One God Report

This episode has two parts:

Part 1, I ask a question about the objectives of the Hamas attack.

October 7, 2023—a date which will live in infamy— Israel was

Part 2 of the Podcast, Reading the New Testament without Trinitarian Glasses

I look at the first eight verses of the Book of Revelation as an example of reading a New Testament text without the presuppositions and prejudices of Trinitarian belief.

We discover that in the biblical text Jesus is not the LORD God Almighty, who was and is and to come.  Rather, Jesus is the faithful witness who died is the first-born from the dead.  Jesus’ God is the Father, the LORD God Almighty who is and was and is to come.

Resource links:

Hamas charter
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

Hamas is an acronym of the Arabic phrase حركة المقاومة الإسلامية

Samples of Hamas Charter: Preamble

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it"

Article 8

Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.

Basam Naim, Hamas Head of Political and International Relations, “We did not kill civilians…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egipqa0ZhUk&t=2s

Hamas Chief of National Relations Abroad, Ali Baraka: We Have Been Secretly Planning the Invasion for Two Years

https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1712030588872351872

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZsms0LJWQ

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh (from Qatar) 10/14/23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TsgINcg-ss

#Hamas, #Israel-Hamas, #trinity, #deityofchrist, #unitarian, #biblicalunitarian, #billschlegel

Who is Denying Christ – Me or a Person who Believes that “Jesus

When I first came to understand that the man, the human person Jesus of Nazareth, is God’s Christ (the Messiah המשיח), the human Son of God, quite a few of my former Trinitarian and deity-of-Christ-believing friends accused me of “denying Christ”.

Here I was confessing and proclaiming that Jesus is the Christ, yet many people were saying I was denying Christ!

For a complete text of this episode, click here:

https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2023/09/who-is-denying-christ-me-or-person-who.html

Let’s ask Trinitarian, deity of Christ believers this question. I would really like to hear Trinitarians, or oneness believers answer. I’m interested in honest, civil discussion. The best place to answer is probably the Bill Schlegel YouTube channel.

Here’s the question – I’ll ask it in various ways for clarification:

Do have a problem with God exalting a human person, Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, to His (God’s) right hand?

Do you deny that the human person, the human being, Jesus of Nazareth came into being, was born, lived, was put to death, was raised from the dead by God and exalted to God’s right hand? Are you ashamed of the human person, Jesus of Nazareth?

Do you think who this human person is and what this human person did is not sufficient to be the one mediator between God and man?

#deityofchrist, #trinity, #biblicalunitarian, #billschlegel, #denyingchrist, #antichrist

A faith journey. How I was introduced to Christianity, became a teacher in a Christian college in the Land of Israel, and came to understand that the God of the Bible is not three-persons-in-one-being.

I believe in God (the Father) and in Jesus the Son of God (the Messiah), and in the spirit of God - but I'm not a Trinitarian.

For the full text of this episode see here:

https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2023/09/walk-away-why-i-am-not-trinitarian.html

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

Biblical Unitarian Christian Alliance conference:

https://www.unitarianchristianalliance.org/registration-is-open-uca-conference-october-19-21-2023/

Satellite Bible Atlas

https://www.bibleplaces.com/satellite-bible-atlas-schlegel/

Revised English Version

https://www.revisedenglishversion.com/Gen/1/nav1

Video Testimony, Bill and Stephanie Schlegel

In Romans 10:9 the Apostle Paul states that part of salvation depends on a person confessing with their mouth that “Jesus is Lord”, or the “Lord Jesus”. 

This episode aims to show that, contrary to traditional Christianity’s belief, to claim that “Jesus is Lord” (or the “Lord Jesus”) is NOT a claim that “Jesus is God”. 

 Another way to state this truth: in his epistles Paul uses the title God for God (the Father alone), and the title Lord for the human person, Jesus the Lord Messiah.

https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2023/09/in-romans-109-apostle-paul-states-that.html

#JesusisLord, #deityofchrist, #richardbauckham, #1Corinthians8:6,

Time stamps:

00:01 Introduction: LORD or Lord? There are many people in the Bible who are Lord, but are not God.

03:12 The titles “God, Father, God the Father, God our Father” : All of God or just one member

05:13 Does

07:31

09:00 Romans 10_9 “Jesus is Lord”. Romans 15_6 “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus”

12:06 First Corinthians 8_6, “As for us there is one God, the Father…and one Lord, Jesus Christ”

21:24

23:00 Other biblical authors who distinguish between God and the Lord Messiah Jesus: James

26:42 Summary and Challenge.  Jesus is the Lord Messiah, not the LORD God.

An examination of the Trinitarian claim that God is a compound unity, "three-in-one".

For full written text of this podcast see here:

https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2023/08/hear-o-gentiles-lord-your-god-lord-is.html

That the God of the Bible, YHVH is one, is a difficulty for Trinitarianism.

For text notes to this podcast, click here:

1.  Even for deity of Christ believing Trinitarians, to claim that Peter is calling Jesus Christ “our God” is a big problem. Isn’t your God

The deity of Christ interpretation dishonors Peter and falsely testifies about Peter. And, any and all “deity of Christ” claims are a denigration of the Father, since they claim that the Father is not the one true God.

2.  It is clear from many other Scriptures that Peter knows exactly who God is, and who the Lord or Savior Jesus Christ is. Peter does not

To Peter, the Lord and Savior Jesus is not God. To Peter, but the Lord

2 Peter 1:2, "May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord."

Who is “God” in this verse? Are we really to believe that Peter switched

John 17:1-3, having eternal life involves knowing, having knowledge of two persons, two beings:

2. Jesus the Messiah whom the Father sent.

Compare the “distributive” aspect of both 1 Pet. 1:1 and 1 Peter 1:2:

“the righteousness of…” two persons (our God, and the Savior

1 Peter 1:3. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!”

For Peter, God is the God of our Lord Jesus Christ. God and the Lord

Acts 2:22-24. "Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a

For Peter, Jesus was a man whom God worked through, a man who was killed, whom God raised up. Two different persons, two different beings.

Acts 2:36   “Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."

For Peter, God MADE Jesus Lord and Christ.

The ultimate testimony of Peter as to whom he considered Jesus to be is found in Peter’s declaration after Jesus asked him point-blank, “Who do you say

In Mark, Peter declared: “The Christ!”  The Christ is not God.

In Luke, “The Christ of God!” The Christ of God is not God.

In Matthew, “The Christ, the Son of the Living God”.  The Son of the Living God is not the Living God.

Peter in 1 Peter 1:1 is not contradicting himself. He is not confused about the identity of Jesus. It is deity of Christ interpreters who are confused about the identity of Jesus.

Related web link: Troy Salinger Examines the Granville Sharp Rule:https://letthetruthcomeoutblog.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/2-peter-11-titus-213-and-the-granville-sharp-rule-a-new-approach/

It’s a good question. I don’t know if there is a black and white answer because there are different degrees and facets to the question. Many trinitarians that I know seem to not really know what they believe, and functionally or “practically” believe in in One God, the Father.

There are different levels and degrees of judgment. Like James said, teachers will be judged with greater strictness (James 3:1).

 I am not confident that “everything is going to be alright” for someone who insists that God is a triune being, a Trinity, or that “Jesus is God”. Trinitarianism is messing with what Jesus called the greatest commandment: that Yehovah our God is one (Deu. 6:4, Mark 12:29-34).

 Exodus 20:2-3    "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.  3 "You shall have no other gods before me."

 So the question is: who, or what (according to Trinitarianism), is the one God. Is the one God the Father alone, or is the one God a tri-personal being, a substance that has more than one person.

And the New Testament says that the One God is the Father: John

1 Corinthians 8:6, “As for us there is one God, the Father...”

All “deity of Christ” interpretations of passages like John 1 and Philippians 2 attempt to do two things:

2.  rob the man Christ Jesus of who he is and what

 1 John 2:22-23 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No

Who is denying the Son? Someone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, or someone who denies that Jesus, a real human person, is the Christ.

1 John 2:22 does not say, “Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is

We do have a judge, the man, the human person, Jesus the Christ from Nazareth. The Apostle Paul stated that God “will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed and of this He has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead” (Acts 17:31, 2 Tim. 2:5, Romans 5:15, 2 Cor. 5:10). Have we said in our hearts during our time in this age “a mere man can’t judge us, we will not have that man rule over us”?

Ironically, perhaps some Trinitarians may be saved by what they’ve insisted they aren’t saved by, i.e., works (Matt. 16:27, 12:36-37; Romans 2:6-7, 2 Cor. 5:10, 1 Cor. 3:12-14, Gal. 6:7-9, James 2:20-26). I have a feeling that one of those works will be how people treated the children of God who believe that God is the Father, and that the man Jesus is the Messiah (1 John 5:1, John 8:42, Matt. 25:41-46).

 People like me are not the final judge (Romans 2:16). We don’t have all the information. God has appointed the man Jesus Christ, and given him the authority to judge (Acts 17:31, John 5:22, 27).

 “So each of us shall give account of himself to God” (Romans 14:12).

Offering three separate $200 prizes (total $600)!

$200.00 to anyone who can find a verse in the New Testament where “God” (Theos, ha Theos) means the Trinity.

$200.00 to anyone who can find a verse in the New Testament that mentions “God the Son”.

$200.00 to anyone who can find a verse in the New Testament that describes Jesus as “fully God and fully man”, or “truly God and truly man”.

Such verses should be easy to find. Many evangelical doctrinal statements start out by declaring that the Bible is the sole authority for belief and practice, and then immediately state that God is three persons in one God, that God the Son is one of those persons, and that Jesus is “fully God and fully man”.

The complaint, and prayer before YHVH is that he would raise up a remnant of 7000 Israelis that believe that He is the only true God, and that the man Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth is God's Messiah.

#trinity, #biblicalunitarian, #deityofjesus, #unitarian, #billschlegel

Episode 100 – offering a $100 prize to anyone who can find a verse in the New Testament where “God” (Theos, Ha Theos) means the Trinity!

Difference between a Triad vs. the Trinity

James White, The Forgotten Trinity, p. 23:

 “Within one Being that is God, there exists eternally three coequal and coeternal persons, namely, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit”

Athanasian Creed:

 “Anyone who does not keep it whole and unbroken will doubtless perish eternally… one cannot be saved without believing it firmly and faithfully.”

“…we worship one God in trinity and the trinity in unity,

Quote from Murray Harris book, Jesus as God, explaining that that “God” in the Bible never means the Trinity, never means the Trinitarian God, the Tri-person-one-being of mainstream Christianity.

p. 47 footnote

Biblical references in this episode:

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his unique (or only begotten)  Son, that whosoever believes in him should not

Rom 8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but

Gal 4:6  And because you are sons, God has sent

1 Cor 8:6 “As for us, there is one God, the Father….and one Lord, Jesus Christ…”

Eph. 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may

1 Thess. 1:1, 9-10, 3:11, 13,

2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Hebrews 1:1 Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets,  2 but in these last days he has

To believe that the God of the Bible is a Trinity, one must believe these statements:

“In the Bible, God is never the Trinity. But the God of the Bible is a Trinity.”

“The God of the Bible is a Trinity, but in the Bible God is never a Trinity”

Trinitarians need to write a book “The Trinity as God” in which all 1315 references to God in the New Testament are examined to see which of those references mean the Trinity. It will be a very short book.

Who is God in the phrase “Son of God”?

Who is God in the phrase “Spirit of God”?

Who is God Most High in the phrase “Son of God Most High God”?

If the Father is God Most High, then neither the Trinity, nor Jesus, are God Most High.

The Trinity is a denigration of the Father, whom Jesus called the only True God and whom Paul says for us there is one God, the Father. If the Trinity is the one

The Father and the Trinity can’t both be the one God. One of them is an idol.

This is part 3 of a three-part series with Dr. Dustin Smith, Pre-Millennial or A-Millennial

In this episode Dr. Smith describes the “Tale of Two Cities”. Like the original readers of the Book of Revelation, readers even now are challenged to associate with, indeed be part of, the godly New Jerusalem and not ungodly Babylon.

In a similar metaphor, readers of Revelation are encouraged associate with, indeed be part of the Bride of Christ, which is the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:2, 10-11)

Dr. Smith examines the 1000 years mentioned in Revelation 20. He understands the 1000 years to be symbolic of a significant time period that has a definite

Biblical Unitarian Podcast, Host Dr. Dustin Smith

https://biblicalunitarianpodcast.podbean.com/

The Son of God: Three Views on the Identity of Jesus

#millenium,#premillennial, #amillennial, #1000 years, #biblicalunitarian, #unitarian,#returnofchrist, #deityofchrist, #dustinsmith, #billschlegel, #Revelation,