Watch “The God of Jesus” – A most excellent video explaining the truth about God and Jesus.
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Believe and Be Baptised
Now that you have heard the Gospel of the Kingdom of God
Believe it, Repent and Turn from your sins, and be baptised
- Identifying With Jesus in Baptism by Pastor J. Dan Gill
- Jesus and You: Repent and be Baptized by J. Dan Gill
- Baptism Into Jesus Christ by Mark A. Jones
- God’s Kingdom is Key
- Creation to New Creation (God’s Kingdom Plan)
- Kingdom Advancement Today? (Or When Jesus Comes?)
Now that you have heard the Gospel of the Kingdom of God
Believe it, Repent and Turn from your sins, and be baptised
Live a life pleasing to God your Father and Jesus your Lord & Teacher
Whittingham’s, Tyndale’s etc, translations before the KJV
Translated John 1:1-4 without capital ‘w’
Instead of translating using ‘him’ they used ‘it’
All things were made by ‘it’
Without ‘it’ nothing was made!
These translators understood a word is an ‘it’ not a ‘him’
These translators understood a word is ‘Something said/written’, not a person!
Source: https://twitter.com/UnitarianChrist/status/1769656150042071263
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Regards John 20:28
As far as Thomas’ declaration, it seems pretty obvious that Thomas was not declaring Jesus to be the only true God.
Jesus himself tells us in the gospel of John that the Father = the only true God (17:3). Jesus tells Thomas just 11 lines earlier (20:17) that
God = the Father. Is one supposed to believe Thomas then turns around and contradicts Jesus? The narrator tells us 3 lines later the takeaway of his Gospel, and it is that Jesus = the Christ, the Son of God, not = the only true God.
Jesus doesn’t congratulate Thomas on this heretofore unprecedented supposed declaration of his divinity (as he congratulates Peter on declaring him the Christ, the Son of God at Matthew 16:16).
Instead, Jesus chides Thomas on taking so long ‘to believe’. Believe what? Everything makes much more sense if Thomas’ declaration is
“My Lord [Jesus Christ] and my God [the Father],” which then also fits into a broad pattern in the NT of pairing those terms that sort of way. Thomas gets it! That when he sees Jesus, he sees the Father (a basic teaching of John’s Gospel, see John 12 and 14 in particular). One sees the Father when one sees Jesus because Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God – God’s chosen agent or representative, who speaks the Father’s word and does what the Father wants him to do. The resurrection is the proof of this – the sign which confirms everything Jesus claimed up to that point.
(The above is based on a post found on Twitter)
Here is a video for further explanation:
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What? No controversy!
What do I mean?
How is it that fiercely monotheist Jews in the first century were able to change their minds from the “one Yahweh” of their ancestors to a new “three co-equal persons in one essence” God without a single peep of controversy arising when they came to a knowledge of Jesus as Messiah?
Look at all the Christological controversies that existed in the 4th century. Christians were at each other’s throats over the identity of God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Why is it that no controversy arose back in 33 A.D. over the introduction of this new God paradigm, both inside and outside of Christianity?
The following quote comes from
“Little Known Facts About the Trinity” related to this matter:
There is something very odd not happening in the New Testament. There is no trace of any first century controversy about whether or not Jesus is God or that God is “tri-personal.” The conduct of the Jews toward the disciples after Jesus’ death gives strong evidence that they knew nothing of any Trinitarian doctrine. The apostles were active in establishing a new dispensation of religion, and in the process brought on themselves the bad repute, abuse, and persecution of their countrymen. Wherever they went, they were assailed by the Jews with outrage and violence. They were accused of speaking blasphemous words against the holy place and the Law, of turning the world upside down, of designing to overthrow the religion of their fathers, and were scoffed at as followers of a messianic “king” who had died the ignominious death of a malefactor. But they were never accused of worshiping him or preaching him as God. Amidst all their enemies’ accusations, they never brought forward charges that the apostles were preaching of more than one God, or of a tri-unity of “persons” within a “Godhead.” And yet, in the eye of a Jew, such teachings would have been the most hateful things to their system. To teach that the deceiver from Nazareth, whom they had despised and slain, was the very God whom they had always honored and worshiped, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob!— nothing could have so excited them against the new religion and its active promoters. Yet it never formed the ground of their external opposition.
But nowhere in the post-Gospel New Testament writings is there a whiff of any controversy about God being multi-personal or Jesus being God. One would think that something as controversial as the essence of God existing as three “persons,” had it been a doctrine that was known to the first century Church, would have raised significant controversy, especially among Jewish believers.
Ideas like the Trinity and God “becoming a man” are so foreign to Jewish thought and difficult to comprehend that one would expect a careful teacher like the Apostle Paul to address them constantly, yet nowhere in his epistles is there an example of him attempting to explain these inexplicable yet “essential mysteries” to his congregations. Nowhere does Paul discuss how the one God can be “three persons in one,” or teach how in Christ Jesus “God became a man.” And would not such lessons have required constant repetition? Why then is there not even a single chapter dedicated to clarifying, let alone a single verse declaring the Trinity in all the New Testament?
(P. Stein Kohl, pp. 55-6.)
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Jesus is “THAT PROPHET”
Jesus is “THAT PROPHET“,
but Moses did not say That Prophet would be God!
Deuteronomy 18:15
Yahweh thy God will raise up to thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, from thy brethren, like to me (like Moses).
Unto him ye shall hearken,
Deuteronomy 18:18-19
18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren like unto thee, and will put My words in his mouth; and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
19 And it shall come to pass that whosoever will not hearken to My words which he shall speak in My name, I will require it of him.
Jesus spoke what he heard from God:
Jesus said “I am a man who told you the truth which I heard from God Jn 8:40
“…but He that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of Him.”” Jn 8:26
…. And the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me. Jn 14:24
Jesus is “THAT PROPHET”:
Matthew 21:11
And the multitude said, “This is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.”
Luke 13:33
Nevertheless I must walk today and tomorrow and the day following,for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
John 6:14
Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus had done, said, “This is in truth that Prophet who is coming into the world!”
John 7:40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, “In truth this is the Prophet.”
The PROPHET JESUS of NAZARETH: AS PREACHED IN ACTS
Acts 3:23
And it shall come to pass that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.’
Acts 7 Stephen quotes Moses:
32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.’ Moses shook with fear and would not venture to look.
37 This is the Moses who said to the children of Israel,
A Prophet shall the Lord (Yahweh) your God raise up unto you from your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear.’
Moreover, Stephen sees “the son of man”, the Prophet Jesus, standing in God’s Presence.
55 … [Stephen] saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56 and he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.”
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What are we told to believe?
8x the word “believe” is used with “son of God”.
This has a wonderful yet subtle implication. …
John 3:18 He who believes in him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed
in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:36 He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”
John 11:27 She said to Him, “Yes, Lord;
I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, even he who comes into the world.”
John 20:31 but these have been written so that you may believe that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in his name.
Acts 8:37 Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he answered and said,
“I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”
1 John 5:5 Who is the one who overcomes the world,
but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
1 John 5:10 The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
1 John 5:13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
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