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One of the Reasons the Trinity Doctrine formed was because the majority of christendom centered all attention in the salvation of man and shunned the biblical doctrine of the Ransom. Jesus himself said concerning one of the reasons he was sent to Earth, “Just as the Son of man came, not to be ministered to, but to minister and to give his soul a ransom in exchange for many.” (Matthew 20:28).

Here, Jesus was talking to his disciples, who were Jewish and knew the Law of Moses. Why did Jesus use the word ransom when he could have said, “I came to save mankind”? The greek word for ransom is ly-tron, and the hebrew ko-fer means “to cover, a correspondent price, and exact price, an exact covering”. The Jews knew all to well what ransom meant. The Law of Moses, which was a shadow of greater things to come, contained that principle of exact price or covering price (a ransom). Please, read it in Exodus 21:23-25. Do you see it? Soul for Soul (or as other traductions have it, Life for a Life).

Jesus was to be a ransom. For who? Adam. Adam was a perfect human with the perspective of eternal life, if he remained obedient to God. But he sinned, and Adam, Eve, and their posterity were sentenced to death. Death entered the world for the sin of one man (Romans 5:12). A perfect life was lost, and had to be restored. But who could pay such a price? Not one of Adam's children could cover such a price.

Interesting are the words found in Psalm 49:7,8, “Not one of them can by any means redeem even a brother, nor give God a ransom for him. And the redemption price of their soul is so precious that it has ceased to time indefinite.”

So, if a ransom, a corresponding and exact price was to be paid to satisfy God's justice (For Justice, one of the main attributes of God is ever present in all his acts) a perfect man had to die. No more, no less. Adam, a perfect man had brought death, and only a perfect man could lift such burden from the neck of us, sinners sentenced to death.

The belief of a God-Man, which is not found is scripture, gave foot to the belief of the Trinity. Jesus was sent by God, for he had lived in heavens before coming to Earth. But he was sent as a perfect man, not a 100%God-100%Man creature. He was a man, nothing more, nothing less. Perfect, for he never sinned (not in thought, acts, words). To be the “ransom for many” he had to be a perfect human being, as Adam was. NOT NEVER A GOD-MAN. That is why Paul said that Adam bore a resemblance of the one to come. A resemblance, for Adam never lived in Heaven, nor was resurrected as Jesus was.

The fact is that when the Athanasian Creed was written, it relied too much on pagan Greek philosophy. The use of Platonic terms and words to explain something that, if were the truth, could be explained just in base of sola scriptura (JUST THE BIBLE IN PLAIN ENGLISH) shows the pagan roots to this belief.

Jesus said that eternal life came from knowing the only true God and Jesus, whom he had sent (John 17:3). How can anyone attain eternal life is somethings as fundamental as God's Person is too complicated and ilogical for even theologians to explain, much less for the simple person? The terms GOD THE SON and GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT do not appear in scripture. All came from weaving greek philosophy with man made doctrines.

Jesus, the Son of God, the Mighty God (El-Guibbor and not EL SHADDAI or Almighty God) was a spirit, sent to Earth as a perfect man, not a MAN-GOD being, to be a ransom for what Adam lost, a perfect human life, and was resurrected by GOD, JEHOVAH, HIS FATHER, given the name above all names for the Glory of GOD THE FATHER. (SEE, TWO DISTINCT PERSONS)

I hope this clears some doubts concerning what the BIBLE says about who Jesus was.

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