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It’s imperative that you hear Jesus himself speak @Riven. His words are given to him, put into his mouth to speak, by his God and they are life imparting. How frequently are you reading him these days?

I am. Are you aware of what the lord said in Matthew 5:11-13? If I were a betting man, I’d bet the farm that you are. I live it and rejoice.

There was a time when it was. Few would say that it is now. I want to encourage my readers to read church history.

Denial of the existence of Jewish monotheism doesn’t hold water. It never has and it never will. It’s the starting point of Christianity. Once dominant, it was destroyed. See the documentation of its destruction in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa.

I highly recommend this book to my readers. While the purpose of the (Protestant) author is to draw people either to or back to historical orthodox trinitarianism, he treats Jewish monotheism fairly. The Jewish monotheism of Israel and the earliest Christians can no more be removed from church...

Anti-intellectualism is on full display in this thread.

“The New Testament writers are really quite careful at this point. Jesus is not the God of Israel. He is not the Father. He is not Yahweh.” (James D.G. Dunn, Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?, p. 142-144) The concession to Jewish monotheism is always based on the history of Israel, the...

The trinitarian professor makes the concession to Jewish monotheism on historical grounds. It’s one thing to reject Jewish monotheism. It’s another to say that it doesn’t exist and conflicts with the belief and practice of the earliest Christians. Don’t, I would urge my readers, be deniers of...

Recommended reading on the subject of Jewish monotheism in the early church - the primitive Christians.

https://jewsforjesus.org/answers/what-is-the-source-of-jewish-monotheism People who say there is no such thing as Jewish monotheism are doing nothing more than flouting their ignorance on the subject. There are a plethora of books and articles written by scholars on the topic of Jewish...

Returning now to the OP, Jesus is the Son of his Father. Jesus is the Son of his God. ”Blessed be the God and Father of our lord Jesus Messiah.” (Ephesians 1:3, 2 Corinthians 1:3; 1 Peter 1:3) Easy verses to remember 1:3, 1:3, 1:3. Repeated for emphasis. Rejected early in the thread by...

The difference between the two translations I was comparing is a bright one. John is a Jewish monotheist. In his prologue he is taking his readers back to the Genesis creation account. It was the Father who spoke the creation into existence. John isn’t speaking about two persons (and certainly...

There is nothing wrong with the link I provided. I’ve used it for over a decade without experiencing any problem with it. I’ve never heard anyone (before now) who clicked on the link say that they had a problem with it. I don’t know what the nature of the problem you had clicking on it so...

I gave you the link to the Geneva Bible but it doesn’t appear to me that you looked at it. I’ll quote the prologue from John’s Gospel for you in this post. Please compare it carefully to the translation which you posted. ” 1 In the beginning was that Word, and that Word was with God, and that...

All of them do.

I don’t reject any verses. I understand all passages of scripture - Old Testament and New Testament - from the perspective of the Messiah’s own Jewish monotheism.

No. That isn’t correct. As I said, God is creating the coming age by Messiah.