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The deity of Messiah is his God and Father acting in him.

The Messiah’s God is a person, the Father. The language is pointing to the action of that person. John, himself a Jewish monotheist, isn’t trying to persuade his audience that two persons are God and that two persons created the heavens and the earth and all that is in them. John in the prologue...

He was a living soul. He is a dead soul. Souls are mortal. It is the popular and prevailing view in Christianity. I’ve had the same experience in that regard as you have. They are prophecies, not evidence. The fulfilled prophecies about Jesus are evidence. Yes. Date setting is a proven...

The eyes of the atheist haven’t deceived him. The German soldier is dead. There is no life in him. How can there be evidence of something which will only happen in the future? That’s right. Jesus was resurrected from the grave. What’s more likely to me is that he is the guarantee that...

The scriptures, written by Jewish monotheists, do not refute Jewish monotheism, Jewish dogma, nor the Jewish law of agency. Everything preexisted in the mind of God before God brought it into existence. See any English translation of John 1:1-3 published prior to 1611. Then let’s talk. Until...

You believe and have said that I am wrong. I believe and have said that Jesus is right.

John 1:1-3. How many persons do you see? (A flashback to days teaching young children.) Trinitarians, only two. Jewish monotheists, only one.

That’s right. God didn’t die on the cross; the man Messiah Jesus, a human person, did. There has never been a time when God was not alive. There never will be a time when God is not alive. The suggestion that Jewish monotheists murdered God is unfounded. The Messiah is a different story. He...

So his example doesn’t change anything in your mind. I didn’t think that it would. Now I know, but - more importantly, he knows - that it didn’t.

We’ve been through this before. John 1:1-3 shows that Jesus was not there. All things were created by his God through him (not by him, but rather with him in mind) and for him. He is before all things, God excepted, in the new creation. They don’t. They point to his God’s active role in the...

That’s a good observation. The atheist point of view bypasses the judgement; mine doesn’t. The atheist viewpoint supposes that there is no judgement on evil and good. Death is simply and finally the cessation of life. The dead German soldier in your video is lifeless. Atheism considers the book...

Too much to respond to. The law of agency doesn’t confirm literal preexistence of scripture (no passage of scripture does); it confirms Jesus’ notional preexistence (as all passages of scripture bearing on the question do.) It’s impossible to square trinitarianism with Jewish monotheism. (Take...

* I checked it. The kid nailed it. *

Yes, but with one exception. I believe the Messiah died and was bodily resurrected back to life three days later. He is in heaven now but will return to the earth at some point in the future.

I’ve gone on record @Johann. Believing the New Testament isn’t optional. Not believing the New Testament is a salvation issue. Are you willing to go on record? Are you willing to say: “Not believing the New Testament isn’t a salvation issue”? If that’s really what you believe then what is...

I’m providing a link to more in depth paper on the law of agency in scripture than the short article I posted in post #28 @Johann. It’s a pdf which you can access at no cost. http://www.christianmonotheism.com/media/text/Raymond%20Essoe%20--%20Shaliah.pdf It will take you a while to read...

Yes. We’ve discussed it before. You believe in literal preexistence; I believe in notional (also called ideal) preexistence. Remember? I read the exact same verses you do. We don’t read them through the same lens. I believe Jesus is divine, that he is godlike. I accept and believe them...