Land and Bible

  Deity of Christ Interpretations of the Bible Dishonor the Father, the Only True God. If Jesus is God, then God the Father is not the one true God. The claim that “Jesus is God” becomes the main building block used by humans to construct a multi-person god. If Jesus is one member of a multi-person (Triune god) then the multi-person god is the one God, and the Father is not. Mainstream Christians agree that there is one God: “We are monotheists. We believe in one God”. But for mainstream Christians, the one God is made up of three persons.    Either the Father, a singular self, is the one true God, or a multi-person god is the one God. To hear this podcast, click here.  But if the Father is the one true God, then the claim that “Jesus is God” ("God is multi-persons") is an attempt to denigrate the only true God -- the Father. What deity of Christ and Trinitarian interpreters are doing is attempting to put another god on the face of and in the place of ...

A faith journey:  I believe in God the Father, and in Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God.   I was born and raised in a suburb of Minneapolis, MN at a time when kids played outside all day in the summer and house doors were not locked at night. I am the second of four boys. We were a somewhat typical American suburban family. Dad went to work, kids tolerated school, and mom stayed home until kids got older. Jumping ahead for just a moment, for most of our adult lives we were not typical as the four brothers lived in more or less four different continents. My older brother a pilot in the USA, me a teacher in Israel, next brother a teacher in Japan, and the youngest brother a doctor in Switzerland. To hear this article on the One God Report podcast, click here , or on YouTube here .   My dad was agnostic about religious things and although not being opposed to others involvement in church, he was not a church-goer. My mom was more involved in church and made the effort ...

 To hear this teaching on a podcast: Part 1 click here . Part 2 click here . Trinitarian Christianity claims that the three-person-in-one God is a mystery that cannot be understood. “Those who deny (the Trinity) place themselves outside the pale of Christian orthodoxy. Having said that, I admit that no one fully understands it. It is a mystery and a paradox. Yet I believe it is true.” [1]   “If this ( tri-personality of God ) is so (and without these truths one cannot be a Christian!), then God must be triune. As the Athanasian Creed puts it: “Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.” How this can be is a mystery, but it is a necessary mystery.” [2]   So by their own admission, “mystery” is a defining characteristic of Trinitarianism.   Before we take a closer look at the mystery of the Trinity, it is necessary to make clear the difference between the Trinity and a triad. The Trinity means three different persons in one God. A triad means three ...