One God Report

This is part 3 of a three-part series with Dr. Dustin Smith, Pre-Millennial or A-Millennial   In this episode Dr. Smith describes the “Tale of Two Cities”. Like the original readers of the Book of Revelation, readers even now are challenged to associate with, indeed be part of, the godly New Jerusalem and not ungodly Babylon.   In a similar metaphor, readers of Revelation are encouraged associate...

Dr. Dustin Smith is currently Professor of Theological Studies at Reformed University near Atlanta, Georgia. Among other writings, he is co-author of the book "The Son of God: Three Views on the Identity of Jesus" and he is the host of the Biblical Unitarian Podcast.   The pre-millennial view of the return of Christ holds that the unrighteous are judged 1000 years after the righteous. In...

Dr. Dustin Smith is currently Professor of Theological Studies at Reformed University near Atlanta, Georgia. Among other writings, he is co-author of the book The Son of God: Three Views on the Identity of Jesus" and he is the host of the Biblical Unitarian Podcast.   In this first of a series of three One God Report podcast episodes, Dr. Smith describes some differences between pre-millennia...

I interview six different people in Israel to answer these questions:   Who is God and how do you know? Who is the Messiah and what is his relationship to God? Is there are specific Scripture or two that explain your view of God or the Messiah?   The people interviewed include:   02:28 Yaakov (Yaaki), a more or less secular Israeli who became a public high school Bible teacher.   09:00 Elena, who...

This episode is a review of the recently published paperback edition of the book called, The Restitution: Biblical Proof that Jesus is not God, by Kermit Zarley*.   What? Biblical proofs that Jesus is NOT God? The average Christian has heard only the biblical proofs that supposedly declare that Jesus IS God.   But anyone who thinks that the Bible claims that God is a Trinity, or that the Bible cla...

There is a popular declaration among Christians the world over this time of year. Quoting the messenger at Jesus’s tomb the declaration is made, “His is risen!” And then people respond: “He is risen indeed!”.    But that English declaration is actually incorrect, or is an incorrect translation. The angelic declaration about Jesus is not about what Jesus did, but about what someone else, namely God...

In Part 1 (the previous episode, #92) I began to respond to some of the claims made in the One for Israel video called “The Trinity and the Torah, a Jewish Defense of the Trinity”. I noted that the so-called “mysterious unity of (one-God-in-three-persons) is not a biblical mystery, but is a man-made mystery that comes from centuries after the Bible was written, from Gentiles land outside of the La...

0:00  Introduction. One For Israel, my own interest in Israel and the Jewish People   1:00  Why is “The Trinity in the Torah” a “hot topic”? Because the Torah does not proclaim that God is triune. There is no declaration in the Bible where the God of Israel says, “I am three persons in one”. If there was such a declaration, there would be nothing to argue about.   Which Stumbling Block? The One Fo...

The mystery of the Trinity is not a biblical mystery. The "Trinity is a mystery" claim comes from after the Bible was written.  No one in the Bible ever declared that God is a three-in-one mystery. Only hundreds of years after the Bible was written did people begin to claim the Trinity was a mystery not only because they couldn't understand it, but because they know that to claim that “God-is...

Trinitarian Christianity claims that the three-person-in-one God is a mystery that cannot be understood. The Trinitarian claim goes something like this: “The Bible says there is only one God. But the Bible also says the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Spirit is God - so God must be three-in-one. We are only finite human beings, so we can’t really understand how God is three-persons-in-one-G...

Two reasons why the decimation of the Assyrian army in Judah in the days of Hezekiah is significant:   - 1. There is a unique correlation and agreement from three sources of this biblical event from over 2700 years ago:   a. Bible (Isaiah 36-37, 2 Kings 18-19, 2 Chronicles 32)  b. Archaeological finds in Israel and Assyria  c. Assyrian written records   - 2. The biblical a...

This episode is a review and recommendation for the recently printed book: Little Known Facts About the Trinity On Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/Little-Known-Facts-About-Trinity/dp/B0BN61Z8Z3/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1674745468&refinements=p_27%3AKohl&s=books&sr=1-1 Christians should ask themselves these questions: Why did God never declare from heaven, or through a prophet or apostle, that HE...

This episode describes six different creations or creation events in the Bible. Not all descriptions of God creating refer to the Genesis creation.  We think about which of the creation events in the Bible Jesus played a role in. We suggest the creation of God’s son Israel is a main backdrop for the Gospel of John, including John’s Prologue. Like Israel, in John's Prologue Jesus is introduced...

Nine evidences that John 1 is not referring to the Genesis creation (with time stamps): #GospelofJohn, #John1, #nontrinitarian, #deityofchrist, #newcreation, #billschlegel 1. 03:19 In the Gospel of John “the beginning” refers to the beginning of the ministry of Jesus. 2. 05:07 “in the beginning” ἐν ἀρχῇ : Needs context. Vast majority of ἐν ἀρχῇ references in the Bible are not related to Genesis. 3...

This episode is part 3 of my response to an article posted by Answers in Genesis, which reviewed several of my blogposts about the supposed “deity of Christ”. Part 1 of my response is called “ Jesus Can’t be a Mere Man ” Part 2 is called ““ Jesus HAD TO BE a (Mere) Man, the Bible Tells Me So ” In this episode I review three claims in the Answers in Genesis, all which involve verses from the  ...

In this episode I show that in contrast to the deity of Christ claim that Jesus couldn’t be a mere man, the Bible declares explicitly that Jesus had to be a real (mere) human being.  It is necessary that Jesus was and is a real (mere) human being.  And, what God did through the real (mere) human being, one man, is sufficient to reconcile humanity to God.  In contrast and contradicti...

In this episode I begin to review claims made in an article written by Answers in Genesis-UK Executive Director, Speaker and Author, Simon Turpin . The article is called: Refuting Unitarian Errors Regarding the Deity of Jesus: How can we respond to claims that Jesus is a mere human? The AiG article reacts to some of my blogposts at Land and Bible . In turn, in this podcast episode I wade through s...

In this episode we focus on John 1:9-18. In Part 1 one we saw that “in the beginning” of John 1:1, while being a parallel to the Genesis creation, refers directly not to the Genesis creation but to the new beginning that God brings about through the man Jesus, who is metaphorically called “the Word”. In Part 2 we focused on how God in the statement “and the Word was God” is the Father. In this Gos...

Tips for Talking to Trinitarians about John 1 (Part 2) The Word was God: what God? In the previous podcast, Part 1, we asked what “beginning” is directly being referred to in John 1:1, “in the beginning”. If this beginning refers to the new beginning that God is bringing about through life and ministry of the man Jesus of Nazareth, then Trinitarian or “deity of Christ” speculation about a second g...

In this episode I give some tips on discussing John 1 with Trinitarians. The man Jesus the Christ is called the Word in John 1:1 because through him God is bringing about new human life, the renewed creation. "The beginning" of John 1:1, while being a parallel to Genesis creation, is not directly describing the Genesis creation. The topic of the Gospel is not the creation of the heavens and the ea...

Many Trinitarians turn to John chapter 1 for evidence that Jesus is God and that therefore somehow God is a Trinity. But does John 1 describe God as a Trinity? Are any of the Trinitarian claims about the Triune god presented in John 1? To investigate the Trinitarian claims about John 1, we use the chapter called “A Master Piece: the Prologue of John” from Dr. James White’s book The Forgotten Trini...

In this episode I interviewed students and staff at the youth conference of the Church of God General Conference. The conference, called Fuel is held once a year and occurred July 17-22 at the campus of North Manchester University in North Manchester, Indiana. It is a fun, exciting time when One God believing students from various US States meet, are encouraged and challenged by each other and by...

As a former teacher in a Trinitarian Christian University, I did not know how and when Trinitarian scholars think the Trinity was revealed. But I wasn’t alone. Most Christians, including pastors and Bible teachers, don’t know either. In this podcast: 1. According to Trinitarian scholars, the Trinity is not revealed and not verbally described in either the Old Testament or the New Testament. See al...

Trinitarian theologians have insisted that God is one by claiming that the Trinity is three persons in one essence (White, The Forgotten Trinity , 24; Sanders, The Triune God , 121). This is supposedly how three can be one. James White, a modern Trinitarian apologist, says that the Trinity is three whos (persons) in one what (essence). But this description of the Trinity given by Trinitarians dire...

We continue our discussion with Troy Salinger about the deity of Christ apologists claim that the “memra” of the Aramaic translations of the Old Testament (Targums) is evidence that there was more than one person in Israel’s God. In this episode Salinger looks at Old Testament passages which are deity of Christ apologists like Dr. Michael Heiser say is evidence that the “word of God” coming to peo...