Jesus and His God

By Ronald R. Day, Senior Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord, Jesus Christ; Philippians 3:21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things to himself.– World English Bible translation. Philippians 3:21  is often presented by trinitarians as proof that Jesus is “all-powerful.” Evidently, the phrase “according to the working whereby he is able to subject all things [literally, "the all"] to himself” is being imagined in some manner to read that Jesus is the Almighty Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The “working” that Paul refers to includes the authority and power that the unipersonal God of Jesus has given to Jesus, through the holy spirit. (Matthew 28:18; John 5:25-29,36) The basis of the working of the resurrection in the last day is the work that Jesus performed in providing the ransom sacr...

Matthew 28:18 – Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.” Matthew 28:18 is often quoted as proof that Jesus is Jehovah by advocates of both the trinity and oneness doctrines. Some translations read “all power” instead of “all authority”; the Greek word, however, refers to “all authority”. It is from the standpoint, however, of those who cite this scripture in an effort to support the idea that Jesus is the Almighty that we in this study are examining what this would mean. One of the “oneness” believers states concerning this that if Jesus has “all power” then nobody else can have any. This, of course, is absurd. Taken as the thought is given, it would deny that anyone else can have any power at all! You have no power to stand, walk, talk, write a letter, or perform your any work to make a living. And, according to this statement, Satan no longer has any power! The angels no longer have any power! The demons no longe...

Revelation 1:7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen. Revelation 1:8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says Jehovah God, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty." -- Restoration Light Improved. It is obvious that in Revelation 1:8, that the Holy Name is changed to KURIOS in the extant Greek manuscripts. Thus, we believe that the anarthrous KURIOS in Revelation 1:18 was originally some form of the Holy Name. Many, however, argue that the one quoted in Revelation 1:8 is not the God and Father of Jesus, but was Jesus himself, who is said to be come in the clouds in verse 7.  They claim that it actually means that the Almighty of Revelation 1:8 is Jesus of Revelation 1:7. The most simple and straightforward scriptural conclusion -- based on what actually stated in Revelation 1:8 as well as the context and the entire book o...

The claim is made that the book of Revelation shows that not only is Jehovah the Alpha and Omega, but that Jesus is also. If this were true (we don’t believe it is) all this would prove is that in some way the title Alpha and Omega is applied both to Jehovah and to Jesus; it does not prove that Jesus is his God. In Isaiah 41:4; 44:6; 48:12 we find the expression “first and last” used of Jehovah. From Isaiah 44:6,7 this expression, “first and last” appears to mean “first and last” in mighty omnipotency, being the source of all might, something which the false gods of the heathen cannot claim. However, most of our trinitarian and oneness neighbors appear to often read into this expression ‘eternal’, which they usually give the meaning of having existence in the eternal past as well as the eternal future. Jehovah has certainly been in existence "from everlasting (eternal past) to everlasting (eternal future)". (Psalm 92:1) While Jehovah is certainly the first and the last of th...