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“Who is the creator of the heavens and earth and everything in them?” my trinitarian (Southern Baptist) Sunday School teacher asked. “Jesus!” I enthusiastically replied, as did all of the other children. (I don’t recall exactly how old I was at the time but it was around the age of 10; a range...

The Messiah, in Jewish monotheism, is the embodiment of the Father’s logos / davar. When I see and hear the Messiah, I see and hear the Messiah’s God and Father in him. Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, the Son of God, is the Word of God.

You’re welcome. People sometimes ask me if the insight disproves trinitarianism. It doesn’t. All of the English translators who published translations prior to KJV were trinitarians. They simply understood that John was equating davar with logos. Davar is a person’s internal words, his...

John 1:1 In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. The word is not a person with God. “It“ is God. Just as your thought are you. Have you ever been alone with your thoughts? Yes, but I don’t read it into John’s prologue. Messiah is the word of God, not...

A person is a “he” or a “him”, not an it”. John is speaking in the prologue about only one person, Yahweh. The word is the plan of God. What existed only as thought in his mind came into existence when he created the heavens and the earth. John called “it” the logos (Heb. davar). Everyone...

In the words of Harold O.J. Brown - “the transition from the prayer Shema Yisroel, of Deuteronomy 6:4 (‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord …’), to the confession of the Athanasian Creed, ‘We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in unity.’” Dr. Brown asked a crucial question: “Was...

I read in another thread this morning someone saying that only trinitarians are Christians. That’s a popular position but it’s not historically accurate. When Christians were Jews -> the 1st century primitive Christians, including the Messiah and the apostles. Which came first in the Church...

“To grow in the knowledge of God and to live in light of His truth, it’s important that we set aside focused time to study his Word. As you consider your Bible study plans for the year ahead, explore more than 20 reading plans that can help you meditate on the Scriptures often.”...

A person is a ‘he” not an “it”. When I read the English translations published prior to 1611 (and many translations published after 1611) I see and hear Jewish monotheism. There is only one person in John 1:1-3 -> “our only God and Savior” (Jude 1:25). Yahweh did it alone, by himself. John is...

* I’ve got a situation just like this going on right now. It’s not as easy to stop the fight as you might think it would be. Pull up a chair, open the popcorn and wait for a break in the action. *

* It’s a Catch-22. *

Why do you think the translators of the Geneva Bible used ”it”? Every English translation directly from Greek published prior to 1611 also used “it”. Why do you think they did? What do you see and hear when you read “it”?

Would you care to comment on John 1:1-3 as rendered in the Geneve Bible?

God did it by it.