One God Report

“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

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 suddenly and deliberately attacked by the militant, terrorist forces of Hamas, the Islamic organization in authority in the Gaza strip.   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: In the Book of Revelation, God is not the Lamb, and the Lamb is not Godhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VGgzoGD8Qw Hamas charterhttps://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp   Hamas is an acronym of the Arabic phrase حركة المقاومة الإسلامية or Ḥarakah al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement".   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 is God”?   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. https://www.youtube.com/@billschlegel1   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? Again, is there an exalted, glorified human person at the right hand of God?   #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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LA9Uq-8xMc

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”.  Rather, when the Apostle Paul, like other writers of the New Testament, uses the title “Lord” for Jesus, he differentiates Jesus from 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. For full text of this episode, see here https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2023/09/in-romans-109-apostle-paul-states-that.html #JesusisLord, #deityofchrist, #richardbauckham, #1Corinthians8:6, #Romans10:9, #Jesusinshema, #billschlegel, #onegodreport 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 of God?   05:13 Does the Apostle Paul use the title “Lord” for Jesus to equate Jesus with God, or distinguishing Jesus from God. Paul never uses the title “Lord” for God.   07:31 An example from Peter, Acts 2_36, “God made Jesus Lord and Christ”   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 More examples of “Lord” meaning that Jesus is the Lord Messiah, not the LORD God, 2 Cor. 1_3 and Ephesians 1_17   23:00 Other biblical authors who distinguish between God and the Lord Messiah Jesus: James 1_1, 2 Pet. 1_2, and Jude 1_25. The Gospel of John never refers to God as Lord, except in 3 places where the author directly quotes an Hebrew Scripture passage that contains the name YHVH.   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. In about AD 530 the Christian Byzantine Emperor Justinian even banned the recitation of the Shema since he considered it to be a denial of the Trinity. But modern Trinitarianism takes a different approach, claiming that “one” can mean three because “one” can mean a compound unity. Three things together can make up one of something else.  A couple of biblical examples are put forward. For instance, in Genesis 1:5 evening and morning are one day. A husband and wife become one flesh (Gen. 2:24). The spies came back with one (echad) cluster of grapes" (Num. 13:23). Let’s take a closer look at the “compound unity”, “three-in-one” claim.