The trinity is a false teaching

First may I take this opportunity to thank my esteemed opponent for issuing this debate challenge and for all the work he has so obviously put into his concise and thorough opening round. ************************************************************************************* 1) God says he is the one and only *************************************************************************************8 Here my opponent has made the common error of stating that if a thing is described as 'one' then it naturally follows that it cannot ALSO be 'three'. As I will now show, many occurrences within nature are trinitarian or three in one, Exactly as one would expect if the Creator were Himself Trinitarian. Some Examples: REALITY. Time, space and matter. TIME. Past, present and future. SPACE. Length, width and height. MATTER. Solid, liquid and gas. H2O. Water, ice and steam. MAN. Soul, body and Spirit. SOUL. Mind, emotions and will. This negates the argument that anything described as 'one' cannot be 'three' at the SAME time. ************************************************************************************* 2) Bible writers would make it clear that they are all one ************************************************************************************* My opening argument somewhat negates most of this point. However, I would at this point wish to introduce a scripture which I believe does explicitly show that God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are indeed (3 in) One. ROMANS 8:9 States: You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by The Spirit, If the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. Here, in one verse and only two sentences, Paul makes a point of using first 'The Spirit' and then 'Spirit of God' and then 'Spirit of Christ' to explicitly convey that these terms are interchangeable. ************************************************************************************* 3)No one else in the bible is called the ALMIGHTY ************************************************************************************* Jesus' ministry on earth was essentially to teach us 'how to be men'. Part of that would include how to think about God, how to address Him and how to pray etc. As a major part of his teaching ministry was to teach humility it would not have been wise to refer to Himself as 'God Almighty'. He is, however, explicit, in aligning Himself with God the Father. JOHN 14:9 states Jesus answered: "Don't you know Me Phillip? even after I have been among you such a long time? ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN ME HAS SEEN THE FATHER. (my caps) How can you say 'Show us the Father?' ." ************************************************************************************* 4) God couldn't be tempted to join a cause against himself ************************************************************************************* Again I feel your inability to believe that 'anything that is separate can indeed still be one' blinds you to the fact that Christ is indeed BOTH separate AND One with God. If He is separate and Has free will and became a man then the choice to rebel was open to Him. He resisted that temptation and, as with any resistance, He suffered. The KEY to understanding this point is that although Christ is God, He became FULLY human.. But NOT a fallen sinful human. ************************************************************************************* 5) Jesus being God would be counterproductive to his cause ************************************************************************************* Again I'm struggling to say anything new because my opening argument shows God can indeed be God AND mediator. In the same way that a glass of water can be separated into both ice and steam. Maybe a way to think of it would be 'who else is God gonna trust?'. OR.. IF YOU WANT A JOB DONE PROPERLY.. ************************************************************************************* Jesus, no more and no less than a perfect human, became a ransom that compensated exactly for what Adam lost—the right to perfect human life on earth. ************************************************************************************* Jesus certainly was a perfect man. This in no way negates Him being God incarnate. Jesus, like Adam, was spiritually joined to God (Alive). Unlike you and I he did not have a human father and so escaped the sinful nature that is passed down from man to man. The Whole 'Jesus for Adam' doctrine is just one way to understand a greater mystery. Another way is that Adam brought death through disobedience and Christ brought Life through obedience, even to a shameful death on a cross. Jesus Christ Is consistently referred to as the Son of God or God's 'only begotten Son'. Let's dwell on that word 'begotten' a moment. It refers to pro-creation. A sinful man begets a sinful human child. A badger begets a badger and so on and so forth. God begets God. If we accept the doctrine of the virgin birth then it is unavoidable that Jesus Christ IS God.