Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”
I do so wish that you and others actually understood the Scriptures you quote....especially the part you highlighted, above.
Just to be clear.....the Watchtower Society is printing facility.....a legal body required by law to print and distribute vast quantities of literature all over the world. We are Jehovah’s Witnesses...Wrangler is not.
You seem to labor under the misapprehension that Christendom cannot possibly be deceived.
According to Jesus, only “few” will be found on the road to life, leading to the majority receiving his complete rejection as those he “NEVER KNEW”. (Matt 7:13-14; 21-23)
Majority view will not mean much at the judgment....and excuses will not be accepted.
So, can we examine the verses you have quoted and see what they really say, as opposed to what you assume that they do, due to your own ‘programming’.
You said...”As Yaweh was to David, so also is the FATHER to the LORD/Yaweh”
Do you understand the contradiction you just made?
The LORD YAHWEH is the Father....not the son. Nowhere in all of the Bible is Jesus ever called Yahweh. Nowhere in the whole Bible did Jesus ever call himself “God”....
Jesus is what he called himself.....”the son of God”. (John 10:31-26)
Can God be the son also be the Father? Can a son come into existence at the same time as his father? If there is this kind of confusion created by Christendom’s favourite doctrine, don’t you think there must be a reason?
Who gave us our sense of logic? Why would Yahweh present himself and his precious son as something we cannot understand in the familiar terminology that he uses regarding their relationship? Father and son are never one person in two presentations....they are separate individuals.
Multiple personality disorder is considered a mental illness, but if we are “made in God’s image”, then it should be normal.
In Psalm 110: 1-2, David wrote in prophesy...
“The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” The Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies!” (ESV)
There are two “Lords” there, and one LORD (YAHWEH) says to David’s “Lord” (the promised Messiah) to wait “until” he has made his enemies his footstool....IOW, to put his enemies under his feet...nevertheless, Yahweh tells his Messiah to “rule in the midst of his enemies”....how does that happen, as it refers to a future time. When does Messiah’s rule begin?
“Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.“
And true to his prophesy, David knew God’s promise that one of his descendants would be the King of God’s kingdom.
He even foretold the manner of Christ’s resurrection....
“31 Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay. 32 God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.”
So what
was the manner of his resurrection?
His body was not left to rot in a tomb, or to be taken by those keen to engage in relic worship....which is idolatry, so God raised his son from the dead.....but not in the body he sacrificed.....he was
“put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit”, (1 Peter 3:18) which means that the body Christ was raised in, was spirit, the same “form” that God has. (John 4:24) ...he was raised with the ability to materialize.
Angels had materialized in Noah’s day, as did the messengers God sent to his servants on earth. Abraham for example, entertained 3 angels who visited him in human form. Two of them went on to rescue Lot and his family from the city of Sodom.
The accounts in the gospels make mention of Jesus “appearing” to his disciples, rather than being their constant companion and staying with them after his resurrection, like he did for the previous three and a half years.
On one occasion he appeared in a locked room, and on another, when they recognised him by the way he broke the bread at a meal, he simply disappeared right in front of them...(John 20:26; Luke 24:29-31)...proving that he was not raised in the body he had before.
“33 Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. 34 For David did not ascend into heaven....”
So David’s prophesy applied after Christ’s death...and his returning to his Father in heaven to “wait” “at his right hand” for the right time to begin his reign, which was to begin whilst Christ’s enemies were still active.
The Holy Spirit that Jesus sent to empower his disciples after his death, was “received from his Father”.
There is way more to Scripture than a cursory reading will reveal.
Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”
The title “Lord” is not a substitute for “God”...it’s a title of respect given to many in Bible times, equivalent to our address to someone in authority as “Sir”.
As the apostles said collectively.....
“For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.” (ESV)
How many “gods” do they have? Just one...”the Father”and......How many “lords”?...Just one, and no third party.
