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The Ultimate Question of Who Is The One True God

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

Zalman Kravitz
False Claims In The Gospels About True Deity

False Claims In The Gospels About True Deity

Continued from Part 9 “I am” John’s Jesus states: “‘Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad.’  The Jews therefore said to him:  ‘You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?’  Jesus said to them:  ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham came into being, I am’” (John 8:56-58).   Is the author of this Gospel claiming that Jesus is part of a triune deity when he has Jesus say, “before Abraham came into being, I am” (verse 8:58)? Trinitarian comme
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Zalman Kravitz
New Testaments Confusions Around Claims That Jesus Is The Creator

New Testaments Confusions Around Claims That Jesus Is The Creator

Continued from Part 10 Jesus as an instrument of the Creator Even the authors of John, Colossians, and Hebrews, who elevate Jesus to a point where he is viewed as the medium through whom things are done, do not claim that he is the Creator or part of a triune deity.  They consider him the supernatural instrument through which the Creator works: All things came into being through him, and apart from him not even one thing came into being.  (John 1:3) For in him all things were created in the
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Zalman Kravitz
The Impossibility of Jesus And God Forming Two Thirds of A Deity

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
The First Verse In John Everyone Needs To Understand

The First Verse In John Everyone Needs To Understand

Continued from Part 20 John 1:1 It is in John 1:1 that the nature of the Logos (the Word) is explicitly stated.  The first verse of John, as translated in the King James Version, reads:  “In the beginning was the Word [ho logos], and the Word was with God [ton theon, accusative case of ho theos], and the Word was God [theos]” (John 1:1). In the Greek this is:  En arche en ho logos, kai ho logos en pros ton theon, kai theos en ho logos.  The Greek sentence ends with the crucial words:  kai the
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Zalman Kravitz
What You Need To Know About The Holy Spirit Mentioned In The Gospels

What You Need To Know About The Holy Spirit Mentioned In The Gospels

Continued from Part 25 PART 3:  THE PROBLEM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT The impersonal nature of holy spirit The spirit of God is not a being with its own identity and separate consciences.  It is divisible and able to be distributed as God sees fit.  For example, God took of the spirit that was upon Moses and put it upon the seventy elders of Israel (Numbers 11:17-25). David prayed that God’s “holy spirit” not be removed from him (Psalms 51:13).  It was also measured out differently to different peopl
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Zalman Kravitz
The True Answer Of The Father Of Jesus

The True Answer Of The Father Of Jesus

Continued from Part 26 Establishing paternity In Matthew’s version of the alleged conception of Jesus story (Matthew 1:18) it states that Mary “was found to be with child by holy spirit [with no definite article before “holy spirit”].” In Luke’s version of this story it says that the angel “said to her [Mary], ‘Holy spirit [with no definite article] will come upon you,’ and the power of the Most High will overshadow you” (1:35).  If holy spirit and power of the Most High are synonymous terms
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Zalman Kravitz
Claims In The Gospel of Matthew To Not Be Confused By

Claims In The Gospel of Matthew To Not Be Confused By

Continued from Part 27 The baptism formula Some Christian commentators allege that the command by Matthew’s Jesus to, “Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19) shows the existence of a triune deity. However, it is doubtful that the Gospel of Matthew originally made this claim.  Even more uncertain is the notion that this directive was made by Jesus at the onset of the apostolic period (following
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