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To hear the One God Report Podcast of this transcript, click here .  In a previous podcast, episode #7, called Jesus is the Beginning of God’s New Creation , we saw that the literary context of the Gospel of John requires that we understand John’s prologue to be introducing the ministry and life of Jesus. In our last podcast, episode #15, called More New Creation in the Gospel of John we saw how the Old Testament scriptures anticipated a New Creation, and how language, events and the miracles recorded in John’s Gospel declare the New Creation coming with Jesus the Messiah. This is further evidence that John’s introduction, the prologue to his Gospel, should be understood in a New Creation, or New Beginning context.   In this podcast we will take a closer look at the historical context in which 1 st century readers of John’s Gospel would have understood this Gospel to be about a new beginning. We will also see how other New Testament authors saw in Jesus a new beginning, ...

Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" (John 20:28). (to hear this teaching on a podcast click here or  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, or that Jesus was a "god", 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...