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Dear friend who believes in the “Deity of Christ”, I was once like you. I took it on authority, and thought that the Bible presented Jesus as a God-man. I knew Jesus was a human, but I thought there were a handful of biblical verses that also showed that Jesus is God, a Second Person of a Godhead that took on flesh. I now see that those handful of verses that I thought showed the deity of Jesus, don’t. To interpret those handful of Scriptures as evidence that Jesus is God does injustice to the Scriptures, and brings only confusion and contradiction. There are better ways to understand those handful of Scriptures. In a previous post I suggested Trinitarian translations and notes from the Book of Genesis. Below are selected translations and notes for Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. More translations from the prophets and the New Testament, Lord willing, are forthcoming. My translations and explanations are made tongue-in-cheek, although many of the comments...

Dear friend who believes in the “Deity of Christ”, I was once like you. I took it on authority, and thought that the Bible presented Jesus as a God-man. I knew Jesus was a human, but I thought there were a handful of biblical verses that also showed that Jesus is God, a Second Person of a Godhead that took on flesh. I now see that those handful of verses that I thought showed the deity of Jesus, don’t. To interpret those handful of Scriptures as evidence that Jesus is God does injustice to the Scriptures, and brings only confusion and contradiction. There are better ways to understand those handful of Scriptures. Over the last year a number of biblical texts have been presented to me to show that Jesus is God, and that God is a Trinity. I have translated some of those biblical texts, starting with a few texts from the Book of Genesis, in the way that my Trinitarian (or Deity of Christ) friends are reading them. In later articles I plan to post translations from other ...

To hear this post on the One God Report podcast, click here : https://anchor.fm/onegodreport-podcast/episodes/The-Bible-Tells-Me-So--Jesus-has-a-God-e10fqos   The Bible is clear that there is only one God. (Deuteronomy 6:4, 32:39, Mark 12:29, Isaiah 44:24, John 17:3. 1 Cor. 8:6, Gal. 4:6). The name of God in the Bible appears over 6800 times and is spelled with the four Hebrew consonants יהוה . Here is an example of what יהוה the God of the Bible says:   Deuteronomy 32:39 “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me.”   The Bible is also clear that the Lord Jesus Christ has a God. So, is the one God of the Bible, יהוה , who states that he alone is the only God – is He the Lord Jesus Christ’s God?   The only God, יהוה , must be, has to be, the Lord Jesus Christ’s God. So, the Lord Jesus Christ is not God.   Let me say that again. There is only one God, יהוה . The Lord Jesus Christ has a God. The one God ( יהוה ) is t...