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Trinitarians and those who believe in the “deity of Christ” take a phrase or a sentence from the Gospel of John and claim “this shows Jesus is God”. But such claims either ignore or refuse to believe the author of the Gospel of John, who told us directly the reason he recorded the signs that Jesus did. The author did not write so that we would believe that Jesus is God, rather that we would believe that “Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that believing we might have life in his name” (20:30-31).  In the Gospel of John, Jesus tells us that the Father is the only true God, and Jesus describes himself as the Messiah whom God sent (John 17:1-3, cf. 3:16). So, who should we believe, Jesus and the author of the Gospel of John, or someone who believes in the “deity of Christ”? We are better off believing Jesus and the author of the Gospel of John, and not a Trinitarian who tells us he knows better than the author why the author wrote his Gospel. What did Jesus mean w...

The Book of Revelation is “the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him ” (1:1). From the very first verse we are told that Jesus is not God. God is differentiated from Jesus. The God of Jesus Christ gave Jesus Christ this revelation. In Revelation 1:5-6 Jesus Christ is “the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead , and the ruler of kings on earth.” Jesus “loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father …” The Father is Jesus Christ’s God in the Book of Revelation, just as other Scriptures testify many times (e.g., John 20:17, Rom. 15:6, 2 Cor. 1:3, 11:31, Eph 1:3, 17, 1 Pet. 1:3). Jesus told the Sardis church that their works were not perfect in the site of his God (3:2). Four times in one verse (3:12) Jesus referred to “ my God ”. This is the resurrected, glorified Jesus Christ speaking who is at the right hand of God. That Jesus Christ has a God. In other words, not only is Jesus Christ distin...