Jesus and His God

Did the angel declare Jesus to be Jehovah in Luke 2:11? Luke 2:11- For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. Unless otherwise stated, all Bible quotations are from the World English Bible version. Luke 2:11 is often referred to as proof that Jesus is Jehovah, since, as through misunderstanding, or distortion, of certain scriptures such as Deuteronomy 6:4; Zechariah 14:9; Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13 and 1 Corinthians 8:6, they falsely conclude that the word  “Lord” applied to Jesus must mean that Jesus is Jehovah. We have addressed this kind of argument in other studies, and will not address them again here. See our studies: 1 Corinthians 8:6 – One God, One Lord; Deuteronomy 6:4 Ephesians 4:5 – One Lord Luke 2:11 is often also cited as proof that Jesus is a savior, with the false assumption that if Jesus is our savior, then Jesus must be Jehovah, since, according to their reasoning, as they use scriptures such as Isaiah 45:...

Philippians 2:5-11 is often cited as proof that Jesus is God (the Supreme Being). In reality, there is nothing in these verses that presents Jesus as Jehovah, who is elsewhere presented as the God of Jesus. -- Micah 5:4; Ephesians 1:3. Philippians 2:5 touto phroneite en humin ho kai en christw THIS BE YOU MINDING IN YOU WHICH ALSO IN CHRIST 3778_2 5426 1722 4771_6 3739 2532 1722 5547 ieesou JESUS, 2424 Philippians 2:6 hos en morphee theou huparchwn ouch harpagmon WHO IN FORM OF GOD EXISTING NOT SNATCHING 3739 1722 3444 2316 5224 5225 3756 0725 heegeesato to einai isa thew HE CONSIDERED THE TO BE EQUAL (THINGS) TO GOD, 2233 3588 1511 2470 2316 Philippians 2:7 alla heauton ekenwsen morpheen doulou labwn en BUT HIMSELF HE EMPTIED FORM OF SLAVE HAVING TAKEN, IN 0235 1438 2758 3444 1401 2983 1722 homoiwmati anthrwpwn genomenos LIKENESS OF MEN HAVING BECOME; 3667 0444 1096 Philippians 2:8 kai scheemati heuretheis hws anthrwpos etapeinwsen AND TO FASHION HAVING BEEN F...

The scriptures often use words and titles with different meanings when applied in different ways. Many, with a desire to prove that Jesus is Jehovah, will often take these words and try to make them appear to mean something other than intended, that is, that Jesus is God. Let us look at one of these titles: Isaiah 37:16: O Jehovah of hosts, ELOHIM of Israel, who dwells between the cherubs, you are the ELOHIM, you alone, of all the kingdom of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. — See also 2 Kings 19:15 Exodus 7:1 And Jehovah said to Moses, `See, I have made you ELOHIM to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother is your prophet Does this mean that Moses is actually Jehovah, since Jehovah said that he made Moses ELOHIM to Pharaoh? Of course not! Yet such reasoning is often used of Jesus when he is a few times referred to by the Hebrew and Greek words that are often translated as “God”, such EL, ELOHIM and THEOS. In our study on Hebraic Usages *, we have demonstrated that the Bibl...

There are many ideas about who Jesus was and is; sadly, most ideas presented fall far short of who the real Jesus is as presented in the Scriptures. Almost every popular doctrinal stance embellishes on the revealed Word to make Jesus be someone he never claimed to be. The apostle Paul spoke of some in his day who were, in effect, preaching another Jesus, that is, they were preaching Jesus, but not the truth about Jesus. Nor can we in this day when Satan and his demons are working miracles so as to deceive, if possible, the elect (Matthew 24:24; Revelation 13:14; 16:14; 19:20), expect that, simply because a miracle occurs, that we have found the true Jesus in the message of the worker of miracles who might be doing miracles in Jesus' name. (Matthew 7:22) Indeed, many heathen who do not believe in Jesus at all claim miracles performed in the name(s) of their gods or idols. It is recorded that Jesus once asked his disciples: "Who do men say that I am?" He got a reply, th...

Isaiah 6:8 - And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said: "Here am I; send me." A trinitarian argues from the above the scripture that Isaiah heard the voice of Yahweh [in eternity past], and is referring to himself as more than one person. Obviously, there is nothing here about these words being said in "eternity past". Such an idea has to be added to and read into what Isaiah said. If one would be consistent in following such reasoning, one would conclude that Isaiah himself had been hearing these words in "eternity past", and thus that Isaiah himself had existed in "eternity past" so as to be hearing these words in "eternity past". We believe that Isaiah himself is playing a part in the prophetic role, depicting the church of Jesus who was yet to be. Each believer is depicted as hearing the voice of the Lord, asking, "Whom shall I send", and thus is dep...

By Ronald R. Day Genesis 1:26 - God [ELOHIM] said [singular verb], "Let us make [plural] 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." Our trinitarian neighbors see this scripture as a reference to their trinitarian dogma. It is claimed that ELOHIM , being plural in form, means that their idea of "Godhead" has three persons, and that the plurality of "let us" means that one person of God is speaking to another person of God, using the plural form "us". Some modalists and oneness believers also cite this scripture as proof of an alleged "plurality" in their Godhead consisting of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Obviously, God here is speaking to someone. Normally, if a person says to his friend, "Let us do this or that according to our plans," w...