Ok.  I need you to lay out clearly what you think these contradictions are which you refer to.
To say that God, Jesus, and Salvation contradict in the Bible, this means nothing to me.

Edit:  I went back and read the original post of yours that I had responded to and now offer the following:

I realize that other religions struggle with the idea of a 'Trinity'.  To me it is very easy to understand.  God is one, and just as I am one but have two arms, so God is one but has these two extensions of Himself.  Just as it is the whole of the body, the brain, that informs the arm, so it is the Father that informs the Son and Holy Spirit, branches of Himself.  So the Father is greater than the Son, but still one with Him... and the Holy Spirit is the part of Him that lives in us.

God is all powerful, created everything... therefore He can also recreate Himself in human flesh in the form of a Son if He so chooses... still part of Himself.  God is a great mystery capable of things humans will not understand.  God is capable of anything. 

Regarding the Holy Spirit... we are told that God is everywhere, and that God lives in us... this is the Holy Spirit, God living in us if we call upon Him.  It is simple.  God can do anything, and all things.  His wisdom is beyond anything man can understand. 

"For what man knows God's counsel, or who can conceive what our LORD intends?"

God speaking with Job 38-42:
"Who is this that obscures divine plans with words of ignorance?
Gird up your loins now like a man; for I will question you, and you tell me the answers.
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

Will we have arguing with the Almighty by the critic?
    Let him who would correct God give answer!
Then Job answered the Lord:
“Behold, I am of little account; what can I answer you?
    I put my hand over my mouth."

Then Job answered the Lord and said:
 “I know that you can do all things,
    and that no purpose of yours can be hindered.
 I have dealt with great things that I do not understand;
    things too wonderful for me, which I can not know.
 I had heard of you by word of mouth,
    but now my eye has seen you.
 Therefore I disown what I have said,
    and repent in dust and ashes.”


Aren't we all given a part of God at creation, a knowing of Him, when He breathes life into us?  Isn't it innately within us to know that there is God?  These things are easy for me to understand because I know God and I feel Him within me.  He speaks to me when I listen.  He speaks to all of us if we only listen.  This is the Holy Spirit of God living within us, when we invite Him in. 

These things are easy for me to understand.

"Now the natural person does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him it is foolishness, and he can not understand it, because it is spiritually discerned."

"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to those who are being saved it is the power of God.  For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
    the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." (Isaiah)

 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
 For after that, in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty"

Regarding salvation;
Salvation comes through the blood of Jesus only if we accept Jesus and are transformed in our lives through the acceptance of Him.  If we are not transformed then we do not truly have Christ.  It is devotion of love, through knowing the great sacrifice of our Lord, that brings us to obedience and salvation.  This is why the rich may be denied.  If they have not been transformed, then Jesus will not know him when he comes face to face.

Does this better address the confusion that you see as contradictions?

Sincerely,
Caringheart

Edited by honeto - 11 June 2012 at 1:29pm

[QUOTE=Larry] iec786,

   I am really starting to question your mental state. I have no idea of what Ezekiel 23:5-20 has to do with a discussion about the "Holy Gospel." The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel is part of the Old Testament.

   I still have NO IDEA of what you are trying to say or ask, what relevance does this quote about "whores" have to do with me, or with anything?





Red I maybe mental but not st**id.The question was so simple.Would you read this passage to your wife,children or your grand children would you.


19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

to Hasan,
I was led to add this one thing more.
In my previous post I wrote
"Salvation comes through the blood of Jesus ...  It is devotion of love, through knowing the great sacrifice of our Lord, that brings us to obedience and salvation."

This is true for the Christian.  Perhaps for the Christian salvation comes through Jesus because we needed to see this great sacrifice of God in order to come to Him... in order to be transformed in our lives and in our thinking.

I have thought that God comes to each group of people as He needs to come to them.  I have considered that God knew that, for the wayward Jews and the gentiles, Jesus(the great sacrifice) was necessary to bring them into belief and obedience.  It was Roman times and look at how the Romans lived.... look at what got the attention of the people.

I have considered that perhaps the Arab people had a different need... the life and story of Jesus was not something they could accept... not something they witnessed... perhaps they only needed to know the Word of God from a man from whom they could receive the message... so perhaps they do not need Jesus in order to be led into obedience and salvation.
Only God himself knows all Truth.