Land and Bible

To hear this message on a podcast, click here .   In a recent article/podcast , we saw that the word or title “God” in the New Testament, including in the Gospel of John, never means the Trinity.   In this podcast we will see that in the Gospel of John, Jesus is declared to be the Messiah, not God.   The biblical autumn festivals are coming up, including the of Festival of Tabernacles. John 7 describes how Jesus went to Jerusalem for the Tabernacles festival, only six months before he was crucified, buried and raised from the dead.   In reading over John chapter 7, I’m struck by how the question on the people’s minds in Jerusalem at the Festival was not “Is this man God?”.  Rather, the question people were asking themselves was “Is this man the Messiah ?” For centuries, deity of Christ and Trinitarian theology have claimed that the Gospel of John is the book that presents Jesus as God . But to make that claim a person has to bring his own presup...

To hear on One God Report podcast, click here . 1 John 5 was especially significant for our family several years ago when I was coming to understand that God is One and that Jesus is God's human Messiah. My wife points out the irony in the fact that while Trinitarians often go to the Gospel of John and the Epistle of 1 John for presumed evidences of the deity of Jesus, it was these two books of the Bible that showed us that God is One person, and that Jesus is God’s designated human Messiah (Christ). 1 John 5:1 “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ (Messiah) has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whomever has been born of Him.” How tragic that people who believe that Jesus is God condemn those who believe that Jesus is the Christ (Messiah). The "diety of Christ" believers say that unless you believe that Jesus is God, you are “denying Christ”. What a strange twist of Scripture. The Scripture says that “anyone who believes that Je...

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...