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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 Trinitaria

People have said that I’m part of a cult. They mean it, of course, in a derogatory sense. These same people that derogatorily accuse me of being part of a cult believe that God is somehow a combination of three persons in one essence. They also believe that one of those persons of the three-person god also has a human essence (or nature). So, this belief system that accuses me of being part of a cult has for their god three persons in one essence, but one person in two essences.   Three persons in one essence, but one person in two essences. But I’m the one, supposedly, who is part of a cult with a strange belief system. And they don’t notice that in their definition of who God is, they have eliminated the possibility that Jesus the Messiah (Christ) is a real human person. Otherwise their description of their god would be three persons with two essences (a divine essence and a human essence). Wait, check that. Their description of their god should be four  persons

To hear this message on a podcast, click here . In the Gospel of John, “God” is never the Trinity. For instance, in one of the most well known verses of the Bible, whose reference is written out on posters at football games: John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his unique son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”   Try substituting “God” in this verse with “the Trinity”. “For the Trinity so loved the world, that he gave his unique son…” It doesn’t make sense. It seems to me that at least subconsciously every Christian that holds John 3:16 dear realizes that “God” in John 3:16 is not the Trinity, but God, who is also known as the Father. John 3:16 is telling us that God, the Father, loved the world, not that the Trinity loved the world. My Bible search program says that the word or title “God” occurs 83 times in the Gospel of John. In not one of those occurrences, that is, 0 out of 83 occurrences, does the word “God”