U-9. Is JESUS YAHWEH HIMSELF? Part 2 Part 2 of the FIVE-PART study on Is Jesus YAHWEH?
To read part one please click on the link “IS JESUS YAHWEH HIMSELF” Part 1”. In part two of this five-part study, we will continue to expose the errors of “interpretations” made by Trinitarian Christians. I will continue to quote from a Trinitarian article, bits at a time so that we can closely examine each argument individually to see if they are sound Biblical arguments or if they are merely verses of Scripture taken out of the context and the Trinitarian doctrine READ into those verses. Let us begin with another Trinitarian quote.
Jesus is Kurios.
The New Testament Greek equivalent of the Old Testament Hebrew name Yahweh is Kurios. Used of God, Kurios carries the idea of a sovereign being who exercises absolute authority. The word is translated Lord in English translations of the Bible. To an early Christian accustomed to reading the Old Testament, the word Lord, when used of Jesus, would point to His identification with the God of the Old Testament (Yahweh). Hence, the affirmation that “Jesus is Lord” (Kurios) in the New Testament constitutes a clear affirmation that Jesus is Yahweh, as is the case in passages like Romans 10:9, 1 Corinthians 12:3, and Philippians 2:5–11.
First of all, the use of the word “equivalent” here is very, very misleading and even deceptive to those who do not know the truth. The Greek word “KURIOS” or “KYRIOS” is NOT an equivalent term or word that can be interchanged with the Hebrew name of God “Yahweh” because the name Yahweh always refers to the HIGHEST NAME that belongs to the ONE TRUE and ONLY ALMIGHTY God the Father while the name “KYRIOS” can refer to THE Almighty God, lesser gods, humans, and even to an idol. Yes, it is true that “Kurios” refers to Almighty God the Father in SOME of the verses of Scripture in the New Testament. But to dogmatically demand that each and every time the word “Kurios” refers to Jesus then it must, without fail, mean that the New Testament writer is emphatically saying that Jesus is Yahweh Himself is absolutely and completely DECEPTIVE to the reader. Please read Matthew 22:41-45 where we see the Greek word “KYRIOS” in the same verse where one LORD is Yahweh the Father and the other Lord is Jesus who was MADE Lord BY Yahweh the Father, according to Acts 2:36.
Matthew 22:41-45.
“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42. Saying, What think you of Christ? whose SON is he? They say unto him, The Son of David. 43. He said unto them, How then does David in spirit call him Lord, saying, 44. The LORD (The Greek word Kurios referring to Yahweh the Father) said unto my Lord, ( The SAME Greek word Kurios referring to Jesus prophetically. And Jesus is the lesser Lord under Yahweh) Sit you on my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool? 45. If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?”
Please notice that the translators correctly DISTINGUISHED the difference between THE LORD God the Almighty Yahweh from his SON whom Almighty God Yahweh calls my Lord. Both words, The LORD in all capital letters, and my Lord are translated from the SAME Greek word “KYRIOS” in the original text. THE LORD is referring to Yahweh the one true and only Almighty God the Father, and my Lord is referring to Jesus, God's SON.
You cannot have TWO one TRUE always self-existing Gods. You cannot have TWO Almighty Gods. And you cannot have TWO Yahwehs that have ALWAYS been Yahweh.
But the Bible ITSELF does indeed clearly teach us that there IS MORE than just ONE God, where the ONE TRUE and ONLY Almighty God Yahweh is the God OF gods. Jesus was MADE Lord and God AFTER the cross, according to Acts 2:36. Acts 2:36.
“Therefore, let all the house of Israel KNOW ASSUREDLY, that God has MADE that same Jesus, whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ.”
So then, just like the Bible itself teaches us in SIMPLICITY Jesus is [A] God but NOT the Almighty God who ALONE in the Father. Jesus was MADE a Lord and God, as in, a LESSOR God, who is UNDER and SUBJECT to HIS God and Father the ONE TRUE and ONLY ALMIGHTY God Yahweh. But the human Son of God was HIGHLY EXALTED to be higher than the angel as he has ONLY the Father above him. The Bible itself teaches us that Jesus BECAME a God under his God and Father ONLY AFTER his resurrection as his reward or joy that was set before him to ENDURE the cross. The New Testament clearly distinguishes the difference between Almighty God Yahweh the Father and his SON Jesus in almost every book. In the gospels Jesus speaks of Yahweh as HIS God and Father and that Yahweh is GREATER than the SON. In John 17 Jesus identifies the Father as being the ONE TRUE God and himself as the one, who was SENT or COMMISSIONED by God. The disciples spoke of Yahweh as being the God and Father OF Jesus. But perhaps the clearest distinction between the TWO is found in the following five verses.
Mark 12:29, 32.
“And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord (Kurios) OUR God is one Lord: (Kurios)... ...32. And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, YOU have said the TRUTH: for there is ONE God; and there is NONE other but HE:”
Now to be “consistent” in translating the translators should have placed both words “Lord” in all caps to read “LORD” so the reader would have no doubt that the God and the Father of Jesus is Yahweh Himself. Notice Jesus says OUR Kurios Theos is ONE Kurios.
Romans 3:30.
“Seeing it is ONE God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.”
When we read the CONTEXT it is made clear that the ONE God is Yahweh the Father who justifies those of us who believe in his Son Jesus Christ. In other words, Jesus is the “instrument” in Yahweh’s hand that Yahweh uses as the MEANS by which Yahweh reconciles and justifies the all of whosoever believes. Jesus is the “workmanship” OF Yahweh. 1 Corinthians 8:6.
“But to us (Or but unto us as Christians or believers on Jesus the CHRIST, the SON OF the living God) there is but ONE God, the FATHER, of whom are all things, and we in him; AND (Or ALSO to us there is but) one Lord Jesus Christ, BY (The Greek word “DIA” here translated as “by” also means “FOR” and “FOR the SAKE OF”. It also means the channel of the act THROUGH which Yahweh made it possible to be made new creatures IN Jesus Christ. And the word translated as “things” is NOT in the Greek text. So the word “ALL” is literally speaking of God's NEW creation referring to us as new creatures being IN, by, through, because of, and FOR Jesus. So then, the “all things” here in this verse is literally speaking of the ALL, as in, ALL of whosoever of PEOPLE who BELIEVE were created by Yahweh IN Jesus Christ, or into the “body” of Jesus, the HEAD of the church of the FIRSTBORN. And the ALL people who have believed on the Son are made NEW creatures as we are IN Yahweh the Father BECAUSE of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the ANOINTED of God) whom are all things, (Again, speaking of the ALL of WHOSOEVER BELIEVES) and we by him.”
So then, the Father is always clearly identified as God while the Son is always identified as Lord who is under and subject to his God and Father. I only know of two verses where Jesus is called by the TITLE of God. And those two verses are John 20:28 which is AFTER the cross or after Jesus was MADE Lord and God BY Yahweh highly exalting him, and Hebrews 1:8,9 which is also AFTER the cross as well.
Ephesians 4:6.
“ONE God and FATHER of ALL, (Is not Yahweh ALSO “the God” and FATHER of His Son Jesus) who is ABOVE ALL, (Is not Yahweh Almighty God the FATHER ALONE ABOVE and GREATER than his SON Jesus) and through all, and IN you all.”
And does not the same eternal Spirit of the FATHER now dwell IN us as He DWELT in His SON Jesus? My point here is that the ONE God is always clearly identified as being the FATHER and Jesus is NOT the Father. Thus, Jesus is NOT the ONE true God, but rather, Jesus is the SON OF the ONE and ONLY TRUE God.
1 Timothy 2:5.
“For there is ONE God, and one mediator BETWEEN God and men, the MAN Christ Jesus;”
So then, the truth of the matter is that when the TITLE Lord in the New Testament is referring to Jesus it ALWAYS means a LESSER Lord UNDER and SUBJECT to his LORD God and Father Yahweh. And when the context for sure teaches us that the Greek word “KYRIOS” or “KURIOS” is referring to the FATHER, then and only then is “KYRIOS” equivalent to Yahweh in the Old Testament. Also, please notice in 1 Timothy 2:5 Jesus is called the MAN Christ Jesus or the MAN ANOINTED Jesus, as in, Jesus the ANOINTED MAN, who is the mediator BETWEEN Yahweh and mankind. So then concerning the Trinitarian argument, the “Lord” in the New Testament ALWAYS refers to “Yahweh” is completely DECEPTIVE and in error. The next argument raised is to try and prove that Jesus is Yahweh is the Hebrew word Elohim. We will take a closer look at the verses of Scripture where Jesus is called God by TITLE and you will see that Jesus is indeed a LESSER God under Yahweh his God and Father who ALONE is the ALMIGHTY. What Trinitarian Christians argue is that since Jesus is called King and Yahweh is called the ETERNAL King then Jesus MUST BE the ETERNAL King. Trinitarian Christians fail to understand the verses of Scripture where Jesus was APPOINTED to be Yahweh’s King of kings. And in the same way, they fail to see that Jesus was MADE Lord and God BY his God and Father after the cross.
Jesus is Elohim.
Elohim is a Hebrew name that is used of God 2,570 times in the Old Testament. The name literally means “strong one,” and its plural ending (“im” in Hebrew) indicates fullness of power. Elohim is portrayed in the Old Testament as the powerful and sovereign governor of the universe, ruling over the affairs of humankind. Jesus is recognized as both Yahweh and Elohim in the prophecy in Isaiah 40:3: “Prepare the way of the Lord[Yahweh]; make straight in the desert a highway for our God [Elohim].” This verse was written in reference to John the Baptist preparing for the coming of Christ (as confirmed in John 1:23) and represents one of the strongest affirmations of Christ’s deity in the Old Testament. In Isaiah 9:6, we likewise read a prophecy of Christ with a singular variant (El) of Elohim: “And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God [El], Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
Yes, Jesus is referred to “PROPHETICALLY” foretelling the future as Jesus being called by the TITLE of “EL” which like “ELOHIM” does indeed mean mighty one. And when referring to THE God Yahweh the context does indeed teach us that Yahweh Himself is sovereign and over and above all including Jesus. Yahweh the Father is THE MIGHTIEST of the mighty ones. So Jesus was MADE a mighty one who is UNDER and subject to the ALMIGHTY one Yahweh the Father. So then, in the light of the WHOLE word of God whenever “EL” or “ELOHIM” refers to any other being other than Yahweh HIMSELF, then the meaning of being sovereign and over ALL cannot be attributed to that person or being. For you see, there can only be ONE being, who is over ALL. And clearly the SON OF Almighty God is subject or under his God and Father having THE LORD God over him. Now, as to the CLAIM that the Hebrew name of God “Yahweh” in Isaiah 40:3 is referring to Jesus is simply the interpretation of those reading into the text what they want it to say not considering the CONTEXT. You see dear children of God, what some Christians have failed to see is that BOTH Yahweh, Almighty God the Father, AND his SON are being prophesied to come here in Isaiah chapter 40. Let us read the context so you can see that TWO are being prophesied to come.
Please read Isaiah 40:3-5, then verses 10,11.
“The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the LORD, (Referring to Yahweh, THE ONE true and only ALMIGHTY God the Father) make straight in the desert a highway for our God. (Elohim, a mighty one, referring to the SON OF Almighty God the Father who will be MADE Lord and God AFTER the cross) 4. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: 5. And the glory (Speaking of the now glorified Son) OF the LORD (Yahweh) shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD (Yahweh) has spoken it... ...10. Behold, the Lord GOD will come WITH strong hand, and His ARM (Yahweh strong right hand speaks of his SON Jesus who) shall rule FOR Him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. 11. He (Yahweh BY the MEANS OF Jesus, the ARM of Yahweh) shall feed His (Yahweh's) flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his ARM, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.”
In verse 10, we again, see TWO beings spoken of which are Yahweh the Father, and his SON Jesus being the ARM of Yahweh who will rule FOR him for 1000 years in the world to come. Now some may say that they do indeed agree that BOTH Almighty God the Father AND his Son Jesus will come AT the second coming of Jesus. But they continue to argue that verse 3 is speaking of the FIRST coming of Jesus because of John the Baptist fulfilling this verse in John 1:23. So then, they argue further that Yahweh did NOT come WITH his Son in the FIRST coming of Jesus. Therefore, they conclude that the Greek word “KURIOS” in John 1:23 must, without fail, be referring to Jesus and since both Isaiah 40:3 and John 1:23 have the exact same phrase “...prepare you or make straight you the way of the Lord...”. And in Isaiah, it is without a doubt that LORD is the Hebrew word Yahweh which always refers to the ONE TRUE and ONLY ALMIGHTY God the Father. Therefore, their line of reason is that Jesus must be Yahweh because John is preparing the way before Jesus ALONE. BUT they forget that Yahweh came and DWELT IN Jesus at the baptism of Jesus. So Yahweh was WITH Jesus at the FIRST coming at the baptism of Jesus to empower him. Jesus was NOT ALONE during his ministry for Yahweh was WITH him. Now to Trinitarian and Oneness Christians they only see Jesus ALONE in John 1:23, but what you the reader, and seeker of the TRUTH need to understand is that John 1:23 is a QUOTE from the Old Testament and only gives us PART of the CONTEXT. So we must read the CONTEXT of Isaiah 40:1 to arrive at the TRUTH. First, let us look at John 1:23 compared to Isaiah 40:1 WITHOUT the CONTEXT.
John 1:23.
“He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah.”
Isaiah 40:1.
“The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the LORD, (Referring to Yahweh, THE ONE true and only ALMIGHTY God the Father) make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”
Our Elohim that is translated as our God is a prophecy that is referring to the SON OF Almighty God the Father that is prophesied to be born of a virgin and later ANOINTED with Yahweh’s Spirit. And it is at the ANOINTING of the human Son of God that this prophecy began to be fulfilled. Again, Jesus was made Lord and God after the cross and Jesus will rule as God for Yahweh in the world to come for 1000 years. Now, when you view these verses ALONE and APART from the REST of God's word they can indeed be MADE to say something that they are not truly saying when they are correctly interpreted in the LIGHT of the WHOLE word of God. In other words, when one ASSUMES things without considering the REST of God's word, then what they conclude or INTERPRET a verse to mean may not be the CORRECT interpretation of that verse. So then just on the surface when these two verses are viewed alone and apart from the rest of God word comparing the TITLE “Lord” (Kurios) to the NAME Yahweh that should have never been TRANSLATED as a TITLE “LORD”, then one can easily draw the WRONG conclusion. Since it appears that John 1:23 seems to be referring to Jesus ALONE as being the Lord whose way is being prepared and is quoting Isaiah 40:1 where LORD is, without fail, speaking of Yahweh HIMSELF, then in the eyes of Trinity and Oneness Christians, the TITLE “Lord” (Kurios) must, without fail, mean that Jesus IS Yahweh. But you see dear children of God, the word of truth does indeed teach us that Yahweh came WITH Jesus at his FIRST COMING by dwelling IN the SON OF God to empower him to do the works that his God and Father sent him out into the world to do. Jesus himself clearly stated as fact that he was not ALONE and that the Father was WITH him. Please read Acts 10:38 where Yahweh ANOINTED his SON Jesus with power to heal the sick and raise the dead.
Acts 10:38.
“How God ANOINTED Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for (Or because) God was WITH him.”
Now for many Christians, like myself, the teaching of the Deity of Jesus being fully Almighty God and fully man at the same time having TWO natures DURING the DAYS of his FLESH makes no sense whatsoever. For you see, the clear, plain, and simple word of God emphatically states with no interpretation needed that God was WITH His Son Jesus by DWELLING IN His SON Jesus. I mean, how can Jesus himself BE God Himself AND God Himself be WITH himself? How can Jesus be the FATHER and the SON at the same time? How can Jesus be Yahweh Himself and the SON OF Yahweh at the same time? How can Jesus be Yahweh HIMSELF and NOT be able to do ANYTHING OF HIMSELF? How can Jesus BE Yahweh Himself and Yahweh Himself be GREATER than the SON? Now it may make sense to YOU but to thousands upon thousands of many other Christians, it is far easier to believe what the Bible ITSELF teaches us in SIMPLICITY. And that simple easy to understand teaching that does NOT have to be some so-called “MYSTERY” that the human mind can not comprehend is that God begat Himself a HUMAN Son FIRST. Yahweh begat Himself a human Son by speaking forth the IMAGE of His Son yet to be out of His mouth, and then Yahweh PERFORMED His own word of prophecy and His Son came into being in the same manner as all of Yahweh's creation. And God SAID I shall become light and I am becoming light. And God said I SHALL BECOME WHO I AM BECOMING. Tell them I SHALL BECOME has sent you. So yes, Yahweh HIMSELF literally BECAME a human being by CREATING Jesus in the womb of the Virgin Mary to be a SEPARATE person from Yahweh Himself. And then Yahweh came at his water baptism and literally came and DWELT in that HUMAN being called the Son of MAN and the SON OF God. But this did NOT make Jesus have a DIVINE NATURE. WHY you may ask? Why did Jesus not have divine nature during the days of his FLESH? It was because Yahweh STRIPPED Himself of ALL His DIVINE NATURE to take on HUMAN NATURE. More precisely, Yahweh stripped His divine SPEECH, His spoken word of the prophecy of ITS divine nature to take on human nature. In other words, the PROPHECY concerning Jesus does not speak of a divine Son being conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary. But rather, the prophecies speak of a child being born first and then that human Son is given to die on the cross. And then AFTER the cross the human Son of God is GIVEN the divine nature. What I am trying to say is that God did not PROPHESY His Son to have divine nature during the days of his flesh. In other words, IF God would have PROPHESIED saying a DIVINE child will be born and a DIVINE Son shall be given then Jesus would have had divine nature the moment he was born of the Virgin Mary. Please read the study “PHILIPPIANS 2:6-PROVES PRE-EXISTENCE!” for an in-depth study proving beyond any shadow of a doubt that Jesus had NO DIVINE nature of his OWN DURING his MINISTRY on earth called the days of his FLESH. Some Christians argue that since Jesus is called Emanuel which is interpreted as God WITH us that this verse must, without fail, mean that Jesus IS Yahweh Himself. They argue HOW could God be WITH us if Jesus were not truly Yahweh HIMSELF in the flesh? Well, HOW is God WITH us NOW? God is WITH us as Christians by DWELLING IN us. So then, in truth, when these verses are correctly interpreted in the LIGHT of the WHOLE word of God it becomes crystal clear that Yahweh, the Father was WITH us by DWELLING IN His human Son Jesus just like Acts 10:38 and many other verses clearly teach us.
Please read John 14:6-11.
“Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father but by me. (Here we see Yahweh, the FATHER and His SON Jesus being the ONLY way TO Yahweh, the FATHER) 7. If you had known me, you should have known MY Father ALSO: (Again, clearly teaching us of TWO separate beings, Yahweh, the FATHER, and his SON Jesus) and from henceforth you know Him, and have seen (Or understood) Him. 8. Philip said unto him, Lord, show us the Father, (Or show us Yahweh) and it suffices us. 9. Jesus said unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you then, Show us the Father? (Now the doctrine of the Trinity emphatically teaches that Jesus is NOT the Father and that the Father is NOT the Son. But yet, many Trinitarian Christians will use this passage of Scripture to try and prove that Jesus is Yahweh Himself. Jesus is NOT saying that he himself IS the Father. Nor is Jesus saying that he himself is Yahweh. But rather, Jesus is teaching us the true nature and character of Almighty God the Father by the WORKS men saw him do through the power of God Yahweh the Father DWELLING IN him. Jesus said if you do not believe my words, then believe me for the WORKS sake. The GOOD WORKS of healing and so forth that men saw Jesus do show us the true nature and character of the Father, the Father’s LOVE for us. So then, Jesus is saying if you have seen the LOVE of the SON by the WORKS you see him doing, then you have seen the LOVE of the Father because it is MY God and Father Himself who does the WORKS) 10. Believe you not that I am in the Father and the Father IN me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that DWELLS IN me, HE does the WORKS. 11. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father IN me: or else believe me for the very WORKS' sake.”
The Bible ITSELF teaches us that it PLEASED the Father that IN him, speaking of in His SON Jesus, should all the fullness of the Godhead DWELL. The Godhead, who alone is the Father, DWELT IN in His Son Jesus, and it was Yahweh, the FATHER who did the WORKS. You see dear children of God, others who saw the WORKS Jesus did, said, surely God is WITH him. But the FULLNESS of the Godhead did not dwell in Jesus until AFTER the cross. For you see, it was after the cross that Jesus was given ALL power and authority. It was after the cross that Jesus was glorified and given the divine nature of immortality. My point right now is that during the days of his flesh, Jesus could do nothing of himself and it was God dwelling in him who was doing the works during the days of his flesh.
Please read John 3:2.
“The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God: for no MAN can do these miracles that you do, except God is WITH him.”
So then, in the LIGHT of the whole word of God, Isaiah 40:3 is NOT prophesying of the preparation of the WAY of just ONE, but rather, we see the preparation of the WAY of TWO, who is Yahweh, the Father, who was WITH Elohim his SON. And like many prophecies, BOTH the first coming and the second coming is prophesied in the same verse of Scripture. So at the second coming, Yahweh the Father will come WITH His strong ARM His mighty one having the TITLE of “El”. But again, Jesus was MADE an “EL”, that is, a LESSER God, or a lesser mighty one, or a lesser El, who will come again to rule FOR Yahweh in his Father's kingdom for 1000 years in the world to come. Then at the end of the 1000 year reign of Jesus, the SON OF Yahweh will commit the kingdom back into the hands of his God and Father so that Yahweh can be all in all once again. The 1000 year reign is likened to the Seventh-day of REST for Yahweh where his SON will be King of kings and rule FOR his Father for the day, a thousand years. Jesus was highly exalted BY his God and Father to BECOME a King of kings, but Yahweh ALONE is THE King of kings being the King over his Son Jesus. Please read 1 Corinthians 15:23-28 which clearly teaches us in simplicity that Jesus commits his Father's kingdom BACK into the hand of his God and Father, Yahweh.
1 Corinthians 15:23-28.
“But every MAN in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. (There are THREE harvests of FIRSTFRUITS unto God. And the MAN Jesus is the FIRST of the FIRSTFRUITS to be harvested. Jesus is our FORERUNNER gone before us. Jesus is the FIRSTBORN from the dead to be GIVEN the divine nature of immortality. THEN the second harvest will be the saints of this present world AT the second coming of Jesus) 24. Then comes the END, (Speaking of the final harvest of holy ones at the end of the Millennial reign of Jesus) when he (Jesus the SON OF Yahweh) shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, EVEN the FATHER; (Always clearly identifying God as being the FATHER) when He (Yahweh the God and Father OF his SON Jesus) shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25. For he (Jesus) must reign, till He (Yahweh the Father) has put all enemies under his feet. (The feet of his SON Jesus) 26. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. (When death and hell are cast in the lake of fire on the final Day of Judgment at the end of the 1000 year reign of Jesus) 27. For, He (Yahweh the Father) has put all things under his feet. But when He (Yahweh the Father) said all things are put under him, (Jesus) it is manifest (Or it is made clearly KNOWN) that He (Yahweh HIMSELF the God and Father OF his SON Jesus) is EXCEPTED, (Or EXCLUDED or is NOT under his SON Jesus) which did put all things under him. (His SON) 28. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, (Jesus) then shall the Son also himself be SUBJECT unto Him (Yahweh the God and Father OF Jesus) that put all things under him (His SON) that God (Yahweh THE ONE TRUE and ONLY ALMIGHTY God) may be all in all.”
Now, please understand that this coming of Yahweh WITH His Son does NOT mean that the SON OF God pre-existed WITH God at His side from all eternity past either with or without a beginning as God’s SON. The doctrine of the Trinity MUST have a God the Son without ever having a beginning or the doctrine of the Trinity falls apart. There are some Unitarian Christians like the Jehovah's Witness and the Christadelphians who believe that Jesus had his beginning in the eternity past. And that is when God GAVE His Son all power and then the Son of God helped Yahweh the Father to create the universe. But rather, ALL of the prophecies in the Scriptures speak of a CHILD being BORN of a woman FIRST. And then that HUMAN Son of MAN would be ANOINTED by Yahweh. We just learned that the ANOINTING means that Yahweh came and DWELT IN His human child Jesus born of a woman to empower his SON to do all the will of his God and Father Yahweh. The Apostles of Jesus still referred to the glorified Jesus as Yahweh’s Holy CHILD. My son who is married and has children of his own is still my CHILD. So in truth, Jesus did not actually, fully, and completely become God's ETERNAL Son until Yahweh raised Jesus from the dead and GAVE his SON eternal life to be having life in himself even as the Father has always had eternal life in Himself. We will cover the verses that teach us THIS DAY I have begotten you and you SHALL BE my SON further on in this study. Let us continue with the next Trinitarian argument to try and prove that Jesus is Yahweh Himself.
Jesus is Theos.
The New Testament Greek word for God, Theos, is the corresponding parallel to the Old Testament Hebrew term Elohim. A well-known example of Christ as being addressed as God (Theos) is found in the story of “doubting Thomas” in John 20. In this passage, Thomas witnesses the resurrected Christ and worshipfully responds: “My Lord and my God [Theos]” (John 20:28). Jesus is called Theos throughout the rest of the New Testament. For example, when a jailer asked Paul and Silas how to be saved, they responded: “Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household” (Acts 16:31). After the jailer believed and became saved, he “rejoiced, having believed in God [Theos] with all his household” (verse 34). Believing in Christ and believing in God are seen as identical acts.
Yes, it is true that the Greek word “THEOS” does indeed mean God, but it also means god and goddess. Satan is called “THEOS” being the “god” of this present world. This does NOT mean that Satan is Yahweh Himself and neither does Jesus being called by the TITLE of God or “THEOS” prove that Jesus is Yahweh Himself. The truth of the matter is that Jesus is called God or “THEOS” by his God and Father Yahweh showing us clearly that Jesus is a “LESSER God” who is under and subject to the one true and only ALMIGHTY God Yahweh. Again, please read the study “IS JESUS ALMIGHTY GOD?” for all the verses clearly showing us that Yahweh the Father is God OVER his SON Jesus. Also, please read the study “JOHN 20:28 MY LORD AND MY GOD!” for a sound Biblical meaning of this verse. Also, I would like to point out the very deceptive use of the phrase that Jesus is referred to as “THEOS” 'throughout the New Testament', when in truth, Jesus is called “theos” translated as God only TWO times in the New Testament, once in John 20:28 and once in Hebrew 1:8,9. All other verses that are used to try and teach that Jesus is called God must be “INTERPRETED” apart from the rest of God's word to be made or forced to mean that Jesus is being called God. And then it must be “INTERPRETED” that being called God by TITLE proves that Jesus IS Yahweh Himself. Again, this Trinitarian interpretation must be READ INTO those verses of Scripture to achieve the desired Trinitarian meaning. For example, Luke 7:16 can be INTERPRETED to mean that Jesus is Yahweh Himself visiting His people, but that INTERPRETATION would not be a CORRECT interpretation or meaning of this verse.
Luke 7:16.
“And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great PROPHET is risen up among us; AND, That God has visited his people.”
You see dear children of God, some Christians may INTERPRET this verse out of context and apart from the rest of God's word to mean that the PROPHET Jesus who was risen up among the people BY his God and Father was Almighty God Himself visiting the people to try and prove that Jesus is Yahweh Himself, but this does NOT mean that such an interpretation would be a correct meaning of this verse. As I have said many times that any verse, when viewed ALONE and APART from the REST of God's word, may SEEM to say something that it is NOT TRULY saying when it is CORRECTLY interpreted in the LIGHT of the WHOLE word of God. This is why we must compare what we conclude to be the meaning of a verse with the rest of God's word to see if that conclusion or interpretation AGREES with the rest of God's word. And the INTERPRETATION that this or any other verse means that Jesus is Yahweh himself brings about a vast number of CONTRADICTIONS in the rest of God's word. Please read the study “37 THINGS TO PONDER ABOUT JESUS BEING GOD?” This study started with just a few verses of Scripture and it grew rather quickly to 19 verses, and now it has grown to over 37 direct contradictions to Jesus being Yahweh Himself. One example is that God can NOT be TEMPTED and Jesus was tempted. The CORRECT interpretation of this verse in Luke is that the people glorified God up in heaven FOR the prophet that God raised up among them doing mighty WORKS that a MAN or a HUMAN PROPHET can do ONLY IF God was WITH that MAN. This interpretation AGREES with the WHOLE word of God without having any contradictions to any other part of God's word. But God being a MAN contradicts Numbers 23:19 and Hosea 11:9 which we already covered in part 1 of this study. Remember that God's people the Jews had been WITHOUT a prophet of God for some four hundred years. In the days of old God spoke or visited his people by the PROPHETS and angels. But, in these last days, God has spoken to us or visited us by His SON. And that does NOT have to mean an eternal divine pre-existing Son. It can just as easily mean God’s HUMAN Son. Remember God was WITH His SON Jesus by DWELLING IN His SON and ALL that Jesus spoke were the words OF Yahweh showing and telling his SON Jesus what to say and do. So WHY would God need to be WITH His already fully divine God the Son? God was WITH His prophets of old because they were human. But why would God need to be WITH His God the Son who IS supposedly co-equal with God the Father in every way? You see there is no logic in the doctrine of the Trinity or any pre-existing God the Son being highly exalted and then stepping down from ruling as God when the 1000 year reign of Jesus has ended. So then, the interpretation of these Jews glorifying the prophet Jesus as being Yahweh HIMSELF visiting them CONTRADICTS many other clear, plain and simple passages of Scripture where the Jews picked up stones to stone the prophet Jesus falsely accusing Jesus of making himself equal with Yahweh by simply calling Yahweh his Father. I mean would the Jews try and stone Yahweh Himself even if it were possible if they truly believed that Jesus was Yahweh Himself? No, they would not! The Jews would never believe that God was a MAN. So THINK these Trinitarian INTERPRETATIONS through for YOURSELF dear children of God. Some of the Jews simply did not believe that Jesus was the Messiah or even a true Prophet of God. So think of the meanings of verses of Scriptures as “INTERPRETATIONS” only and that there could be OTHER possible interpretations. The example that this Trinitarian writer uses or cites as a reference for his or her proof that Jesus is Yahweh Himself is in Acts 16:31-34. And to ME, that Trinitarian “interpretation” is a FORCED meaning on this passage of Scripture being viewed alone and apart from the rest of God's word. Let me show you what I mean by this. First, read Acts 16:30-34 where the Trinitarian REASONING of this passage of Scripture says to believe the WORDS of the Lord (Kyrios) which is referring to Jesus. Then at the end of the passage of Scripture, we are told that they believed in GOD. Therefore, Trinitarian Christians “interpret” that passage of Scripture to say that Jesus MUST, without fail, be God. And they interpret Jesus being God to mean that Jesus is Yahweh Himself.
Acts 16:30-34.
“And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31. And they said, Believe on the Lord (Kyrios) Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved, and your house. 32. And they spoke unto him the WORD of the Lord, (Kyrios or the Lord Jesus Christ who spoke the word of Yahweh his God and Father. So the word of Jesus is the word of Yahweh because Yahweh put His own words in the mouth of His Prophet Jesus) and to all that were in his house. 33. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. 34. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing IN GOD with all his house.”
So then, the Trinitarian argument is that since they were told to believe on the WORDS of the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved and we are told at the end that they believed in GOD, who is called LORD in the Old Testament, then, without fail, Jesus MUST be the LORD, or Yahweh HIMSELF of the Old Testament why else would they say they believed in God? That is how the minds of some Trinitarian Christians think. So now, let us interpret this passage of Scripture CORRECTLY by considering what the WHOLE word of God teaches us in simplicity. And let us QUIT twisting and manipulating the word of God as if it were a Mathematical formula if A=B and B=C, the C must, without a doubt, BE A, or equal to A. God's word is NOT a mathematical formula! First of all, Jesus taught us that the words he spoke are NOT his OWN words, but the words of his God and Father, who sent him or more precisely commissioned him to preach the kingdom of God. All through the New Testament, we are taught to believe in God's SON and when we HAVE the SON we HAVE the Father ALSO. When we glorify and praise the Son of God we bring glory to the Father. It is the WILL of Almighty God the Father that we as Christians HONOR His SON Jesus even as we honor the Father. The Bible teaches us that blessed is he, who comes in the NAME of the Lord, where the “he” in this verse is speaking of Jesus coming in the NAME OF the Lord his God and Father Yahweh. So all that Jesus spoke he did so in the NAME of Yahweh. The very name Jesus or Yeshua means Yahweh saves or the salvation OF Yahweh. So the CORRECT meaning of Acts 16:30-34 is that we believe in God BY believing that God begat Himself a Son and by believing that God’s Son suffered and died on the cross for our sins. If you do NOT have the Son then you do NOT have the Father either. The devils believe in God but they fear and tremble. We MUST believe in BOTH. And that is the true meaning of that passage of Scripture. IF Jesus is one and the same being a Yahweh then you no longer have TWO separate beings. You have ONE and the Bible says we must believe in BOTH the Son and the Father. Also, those who teach that Jesus must be God is that he accepted worship, in that, Jesus did not rebuke any worship given to him. But they have failed to understand that it is God's WILL that his SON is worshiped. Hebrews chapter 1:6 teaches us that when God brings his SON into the world again at his second coming that even the angels will be made to worship God's SON. The good angels honor Jesus now and rejoice when people are saved. So the angels spoke of in Hebrews 1:6 that will be made to worship Jesus I believe is speaking of the fallen angels bowing their knees to worship God's SON on their Day of Judgment. The good angels will bow voluntarily.
Please read Hebrews 1:6.
“And AGAIN, (Or again the second time at the second coming of Jesus) when HE (Yahweh) brings in the first begotten into the world, he said, And let all the angels of God WORSHIP him.”
We will cover this subject of Jesus being worshiped more in-depth further on in this study of God's word when we get to that Trinitarian argument in this Trinitarian article. For now, let us move on to the next section of this Trinitarian article to try and prove the Jesus is Yahweh himself based upon Jesus having many of the SAME attributes of Yahweh.
Jesus Possesses the Attributes of God. Jesus possesses attributes that belong only to God.
If you are an honest Christian seeking ONLY the TRUTH of the WHOLE word of God and you search the word of God for YOURSELF with an open heart and mind, then you will find the Bible itself clearly and plainly in SIMPLICITY teaches us that EVERYTHING Jesus is or has was GIVEN TO him BY his God and Father. You will see this TRUTH below as you continue reading this study in God's word to learn that Jesus is NOT Yahweh HIMSELF. But rather, Jesus is the HUMAN SON OF Yahweh. You will see that the human Son of God was ANOINTED or empowered by his God and Father to do the works men saw Jesus do. And this SAME ANOINTING now dwells in us as believers EMPOWERING US to do the SAME works Jesus did THROUGH the eternal Spirit Yahweh. Let us now examine these attributes of Yahweh that were GIVEN to Jesus BY his God and Father Yahweh. Now please know and understand that it can NO longer be said that these attributes belong ONLY to God since you now KNOW the word of TRUTH teaches us that Yahweh GAVE these attributes TO his SON Jesus.
Jesus is eternal.
John 1:1 affirms: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” The word was in this verse is an imperfect tense, indicating continuous, ongoing existence. When the time-space universe came into being, Christ already existed (Hebrews 1:8–11).
NO! John 1:1 does not AFFIRM or positively declare as absolute truth that Jesus is ETERNAL. John 1:1 does NOT say, “In the beginning was the ETERNAL SON, and the ETERNAL SON was with God and the SON was God.” John 1:1 does NOT say, “In the beginning was Jesus, and Jesus was with God, and Jesus was God.” John 1:1 does NOT say “In the beginning was God the SON, the second person of the Trinity, and God the Son the second person of the trinity was with the God and God the Son, the second person of the Trinity was God.” But rather, the word of TRUTH says that the “LOGOS” was WITH God. The Greek word “LOGOS” in the LITERAL translation is the “SAYING” or the SPOKEN word of God was TOWARD or WITHIN THE God and what God was the SAYING. Please read the study “JOHN 1:1 THE WORD WAS GOD!” for the true sound Biblical meaning of John 1:1. And also please read the study “DOES HEBREWS 1:10 PROVE THAT JESUS IS YAHWEH?” But for now, please read John 5:15-27, which clearly and plainly teaches us in SIMPLICITY with absolutely NO interpretation needed that Almighty God the Father GAVE his SON Jesus to have eternal life in himself even as the Father has always had life in Himself. And God did this BECAUSE he was the Son of MAN. And there was NO Son of MAN in the eternity past BEFORE God created the FIRST man Adam only around 6,000 years ago. In truth, the “beginning” in John 1:1 is NOT in the eternity past. It is [A] beginning around 6,000 years ago when God RESTORED the earth after it BECAME void and empty during the Luciferian flood that brought an end to the war waged on God’s throne by Lucifer and the fallen angels. Please read the studies under the heading >>>WHY ARE WE HERE?-IS GOD AT WAR?<<< But for now, let us read where Jesus was GIVEN eternal life AFTER the cross.
John 5:15-27.
“The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole. 16. And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day. (Here in this passage of Scripture we see Jesus healing a man on the Sabbath day and the Jews get all religious over Jesus working on the Sabbath day and they want to slay or kill Jesus for breaking the Sabbath day in THEIR EYES.) 17. But Jesus answered them, My Father WORKS hitherto, and I work. (In other words, Jesus is saying Hey why are you jumping on ME? I am just OBEYING what God, my heavenly Father, is telling me to do. And my heavenly Father told me to go over and heal this man on the Sabbath day. So if you have a problem with Almighty God my Father Himself healing on the Sabbath day, then take your problem to HIM for HE is the one doing the WORK, not ME. The SON can do NOTHING OF himself. It is the FATHER who is DWELLING IN me who is doing the WORK. Not me!) 18. Therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. (Now some Christians use this false ACCUSATION made by the Jews that Jesus was making himself EQUAL with his God and Father simply because Jesus called God his Father. But Jesus DEFENDS himself in the following verse denying this FALSE accusation made by these Jews) 19. Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do NOTHING OF HIMSELF, (Or in other words, Jesus is saying NO I am NOT making myself EQUAL with my God and Father by calling Yahweh my Father. The SON can do NOTHING OF HIMSELF. I am merely OBEYING my God and Father) but what he sees the Father do: for what things soever he does, these also does the Son likewise. (If a believer, any believer, meaning that any Christian can be given a vision like Peter and Paul, then, certainly, Jesus was given visions and dreams by God as well. So what Jesus saw either in a dream or vision that he knew was given to him by God, then Jesus simply acted out that dream or vision. In other words, on that particular Sabbath day, God gave His SON Jesus and open vision where Jesus saw himself healing this man, and then God spoke to Jesus and said go over and do what you just saw yourself do in the vision that I just gave to you. So what is Jesus going to do but to OBEY what his God and Father was showing and telling him what to do? Now you understand the words of Jesus defending himself of NOT making himself equal with his God and Father by saying My Father works and I work. The SON can do NOTHING OF HIMSELF) 20. For the Father loves the Son and SHOWS him all things that HIMSELF DOES:(Jesus is still yet defending himself of the FALSE accusation of the Jews of Jesus making himself EQUAL with his God and Father by simple calling Yahweh his Father) and he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. (WHY? Or how will Jesus do greater works?) 21. FOR (Or BECAUSE) as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them; even so the Son quickens whom he will. (WHY? Or HOW does Jesus have power and authority to raise the dead even as his God and Father has power and authority to raise the dead?) 22. FOR (Or BECAUSE) the Father judges no man, but (Yahweh, Almighty God the Father HIMSELF) has COMMITTED ALL judgment unto the SON: (WHY?) 23. THAT (Or SO THAT) all men should HONOR the SON, even as they honor the Father. He that honors NOT the Son honor NOT the Father which has sent him. (The word “HONOR” here carries the meaning of worship as well. In the world to come, ALL men will honor and bow their knee to God's Son TO the glory OF the Father. When we HONOR the SON we HONOR the FATHER. And if we do NOT honor the SON, then we DISHONOR the Father Yahweh. You see dear children of God, the REASON WHY that the God and Father of Jesus COMMITTED all judgment to His SON is because God is God and He can do whatever He chooses to do and God Himself chose to COMMIT ALL judgment to His SON so that all men would honor, worship, praise and glorify His SON Jesus to the glory of the FATHER. We worship Jesus because it is God's WILL to do so and not because Jesus is Yahweh the Father Himself. Our worshiping Jesus with a heart of thanksgiving for what he did for us is what PLEASES the Father. So who are YOU my dear Trinitarian brothers and sisters in the Lord to say that it is BLASPHEMOUS to give worship to a mere HUMAN being, as IF, we, who are NON-Trinitarian believers teach that Jesus is JUST a MERE HUMAN being? This is NOT at ALL what we teach and we are OFFENDED by your Trinitarian SLANDER against NON-Trinitarian Christians. We love and honor Jesus in the Spirit of TRUTH as God's SON and thereby give glory and honor TO the Father as He, our heavenly Father, DESIRES) 24. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my word, (Every word Jesus spoke was his God and Father's words and NOT his OWN words. Please read John 7:16, “Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is NOT MINE, but HIS that sent me.” John 16:15, “All things that the Father has are mine: THEREFORE [Or for that reason of Yahweh GIVING all things to His SON] said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.” So whosoever hears the words of Jesus hears God's word given to Jesus by his God and Father. So I implore you to HEAR his word for he that hears the teachings of Jesus) and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 25. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the SON OF God: and they that hear shall live. (WHY? Why is the voice of the SON OF God have as much authority and power as the voice of Yahweh the Father himself?) 26. FOR (Or BECAUSE) as the Father has life in himself; so has he GIVEN to the Son to have life in himself; (In other words, Jesus NOW has eternal life in himself BECAUSE his God and Father GAVE his SON Jesus to have life in himself. The LITERAL meaning of “to have life in himself” reads “to BE HAVING life in himself” which clearly teaches us that Jesus was NOT always ETERNAL. Now one can argue till the cows come home as to WHEN the one true and only Almighty God Yahweh GAVE His SON Jesus eternal life because the Scriptures to not SPECIFICALLY say WHEN Jesus was GIVEN immortality in THIS particular passage of Scripture. But we can compare Scripture with Scripture to be absolutely sure WHEN Jesus was GIVEN eternal life, then we find that, without fail, that this eternal life of immortality was NOT given to the SON OF God in eternity past as some would have you believe even if they are honest enough to share this verse with you. Please read the study “IS JESUS ALMIGHTY GOD?” for all the verses that prove that Jesus did not preexist without a beginning as God's eternal Son who was WITH Yahweh at His side like the mainstream Trinitarian churches teach) 27. AND has GIVEN him authority to execute judgment ALSO, (WHY? Why was Jesus GIVEN authority and power to execute judgment? Was it because Jesus was Yahweh HIMSELF being fully Almighty God and fully a man at the same time having TWO natures one divine and one human as the doctrine of the deity of Jesus teaches? Was it because Jesus was the SON OF God? Let us see what the Bible itself teaches us as to WHY Yahweh GAVE all power and authority to his SON Jesus) BECAUSE he is the Son of MAN.”
You see dear children of God Jesus was GIVEN all power and authority BY Yahweh his God and Father NOT because Jesus was for all eternity past God the Son, the second person of the Godhead, and NOT because Jesus was the SON OF God. But rather, Yahweh COMMISSIONED his SON Jesus with all power and authority BECAUSE Jesus was the Son of MAN, a HUMAN BEING. You see when Jesus was baptized by John the baptist, the eternal Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus to empower him to do the works that men saw Jesus do. Please read Luke 4:14-21, which was right after his baptism and being tempted by the devil.
Luke 4:14-21.
“And Jesus RETURNED IN the POWER OF the Spirit (NOT in his OWN power, but in the power OF the ETERNAL SPIRIT, Yahweh. There is but ONE Spirit and God is Spirit. Please read the study “THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE FATHER” for all the verses that clearly teach us that there are just TWO and NOT three persons that we must believe in, in order to be saved. Dear children of God do NOT believe the Trinitarian LIE that you must, without fail, believe that God is a Trinity in order to be SAVED and if you DENY the doctrine of the Trinity, then you are NOT a TRUE born again Christian. That is using INTIMIDATION to control what you believe because that is what the cults do. For you see, all cults use the same kind of intimidation to control their followers. The sound Biblical truth is that Jesus was ANOINTED with POWER at his baptism and returned from being baptized IN the POWER OF the eternal Holy Spirit) into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. 15. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. 16. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. (Isaiah) And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, 18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because HE (Yahweh) has ANOINTED me (Or COMMISSIONED or EMPOWERED) to preach the gospel to the poor; He has SENT (Or Yahweh has COMMISSIONED or EMPOWERED or ANOINTED) me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19. To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 20. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21. And he BEGAN to say unto them, THIS DAY is this Scripture FULFILLED in your ears.”
Or Jesus BEGAN from the very BEGINNING of his ministry to teach the people that he is the CHRIST, the ANOINTED one of or by his God and Father Yahweh. When WE as Christians obey the Holy Spirit to heal a person that does NOT make us be Almighty God Himself nor does it make us be EQUAL with Yahweh. No true Christian would ever make either of these claims. Yet, when the Son of MAN has the same attributes of Yahweh to do mighty works of healing, then some Christians dogmatically demand that Jesus MUST, without fail, be Yahweh himself, because ONLY GOD has these attributes. To say that Jesus IS Yahweh Himself because only Yahweh can heal is DECEIVING. We can HEAL through the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling IN us but we would never claim that we are Yahweh because we have been GIVEN power and authority over the enemy. So please keep in mind dear children of God that Trinitarian Christians do this in IGNORANCE having not yet SEEN the TRUTH of the WHOLE word of God that Jesus was EMPOWERED and GIVEN power from on high and that is HOW he did things that ONLY God can do because it was God DWELLING IN him who did the WORKS. The truth of the matter is that the disciples HEALED the sick and raised the dead and not one Christian would ever say that these MEN were Yahweh Himself NOR say that the disciples of Jesus were EQUAL with Yahweh just because they were GIVEN this power and authority to heal the sick in the NAME of Jesus. Keep in mind that the NAME Jesus was GIVEN to the DIVINELY and miraculously CONCEIVED child BY the SPOKEN LOGOS or SAYING of God in the womb of Mary who gave birth to a HUMAN child. Also, remember that Mary was told by the angel Gabriel to name her firstborn son Jesus because he SHALL be called the SON OF the HIGHEST. And according to Romans 1:4, Jesus was DECLARED to BE the Son of God BY the RESURRECTION and not by his virgin birth. The NAME Jesus means Yahweh SAVES or the salvation OF Yahweh. The Greek word translated as “SAVED” means saved, delivered, HEALED, made whole, set free, safe, and being placed back into the right relationship with Yahweh. So whenever you say Jesus SAVES you are saying that Jesus is the salvation OF Yahweh and that it is actually Yahweh who SAVES through the HUMAN vessel that He Himself created or brought into existence and then came to DWELL IN at the baptism of Jesus. Let us move on to the next trinity argument to try and prove that Jesus is Yahweh.
Jesus is self-existent.
As the Creator of all things (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:2), Christ himself must be uncreated. Colossians 1:17 tells us that Christ is “before all things, and in Him, all things consist.”
Here is an example of how wrong conclusions can be drawn by assuming that previous teachings of church denominations are correct sound Biblical teachings. For example, Calvinist base their false teaching of total depravity on the ASSUMPTION that the Roman Catholic doctrine of original sin being a correct sound Biblical teaching when it truth the Bible ITSELF does NOT teach that all men are BORN as sinners by inheriting the sin of Adam as the doctrine of original sin states. If this is new to you please read the study “THE FALSE DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN!” My point is this if one forms the teaching that Jesus is SELF-EXISTENT like the Father from all eternity past without having a beginning based upon the assumption that another church doctrine is true and that other church doctrine is NOT true, then neither teaching can be true. In other words, this Trinitarian argument of Jesus being self-existent is based upon Jesus being the CREATOR of all things. To say this another way, Trinitarians make the CLAIM that Jesus is the creator of the entire universe and everything that exits based solely on the two words “ALL things”. And they do so by quoting verses of Scripture out of context and by “misinterpreting” or INCORRECTLY interpreting those verses that they use to TRY and prove that Jesus created all things. So then, BASED upon Jesus being the CREATOR of ALL “THINGS”, then it is concluded that Jesus MUST, therefore, be SELF-EXISTING and WITHOUT ever having a beginning in order to have created all “THINGS”. Let us take the verses cited above and see what they are truly saying in the LIGHT of the whole word of God. I will also ADD the verses that this particular Trinity writer left out or missed.
Please read John 1:1-3.
“In the beginning was the Word, (The LOGOS, the SAYING or the SPOKEN word) and the Word was with (Or toward the God, but more precisely, the SAYING was WITHIN the) God, and the Word was God. (Or the SAYING was God, which some translations read as what God was his SAYING was. And more precisely, this means that Yahweh’s saying becomes, or comes into being, as in, God PERFORMS His spoken word. So what He says He will do) 2. The same (Referring to the LOGOS, the SAYING, or the SPOKEN word) was in the beginning with God. 3. All things were made by him, (The word “THINGS” is NOT in the original Greek text. And the word “ALL” is referring to the ALL of the WHOSOEVER BELIEVES that are and will be made NEW CREATURES because of Jesus) and without him (Or without Jesus, the spoken word of prophecy made FLESH to become the Messiah) was not anything made that was made.”
Or without Jesus was not yet ONE of the ALL made that was made. And if a Christian demands that the Translators NEVER make a mistake then you will know that they do not know what they are talking about. We KNOW that Yahweh creates everything by SPEAKING them into existence. We know that there is LIFE in the SPOKEN words of Yahweh and WITHOUT God SPEAKING His words out from His own mouth there was NOT any THING made that was made. The earlier English translation used the pronoun “IT” to refer to the word. And the word was NOT capitalized in those earlier translations. And with all the other controversies with “TAMPERING” with the King James Version that has been SPECIFICALLY done to have the KJV Bible lead more support to the doctrine of the Trinity, then you have to wonder WHY they capitalized the word to be the Word? And WHY did they change the pronoun “IT” to the pronoun “him”? Please read the study “IS THE KING JAME BIBLE CORRUPTED?” You see dear children of God, one must read INTO John 1:1 the doctrine of a pre-existing Jesus, or the SON, or a separated divine eternal being called the Word pre-existing WITH God at his side in order for the Word to be the creator of all things. The BIAS Trinitarian translators capitalize “word” to become “Word” in order to TRY and show the reader that the SPOKEN LOGOS is a SEPARATE divine eternal being named the “Word” so that they can TRY and prove that Jesus pre-existed as God the SON, the second person of the so-called trinity God, who was WITH Yahweh at his side. For you see, WITHOUT a pre-existing God the Son the doctrine of the Trinity falls apart. But simple logic says, how can one BE Yahweh Himself when another person or being is WITH Yahweh Himself at His side like Jesus is at the SIDE of his God and Father’s right hand? Did Jesus come to be at the side of Yahweh for the first time or did a pre-existing God the Son RETURN to being at the side of Yahweh? Careful how you answer that question if you are a hardcore Trinitarian Christian because it just might change your way of thinking to no longer be a Trinitarian Christian. So you see my dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, one has to blatantly IGNORE the true sound Biblical meaning of the Greek word “LOGOS” as being the SAYING of God or the SPOKEN word of God in order to FORCE the LOGOS to be a SEPARATE divine eternal Spirit being called the Word, who was WITH Yahweh at his side, who then created all things FOR Yahweh or that Yahweh USED His SON to create all things. Yahweh is the SOURCE of all things including being the SOURCE of His SON Jesus, who was brought into existence where he never existed before EXCEPT as the IMAGE within Yahweh to bring forth into existence on a certain DAY in time. Then Yahweh ANOINTED His only BEGOTTEN SON to EMPOWER or COMMISSION His human SON to do his God and Father's entire will. And then AFTER Jesus OBEYED all that his God and Father sent or commissioned His human SON to do, then Yahweh Himself HIGHLY EXALTED His human SON Jesus to become a LESSER God under his God and Father Yahweh to rule FOR Yahweh on the earth for 1000 years on his God and Father's throne. And then after the 1000 year reign of Jesus, the ARM OF Yahweh, the SON will commit the kingdom BACK into the hand of his God and Father Yahweh. So to ME, John 1:1 does NOT affirm that Jesus preexisted eternally. Only the THOUGHTS and WORDS existed eternal within Yahweh’s mind before He SPOKE His thoughts in the form of words to create. Please read the study “JOHN 1:1 THE WORD WAS GOD!” for all the verses that show the true correct and sound Biblical teaching of this passage of Scripture. Also, please read the study “EPHESIANS 3:9-11 DID JESUS CREATE ALL THINGS?” to learn the true meaning of all the verses used by those who TRY to prove that Jesus created all things. But for now, please read Hebrews 1:1,2 which was cited above as proof that Jesus created all things.
Hebrews 1:1,2.
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2. Has in these last days spoken unto us by his SON, whom He (YAHWEH, Almighty God the Father) has APPOINTED HEIR of all things, by whom also HE (Yahweh the Father Himself) made the worlds;”
Again, the word “THINGS” is NOT in the original text. So the ALL could mean the ALL of whosoever believes. Or the all could mean all things in the worlds yet to come that are INHERITED by Jesus. And to me, an already existing God the Son who supposedly created all things makes no sense for him to INHERIT what he supposedly created. So HOW did Yahweh create light? BY His SPOKEN word or SAYING that came forth out of Yahweh's own mouth. So at best, the intended meaning of BY whom would be BY IT, speaking of the LOGOS, the SPOKEN word of Yahweh. In TRUTH, the Greek word “DIA” that was TRANSLATED as “BY” here in the King James Version ALSO means with, through, FOR and FOR the SAKE OF whom Yahweh Himself made the worlds yet to come. So then, the true correct meaning of this verse is that Yahweh HIMSELF is the creator, who created all things FOR his Son Jesus to INHERIT. This interpretation agrees with the rest of God's word WITHOUT any contradictions whatsoever. The last verse this Trinitarian writer quotes for his proof of Jesus as being the creator of everything that exists is Colossians 1:16 and 17. But in truth, this passage of Scripture is speaking of the NEW creation, where the NEW creation of being made NEW creatures IN Jesus Christ is made possible because of what Jesus did on the cross for ALL who believe to become like Jesus and INHERIT eternal life in the world to come. Also, please read the study “EPHESIANS 3:9-11 DID JESUS CREATE ALL THINGS?” for all the verses that prove beyond any shadow of a doubt the Yahweh ALONE created all things through His SPOKEN SAYING or LOGOS. But for now, I will give you a short excerpt from the in-depth study did Jesus create all things?
Colossians 1:12-19.
“Giving thanks unto the FATHER, which has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: (Please notice the CONTEXT is speaking of God's NEW CREATION or the world to come that we who endure unto the end shall INHERIT with Jesus as being created IN Jesus BY God as a NEW creature in Jesus Christ. And if we endure unto the end we shall be like Jesus being GIVEN eternal life and a new glorified immortal body of flesh and bone as Jesus has now. So then, the ACTUAL creator of the NEW creation is Almighty God the FATHER, but the NEW creation of becoming a NEW creature IN Jesus Christ is made possible because of the OBEDIENCE of the HUMAN Son of MAN Jesus to do all that his God and Father commissioned him to do, EVEN to ENDURE the cross) 13. WHO (Referring to Almighty God the Father) has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son: (Speaking of the kingdom of God who COMMITTED his kingdom into the hand of his SON Jesus for a 1000 years or one day in Yahweh's time.) 14. In whom (Speaking of Jesus) we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: (God Himself is NOT a MAN that he should bleed and die. Now, you may argue that the Old Testament says that Yahweh Himself was PIERCED, but again this verse is INCORRECTLY interpreted. We will cover that verse further on in this study of God's word.) 15. Who (Referring to Jesus) is the IMAGE OF the invisible God, (So just ask yourself the question HOW can the IMAGE of something be THE REAL? In other words, how can the IMAGE of the real, or the creator OF the IMAGE that the REAL, the CREATOR, had WITHIN Himself? Are not WE as human beings that were created also created IN God's IMAGE? Yes, we are, but this does NOT make us to BE the Almighty God? Now some groups, like Christian Science, the New Age, or the Mormons may say, yes we do become GOD or gods, but most Christians will say absolutely not! So why then, do some Christians dogmatically demand that Jesus, being the IMAGE of God, means that the human Jesus is FULLY THE ALMIGHTY God and fully a human being at the SAME time having TWO natures one DIVINE and one human? Especially when the word of TRUTH clearly says that Jesus is the IMAGE OF the INVISIBLE God, whom NO man can SEE. If it were not for Almighty God making an IMAGE of Himself that would SHOW, WHO the ONE TRUE and ONLY ALMIGHTY God is, then God could not be truly KNOWN by mankind. Therefore, God spoke forth His very own WORD of prophecy to create a HUMAN being in which the eternal FATHER, being an invisible SPIRIT, would DWELL IN so he could EMPOWER His SON Jesus to be an OVERCOMER of sin to be SLAIN as an INNOCENT LAMB. You see, God needed and innocent HUMAN being that was made a little LOWER than the angels as a FAITHFUL WITNESS in order to redeem or BUY BACK mankind so that WHOSOEVER of mankind, who will BELIEVE that Jesus is the CHRIST, the SON OF the living God will NOT perish, but be given eternal life in the world to come. Jesus is our BROTHER the firstborn among MANY brethren. That is why Jesus is called the FIRST begotten from the dead, the faithful witness, and the beginning of God's creation in Revelation 1:5 and Revelation 3:15. This is WHY Jesus is called the CHRIST, which means the ANOINTED ONE of Almighty God the Father, who ANOINTED or FILLED his SON with His very own Holy Spirit to ENDUE His human Son with POWER from on high. So then, Jesus is the IMAGE of the INVISIBLE God) the FIRSTBORN of every CREATURE:(Which teaches us that Jesus was a CREATED being that was BORN or BEGOTTEN or BROUGHT INTO EXISTENCE where he never existed before EXCEPT in the MIND of Almighty God WITHIN the God as God's IMAGE. And then as Yahweh SPOKE His WORD of PROPHECY, then the SPOKEN word began to come into being or was becoming into being on a certain day. This is why the correct translation of John 8:58 should be, “Before Abraham, I AM BECOMING”. For you see, what Yahweh SPEAKS as prophecy is indeed BECOMING into existence. And Jesus was PROPHESIED to come into being before Abraham was born) 16. For BY HIM (Or That BECAUSE OF him. The Greek word “en” Strong's #1722 also has the meaning BECAUSE of, or FOR the SAKE OF Jesus) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: (When we as parents yet to BE having the PLAN in our minds to become parents, we are PLANNING to have a child. And part of our plan to have a child is that we PREPARE a room or place for our child to live. In the same way, Yahweh created all things BECAUSE he was PLANNING to have a SON. ALSO, the word “THINGS” is NOT in the original text. And the ALL is speaking of the ALL of the WHOSOEVER BELIEVES which includes the believers who died in Christ that are up in heaven and the all who believe on the earth. And Jesus will decide who sits where on which throne) all things were created BY HIM and FOR him (Or FOR him and INTO him has been created the ALL of whosoever BELIEVES. This also means that all of God's creation in the world yet to come has been committed to Jesus for God's Son to rule and reign over. Yahweh prophesied in Isaiah to GIVE MEN to his elect one speaking of Jesus. But more precisely, this particular verse is speaking of God's NEW CREATION speaking of us as believers that God created IN Jesus and BECAUSE OF HIM, His SON Jesus. You see dear children of God, the LITERAL translation reads, “That BECAUSE OF him, speaking of Jesus were THE ALL created…” where the ALL is speaking of us as believers IN Jesus who were created as a NEW CREATION BECAUSE OF Jesus) 17. And he (Referring to Jesus) is BEFORE all things (Meaning that Jesus has PREEMINENCE or that Jesus has been highly exalted to be ABOVE all of God's creation except for his God and Father THE ALMIGHTY who alone created all things FOR the sake of His SON Jesus. Hebrews teaches us that Yahweh the Father anointed his SON Jesus ABOVE his fellows. We as believers are fellow HEIRS WITH Jesus, but Jesus will also be the HEAD of his own body, his church, his faithful followers, his FELLOWS. The word BEFORE can also be interpreted that God had a PLAN to have a Son BEFORE the foundation of the world and NOT that Jesus as the Son of God actually preexisted in some bodily form in the eternity past. But rather, the pronoun he here is referring to the Word or to the logos that was TOWARD Almighty God in a beginning. But again more precisely the BEFORE means that Jesus is ABOVE the ALL, where the ALL is speaking of us as believers. Jesus is the HEAD of the church in other words) and BY him all things CONSIST. (Or IN Jesus the ALL, again speaking of us as believers STAND together. This means that IN Jesus we the saints are granted to sit together with Jesus to rule and reign alongside of Jesus for 1000 years. The word “THINGS” is NOT in the original text and never should have been ADDED by the translators. The correct translation is the ALL were created because of him) 18. And he (Jesus) is the head of the body, the church: who is the BEGINNING, (Speaking of Jesus being the beginning of the FIRST to be BORN from the dead and given IMMORTALITY BY the Father just like Almighty God the Father has always had immortality in Himself from all eternity past. And NOW, after He raised His Son Jesus from the dead has GIVEN His own divine nature of IMMORTALITY TO His human SON Jesus. This agrees with Jesus being the beginning of the CREATION of God in Revelation 3:14 “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things say the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;” NOT the creation of the entire world in the eternity past, but rather, the beginning of God's NEW CREATION that will actually begin or continue with us at the SECOND coming of Jesus, but will not be completed until AFTER the 1000 year reign of Jesus, when God Himself destroys ALL evil once and for all eternity future, Then God will make ALL things NEW FOR HIS SON and us who are found faithful to INHERIT) 19. For it PLEASED the Father that IN him (IN his Son Jesus) should all fullness DWELL:
This was God's PLAN all along. Yahweh’s eternal purpose and intent even before Almighty God alone created mankind upon the earth, Yahweh had His yet future SON in mind to INHERIT all of His creation. The FULLNESS of Deity did NOT dwell in Jesus BODILY until AFTER the cross when Yahweh HIGHLY EXALTED the human Son of MAN, Jesus, and GAVE him the DIVINE NATURE of immortality to be having in himself even as the Father has always possessed immortality in Himself and He alone is the SOURCE of all life. You see my dear brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Bible says that Jesus was SLAIN from BEFORE the foundation of the world, but not one Christian INTERPRETS this to mean that Jesus LITERALLY existed before mankind was ever created and so that he could be SLAIN for the sins of mankind BEFORE mankind ever existed. Every Christian CORRECTLY understands this verse to mean that in the MIND and PLAN of Almighty God that Jesus was ONE DAY going to be crucified for the sins of the world, and then for His Son's obedience to do all his Father's will, Almighty God would GIVE the worlds and the ALL, speaking of the RIGHTEOUS humans who believe, to His Son. So then, the reason that Almighty God the Father Himself ALONE and by Himself created all things or the ALL was FOR the SAKE OF His Son, is because this is what brought PLEASURE to the Father. This was God's PLAN all along that He kept SECRET from the foundation of the earth.
Please read Revelation 4:8-11.
“And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him, and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. 9. And when those beasts give glory and honor and thanks to HIM that sat on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 10. The four and twenty elders fall down before HIM that sat on the throne, and worship him that lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 11. You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for YOU have created all things, and FOR YOUR PLEASURE they are and were created.”
The “are” here is speaking of God’s NEW creatures created IN Jesus Christ who are still yet being created IN Jesus Christ. And the verb “were” created is speaking of the new creatures that have already been created in Jesus Christ. Again, the word “THINGS” is NOT in the original text. And thus, the ALL is the ALL of WHOSOEVER BELIEVES. And Jesus is WORTHY to receive glory and honor for laying down his own life of his own free will so that whosoever BELIEVES might be saved. Now, have you ever wondered WHY an ALMIGHTY God, who is MIGHTIER than ALL would have needed to keep his plan of salvation a SECRET? Have you ever wonder WHY Almighty God created mankind and his SON Jesus a little LOWER or INFERIOR to the ANGELS and then one day God is going to EXALT those of mankind who OVERCOME to be made JUDGES OVER the angels? I mean why go backward in the creation and create an INFERIOR creation than what you have already created only then to later modify so to speak or improve that creation to become superior to your previous creation? Why not just create mankind HIGHER than the angels, to begin with? Have you ever wondered WHY Almighty God BINDS Satan for 1000 years and then LETS HIM GO so that he can wreak havoc once again? Please read the study called “UNDERSTANDING WHY?” for the reason of why an Almighty God needed to keep his PLAN a SECRET and for the answers to these and many other questions of WHY? Therefore, it was Almighty God, the Father, who chose to create all things BY his spoken word, and FOR the SAKE OF his SON, that was the IMAGE in God's mind that God spoke forth in the form of His speech, His SAYING or His WORD that was MADE to BECOME FLESH. The WHOLE word of God, when rightly divide and interpreted in the light of the clear, plain, and simple verses make it quite clear that Almighty God Himself ALONE created all things. Also, here are two verses that prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that neither Jesus, the Son, nor a second person of the so-called Trinity called God the Son, NOR even a separate divine eternal being called the Word, pre-existed for all eternity past without beginning being self-existing WITH Yahweh the Father at his side. Please read Colossians 2:9 where we clearly and plainly see in SIMPLICITY with no interpretation needed that ALL the fullness of the Godhead DWELT IN Jesus. And again, the fullness of Deity did NOT dwell in Jesus UNTIL AFTER the cross. That was when it PLEASED God to highly exalt His HUMAN Son Jesus to the highest position of authority possible. It was after the cross that the human Jesus was GIVEN all power and authority. It was after the cross that the Son of MAN, Jesus, OBTAINED a new name more excellent than the angels
Colossians 2:9.
“For IN him DWELLS ALL the fullness of the Godhead bodily.”
God gave Jesus the Spirit WITHOUT MEASURE after the cross. During the ministry of Jesus, the Son of man had the SAME earnest of the Holy Spirit that we have. Jesus cast out devils with just the FINGER of God. And WE have the SAME “finger” of God or the SAME earnest of the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. That is why Jesus said that WE will do the SAME works that he did THROUGH the Holy Spirit DWELLING IN him. In truth, the GODHEAD is the Father ALONE. The Godhead is ONE God in ONE PERSON who alone is the HEAD, God. Jesus is the head of us and God is the HEAD over Jesus. We are not our own and we belong to Jesus Christ and Jesus BELONGS to God. There is only ONE who has ALWAYS been immortal and that is the FATHER alone.
Please read 1 Timothy 6:13-16.
“I give YOU CHARGE in the sight of God, (Yahweh) who quickens all things, (Or who gives life to all things and is the self-existing SOURCE and creator of all things. So Paul is saying to Timothy AND to us, I charge you before God the FATHER Yahweh) AND before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; 14. That YOU KEEP this commandment (The writer here of God's word is giving us CHARGE in the sight of Yahweh AND before His SON Jesus the Christ that WE KEEP this TEACHING that is to follow) without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: 15. Which in his times (Speaking of both the first coming and the second coming of Jesus) he (The SON OF Yahweh who came to show us the FATHER) shall show, who is the blessed and ONLY Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; (The word Potentate means sovereign and over and above all, the highest, and the ALMIGHTY. We have already learned that since Jesus has THE God the FATHER OVER him then the SON cannot possibly be the ONLY potentate, and seeing that Jesus came to SHOW us the FATHER, then mere common sense teaches us that the ONLY potentate is the FATHER) 16. Who ONLY has IMMORTALITY, (Or who only is SELF EXISTING having LIFE in HIMSELF without beginning nor ending. So the WHO here is the FATHER, the ETERNAL SPIRIT) dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom NO man has SEEN, NOR CAN SEE: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.”
Now we know that men have SEEN Jesus and we know that WE shall SEE Jesus and be LIKE him for we shall SEE him as he IS. So the ONLY ONE who has ALWAYS been SELF EXISTING is YAHWEH and NOT his SON who was BEGOTTEN on a certain DAY in time. Please read the study “DID JESUS HAVE A BEGINNING?” and “DID JESUS PREEXIST AS THE SON OF GOD?” But for now, let us move on to closely examine the next Trinitarian argument to try and prove that Jesus is Yahweh himself.
Jesus is all-knowing.
Jesus knew where the fish were in the water (Luke 5:4,6; John 21:6–11), and He knew just which fish contained the coin (Matthew 17:27). He knew the future (John 11:11, 18:4), specific details that would be encountered (Matthew 21:2–4), and knew from a distance that Lazarus had died (John 11:14). He also knows the Father as the Father knows Him (Matthew 11:27; John 7:29, 8:55, 10:15, 17:25).
We just learned from the very word of Almighty God Himself that the doctrines or the teachings of Jesus are NOT his OWN but HIS, speaking of Yahweh the Father, that SENT or COMMISSIONED His SON Jesus. We just learned from the word of TRUTH that Jesus could do NOTHING of HIMSELF and all that men saw him do was the FATHER DWELLING IN him doing those works. We just learned from the Bible ITSELF that Jesus worked only when his God and Father worked doing all the Father showed and told His SON to do. In other words, Jesus OBEYED what his God and Father showed His SON to do in a vision or dream and or told His Son to do by His self-same eternal Holy Spirit dwelling IN His SON. Jesus taught us that WE shall do the SAME works Jesus did and we KNOW that WE OURSELVES are NOT the ones DOING the works of healing and casting out devils. We know that it is God DWELLING IN us who is actually DOING these works. Now, I want you to SEE that it is NOT YOU by your OWN works or your OWN strength, or your OWN power by which you OVERCOME sin. KNOW that it is the GREATER ONE DWELLING IN you doing the WORK of overcoming SIN in your life. Greater is HE that is IN you than the Devil, who is in the world. Please read the study “HOW YOU CAN LIVE YOUR LIFE FREE FROM SIN!” Also, the word of TRUTH teaches us that Jesus did NOT know the time of his return, which ONLY Yahweh, the FATHER knows. Please read Mark 13:32 along with Matthew 24:36.
Mark 13:32.
“But of that day and that hour knows no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, NEITHER the Son, BUT the Father.”
Matthew 24:36.
“But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father ONLY.”
Now if so be that Jesus is truly Yahweh himself, who ALONE is ALL KNOWING, then how could the Father KNOW and his SON NOT know at the exact same time? You see dear child of God, Jesus knew the things he knew because he was God's PROPHET and NOT because he was Almighty God himself. It was God DWELLING IN His SON Jesus who TOLD His Son the secrets of men's hearts. Jesus said that he PERCEIVED, which means that things were REVEALED TO him by his God and Father DWELLING IN him. Prophets of old and prophets yet today KNOW things that ONLY God Himself can know, but this does NOT make them to BE Almighty God Prophets in the Old Testament and prophets today know things that ONLY Yahweh can know BECAUSE Almighty God REVEALED it to them for His glory. So the fact that Jesus knew things that ONLY God could know does not prove that Jesus is Yahweh Himself, but rather, it proves that Jesus was indeed a prophet sent or commissioned by his God and Father Yahweh. The Bible itself prophesied that God would raise up a PROPHET from among the people. Jesus was a prophet, but that is not ALL that Jesus was prophesied to be. Now please understand that Jesus is far MORE than just a prophet and teacher of God. Jesus is the only uniquely begotten SON OF God, who is God's SALVATION for mankind and whosoever does NOT believe in Jesus shall remain dead in their sins. Please read the study “JESUS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD!” Let us move on to the next Trinitarian argument to try and prove that Jesus is Yahweh himself.
Jesus is all-powerful.
Christ created the entire universe (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:2) and sustains the universe by His own power (Colossians 1:17; Hebrews 1:3). During His earthly ministry, He exercised power over nature (Luke 8:25), physical diseases (Mark 1:29–31), demonic spirits (Mark 1:32–34), and even death (John 11:1–44).
We have already learned that all power and authority was GIVEN TO Jesus AFTER the cross BY his God and Father Yahweh, who ALONE is THE ALMIGHTY having His SON under and subject to Himself. We have already learned that Yahweh ALONE and by Himself created all things including bringing His SON into existence where His SON never existed before except WITHIN Yahweh's mind and plan as God's thoughts, plans, and desire to one day have a SON. Also, Jesus himself teaches us clearly, and plainly in SIMPLICITY that it was NOT in his power to grant, who would sit at the right hand or the left hand of Jesus in the world to come, but it was in the power of his God and Father Yahweh alone to grant this position.
Please read Matthew 20:23.
“And he said unto them, You shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is NOT MINE to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my FATHER.”
Yahweh does NOT have a God or Father. The FATHER ALONE is Yahweh and Jesus came out from Yahweh into existence, when Yahweh SPOKE FORTH his word of prophecy to do a NEW thing, which was the have a SON to share his glory. More on God prophesying to do a NEW thing further on in this study in God's word. This looks like a good place to end Part 2 of this five-part study called “IS JESUS YAHWEH HIMSELF? Part 1” To continue to read part 3 please click on the link “IS JESUS YAHWEH HIMSELF? Part 3” Thanks for reading and may God bless you richly as you continue to seek the TRUTH of the WHOLE word of Almighty God. Your brother in our Lord Jesus Christ, Brother Mark.
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Your brother in our Lord Jesus Christ, Brother Mark.
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