One God Report

Most scholars say the Gospels were not written until the mid AD 60s. Is that right?  This podcast describes why they think that, and gives suggestions as to why the Gospels may have been written much earlier.   For full text, see here:  https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2024/05/when-were-gospels-written-historical.html   Resources: Link to Fuel Youth Camp Registration: https://register-online.org/FUELRedirect.php   Podcast describing Fuel Youth Camp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7VPCLbVDD0   UCA Conference Registration: https://www.eventleaf.com/e/uca2024#map   JAT Robinson, Redating the New Testament.  

Some Biblical Unitarians (believers in the One God, the Father), don’t see the man Jesus in the first verses of John’s Gospel. Instead, they understand the Word/Logos” as an abstract plan, design, promise or wisdom that is only personified (described as if it were a person).      Trinitarian “diety-of-Christ” and “Arian” believers likewise don’t see the human person, the human being Jesus of Nazareth in the first verses of John’s Gospel. They see only a “divine being/person who became flesh” – but this podcast is not directed toward them. They have bigger problems.   This podcast should challenge believers in One God, the Father, to see that the “personified plan, purpose, wisdom” interpretation of John’s Prologue falls short.    I asked fourteen One God, the Father believers who have lectured or written about their abstract personification interpretation of John’s Prologue, this question:   “At what place in John 1 do you first see the man Christ Jesus of Nazareth or his ministry, either metaphorically or literally, being the subject?“   Their answers should be enlightening.   Other resources mentioned in this podcast: Perry, Andrew. John 1:1-18 A Socinian Approach https://www.amazon.com/John-1-1-18-Andrew-Perry/dp/0993444083 https://www.academia.edu/42755430/John_1_1_18_A_Socinian_Approach   Whittaker, H.A. Studies in the Gospels https://www.christadelphianbooks.com/detail/1738     Podcast: John 1 is NOT Genesis 1 (8+1 Evidences) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFv33RbrJfQ   Tips on Talking with Trinitarians about John 1 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUqWXumvcp5oTh8KhdYpIGhrH11AXnxtM  

For those who come to understand and believe that the God of the Bible is the Father alone (John 17:3, 1 Cor. 8:6) and that Jesus is God's human Messiah, the Christ, the Son of God --- you will be condemned by many religious leaders and even family and friends. This podcast gives some examples :). Other resources: Bill Schlegel Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@billschlegel1 Blog https://landandbible.blogspot.com/ Lecture: Denying Christ: "Jesus is God" Denies that Jesus is the Christ https://youtu.be/mQMBh-Hhiw4

Pastor Finnegan has written a book called, “Kingdom Journey: A Call to Recover the Central Theme of Scripture.” Pastor Finnegan describes how God’s central promise for humans is not a disembodied escape to heaven, but of resurrection to a full immortal life on a renewed earth. In other words, restoration not relocation.   See the show notes for links to Pastor Finnegan’s book, and also to a previous podcast where Pastor Finnegan discussed “Where do we go when we die?”   Book: Kingdom Journey: A Call to Recover the Central Theme of Scripture https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Journey-Recover-Central-Scripture/dp/1666785954   Where do We Go When We Die (Hint: not to Heaven)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8rgs85dBtk   Restitutio podcast: Conditional Immortality https://restitutio.org/2019/02/14/164...   Restitutio podcast: Challenging Conditional Immortality https://restitutio.org/2019/02/21/165...

15 One-minute challenges to the Trinity and Deity of Jesus. For video clips and links to longer lectures mentioned in this podcast see here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUqWXumvcp5pdxAhK9DK0oUrzAGYl291_ Bill Schlegel YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@billschlegel1

“They believe in God. They believe in Jesus. They believe in the Holy Spirit. But they don’t believe in what is considered the most important doctrine of them all…they don’t believe in the Trinity.   “If you are a Christian, what you were taught about the Trinity is probably wrong.   “If you’ve ever wondered exactly how Christians have come to what might seem to be a strange interpretation of the nature of God, this book should provide you with a crystal-clear look into the study and understanding of how and why many believers insist that God is one and not three.   #forrestmaready, #trinity, #deityofchrist, #walkaway   Why Some Christians Don’t Believe in the Trinity https://store.forrestmaready.com/products/why-some-christians-dont-believe-in-the-trinity   https://www.amazon.com/Some-Christians-Dont-Believe-Trinity/dp/B0CMKB1KY6/ref=sr_1_8?qid=1706814856&refinements=p_27%3AForrest+Maready&s=books&sr=1-8     Forrest Maready website: https://www.forrestmaready.com/   Red Pill Gospel: Christianity, before it was Ruined: Interview with Forrest Maready https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rrgf8ygLo0  

When Jesus said, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30), was he claiming to be God?   No. We see Jesus use the same language of more than one person being “one” in John 17:11, indeed of believers being “one” with both Jesus and the Father. What he means is a one-ness of purpose and intention, a one-ness of unity toward the same goals.   Was it the God Jesus who prayed, “Now, Father, glorify me together with yourself, with the glory which I had with you before the world came to be.”  No. Rather this was the prayer of the man Jesus the Christ expressing his faith in the pre-determined promise of God.  Expressing trust in God’s promise, Jesus was speaking of a future reality as if it had already happened.   We see in John 17:20-24 that the Father GAVE to Jesus glory before the foundation of the world, that Jesus already had been given that glory when he was speaking, and that he already gave the same glory to others who had not yet believed in him.   Additional resources: One God Report Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/1fJjk0QUhsyr8r9hVCgoFk   Bill Schlegel YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/@billschlegel1   Lecture: The Glory Jesus had with God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXu_2Sn4kg4   If Jesus Pre-existed, He Was Not Human https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2019/06/if-jesus-pre-existed-he-wasnt-human.html   #deityofchrist, #biblicalunitarian, #John17_5, #John 10_30, #gospelofjohn

In this episode our guest, theological author and blogger, Troy Salinger, shows that the biblical metaphors “to come from heaven”, “to come from above” and “to come from God” are to be understood figuratively and apply to John the Baptist (and other Old Testament prophets) as well as to Jesus.  When referring to human beings, these figures of speech do not mean to literally descend from some existence in heaven.  Rather, the figures refer to humans being commissioned, instructed, authorized and empowered by God. In his exposition of John 3:31-36, Salinger shows the context of “coming down from heaven” relates to the testimony of John the Baptizer and Jesus on the one side (“from heaven”), in contrast to the Judean religious authorities on the other side (“of the earth”).   The testimony of the Baptizer and Jesus is to believed because they (and their testimony) have come from God, from heaven. The testimony of the religious leaders on the other hand, is “from below, from the earth”, that is, of human origin.For the full text of this podcast, see Salinger’s blog “Let the Truth Come Out”. https://letthetruthcomeoutblog.wordpress.com/2023/11/24/john-331-36-a-problematic-text/   Other resources: “I came down from heaven”: Metaphors in the Gospel of John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egnYn2JHRjM   Pre-incarnate Appearances of the Son of God in the Old Testament: Truth or Myth https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUqWXumvcp5p1klRmE6uAaU7uGSOMDuCX   Is the Memra the Pre-incarnate Son of God https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUqWXumvcp5rvmD5Q9dO68RFlfeg_cc8C   #deityofchrist, #trinity, #biblicalunitarian, #troysalinger, #billschlegel  

In this episode we continue our countdown of the top 10 New Testament verses that show that Jesus is NOT God. Verses in this episode include: (5.5)    1Corinthians 15:21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.   5.   Acts 17:31 “…because He (God) has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all men by raising him from the dead." (Act 17:31 RSV)   4.   Acts 2:22, 36 "Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know… Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."   3.   1 Timothy 2:4-5 God… “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.  5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus”   2.   1 Corinthians 8:6 Yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all and through whom we exist.   1.   John 17:3 “Father….this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”   Compare John’s purpose statement: John 20:30-31: “Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;  but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.”   “Consolation” Verses: Many verses which declare that God, someone other than Jesus, raised the Lord Jesus from the Dead, e.g., 1 Cor. 6:14, Romans 10:9 “And God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power.” Romans 10:9 “…believe in your heart that God raised him (the Lord Jesus) from the dead”   Acts 5:30 The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.   Matthew 24:36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.”   John 14:28 (10:29) “The Father is greater than I”   #deityofchrist, #newtestament, #biblicalunitarian, #unitarian, #billschlegel   Bill Schlegel blog https://landandbible.blogspot.com/   Did Jesus Raise himself from the Dead? https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2020/04/did-jesus-raise-himself-from-dead-john.html  

In this two part episode we look at 10 verses from the New Testament which give direct evidence that Jesus is NOT God. Many Christians have heard of a few verses that supposedly declare that Jesus IS God, but few Christians have heard about verses that show that Jesus is NOT God. In this episode we examine five (OK, plus) verses: 10.  2 Cor. 1:3, Eph. 1:3, 1 Pet. 1:3, Rom. 15:6 The Lord Jesus Christ has a God “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort” Ephesians 1:17 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him, (Eph 1:17 NRS) Revelation 3:12 The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.   9.    John 20:17 “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."   8.     Mark 12:29-33 whereJesus quotes Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God the LORD is one. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength…” (Yahweh our God, Yahweh is one).  “He is one, there is no other but he, and to love him…”   7.    John 8:40 “…but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God.”   6.    Romans 5:15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the gift in the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. Resources: Kapusta, P. The Epistle to the Hebrews: An Anthology of Quotations https://www.amazon.com/Scripturae-Contra-Trinitatem-Alternative-commentaries/dp/B0CKD3L7N6/ref=pd_sbs_sccl_1_1/146-8304861-2985060?pd_rd_w=WeOyj&content-id=amzn1.sym.9e4bb0e3-6517-4128-9279-264b7296d379&pf_rd_p=9e4bb0e3-6517-4128-9279-264b7296d379&pf_rd_r=GFQ5GF78ZPBYJ26M0WQK&pd_rd_wg=QQCBt&pd_rd_r=79fbd551-3f12-4afb-a5a6-a82a1301ac54&pd_rd_i=B0CKD3L7N6&psc=1   “Before Abraham Was I Am”: Was Jesus Claiming to Be God? https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pmSAXdTJeieFqgouEZfIO?si=kxH4ujFFTKyq_dkWFIbbXg