God the Father is referred to as God more than 1300 times in the Bible. References to Jesus as God are a couple or very few at best and are contextual misinterpretations or later interpolations.
Sir Anthony Buzzard states in the very beginning that Unity of a God is a simple and easily comprehensible teaching, yet very elegant in my opinion, he stresses that Trinity is an unnecessary complexity. He also nicely highlights that when it comes to per-existence of Jesus, rather than jumping to the Gospel of John, we should read in Gospels of Mark and Matthew, as to when he was begotten.
Sir Anthony Buzzard has a very well written and useful book The Doctrine of the Trinity: Christianity’s Self-Inflicted Wound.
The Unitarians build their case on what is central and fundamental and explain away allegoric and peripheral in light of that and the Trinitarians do the exact opposite and no wonder their teachings give rise to countless contradictions and absurdities, some of which are highlighted in the articles linked below. One I would mention here, a literal son, who is co-eternal with his Father, as the Trinitarians will have us believe, is logically and philosophically, simply silly. The Father has to at some point in time father the literal son and predate him, otherwise the son is literally not a son! Additionally, even if Jesus was magically eternal before, when he died for three days and three nights by the Trinitarian, childish counting, he is not eternal anymore. The understanding of what the debaters are doing is certainly in light of a profound verse of the Holy Quran, from Sura Aal-e-Imran, as Sir Anthony Buzzard focuses on central and fundamental and Dr. James White like any other Trinitarians obsesses over what is ‘susceptible of different interpretations.’ The Quran says:
He (Allah) it is Who has sent down to thee (Muhammad) the Book; in it there are verses that are decisive in meaning — they are the basis of the Book — and there are others that are susceptible of different interpretations. But those in whose hearts is perversity pursue such thereof as are susceptible of different interpretations, seeking discord and seeking wrong interpretation of it. And none knows its right interpretation except Allah and those who are firmly grounded in knowledge; they say, ‘We believe in it; the whole is from our Lord.’ — And none heed except those gifted with understanding. (Al Quran 3:8)
Trinitarians choose to obsess over Jesus and God the Father but seldom or infrequently trouble the Holy Ghost. In their obsession to the person of Jesus of Nazareth, the Trinitarian apologists chose to read the Triune God, every time word God is mentioned in the Old Testament and for 2000 years before Jesus, none of the Jews ever read the word in Triune terms and understood only one God, who is God the Father, in the later Trinitarian Christian understanding.
The concept of Trinity has no legs to stand on
Two natures of Jesus: another Christian mystery!
Trinity: Explained from the Holy Quran and the Holy Bible
The Holy Ghost: The mysteries of Trinity
Is God the Father the Creator, the Trinity as a whole or are there three Creators?
Modalism: A stage in the development of Trinity
Another book Jesus Was Not a Trinitarian by Sir Anthony Buzzard (Oct 24, 2007).
We have saved the above debate in the Muslim Times as well:
Categories: Monotheism
Did Jesus say, “worship me”? If yes, where is it in the Bible?
Jeffrey Moore
Jeffrey Moore
Answered Aug 20, 2018
No place in the Bible does Jesus ever say, “Worship me.” Many of the other answers to this question make excuses for that by saying in essence that he accepted worship or didn’t stop someone from worshiping him. However, there are two things to consider that are essential to understanding worship:
The original Greek or Aramaic words that were translated “worship”
Who did Jesus say to worship?
A quick look at Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance will show 3 Hebrew words and 7 Greek words, all translated “worship” at one point or another (most of which were also translated other ways in other places in the Bible). And that doesn’t include all the words translated “worshipped” or “worshippeth” or any other variations. One who truly wants to understand worship and who to worship would do well to investigate those words, find out what they each mean, study how God uses each of them in His Word, and decide for himself how each of them should be translated in each instance.
Jesus said the Father seeks worship.
John 4:23:
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Jesus said only God is good.
Mark 10:18:
And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
Jesus said his Father is the only, true God.
John 17:3 (Jesus, talking to his Father):
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
The Judean thinking was that a man was equal to his father, which, of course, would make Jesus equal to God. But Jesus refuted that:
John 5:18–19:
Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
So Jesus said God is his Father but, instead of being equal to God, he, Jesus, could do nothing of himself. Then he went into a long discussion of the powers the Father had given him. During that discussion, Jesus said that all should honor (or value; not the same word as “worship”) the son even as the Father.
John 5:23:
That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
But later, he reminded them that, even though the Father had given him all those great powers, and even though he should be honored (or valued) like the Father, he still could do nothing of himself and, in fact, did not even seek his own will.
John 5:30:
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
No, Jesus never told anyone to worship him. In fact, he said he could do nothing of himself and didn’t even seek his own will. Instead, he always did his Father’s Will and always pointed people to his Father, saying his Father is the only, true God.
Since the servant is not greater than his lord, what should we do?
https://www.quora.com/Did-Jesus-say-%E2%80%9Cworship-me%E2%80%9D-If-yes-where-is-it-in-the-Bible
If God the Father could raise Jesus from death, as he lay in the tomb, after the crucifixion, then Jesus was redundant and is not needed to complete God.
Therefore he is not God!