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Old 12-02-2008, 06:59 PM
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Hemi,

I'm not aware of anywhere the Bible uses "being" to describe God but it and the BoM does use "one God" but never "three Gods" to describe the Godhead.

What do you think it means to call Jesus "the eternal God"? (Obviously you know the "the" is a definite article and the straight forward reading would be that He alone is the eternal God, which is not a problem for a trinitarian but I see as problematic for LDS)

I have no problems with Stephen seeing a Jesus standing at the right hand of God. However "right hand of God" could be an idiom meaning that Jesus was in a position of authority. If a leader calls someone their "right hand man", we don't think that that person is literally the right hand of the leader.
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