hi jgnat i'm not very good at tables lol so will have to address your points individually although some have already been answered by Josephmalik in a more scholar-like way than I could acheive if you check back on his post:)
1/ Mark 10, 17-25
The Rich Young Man
17 As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
18 "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone. 19 You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.' [ d ] "
20 "Teacher," he declared, "all these I have kept since I was a boy."
21 Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
22 At this the man's face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.
23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!"
24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, "Children, how hard it is [ e ] to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
If you look at the whole story here is a wealthy man he apparently has great wealth, So would how would a wealthy man have been then would he be with servants and his people around him dressed in the clothing of the wealthy? what then does he do? he literally runs to jesus and falls to his knees in front of him here is someone overwhelm by what he sees this is a sort of worship and all the people around jesus see the man of great wealth do this, so jesus before answering the mans question says "No one is Good except God alone" To me this is jesus showing great humility making sure that proper praise goes to God and and then he looks at the man with love so I would be surprised if jesus could feel this way if he had the motivations you apply jgnat. how could the wealthy man inspire love in jesus if he was being self-serving?
Jesus asked the man to follow him but does this imply jesus is God to answer this I will have to put a whole chapter lol
1 Corinthians 3
On Divisions in the Church
1 Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly—mere infants in Christ. 2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. 3 You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men? 4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere men? 5 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8 The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. 14 If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. 15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.
16 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness" [a] ; 20 and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile." [b] 21 So then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas [c] or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, 23 and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.
we can see follow is used to show they are all following the one purpose and the Order of authority is given us, jesus, then God, jesus is the foundation stone but God is what makes it Grow! Jesus is part of Gods building!
So in following jesus they are following Jehovah but again it doesn't imply Jesus is God just that jesus is Gods Worker bringing us to God, his mediator.
NEXT we discuss Satan I think Satan is many things but stupid is definitely not one of them, I think he proved his evil cleverness in the garden of eden. You say a currupt God demands worship? So are you saying here jesus is sayng "no satan I'm not gonna worship you! You should worship me?" Or is he humbly declining Satan and saying "Worship My father" in effect which fits more with Jesus's personality.
To Jews for jesus to call himself son of God was blasphemous enough but its obvious some did think he ment God too but that was quickly nipped in the bud because jesus corrects it..and makes sure they know he is claiming to be Gods son only. I think it's very important here that he does clarify his relationship to God here.
AS to the use of gods josephmalik I think answered that point better than I could in an earlier post on this thread lol can't find it atm.
The point I'm making of the two witnesses is that Jesus is lying if 'one being' can be two witnesses but if your saying "oh nope the trinity means they are still separate" then I still argue because the separateness implied for them to be two witnesses means completely separate not separate parts of a whole. And again if the holy spirit was seperate person of the whole Jesus is wrong not to mention it here but if the holy spirit is just Jehovah's active force it couldn't possibly be a witness and so rightly isn't mentioned.
Reniaa
