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The Ultimate Question of Who Is The One True God

Continued from Part 5 Jesus, the man, is said to be the mediator between God and men. Paul writes, “For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5). Jesus is called a “man,” even after his alleged resurrection. Now, if this supposedly resurrected Jesus were himself God and acted in total accord with the other two-thirds of God, he could not be a mediator, an intermediary or conciliator, “between God and men.” Paul says that there is “

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Zalman Kravitz

Jun 4, 2025 — 3 min read

The Division of The Divine Essence Misunderstood In The Gospel of John

Continued from Part 7 God: undivided and without equal How did John’s Jesus view the possibility of a division in the divine essence? Chapter 17 of the Gospel of John records a prayer, which its author attributes to Jesus. In verse 2 of this prayer, Jesus views himself as being sent by God, his Father, who “gave him authority over all mankind.” But of his “Father” he is quoted, in verse 3, as saying that he is “the only true God.” Jesus does not say, “We are the only true God,” or even, “

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Zalman Kravitz

Jun 4, 2025 — 2 min read

Does The New Testament Consider God And Jesus To Be The Same?

Continued from Part 8 Paul’s Jesus: A savior but not God The New Testament authors make a definite distinction between the one-and-only God and Jesus, never considering them one and the same. For instance, we find this distinction expressed in the statement: “Kindness and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord” (2 Peter 1:2). This clarifies the meaning of the preceding verse, which reads, in part, “by the righteousness of our God and of [the] Savior Jesus

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Zalman Kravitz

Jun 4, 2025 — 2 min read

Was Jesus Truly The Creator? Full Explanations You Need To Consider

Continued from Part 11 Nevertheless, Barnes believes that Jesus is himself the uncreated and eternal Creator. However, he does not base his belief on Revelation 3:14. Of this verse he says: If it were demonstrated from other sources that Christ was, in fact, a created being, and the first that God had made, it cannot be denied that this language would appropriately express that fact. But it cannot be made out from the mere use of the language here; and as the language is susceptible of othe

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Zalman Kravitz

Jun 4, 2025 — 3 min read

Where The Pre-Existence Comes To Play With The Followers of Jesus

Continued from Part 12 The author of John expounds the belief that Jesus had a prehuman existence as the Word who was “in the beginning with God” and through whom “all things came into being.” John emphasizes this belief throughout his entire Gospel (John 1:1-3; 17:5, 24). He describes Jesus as “an only begotten from a father” (John 1:14) and “the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:18; see also John 3:16, 1 John 4:9). John’s belief in Jesus as “the only begotten Son of God” rests, as does Pau

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Zalman Kravitz

Jun 4, 2025 — 2 min read

Exploring The Syncretic Roots of Paul Properly

Continued from Part 13 Syncretic roots of Paul’s Jesus Much of Christianity is the development of Paul and his theological descendants, who presented the pagans with a diluted form of Judaism in Hellenized garb. It is true that the Hellenistic Jewish philosophy of Philo paved the way to such a syncretism, but Philo certainly would have been shocked at the resulting distortion which followed in Paul’s wake. Philo expected the Messiah, but he never identified the Messiah with the Logos, as was

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Zalman Kravitz

Jun 4, 2025 — 3 min read

What You Need To Understand When Jesus Was Represented As Subordinate

Continued from Part 14 Subordination and subjection Wherever the relationship of Jesus to God is treated in the New Testament, Jesus is always represented in a subordinate position. This subordinate role can be seen in the fact that Jesus views himself as a messenger: “He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives Him who sent me” (Matthew 10:40; see also John 5:36). Jesus acknowledges his subordination and subjection to God when he declares that God is greater than he is

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Zalman Kravitz

Jun 4, 2025 — 2 min read

The Impossibility of Jesus And God Forming Two Thirds of A Deity

Continued from Part 15 The New Testament Jesus: A distinct supernatural agent Despite the distinctiveness with which God and Jesus are regarded in the New Testament, most Christians are under the misconception that God and Jesus form two-thirds of a triune deity. Partial responsibility for this error goes to the New Testament authors because a number of designations for Jesus in the New Testament are the same as those given to God in the Jewish Scriptures. The resulting confusion as to whet

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Zalman Kravitz

Jun 4, 2025 — 1 min read