To demonstrate Jesus is YHWH.
An assertion simply because one chooses not to believe Jesus is YHWH.
Paul could have easily expressed what he wanted to without quoting almost exactly from this verse in Romans 10:13. In fact, Acts 2:21 is an exact quote.
See above.
You could move on and igniore the evidence. That's your choice.
You bring no evidence to the table Fred. I believe you have stated your version and I mine. Iw ill leave you with thought as not for a last word in but it is another thing to consider.
Even Peter in Acts 2:14-21 quoted even with more verses of Joel than Paul does in Romans. And then you will tell me the same conclusion, that Peter is also raising these OT verses to tell folks that YHWH is Jesus and Peter before called Jesus the Son of the living God (YHWH) It does seem inconceivable and it is as I read scripture and understand it.
Let me tell you what Peter wrote and then convince yourself again that he is ONLY saying YHWH is Jesus for NO plausible rhyme or reason.
(Act 2:17) And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour forth of my Spirit upon all flesh: And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions, And your old men shall dream dreams:
(Act 2:18) Yea and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days Will I pour forth of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.
(Act 2:19) And I will shew wonders in the heaven above, And signs on the earth beneath; Blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
(Act 2:20) The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the day of the Lord come, That great and notable day:
(Act 2:21) And it shall be, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
(Act 2:22) Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth,
a man approved of God unto you by mighty works and wonders and signs,
which God did by him in the midst of you, even as ye yourselves know;
(Act 2:23) him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay:
(Act 2:24)
whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
(Act 2:25) For David saith concerning him, I beheld the Lord always before my face; For
he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
(Act 2:26) Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; Moreover my flesh also shall dwell in hope:
(Act 2:27) Because thou wilt not leave my soul in Hades, Neither wilt thou give thy Holy One to see corruption.
(Act 2:28) Thou madest known unto me the ways of life; Thou shalt make me full of gladness with thy countenance.
(Act 2:29) Brethren, I may say unto you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us unto this day.
(Act 2:30) Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins he would set one upon his throne;
(Act 2:31) he foreseeing this spake of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he left in Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
(Act 2:32)
This Jesus did God raise up, whereof we all are witnesses.
(Act 2:33) Being therefore
by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath poured forth this, which ye see and hear.
(Act 2:34) For David ascended not into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord,
Sit thou on my right hand,
(Act 2:35) Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.
(Act 2:36) Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly, that
God hath made him both Lord and Christ,
this Jesus whom ye crucified.
(Act 2:37) Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, Brethren, what shall we do?
(Act 2:38) And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you
in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
(Act 2:39)
For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.
(Act 2:40) And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation.
(Act 2:41) They then that received his word were baptized: and there were added unto them in that day about three thousand souls.
(RV)
Now Fred it is very obvious to me that Peter as Paul is never saying such a ridiculous claim that YHWH is Jesus his Son in any way shape or form. There is much more of a more important topic that both discussed. They had a real purpose in connecting the Father YHWH to Jesus and salvation when they spoke.
Pay attention to the bolded letters in these listed verses above, especially that Father God Almighty, YHWH, is superior to his Son, by raising his from the dead as the firstborn from the dead. And that faith in our lord Jesus is now paramount for our salvation and NOT JUST having faith in his Father YHWH anymore, as before.
Peter and Paul had to bring in the Father YHWH into the discussion to form a known foundation for his audience and then to comprehend who is Jesus and show the role and significance of Jesus our lord in their lives. Their audiences were all still not convinced that Jesus was key to their lives under the age of grace. Many were still of the old thought of the Law that faith in YHWH alone was sufficient.
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