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Thanks. I changed my registration status from “Christian” to “Other Faith” almost three years ago. I’m a Jewish monotheist who believes that Jesus of Nazareth is the promised and prophesied Messiah, Son of the living God. Other online discussion forums - and academic institutions - have...

“In later times the church, no longer perceiving the power and decisiveness of the agent-son-representative model, and having among its members men used to a more philosophical analysis, felt it necessary to go further in the direction of metaphysical identity between Jesus and the heavenly...

“All Old Testament scholars and commentators recognize that in Jewish custom whenever a superior commissioned an agent to act on his behalf, the agent was regarded as the person himself. This is well expressed in The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Religion: Agent (Heb. Shaliah) : The main point if...

If you understood Jewish monotheism you would see it plainly in the Jewish scriptures. You’ve been intentionally changing my words; knowingly and willfully misrepresenting what I’ve said. That is the act of a wicked man, not the act of a righteous man. Most trinitarians, I’m happy to say, are...

Thank you. It isn’t difficult. Yes. Paul is speaking in the passage about the God of Jewish monotheists, Yahweh. Yahweh is the God and Father of a Jewish monotheist, Jesus of Nazareth. Yahweh is my God and Father. Jewish monotheists believe in the Jewish law of agency.

You aren’t a Jewish monotheist. Jewish monotheists aren’t trinitarians. That’s right. That is also right. Paul is addressing the Lord our God, not the Messiah in that passage. Every Jewish monotheist - regardless of whether or not they believe Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah - would...

Would you not live and die for Jesus? He is the Lord’s Messiah. The apostles lived and died for him.

Jesus is the Lord Messiah. Yahweh is the Lord God.

No.

Yes.

I don’t have any problem dealing with those who wield the trinitarian creeds as a weapon upon me. What they do to me, they do to all Jewish monotheists. I’m confident that the Messiah - whom you know is himself a Jewish monotheist - will vindicate and reward me. It is my personal belief that...

Paul is speaking about God in Romans 14:8.

“We must let the prophets and apostles sit at the desk and we, seated at their feet, must listen to what they say and not say what they must listen to.” - Martin Luther

That’s true. That’s false. I taught the congregation I pastored, and I teach my readers, to be willing to suffer and die for both Jesus and God.

Most Jewish monotheists don’t but a small number of us do and have since the 1st century. I would say (and have said, even on this forum) to unbelieving Jewish monotheists: Jesus is the Messiah, Son of the living God. I’m willing to suffer and die for this belief.

God was God? I’m not sure I understand what you’re asking. I believe God is the one God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob -> the God and Father of Jesus of Nazareth. I’m a Jewish monotheist. I believe Jesus of Nazareth is a unique human person, the incarnation of the Father’s logos.

@PS95 are you paying attention to this?

It’s neither redundant nor deceptive. I’ve quoted a boatload of trinitarian scholars (in other threads) who acknowledge that Jewish monotheism is unitarian. Jesus himself is a Jewish monotheist. His God is the Father. I’m sure you’ve heard him say it in scripture yourself. I’ve already...

Thanks. We both have the New Testament. As I see it, the Jewish theology of the Hebrew Bible is the Messiah’s own Jewish theology and his theology is the theology of the New Testament. (That is why I quoted the New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology.) From church history we can...

Then why isn’t his theology your theology? (I’m a Jewish monotheist because he’s a Jewish monotheist. His theology is my theology. Why, if you think it shouldn’t be, shouldn’t it be?) That’s right. He‘s the promised and prophesied messianic king. Do you support David typology? 1 Chronicles...