General Learning from the Greeks

[benadam1974]

"Many Christians, by name and not by faith, believe that Jesus was part of a mysterious trinity. In order to find proof to their unreasonable claims, they play with words. They say Bible states that Jesus was not CREATED but instead he was BEGOTTEN directly from the father.
They say that in Greek begot (γεννω) is referring to equal species like humans and so we read in genesis that God YHWH begets an equal species also, a God, Jesus. How tragically wrong the Trinitarians are.
They forget that this is the meaning of the word beget = γεννω only when it refers to humans because behind humans, God is the one who creates their babies and gives them the ability to beget.
I want to say that there is a form of creation always present when something or someone appears for the first time. It is totally wrong to say that Jesus was not created. The Greek language does not support Trinitarians.
From the moment that we admit that Jesus had a beginning then we must admit that Jesus is a created being and therefore cannot be equal to God.
The ancient Greek word γεννω [Luke 1.35] means also to create.
The translation of the Greek word genesis (which has the same root) refers to creation [Mat 1.18]."
Teo Manaroulias

 

[Marty]

I think, generally speaking, Christians raised in a trinitarian tradition of some sort have to come to the realization of the problems with it themselves. Arguments over semantics will generally not convince them.