Month: February 2023

Proposition # 7: John 5:18 says, “For this cause therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill [Jesus], because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.” And at John 10:30, 38 Jesus said, “I and the Father are one” and “the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” This shows that he is with the Father in a triune God.

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Proposition # 6: Jesus demonstrated attributes that only God can possess.

Response: God has the right, the authority, and the ability to endow anyone whom He chooses with those attributes that He wants one to have. One such attribute is that Christ forgave sins. At John 12:49 Jesus said, “For I have not spoken on my own authority; the Father who sent me has Himself given me commandment what to say and what to speak.” So when Christ forgave … Read the rest

Proposition # 5: The Bible speaks of Jesus’ being prayed to, and even worshipped. This proves that he is God.

Response: Concerning worship, David Chilton, a trinitarian, wrote on page 479 of DAYS OF VENGEANCE:

“…the term worship (in Greek, proskuneo) simply means the custom of prostrating oneself before a person and kissing his feet, the hem of his garment, the ground, etc., and can be used not only for the homage paid to God (or, sinfully, to a false

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Proposition # 4: The Hebrew word most often used for God is elohim which is a plural noun, thus denoting the plurality in the Godhead. Also, God [elohim] used plural first-person pronouns as in Genesis 1:26, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.”

Response: Again, the language in which this was originally written was the native tongue of the Jews, yet they have not felt compelled by the use of the plural noun or pronoun … Read the rest

Proposition # 3: Though Deuteronomy 6:4 says that God is one, the Hebrew term translated one indicates a compound unity. Therefore, the one God must be a multiple in some sense, that being revealed by other passages of Scripture as a Trinity.

Response: The language in which Deuteronomy 6:4 was originally written was the native tongue of the Jews, yet they have never derived the concept of a triune God because of this verse, or any other passage of … Read the rest

Proposition # 2: If Jesus Christ is not literally God, then his death could not save us; no mere human can provide atonement for the sins of another. Also Acts 20:28 speaks of “the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.” (KJV)

Response: It needs to be noted that Jesus was no “mere” human. Luke 1:35 records that an angel told Mary, “Holy spirit will come upon you, and power of the Most High will … Read the rest