Jesus and His God

Walter Martin, in his book, Kingdom of the Cults (page 82), makes the claim that the "triune Godhead" is one of greatest doctrines of the Scriptures. He, in effect, gives the Greek transliteration of Tes Theoteto s as meaning "triune Godhead". Thus, evidently, he is claiming that the Greek term transliterated as Tes Theotetos is speaking of the alleged triune God, three persons all whom are equally and wholly the Supreme Being. Colossians 2:9 - For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. -- King James Version  The expression Tes Theotetos occurs only once in the Bible and that is at Colossians 2:9, where the King James Version renders it as "Godhead". The problem with using Tes Theotetos as meaning "Triune Godhead" is that it would mean that there are three persons who are dwelling in the Son bodily: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It would have one alleged person of the alleged trinity, the Son, dwelling in th...

Genesis 3:22 - Jehovah God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..." This scripture is often referred to as an alleged proof that God is more than one person, and thus is offered as proof of the trinity. Evidently what is being imagined and assumed here is that “one of us” refers to three persons of the presumed triune God. Instead of calling upon an idea that has to be assumed in the realm of human imagination, we can reasonably reach the conclusion scriptures themselves regarding who God is speaking to. Before man sinned, he only knew of good, not bad. Having sinned, he came to know of bad. We know from other scriptures that it was the one who was later called Satan the Devil (John 8:44; Revelation 12:9) that led Adam and Eve to sin. His sinful ambition was surely known to God and and the Son of God, and even to the angels.  The “king of ...

Genesis 1:26; Genesis 3:22, Genesis 11:7 and Isaiah 6:8 have been presented as allegedly being proof of the plurality of persons who are claimed to make up the triune God. Regarding Genesis 1:26; Genesis 11:7 and Isaiah 6:8, Walter Martin (Kingdom of the Cults, page 82) claims that the "plurality" of these verses are speaking of Trinity. Let us examine these verses to see if this is so. Genesis 1:26 - God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." We find nothing at all in this verse about there being a God consisting of three persons; any such thought has to imagined, assumed, added to, and read into, what “God” said here. Evidently, the unipersonal “God”, in saying “Let us,” is speaking to someone else. By comparing spiritual with spiritual, we conclude ...

"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name [Greek, onoma] of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." -- Matthew 28:19, New American Standard Version This scripture is often used by trinitarians to make it appear that there are three persons in the Supreme Being. Others refer to the scripture as meaning that Jesus is expressed as three modes, manifestations, etc. What we want to know is exactly what does this scripture say, what does it not say, and how this verse harmonizes with the rest of the scriptures. We first note that there is nothing in Matthew 28:19 that says the three mentioned are co-equal or co-eternal. We find nothing about three persons all of whom are the Supreme Being. We know many like to imagine that since it says "name" -- singular -- that this means that there are three persons being spoken of with one name, and that this proves that there is a trinity of persons in one God, or that there is somethi...

Some have claimed that Jesus used the name I AM [EGO EIMI, transliterated] to make an ontological statement about his divine name and nature. From this, trinitarians (and some others) claim that Jesus is Jehovah, and/or a person of Jehovah. Actually, in the Bible, in all the statements wherein Jesus used "I am" he never once claimed that this expression was a name, or that his name is is "I am". He certainly never claimed his name to be EHJEH (or, Ehyeh) of Exodus 3:14,15 the first person form of the name of the only true God who had sent him. Who sent Jesus? Prophetically, the Messiah declares: The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to announce glad tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me. -- Isaiah 61:1, Darby . Thus, it was the Lord Jehovah of Exodus 3:14,15 who sent Jesus, and Isaiah 61:1 distinguishes the Messiah from the Lord Jehovah. And while yet in the days of his flesh (Hebrews 5:7), Jesus said in prayer to h...