His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence
If God can create, appoint, empower, resurrect, and exalt the Messiah, why would God’s use of a human mediator logically require the mediator to possess God’s own identity?
A majority of “Trinitarians” are modalists.
The minority are tritheist.
The remainder are incoherent.
The demons get it, why don’t the Trinitarians?
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
“Open to reason”. I wish more Trinitarians were.
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
Good place to mention the “only a God man can mediate” teaching, but it isn’t there for some reason…
“Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.”
The Father is superior.
“It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.”
“Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”
Where does a New Testament author explicitly teach that Jesus must be God, rather than God's sinless, obedient, divinely appointed Messiah, in order for his death and resurrection to save humanity?
The author of Hebrews spends an enormous amount of time explaining why Jesus had to be genuinely human, why he had to suffer, why he had to obey, and why God appointed him as high priest—but he never explicitly argues that Jesus must be God in order to save humanity.
Why?
Athanasius lied and said the “he“ was Jesus. It is clearly the Father.
For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.
Biblical history does not permit us to assume that a community's proximity to a mighty work of God guarantees that every subsequent generation will correctly preserve and interpret the revelation it received.
God grants this to the Son, which strongly implies he does not have this by nature.
“Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control.”
If Heb 1 repeatedly teaches Jesus is God, why does the author conclude the chapter establishing the Son's superiority with a quotation in which God is the one who grants the Son his position and defeats the Son's enemies.
Who is “him”?
“It is the LORD your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.”

