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You’re making an interesting point. I disagree with Arius. His timing, like that of Tertullian, for the begetting of the Son is just prior to the Genesis creation. (Neither Arius nor Tertullian is trinitarian; nor are they Jewish monotheists.) I also don’t agree with Origen, who is the one who...

That’s right. As I explained a short while ago, preexistence in Jewish monotheism is notional (sometimes also called “ideal”), not literal. By whom? By his God. Right? All good gifts come down from heaven. It’s a Jewish idiom for all good things, all blessings, come down to us from our God...

That isn’t what Jewish monotheism teaches. Jewish monotheism teaches that Jesus the man did preexist. “Jesus the man” is “Jesus the Son of God” in Jewish monotheism. As the angel told Mary (who is also a Jewish monotheist), it was because Jesus would be begotten in her, that Jesus would be...

The point he makes is that in the historical setting of the 1st century, Jewish monotheism is the prevailing theology of the culture, Yahweh is the Father. No one else is. Jesus isn’t. Jesus is the Messiah. His God is the Father alone, Yahweh. Jesus isn’t a trinitarian. He’s a Jewish...

* Blessed is his audience, too. *

* Go ahead and say it. “Coddiwomple.” Say it to a child and he or she will laugh. If the laughter of a child doesn’t make us happy, woe is us. *

There is no God besides Yahweh @Scott Downey. Yahweh is the Messiah’s God. Yahweh is the Messiah’s Father. “Jesus wasn’t, and isn’t, Yahweh.” The trinitarian scholar who makes this assertion says it because he is speaking from the constraints of history. Trinitarianism isn’t bound by the...

“It rests on a misconception of the New Testament mode of speech and conception if we immediately infer that the declaration of Jesus [in John 17:5], that he had glory with the Father before the world was created is simply and necessarily identical in meaning with the thought that he himself...

I agree. Prager is a religious Jew. He gives failure to marry as another reason why unbelieving religious Jews reject Jesus as the Messiah promised by their God.

No. Elsewhere I’ve quoted Professor H.H. Wendt on the subject of glory in prospect contained in scripture. Have you seen it? If you have, what did you find unpersuasive about it? If you haven’t, I’ll repost it for your consideration if you would like for me to. Do you believe Jesus was and...

While we’re on the subject of the Spirit, it is important to note that the Nicene Creed (AD 325) didn’t define who or what the Spirit is. As late as AD 380, Gregory of Nazianzus (another important figure in trinitarian history, which few Protestants at this level know or care anything about)...

Well said. I pair this with John 6:63 - his words are spirit and life.

Jesus is filled with his Father’s Spirit. His disciples are also to be filled with our Father’s Spirit.

Yes. He was praying to receive the glory that was stored up for him with God. What he didn’t have at the time of his prayer, he has now. Yahweh doesn’t share his glory with anyone. The Messiah shares his glory with all of his disciples. As a disciple of the Messiah, I have the glory that the...

Your spirit is you. If I were to say “Scott’s spirit told me …” it was would the same as me telling some “He, Scott, told me …” Your spirit is personal, but it isn’t another person who is you. Jesus later identifies himself as the comforter. Right?

The glory which he had with his God before he was begotten by his God was glory in prospect.

I’m finishing the year reading the book of Revelation. ”This is the revelation of Jesus Messiah, which God gave him …” (Revelation 1:1, ISV) To a Jewish monotheist, “God” is Yahweh, the God and Father of our lord Jesus Messiah.

They are connected in Spirit. In Jewish monotheism the Spirit isn’t a third person who is God. The Spirit is God’s operational presence and power; personal, but not another person.

God himself has glorified the Messiah.

Yes. The invisible God is his God and my God; our Father. Jesus is the firstborn in the new creation.