Jesus and His God

“I have overthrown some of you, As when God [Hebrew, ELOHIM] overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; Yet you have not returned to me,” says Jehovah. — Amos 4:11, Restoration Light Improved Version . This scripture is often cited as proof that Jehovah is more than one person. The claim by some trinitarians is that in some vague manner two persons of their trinitarian philosophy are represented in this scripture. According to one trinitarian: “One must assume that the speaker is the Lord Jesus Christ and that the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah was a judgment of the whole Godhead.” It is true that some kind of assumption needs to be made; it is not true that one “must” assume that the speaker is Lord Jesus Christ, nor that Jesus is a person of an alleged “Godhead” of persons, etc. Indeed, the trinitarian dogma is imagined, assumed and then placed into the scripture;. Without the added assumptions that are based on the added-on trinitari...

And Jehovah rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from Jehovah out of the heavens. -- Genesis 19:24, Green's Literal Translation Genesis 19:24 is often cited as proof that Jehovah is more than one person. The claim by some trinitarians appears to be that there is one Jehovah on earth who is supposed to be the prehuman Son of God, and another in heaven, the Father. While Jehovah is used twice here, one would have to read into this that there are two persons who are being spoken of. Some claim that Jehovah called upon Jehovah to rain fire from heaven. Actually there is nothing at all in the verse about Jehovah "calling upon" Jehovah. There is nothing in Genesis 19:24 about two persons; one person in heaven and one person on earth, nor is there anything at all here about a supposed plurality of persons in God. Nothing is said anywhere in the Bible that suggests that Jesus was Jehovah on earth while the Father of Jesus was Jehovah in heaven. Such ideas w...