempted him by suggesting he prove it, but, for vain glory, so he refused. This shows it was not a vainglorious blasphemous claim, of being Son of God, but true nonetheless. He only made the claim when it was in service to God and for the salvation of his hearers. That is not vain-glorious blasphemy. It is worship of the Father, doing the Father’s will, in spirit and truth. 

Zeal for Trinitarian or Oneness philosophies obscures all this, as did Rabbinical Monotheistic Judaism previously, oblivious to correction by Jesus.