Many are called, FEW are chosen. I disagree with your history. Christ taught is to keep the commandments in our hearts and mind, the RCC tried to alter them and punished the folks who kept them. You need to do a study on the book of Daniel.
Col 1:15 disagrees with you.
Wrong. Colossians 1:15 does not disagree with other verses which clearly state Jesus created all things.
Where did he get his POWER? It was given to him by his creator. Your not questioning traditional mistakes.
Just don't forget about Orthodoxy Keypurr. That's all I'm saying. You're fixated on Catholicism, but Orthodoxy is as equally Trinitarian as Catholicism, and just as ancient.
jesus did not pre-exist his birth, the spirit IN him did. The dove brought the true Son to dwell in Jesus and spoke through him. See Heb 10: and learn who/what needed a body prepared for him/it. That spirit had the power of his creator, that spirit is the true son. God created all things through that spirit son.
I believe that the early church became evil by men who believed the world was flat.
Philippians 2, it is not Jesus who emptied himself it was WHO was IN Jesus.we agree and have thought about this. Jesus called the Father "God." ??? He is. In Philippians 2 Jesus 'emptied himself.' Power ("authority," in Matthew 28:18, "over the gospel" (did you perhaps miss that?) What is the thing missed? : idunno: Try and remember, your previous understanding wasn't triune. It was more tritheism/modalism disconnected. Triune, on all your above verses, share in the truth of these scriptures BUT we try and not make OUR assumptions part of the formula for understanding scriptures. There is a careful wade and until one reads all of God's description of Himself in scripture, we must stave off summary.
You claim it was the spirit in Jesus which pre-existed. How does denying Jesus' deity support the idea that Jesus and God have the same spirit and are both to be worshiped as the singular God?
Apostolic succession is such an iffy thing. First it is about being trained well, which Roman priests aren't, Then it is about pretending to come from Peter who died in Babylon the great enemy of Israel.
Its inherent, He's God ! God wasn't created ! How can the Logos of God be created ?
So let's scratch out verses like Col 1:15 then. That verse is very clear friend. You can not twist truth to fit your faith
Every living thing is a creation. God alone is not created.
Col 1:15
The Logos of God was not Created, impossible Jn 1:1 H'es God !
My heart is soft and what I share is truth. I have been given a deep understanding of certain things in scripture and it an open mind to digest it. Truth runs deeper than what you have learned.
It is sad that you really think that. There is so much more in truth you miss.
Not so, he is a created form of God, not God.
Its sad for you, but God has hid this from you, not good friend !