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To be brief and not to give to many returns, the BIBLICAL UNITARISMO it is a theological position that maintains that God is ONE and UNIQUE one if we were based on the information that us dà of God the book known like Bible.

There is no place to confusion. My conviction and certainty with respect to God are that he is ONE ONLY and UNIQUE. For that reason I am unitary. I base that certainty on the Bible that says throughout all their extension that “one is not only He and there is no another one outside Him�. Therefore my unitarismo is Biblical.

They exist unitary “nonBiblical�? Clearly. The Muslims for example are UNITARY. They think that God is ONE and ONLY but they do not maintain that conviction based on the Bible but on the Corán. They are UNITARY KORANIC nonBIBLICAL. And also we could mention to a pair of religions but. But it agrees to leave in clear that, the person who arrives at the conviction that God, the creator of the Universe is ONE and ONLY and INDIVISIBLE and INCOMPARABLE based on the reading and study of the Bible he is defined as BIBLICAL UNITARIAN. Any more clear that this definition. The Jews for example think that A SINGLE GOD exists and that this A SINGLE GOD (it is worth the redundancy and the obviedad) is indeed ONE ONLY. The SHEMA ISRAEL that repeats every Saturday in the synagogs which the rabbí Jesus mentioned as but the great order is “Yahwéh our God, Yahweh is ONE�. So the Jews are BIBLICALLY UNITARY because they base his unitarismo not on corán, but in the Bible. Perhaps in one he starts off, or sector, or stage of the Bible, but they base his unitarismo on the Bible and therefore they are BIBLICALLY UNITARY.

This it is a point in which we can be put in agreement many and to perhaps differ in other theological convictions. The cristadelfianos for example are Biblical Unitarians: they think that God is ONE ONLY and they are based on the Bible to argue this. Perhaps it differs with them as far as other doctrinal points: but they are Biblically unitary.

The witnesses of Jehovah for example ARE NOT BIBLICALLY UNITARY. They are BIBLICALLY MONOLATRAS or HENOTEISTAS since they consider that there are at least TWO BEINGS who are GOD by nature: of which one only must be adored, Jehovà. But they consider that Jesus is “a God� by nature, a spiritual being, of a nature superior to Los Angeles, and not a human being born from woman as teaches the Bible. This smaller God (to who they consider arcángel Miguel) is the true creator of the Universe (they affirm that the Father in fact I do not create anything but to this being and to all the I create it rest by means of this being) and therefore this being who by 33 years gets to be Jesus in the Earth is to all effects a God, and therefore he even affirms the own paraphrase to it of the Bible that use the witnesses of Jehovah in Juan 1:1 to the supposition that the LOGO refers to Jesus same flesh do not translate “the verb was a God�. Therefore there are TWO GODS in the universe of the witnesses of Jehovah and not one, although they affirm that only one must be adored. They are Biblically monólatras not Biblically unitary like the Jews for example for those who only there is a GOD by nature although it can have some “is called God� by rank.

There are some groups in the United States that is known like Universalist or Unitary Unitarians droughts, derivatives of the illustration, that inspired by the revolution that the UNITARY BIBLICAL thought in a religious world dominated by the trinitarismo and the harmony between the Biblical unitarismo and the reason implied, MAINLY followed a way based ON the REASON and not on the revelation.

Here it is where I want to leave to a difference between the Christians and these universalist groups based or unitary universalists: a true Christian DOES NOT FEAR TO the REASON and considers that the Bible does not contradict the reason. This is certain. But one is not which the Christian “molds� the Bible to the reason. The Christian has his foundation in the Bible and he is glad to verify that the provable scientific facts (and not them pseudo religions as the neodarwinismo or astrology) do not contradict the revelation. There is nothing in the universe that contradicts the Scripture. That continues being today truth as it were it 2000 years ago. Nor there is nothing written in the Scripture that contradicts what we can observe in the Universe that surrounds to us. The Bible does not say that the Earth is flat, does not say that the sky is green, does not say that the lead floats nor nothing of this. It is not a book of fàbulas but of provable historical data. It is not a book of myths and superstitions but of healthful advice. It is therefore a reasonable book.

But a thing is the REASON and another thing is the COMMON BELIEF of a time. The human being is variable perhaps and what today he considers reasonable in 20 years it is an aberration. For example homosexuality does of about thousands years considered a natural part of the development of the boy (in Greece and Rome). It does about fifty years considered a crime and a disease. Nowadays a sexual option, a natural condition is considered. Perhaps and in 20 years a mutation is considered, we do not know it. The human ideas change. In this point the Bible is clear when affirming that homosexuality is one practices abominable: it said it thousands ago of years, continues it saying now. This can have sounded reasonable at some times, can have sounded nonreasonable in others. But in this case the foundation is the Bible and the Christian is based on a foundation that is universal in space and time: in a message given to the humanity as a whole and he does not stop certain times and places.

A detail but that agrees to clarify is that the majority of the famous UNITARIANS who usually mention themselves, even the MARTYR par excellence of the Unitarians, Miguel Servet, was BIBLICAL UNITARIANS. Miguel Servet was a science man. But we must remember that it believed in the unit of God based NOT ON ITS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES but in its studies of the Bible, expressed in OF TRINITATIS ERRRORIBUS, and by these studies and beliefs paid with its life to the being burned by Calvin.

The same we could say of Sir Isaac Newton.  Newton believed in the UNIT and UNICITY DE GOD based on its studies of the Bible of which it left abundant treaties us and not simply in its rational convictions although obvious was rationalist and a man of science. The same we can say of John Locke. All these famous Unitarians creian that the Bible was the WORD DE GOD and in her was that they were based to maintain his unitarismo. It is a gross error to present/display to these thinkers like “precursors of the universalism� unless he assumes himself what history affirms clearly, that the Universalist Unitarismo is a derivative of the Biblical Unitarismo that was present throughout 2000 years of history of the Christianity in the form of dissident groups that go from the ebionitas, monarquianistas and albigenses to the early socinianos and some quakers even.  The universalist unitarismo is a liberal tendency, a philosophical position inspired by the abierta mentality of the Biblical unitarismo that allowed to accede to the prepared Bible to read in her what said, without the pressure of a previous tradition. But this abierta mentality of the Biblical Unitarian never was a permissive and relaxed mentality ready to adapt and to mold the Bible to any fashion or thought of human origin.

It is worth the pain to make that landmark in a while where one is confused generally and is strong presiòn to assume “unitarismo� like synonymous of “universalist unitarismo�. We never forget that UNITARISMO comes TO BELIEVE IN the UNIT DE GOD, and that this faith was born from developed Biblical studies good in each case, not of a simple one to mold the faith to the reason.

The Bible and the unitarismo are rational because the reason is WORK DE GOD, and not because GOD is WORK OF the REASON. I hope that to all the difference is clear to them. We arrive at the reason by the guide from God and not at God by the guide of the reason.

The Bible is a reasonable and rational book. It was it for but of 3000 years in which the Literature of the time gave by sitting the existence of human fantastic beings animal half and half, it was it in the heat of average age where the Literature of the time gave by sitting that the Earth was flat and it continued it being in century XX where official science said that the animal species become by accident in new species, or to put it another way that the sardines stop lizards and the lizards stop mice with the years, although all these human ideas are opposite to the universal reason, but were maintained for the temporary reason of their own times.

He is really peculiar as some people discard clear truths revealed in the Bible calling them “opposite to the reason�. To the reason of whom? Of the majority of the thinkers of the time? Then to the majority of the biologists before Pasteur it seemed to them reasonable to think that the flies formed of the rotten meat and the life was born spontaneously although the Bible always I make to the principle of the BIOGÉNESIS “the life clear only comes from previous life�.

So the Christian Jews we are rational, reasonable and we do not fear to the knowledge. For that reason we are not going to mold the revelation that has been maintained against thousands of years of human history and survived everything to the temporary human thought that sometimes is obsolete only of one decade to the other and they create but it they read a book of years 80, a book of science and will see how much laughter causes only about 30 years nowadays later.

The Bible after thousands of years continues being rational and reasonable, we did not need to mold it because the author knows last the reality better than we. And that author is one. And we learned of his propìa source. For that reason we are UNITARY, but BIBLICALLY UNITARY.

Shalom