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One means One!

🧏‍♀️YAHWEH IS GOD THERE IS NO OTHER BESIDES HIM

TRINITY AND ONENESS IS A LIE

📣ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE AND MANY WITNESSES
GOD IS ONE

Hear, O Israel!
〰️➡️The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6:4‭-‬5

Jesus answered, The foremost is, ‘Hear, O Israel!
〰️➡️The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
Mark 12:29‭-‬30

To you it was shown that you might know that the Lord, 〰️➡️He is God; there is no other besides Him.
Deuteronomy 4:35

See now that I, I am He, And there is 〰️➡️no God besides Me; It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heal, And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
Deuteronomy 32:39

〰️➡️You alone are the Lord. You have made the heavens, The heaven of heavens with all their host, The earth and all that is on it, The seas and all that is in them. You give life to all of them And the heavenly host bows down before You.
Nehemiah 9:6

Remember the former things long past, For I am God, and
〰️➡️there is no other; I am God, and 〰️➡️there is no one like Me,
Isaiah 46:9

Do we not all have 〰️➡️one father? Has not 〰️➡️one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously each against his brother so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
Malachi 2:10

How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from 〰️➡️the one and only God?
John 5:44

yet for us there is but 〰️➡️one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through him.
1 Corinthians 8:6

Now a mediator is not for one party only; whereas 〰️➡️God is only one.
Galatians 3:20

You believe that 〰️➡️God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder.
James 2:19

Hear, O Israel!
The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!
Deuteronomy 6:4
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Clear Distinction

The NT shows a clear distinction between GOD & Jesus!
Since there is solely ONE GOD and since GOD is
the GOD OF our Lord Jesus Christ,
therefore,
Jesus is clearly NOT GOD!

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ONE God Over All

1 God Over All

15 videos

Join Sean Finnegan as he works through Scripture to build a biblical theology of the one true God and his Son, Jesus the Messiah.

Not only will we see the many verses that teach the Father alone is God, but we will also explore commonly misunderstood texts that seem to contradict our God’s oneness.

In addition, this class will cover the history of how the church left the strict monotheism of the Bible and, in the fourth century, developed the doctrine of the Trinity.

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Christian Monotheist

ONE GOD Over All

1) Yahweh the Supreme Creator



2) Yahweh Our God, Yahweh Is One



3) Yahweh Versus the Idols



4) Yahweh, the God of Jesus



5) Jesus, God’s Messiah



6) Jesus, God’s Subordinate Son



7) Jesus, God’s Agent



8) Jesus Called God?



9) Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection



10) Christ’s Exaltation and Priestly Service



11) Spirit of God and Christ



12) One God in Early Church History



13) One God in the Fourth Century



14) One God Today



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Finding and Sharing about the One God and His Messiah in PAKISTAN

Interview with Maryam Haroon

May be an image of 2 people and text that says 'Finding and sharing about the one God and the Messiah in Pakistan. TAJIKISTAN CHINA TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN AFGHANISTAN IRAN Peshawar Islamabad* Gujranwala .Quetta Lahore Multan PAKISTAN Larkana® INDIA Hyderabad Karachi Arabian Sea Gulzar G”&Maryam & Maryam Haroon'
Click this link for the podcast – No. 51
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The Bible Teaches There Is One True God

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What is Biblical Unitarianism?

In the name “Biblical Unitarianism”, “Biblical” denotes faith in the Bible; serving to distinguish from Unitarian Universalists, a liberal non-Christian group. “Unitarian” simply refers to the belief that the one God of the Bible is only one person, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ.

A “Biblical Unitarian” then is a Bible-believing Christian who believes that the God of the Bible is one person, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, rather than a Trinity of three persons. Biblical Unitarians believe in God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, but do not believe that they are all one God; rather, the one God is the Father alone.

Biblical Unitarians note that in the Bible, God is never spoken of as being a Trinity, or as being multiple persons. Rather, they note that all throughout the Bible, God is always spoken of as a single person, indicated by the use of hundreds of singular personal pronouns, and that the one God is expressly equated with the person of the Father alone several times:

Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one. 5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), 6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
1 Corinthians 8:4-6 NKJV


Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, 2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
John 17:1-3 NKJV


Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, 25 to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
Jude 1:24-25 NASB


There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.
Ephesians 4:4-6 NASB

These passages of scripture all expressly equate the one God of the Bible with only one person, the person Jesus calls His God and Father.

Biblical Unitarians note that Jesus never claimed to be the one God, but rather taught things which clearly distinguish Him as another person or being besides God:

“Believe in God, believe also in me.”
-Jesus, John 14:1 NKJV
“Jesus answered, “If I honor Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who honors Me, of whom you say that He is your God.”
-Jesus, John 8:54 NKJV
“I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.” -Jesus, John 20:17 NKJV
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”
-John, John 3:16 NASB

Biblical Unitarians thus conclude that Jesus is not the one God of Israel, but another person and being besides the one God – His only-begotten Son, His appointed Christ, the one mediator between God and man, as the following texts say:

“The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus, the one whom you delivered and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.”
-Peter, Acts 3:13 NASB

“Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ—this Jesus whom you crucified.”
-Peter, Acts 2:36 NASB

“For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus”
-Paul, 1 Timothy 2:5 NASB

Biblical Unitarians note that the apostles call Jesus a man, repeatedly, and without qualification; for this reason, Biblical Unitarians confess that Jesus Christ is a true man, fathered uniquely by God in the womb of Mary, by the agency of the Holy Spirit. Not only did Jesus’s apostles call him a man, but he also called himself a man -and so do the Old Testament scriptures:

“But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do.”
-John 8:40 NASB
“Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know—”
-Peter, Acts 2:22 NASB
“Because [God] has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead.” -Paul, Acts 17:31 NASB
“He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief” -Isaiah 53:3 NASB

Thus the simple confession that the one God is one person, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that Jesus is the human Son and Christ of God, forms the heart of Biblical Unitarian faith in God and Christ.

But what about the traditional doctrine of the Trinity? That there exists one God in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?

Biblical Unitarians note that besides the fact that this doctrine is absent from the Bible, it also conflicts with several things the Bible teaches. If we have to choose between tradition and scripture, “We must obey God rather than men.” (Acts 5:29 NASB). We must “Test all things, and hold fast that which is good.” (1 Thess 5:21) rather than simply believing something because it is traditional. Biblical Unitarians note that the doctrine of a triune God is incompatible with some of the Bible’s clear teachings about God and Jesus. Where the doctrine of a triune God teaches that the Father and Son are equal and identical, the Bible repeatedly marks God and Jesus as distinct and different from one another:

  1. God is the Almighty (Greek “Pantokrator”, meaning, ‘Ruler over all’); He is supreme in authority over all (Rev 4:8, 2 Cor 6:18).
    Jesus is subject and obedient to the Father as His God, and so is not supreme over all in authority (1 Cor 11:3, 1 Cor 15:28).
  2. God is uncaused, the Maker of all things.
    Jesus is caused by the Father, as the very name ‘Son’ implies; He also expressly declares that He lives because of the Father (Jn 6:57).
  3. God is immutable, meaning He is eternally unchanging. He is also not a man, for the Bible says “God is not a man” in Numbers 23:19, and “For I am the LORD, I do not change” in Malachi 3:6.
    Thus it is impossible that God would have gone from not being a man to being a man, as this would obviously be a change in God. This contradicts the Trinitarian teaching that the one God became a man.
  4. God is invisible, having never been seen by man, and is declared to be incapable of being seen (1 Tim 6:16). “No one has seen God at any time.” -1 John 4:12 NKJV.
    Yet Jesus Christ was seen.
  5. God is omniscient; He knows all things absolutely (1 Jn 3:20). Jesus declares plainly that He did not know something, which only the Father knew: “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” -Mark 13:32 NKJV.
    If only the Father and no other person knows this, then the Father alone knows all things; and so, the one God, Who knows all things, must be only one person, the Father, and no other.
  6. God is immortal; He is not subject to death (1 Tim 1:17). Whatever death is, an immortal being, by definition, cannot experience it.
    Yet Jesus Christ died (and rose from the dead); and this is a central part of the gospel. “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” -Romans 5:8 NKJV
  7. God cannot be tempted by evil”;
    yet Jesus “was tempted in all things” (James 1:13, Heb 4:15).
  8. Jesus is the Christ of God; that is, the anointed king, prophet, and priest of God, sent and empowered by God. Is the one sent by God the same as He Who sent? Is the one who is anointed the same as He Who anoints?
  9. Jesus is the Son of God; and no son is the same individual being as their father.
  10. Jesus is the one mediator between God and man, and by definition, no mediator is a party to their own mediation.
    “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men,
    the man Christ Jesus.” -1 Timothy 2:5 NKJV.
    Notice, Jesus is simply described as a “man”, not a “God-man”, as trinitarianism says.
  11. Jesus is the Lord appointed by God over the universe, subject to God. “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”
    -Acts 2:36 NKJV. A person who is the one God has no need to be made Lord by God, for God has always been Lord.
  12. Jesus is the High Priest of God; a high priest worships His God, and is necessarily distinguished from the God whose priest he is.
    “Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.” -Hebrews 4:14 NKJV.

Biblical Unitarians note that these truths about God and Christ make it impossible to reasonably believe that they are together one being or one God. Rather, the one true God, the God of the Bible, is only one person, the one Jesus Christ calls His God and Father.

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The Unambiguous Jesus – Pastor Mark Jones

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MOVING FROM TRINITARIANISM TOWARDS BIBLICAL MONOTHEISM

Theological Metamorphosis by Bentley C.F. Chan
MOVING FROM TRINITARIANISM TOWARDS BIBLICAL MONOTHEISM

Theological Metamorphosis 2nd Edition

  • This paper, presented at the 2015 Atlanta Theological Conference, consists of two parts.
  • In Part One, I explain the “theological metamorphosis” of Christian Disciples Church which took place around 2005 when we en masse, as a whole church spanning three continents, abandoned our longstanding belief in trinitarianism. In so doing, we were moving towards what is appropriately called “biblical monotheism,” in which no one but the Father of Jesus Christ is true God. A Bible verse that impelled us in this direction was John 17:3 in which Jesus declares that his Father is “the only true God”.
  • In Part Two, the longer of the two parts, we re-evaluate the deity of Jesus Christ in John’s Gospel. The sole authority for our study will be the Scriptures, the inspired Word of God. There will be no further mention of our church.

English (Free PDF)

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Theological Metamorphosis

Theological Metamorphosis by Bentley C.F. Chan
MOVING FROM TRINITARIANISM TOWARDS BIBLICAL MONOTHEISM

 

Theological Metamorphosis 2nd Edition

  • This paper, presented at the 2015 Atlanta Theological Conference, consists of two parts.
  • In Part One, I explain the “theological metamorphosis” of Christian Disciples Church which took place around 2005 when we en masse, as a whole church spanning three continents, abandoned our longstanding belief in trinitarianism. In so doing, we were moving towards what is appropriately called “biblical monotheism,” in which no one but the Father of Jesus Christ is true God. A Bible verse that impelled us in this direction was John 17:3 in which Jesus declares that his Father is “the only true God”.
  • In Part Two, the longer of the two parts, we re-evaluate the deity of Jesus Christ in John’s Gospel. The sole authority for our study will be the Scriptures, the inspired Word of God. There will be no further mention of our church.

English (Free PDF)