All Claims of The Son's Deity

At what point in time, in your opinion, the apostles started to believe that Jesus was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, rather than the Son of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?

Hear Thomas

John 20:28–29 (LEB) — 28 Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, have you believed? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”

You, as individuals, are not. I will always defend you as monotheists.
You submit your lives to a Single Mind. You worship and love a God with a Single Mind, not with three minds.

It is the theological stance which is polytheistic, because it makes no difference between "three divine persons" and "three gods".
Nobody in the Forum has been able to explain what is the difference.
Would you give it a try?
That would be false

We do not believe there are three Gods

That would be tritheism

We believe there is one God who manifests himself eternally, equally and simultaneously as three persons
 
@Pancho Frijoles' question has been answered hundreds of times by dozens of people. It gets nauseating to be asked the same old question over and over and over again....
I gave Pancho 26 scriptural evidences that Jesus is God - Exhibits A to Z, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. He challenged me to go through each of the New Testament letters and point out any indications that Jesus is God. I took him up on that, but he didn't last long. He disappeared for several weeks, and when he finally came back, apparently he lost his appetite for such a venture - most likely because he actually saw how much evidence there actually is. I told him I was willing to start our "evidence search" where we left off, but he bowed out. Our faith in Jesus being God is not blind faith. There is gobs of evidence, which really shows how disengenuous they are, because they look at the evidence and then pretend that it really doesn't say what it actually says.
 
We do not believe there are three Gods
I know you don’t want or intend to believe in three gods.
But Trinity teaches there are three divine persons.
So, my question is what is the difference between three gods and three divine persons?
That would be tritheism

We believe there is one God who manifests himself eternally, equally and simultaneously as three persons
You say “one God who manifests…” this sounds like you believe that God has one single mind, one single will… it sounds to me like you believe that God is One person, a “He”.
 
I gave Pancho 26 scriptural evidences that Jesus is God - Exhibits A to Z, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. He challenged me to go through each of the New Testament letters and point out any indications that Jesus is God. I took him up on that, but he didn't last long. He disappeared for several weeks, and when he finally came back, apparently he lost his appetite for such a venture - most likely because he actually saw how much evidence there actually is. I told him I was willing to start our "evidence search" where we left off, but he bowed out. Our faith in Jesus being God is not blind faith. There is gobs of evidence, which really shows how disengenuous they are, because they look at the evidence and then pretend that it really doesn't say what it actually says.
I respectfully disagree with you.
I believe there is overwhelming evidence, starting from Jesus Himself, that Only The Father, Your Father, is God.
Jesús taught that Our Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, is the Only and True God, and His God.

I invite you to debate with me in a friendly manner on a new thread, with the help of a moderator chosen by you.
My thesis in that thread is that there is the doctrine of the Trinity cannot explain the difference between three gods and three divine persons and, therefore, is is a polytheistic approach to deity.
 
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I know you don’t want or intend to believe in three gods.
But Trinity teaches there are three divine persons.
So, my question is what is the difference between three gods and three divine persons?
What have you not understood?

The trinity teaches there is one God


You say “one God who manifests…” this sounds like you believe that God has one single mind, one single will… it sounds to me like you believe that God is One person, a “He”.
Then you have not understood
 
I believe it was the Lord, but the Lord is also the Father.

John 10:30 (KJV) I and [my] Father are one.
Thank you. you are correct the Lord Jesus is the "LORD", title "Father". for he was ALONE, and BY HIMSELF when he made all things. supportive scripture, Isaiah 44:24 "Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;" he Jesus, the Father was "ALONE". definition meaning of Alone. having no one else present. and the term "by" according to the Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary of American English. it means in the third definition,
BY, prep.
1. Near; close; as, sit by me; that house stands by a river.
[L. pressus.]
2. Near, in motion; as, to move, go or pass by a church. But it seems, in other phrases,or with a verb in the past time, to signify past, gone beyond. "The procession is gone by;" "the hour is gone by;" "John went by." We now use past as an equivalent word. The procession is gone past. Gone by is in strictness tautology, as now used; but I apprehend by signifies primarily near.
3. Through, or with, denoting the agent, means, instrument or cause; as, "a city is destroyed by fire;" "profit is made by commerce;" "to take by force." This use answers to that of the Latin per, through, denoting a passing, acting, agency, or instrumentality.

amen brother, 101G commend you on that answer, be blessed.

101G
 
Thank you. you are correct the Lord Jesus is the "LORD", title "Father". for he was ALONE, and BY HIMSELF when he made all things. supportive scripture, Isaiah 44:24 "Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;" he Jesus, the Father was "ALONE". definition meaning of Alone. having no one else present. and the term "by" according to the Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary of American English. it means in the third definition,
BY, prep.
1. Near; close; as, sit by me; that house stands by a river.
[L. pressus.]
2. Near, in motion; as, to move, go or pass by a church. But it seems, in other phrases,or with a verb in the past time, to signify past, gone beyond. "The procession is gone by;" "the hour is gone by;" "John went by." We now use past as an equivalent word. The procession is gone past. Gone by is in strictness tautology, as now used; but I apprehend by signifies primarily near.
3. Through, or with, denoting the agent, means, instrument or cause; as, "a city is destroyed by fire;" "profit is made by commerce;" "to take by force." This use answers to that of the Latin per, through, denoting a passing, acting, agency, or instrumentality.

amen brother, 101G commend you on that answer, be blessed.

101G
Thank you. I love reading your insightful posts. May the LORD bless you all the days of your life.
ysiC
 
There can be no doubt Lord was used in the place of YHWH.

Not every instance of Lord is YHWH obviously but some most assuredly are.
Correct. let see it clearly in Psalms 110:1 "A Psalm of David. The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool." here we have "LORD", and "Lord" is this the same person.... or two different persons? let the bible answer itself.
we all are safe in KNOWING who the title LORD is... ok, but the question is .... this is the "Lord" the "LORD?" as said let the bible answer itself. if one would notice, the same "Lord" in verse 5 who is the same "Lord" in verse 1. Psalms 110:5 "The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath." it's the same "Lord" in verse one that will sit at the "LORD'S" right. ok good, but how is the "Lord" here is defined? answer, using the Mickelson's Enhanced Strong's Dictionaries of the Greek and Hebrew Testaments, the term "Lord" here is the Hebrew term,
H136 אֲדֹנָי 'Adonay (ad-o-noy') n-m.
1. (meaning) Lord (used as a proper name of God only).
2. (person) Adonai, The Lord God of Israel (which is actually “Yahweh God of Israel” - see Exodus 5:1 and 120 other occurrences).
[am emphatic form of H113]

KJV: (my) Lord.
Root(s): H113

NOTE definition #2.The Lord God of Israel (which is actually “Yahweh God of Israel”
and also notice "Lord" here is the [am emphatic form of H113] and H113 is the "Lord" in verse one. Hello. are we getting this? it's the same person. only in verse one in flesh and blood. hence, as David said, "MY Lord".

so brother Dizerner, you're CORRECT. many need to understand that the LORD is the Lord in flesh.

may God bless you.

101G
 
I would say when they received the Holy Spirit.
Do you mean after Pentecost?
After Pentecost the disciples continued to preach the God of Israel as one person, and Jesus as another person.
This is how they preached:

  • The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. (Acts 3:13)
  • For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; (Acts 3:22)
  • When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways (Acts 3:26)
  • Know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed (Acts 4:10)
  • The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead—whom you killed by hanging him on a cross. God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might bring Israel to repentance and forgive their sins. (Acts 5:30)
In conclusion, the Jewish monotheism of the disciples hadn't change after Pentecost, and they made no call to their audiences to abandon Jewish monotheism.

So, Dizerner, if it was not after Pentecost, at what time they started believing in the Trinity?

Oh, stop your blubbering. I've written pages and pages on it.
Then please help me out to find where are those pages-
 
Do you mean after Pentecost?

Sigh. You don't even know when they received the Holy Spirit, yet you come here acting like a Bible expert when you don't know basic things.

You just Google and ChatGPT things.

Have you ever ONE time read through the ENTIRE Bible?

And why do you leave out Peter's words here:

You killed the Author of Life. (Acts 3:15)

Then please help me out to find where are those pages-

So if I link the dozens of times I replied to you with lengthy replies what happens?

You apologize and say how wrong you were?

I very much doubt that.
 
All Claims of The Son's Deity
In about 45% of the New Testament, 19 witnesses make 50 claims of The Son's Deity in 186 iterations, including 54 iterations by Jesus Himself.


These claims are organized in three ways on separate Pages:




There are far more claims of The Son's deity than I was led to believe by conventional minimalization; but hundreds were not necessary. In God-breathed Scripture, only one of them was necessary to state the truth.


These claims are a more complete portrait of what the apostle John meant when he wrote, "The one who believes in The Son has eternal life. The one who rejects The Son will not see life, but God's wrath remains on him" [John 3:36]. Rejecting The Son's deity is in fact rejecting The Son, which Jesus warns explicitly [John 8:24].


BY CATEGORY


Actions of Yahweh [22]

Answers prayer ⇒ [3x] John 14:13; 14:14; 16:26.

Draws all people to Himself ⇒ [1x] John 12:32.

Eliminates death itself ⇒ [2x] 1 Cor 15:26; 2 Tim 1:10.

Forgives sin ⇒ [1x] Mark 2:5.

Fulfills all things (or: fills the universe) ⇒ [1x] Eph 4:10.

Gives life ⇒ [3x] John 5:21; 21:22; 1 Cor 15:45.

Influences human action (despite no longer being on Earth)

⇒ [7x] 1 Cor 1:8a; 11:32; 16:7; 1 Tim 1:12; 1:16b; 2 Tim 1:12c; Jude 1:24.

Nullified [the power of] The Law ⇒ [1x] Eph 2:15.

Purifies for Himself an elect people (λαός περιούσιος) ⇒ [1x] Titus 2:14.

Resurrects Himself from the dead ⇒ [1x] John 2:19.

Transforms all believers’ bodies into His own likeness ⇒ [1x] Phil 3:21.


Characteristics of Yahweh [30]

Eternal ⇒ [6x] John 1:1a; 1:2; 17:5b; 17:24; 1 John 1:1; 1:2.
Immutable ⇒ [2x] 2 Tim 2:13c; Heb 13:8.
Impassible ⇒ [2x] Phil 2:7a; 2:7b.
Inscrutable ⇒ [2x] Matt 11:27a; John 8:19b.
Sinless ⇒ [2x] John 8:46; 1 John 3:5.
Omniscient (accounting for kenosis and difference in role)

⇒ [4x] John 2:24; 2:25; 16:30a; 21:17.

Otherworldly ⇒ [12x] John 5:34; 6:46; 8:23; 8:42; 13:3; 15:5; 16:28; 16:30c; Rom 8:3;

1 Cor 15:47; Eph 4:9; 1 Tim 1:15.



Conflations, Other [27]

Ascriptions ⇒ [2x]

Luke 1:76 (The Most High); Rom 14:9 (Lord of the Living and the Dead).

Assertions ⇒ [4x]

John 8:12 (I am The Light of the World).

John 11:25 (I am The Ressurection and The Life).

John 14:6 (I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life).

John 16:33 (I have conquered the World).

Born of ⇒ [1x] 1 John 3:1.
Denying Him results in Hell ⇒ [1x] 2 Tim 2:12.
Equal Authority and Ownership to The Father ⇒ [2x] John 16:15; 17:10.
Equal Possessor of God’s glory, which Yahweh shares with no one [« Isa 42:8]

⇒ [1x] John 17:5a.

Knowing The Son equals knowing The Father ⇒ [4x] Matt 11:27b; John 8:19c; 14:7; 14:8.
Knowing equals Eternal Life ⇒ [1x] John 17:3.
One with The Father and/or The Spirit ontologically

⇒ [8x] John 10:30; 10:38; 14:10; 14:11; 14:23; 17:11; 17:21: 17:22.

Seeing The Son equals seeing The Father ⇒ [1x] John 14:9.
Working of The Son equated to working of The Father ⇒ [2x] John 5:17; 5:19.



Devotion due to Yahweh [21]

Devotional Belief in (not mundane belief, confidence, or trust)

⇒ [9x] John 1:7; 1:12; 14:1; Eph 1:13; 1:15; Col 1:4; 1 Tim 1:16c; 2 Tim 1:12b; Phlm 1:5.

of Equal Honor to The Father ⇒ [1x] John 5:23.
Object of the Highest Love, due only to the God of The Shema

⇒ [4x] Matt 10:37; Luke 14:26; 1 Cor 16:22; Eph 6:24.

United to ⇒ [3x] Rom 7:4; 1 Cor 6:17; Eph 5:32.
Worship of ⇒ [4x] Eph 5:19; Rev 5:13; Rev 22:3; 22:5a-b.



Direct Equation [69]

Called "Lord" in the sense of "Yahweh" ⇒ [22x]

Luke 1:16; 1:17; 1:43; 1:68; 1:76; John 20:28b; Acts 9:17; 19:5; 21:13; 21:14;

Rom 10:9; 10:12; 1 Cor 1:2; 1:8b; 8:6c; 12:3; Eph 4:5; Phil 2:11b; 3:20; Jude 1:4; 1:14;

Rev 22:5c

Called "God" ⇒ [17x]

Luke 1:16; 1:68; John 1:1c; 1:18; 20:28c; Rom 9:5; 14:10; 14:12; 1 Cor 5:13; 1 Tim 3:15-16; Titus 1:3; 2:13; Heb 1:8; 2 Pet 1:1; 1 John 5:20; 2 John 1:9; Jude 1:25.

Equal or Identical to God ⇒ [3x] Phil 2:6a; 2:6b; Heb 1:3b.
Monogenic Sonship which denotes the same essence

⇒ [3x] John 3:16; 3:18; 1 John 4:9.

Called The Kabod YHWH / The Glory of God, who is Yahweh

⇒ [2x] Heb 1:3a; Rev 21:23c.

Called the “I AM” or “I Am He,” who is Yahweh

⇒ [3x] John 8:24 (by cataphora); 8:28 (ibid.); 8:58.

Direct OT Citation or Allusion substituting for Yahweh or The Kabod YHWH [19]

John 1:23 (Isa 40:3); John 3:13 (Prov 30:4); Rom 9:32 (Isa 8:13-14; 28:16);

Rom 10:13 (Joel 2:32); Rom 14:11 (Isa 45:23); 1 Cor 1:31 (Jer 9:24[23]);

1 Cor 2:16 (Isa 40:13); 1 Cor 10:4; 1 Cor 10:9; Eph 4:8 (Isa 68:19-21[Eng. 18-20]);

Eph 5:14a-b (Isa 26:19-20); Eph 5:14c (Isa 60:1-2); Phil 2:10-11a (Isa 45:23-24);

2 Tim 2:19 (Num 16:5); 2 Tim 4:14 (Ps 28:4); Jude 1:5b (e.g., Exod 13:9);

Jude 1:5c (Num 1:35); Rev 21:23b (Isa 60:19-20); Rev 22:5a-b (Isa 60:19-20).


Offices of Yahweh [17]

Apportioner to each human his lot in life ⇒ [2x] 1 Cor 7:17; Eph 4:11.
Creator ⇒ [6x] John 1:3; 1:10; 1:11; 1 Cor 8:6d; Col 3:10 (of the New Man, the born-again

aspect); Heb 1:2c.

Judge, Eschatological/Cosmic ⇒ [3x] John 12:31; 2 Tim 4:1; 4:8.
King of Heaven ⇒ [3x] 1 Cor 15:24; Eph 6:9; Rev 22:5d.
Rewarder of each human [« Prov 24:12, exclusive domain of YHWH]

⇒ [2x] Matt 16:27; Rom 2:6.

Shepherd, Only [1]
⇒ John 10:14-16 (“The Good Shepherd” and “One Shepherd” for His “own”).


J.
I can go through this whole list and would not find one verse that shows Jesus as God. The first two verses do not prove Jesus is God. They are...

John 14:13-14
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

Jesus has been given the authority in both heaven and earth. And so to ask by his authority is how we get any prayer answered.

Part of Matthew 28:18 says...

All power [delegated authority, implies the ability to make power felt. E.W. Bullinger] is given unto Christ in heaven and in earth.
 
The Word was God.
It seems difficult for people to understand that John 1:1 is introducing the Gospel of John, and not the Book of Genesis. The topic of John is God (the Father, the only God) at work in the ministry of the man Jesus of Nazareth, not the creation of rocks, trees and stars.
 
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