"O Earth, Earth, Earth - Listen to the word of the LORD" (Jeremiah 22:29).
The Bible isn't a "scientific book"?
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Sometimes I hear it
said that the Bible isn’t a "scientific book” in the sense that it doesn't present observable evidence. You want
“scientific”? Try this: “You will surely die” (Genesis 2:17).
For an audio podcast of this post, click here : For many Trinitarians, or for those who believe in the “deity of Christ”, a few words from John 1:1 combined with a few words from John 1:14 forms the , and I mean the #1 evidence that Jesus is God, and that therefor somehow God is a Trinity. John 1:1 says “the Word was God”, and then skip down to John 1:14, “the Word became flesh”. That’s it. Jesus is God, literally. But wait a second. Problems with the Trinitarian and Deity of Christ Interpretation of John 1:14 The “deity of Christ” interpretation of John 1:14 may sound plausible at first, but a little closer examination shows that the interpretation is only a thin veneer and that there is no substance behind the veneer. The “God became man” interpretation ends up being a confusing web of inconsistencies, contradictions and lies. The first observation about interpreting John 1:1 and John 1:14 as saying that “God became man”: No Trinity There is n...
Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" (John 20:28). (to hear this teaching on a podcast click here ) To Trinitarians and those who believe in the “deity of Christ”, this verse is slam-dunk evidence that Jesus is God. But is it? I believe the “deity of Christ” interpretation ignores and contradicts Jesus’s teaching in the Gospel of John. There is a much better way to understand Thomas’s words. Which “God” did Thomas mean when he said “my God”? If you think Thomas recognized a 2 nd God-person in Jesus, or a God-essence, or a “God the Son incarnate” in Jesus, I think you are not listening to and contradicting what Jesus tells us in John’s Gospel. Jesus, in John’s Gospel, said that it is God, the Father that Thomas saw in Jesus. [1] "...believe the works, that you may know and understand that THE FATHER IS IN ME" (Jesus, in John 10:28, cf. John 14:10-20) A Challenge Let me challenge you to think how biblically foreign the deity-of-C...
The Gospel of John and the New Creation: Jesus is the Beginning of God’s New Creation To hear the podcast of this text, click here . “What about John 1:1?” Ever since I came to understand from the Bible that God (Yehovah, YHVH) is one, and that Jesus is God’s human Messiah (Christ) whom God raised from the dead, people say to me: “What about John 1:1?”. For my friends who believe in the “deity of Christ”, John 1:1 is biblical evidence that Jesus is God. I think they are missing a main point of what John 1:1 and the entire Gospel of John are declaring. That main point is that through the life and ministry of the human person Jesus the Messiah, God is beginning His promised New Creation. Jesus is the Beginning of God’s New Creation. As the words and deeds of Jesus recorded by John are evidence, the ultimate evidence that Jesus is the beginning of God’s New Creation is the resurrection of Jesus from the dead (John 20). As John records in another place, Jesus is “the...
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