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With you, life or death. With the Tanach, Isaiah is contained therein.

You know from reading the Hebrew Bible that God calls many people elohim / theos. The messiah is greater than all of them. It shouldn’t surprise you that God would also call the messiah elohim / theos. What I’ve learned about you from you is that you don’t believe there are more than about...

Off the top of my head -> Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Hebrews.

What does that have to do with me or the messiah? The NT does that.

Jesus ascended to his God (and my God). There is no God besides the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. That is who he ascended to. See his conversation with the scribe in Mark 12:29ff.

The New Testament witness, which you used as proof in a conversation with me yesterday.

Jesus is a Jew. He didn’t bring a new god that nobody ever heard of. His God is the God of Israel -> the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. Jesus requires doing the spirit of the law.

So the man you are looking for will be born some day in the future and, in just a few days, accomplish everything the messiah is prophesied to do? A three or four day old child fully functioning as the messiah?

Some Jews I’ve spoken with have been able to agree that the messiah is referred to in Isaiah 53. It is left to the NT to make the identity of the unnamed messiah known -> Jesus. Few Jews, in my experience, have been willing to go that far. For a variety of reasons, they rejected the NT witness.

“A man is respectable for his character, not for the money he has in his pocket.” - Charles Spurgeon

They exist. That you don’t apply them to the man whom you’re expecting is what interests me.

Have you not consulted any of the Christian commentaries? For example, in regard to Matthew 2:23, the one which you spent no time at all on: https://biblehub.com/commentaries/matthew/2-23.htm