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I thought Christians believed Jesus was the SON of God, not God in human form.
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Basically, traditional trinitarians believe that God has one
nature, but three
persons (as opposed to the incarnate Jesus, who was "God in the Flesh" and who had two natures--fully human and fully divine--but was still one person). They believe that Jesus is the Son of the Father, but that he has been his Son from all eternity. That was one of the problems with Arius, because he said that Jesus was divine but was still a created being; the trinitarians disagreed and said that Jesus was the Son as far as his relationship with the other persons of the Trinity went, but that he was nonetheless God, coequal with the Father, and that "there was never a time when he was not". The Holy Spirit would be the third person in the trinity, also co-equal and co-eternal with God the Father and God the Son. The
Nicene Creed (written at the Council of Nicea and added to at the Council of Constantinople) tried to clarify this, though there were still arguments after that.
Regarding Jewish fellows, you could always go to a chat program like
Paltalk and go to a Jewish room. When I went in to those rooms, they seemed quite ready to give answers about stuff like Jesus fulfilling or not fulfilling Old Testament prophecy.