Jesus and His God - Restoration Light Bible Study Services

Psalm 138:1 I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Before the gods, I will sing praises to you. Psalm 138:2 I will bow down toward your holy temple, And give thanks to your Name for your lovingkindness and for your truth; For you have exalted your Name and your Word above all. Psalm 138:3 In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul. Psalm 138:4 All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh, For they have heard the words of your mouth. Psalm 138:5 Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh; For great is Yahweh's glory. Psalm 138:6 For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; But the proud, he knows from afar. Psalm 138:7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me. Psalm 138:8 Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; Your lovingkindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don't forsake the works of...

Does what is stated in Acts 20:28 give reason to imagine and assume that Jesus is God Almighty, or that God is more than one person? Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. – Acts 20:28, King James Version. Many of our trinitarian neighbors (and some others) would have us believe that this text means that the Almighty God himself died for the church. If so, then, the Almighty God himself died, which of course, scripturally is totally impossible. If God Almighty had flesh and blood, this would make him lower than the angels. — Psalm 8:5; Hebrews 2:7. We first want to point out that it was the only true God (John 17:1,3), the "one God" of 1 Corinthians 8:6, who prepared the body of flesh and blood for Jesus by means His Holy Spirit. (Matthew 1:18,20; Hebrews 10:5) Since Jesus, while in the days of his flesh (Hebrews 5:7), was...

(We are in the process of updating this study -- Ronald R. Day, Sr.) From time to time, Acts 7:59 is cited from the King James Version as proof of the trinity doctrine. Oneness believers may also cite this verse from the KJV as proof that Jesus is God. The KJV reads: And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. The claim is made that Stephen called upon God, who is "Lord Jesus". The trinitarian may claim that this proves the trinity doctrine, although in reality there is nothing in the verse as it appears in the King James Version that speaks of Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as being more than one person, or that Jesus is a person of Jehovah. As throughout the Bible, the trinitarian dogma has forced into what Phillip stated. We should certainly note that in the King James Version , the word "God" is in italics in Acts 7:59, which means that even in the Textus Receptus , there is no word in the Greek tex...

For in Him all the fullness [Greek, pleroma, plenitude] of Deity [Greek, Theotes; Strong's #2320] dwells in bodily form and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power. -- Colossians 2:9,10, New American Standard Bible translation https://www.studylight.org/lexicons/greek/2320.html The Bauer, Arndt and Gingrich Lexicon [BAGD]  defines the Greek word theotes as: "deity, divinity, used as abstract noun for theos...the fullness of a deity Col.2:9". [abstract noun, a quality or attribute]. This form of THEOS , that is, THEOTES , appears only this one time in the Scriptures, thus we have a lack of scriptural comparison for its particular usage. We have, however, the Hebrew background of words that are translated into Greek as THEOS, that is, forms of EL and ELOHIM . We have given before the Hebriac usage of these words in the Hebrew scriptures, showing that when they are used of others than Jehovah (or idols of men), they take on a more...

For in Him all the fullness of Deity [Greek transliterated: theotes; Strong's #2320] dwells in bodily form and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power. -- Colossians 2:9,10, New American Standard Bible translation The above scripture is often cited by trinitarians and some others to offer proof of their two "natures" of Jesus theory. In actuality, there is nothing here about Jesus possessing two natures at once. Such an idea has to be read into what Paul stated. Walter Martin claims that Colossians 2:9 refers to " the triunity of the Godhead ." (The Kingdom of the Cults, page 168) This would seem to lead to the conclusion that the Godhead in Colossians 2:9 is the alleged three person of the alleged triune God. However, Walter Martin also states of Colossians 2:9, "all the fullness of Deity dwells him Him bodily, which means nothing was lacking in his Deity." (The Kingdom of the Cults, page 530) Although we certai...

"But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through [Greek, dia, Strong's #1223 ] Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; namely, that God was in [Greek, instrumental en -- through, by means of, Strong's #1722 ] Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation." -- 2 Corinthians 5:19, World English Bible translation The thought many would like for us to see in this verse is that God was in Christ, and being in Christ makes Christ God Almighty. This, of course, is not what the verse is saying. The Greek word *en* -- translated "in" -- has many variations of meaning, including "through", "by" [often with the meaning as "by means of", "in" [still often with the meaning as an instrument being used]. From the context of 2 Corinthians 5:17 we understand what this word is saying. God -- by means of C...

This study is the process of being edited; some links may still refer to our old site that no longer exists. -- Ronald R. Day, Sr. This is in response to a site that claims that Jesus is the God of the Old Testament; since we have discussed most of the scriptures individually elsewhere,  for most scriptures we are simply providing links to the discussion. Unless stated otherwise, the World English version of the Bible is used throughout, with forms of the holy name supplied at appropriate places. God's Holy Name, however, is presented as "Jehovah" irrespective of how it is rendered in any translation. We first wish to state that there is not one scripture in either the Old Testament or the New Testament that says that Jesus is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. One has to imagine, assume, add to, and read that thought into, any scripture that is presented to allegedly "prove" that Jesus is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Nowhere is the glory that only...