One God Report

1.      The claim is non-biblical, philosophical speculation.  This claim is not something argued or presented in the Bible. 2.      The Bible says exactly the opposite. The Bible says that Jesus had to be a man, a human being, not just a human nature, to bring about God’s plan of redemption for humanity. God was at work in and through the man Jesus of Nazareth. Who the man Jesus was and is, and w...

Most scholars say the Gospels were not written until the mid AD 60s. Is that right?  This podcast describes why they think that, and gives suggestions as to why the Gospels may have been written much earlier.   For full text, see here:   https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2024/05/when-were-gospels-written-historical.html   Resources: Link to Fuel Youth Camp Registration: https://register-online.org...

Some Biblical Unitarians (believers in the One God, the Father), don’t see the man Jesus in the first verses of John’s Gospel. Instead, they understand the Word/Logos” as an abstract plan, design, promise or wisdom that is only personified (described as if it were a person).      Trinitarian “diety-of-Christ” and “Arian” believers likewise don’t see the human person, the human being Jesus of Nazar...

For those who come to understand and believe that the God of the Bible is the Father alone (John 17:3, 1 Cor. 8:6) and that Jesus is God's human Messiah, the Christ, the Son of God --- you will be condemned by many religious leaders and even family and friends. This podcast gives some examples :). Other resources: Bill Schlegel Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@billschlegel1 Blog https:...

Pastor Finnegan has written a book called, “Kingdom Journey: A Call to Recover the Central Theme of Scripture .” Pastor Finnegan describes how God’s central promise for humans is not a disembodied escape to heaven, but of resurrection to a full immortal life on a renewed earth. In other words, restoration not relocation.   See the show notes for links to Pastor Finnegan’s book, and also to a previ...

15 One-minute challenges to the Trinity and Deity of Jesus. For video clips and links to longer lectures mentioned in this podcast see here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUqWXumvcp5pdxAhK9DK0oUrzAGYl291_ Bill Schlegel YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@billschlegel1

“They believe in God. They believe in Jesus. They believe in the Holy Spirit. But they don’t believe in what is considered the most important doctrine of them all…they don’t believe in the Trinity.   “If you are a Christian, what you were taught about the Trinity is probably wrong.   “If you’ve ever wondered exactly how Christians have come to what might seem to be a strange interpretation of the...

When Jesus said, “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30), was he claiming to be God?   No. We see Jesus use the same language of more than one person being “one” in John 17:11, indeed of believers being “one” with both Jesus and the Father. What he means is a one-ness of purpose and intention, a one-ness of unity toward the same goals.   Was it the God Jesus who prayed, “Now, Father, glorify me to...

In this episode our guest, theological author and blogger, Troy Salinger, shows that the biblical metaphors “to come from heaven”, “to come from above” and “to come from God” are to be understood figuratively and apply to John the Baptist (and other Old Testament prophets) as well as to Jesus.  When referring to human beings, these figures of speech do not mean to literally descend from some exist...

In this episode we continue our countdown of the top 10 New Testament verses that show that Jesus is NOT God. Verses in this episode include: (5.5)    1Corinthians 15:21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.   5.   Acts 17:31 “…because He (God) has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he...

In this two part episode we look at 10 verses from the New Testament which give direct evidence that Jesus is NOT God. Many Christians have heard of a few verses that supposedly declare that Jesus IS God, but few Christians have heard about verses that show that Jesus is NOT God. In this episode we examine five (OK, plus) verses: 10.  2 Cor. 1:3, Eph. 1:3, 1 Pet. 1:3, Rom. 15:6 The Lord Jesus Chri...

This episode has two parts: Part 1, I ask a question about the objectives of the Hamas attack. October 7, 2023—a date which will live in infamy— Israel was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the militant, terrorist forces of Hamas, the Islamic organization in authority in the Gaza strip.   Part 2 of the Podcast, Reading the New Testament without Trinitarian Glasses   I look at the first eight v...

Who is Denying Christ – Me or a Person who Believes that “Jesus is God”?   When I first came to understand that the man, the human person Jesus of Nazareth, is God’s Christ (the Messiah המשיח), the human Son of God, quite a few of my former Trinitarian and deity-of-Christ-believing friends accused me of “denying Christ”.   Here I was confessing and proclaiming that Jesus is the Christ, yet many pe...

A faith journey. How I was introduced to Christianity, became a teacher in a Christian college in the Land of Israel, and came to understand that the God of the Bible is not three-persons-in-one-being. I believe in God (the Father) and in Jesus the Son of God (the Messiah), and in the spirit of God - but I'm not a Trinitarian. For the full text of this episode see here: https://landandbible.bl...

In Romans 10:9 the Apostle Paul states that part of salvation depends on a person confessing with their mouth that “Jesus is Lord”, or the “Lord Jesus”.  This episode aims to show that, contrary to traditional Christianity’s belief, to claim that “Jesus is Lord” (or the “Lord Jesus”) is NOT a claim that “Jesus is God”.  Rather, when the Apostle Paul, like other writers of the New Testament, uses t...

An examination of the Trinitarian claim that God is a compound unity, "three-in-one". For full written text of this podcast see here: https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2023/08/hear-o-gentiles-lord-your-god-lord-is.html That the God of the Bible, YHVH is one, is a difficulty for Trinitarianism. In about AD 530 the Christian Byzantine Emperor Justinian even banned the recitation of the She...

For text notes to this podcast, click here: ⁠https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2023/08/does-apostle-peter-call-jesus-christ.html⁠ In 2 Peter 1:1 did Peter claim that Jesus Christ was “our God? Two points:   1.  Even for deity of Christ believing Trinitarians, to claim that Peter is calling Jesus Christ “our God” is a big problem. Isn’t your God the Trinity? And, what about the Father? What about t...

It’s a good question. I don’t know if there is a black and white answer because there are different degrees and facets to the question. Many trinitarians that I know seem to not really know what they believe, and functionally or “practically” believe in in One God, the Father.   There are different levels and degrees of judgment. Like James said, teachers will be judged with greater strictness (Ja...

Offering three separate $200 prizes (total $600)!   $200.00 to anyone who can find a verse in the New Testament where “God” (Theos, ha Theos) means the Trinity.   $200.00 to anyone who can find a verse in the New Testament that mentions “God the Son”.   $200.00 to anyone who can find a verse in the New Testament that describes Jesus as “fully God and fully man”, or “truly God and truly man”.   Suc...

Episode 100 – offering a $100 prize to anyone who can find a verse in the New Testament where “God” (Theos, Ha Theos) means the Trinity!   Difference between a Triad vs. the Trinity   James White, The Forgotten Trinity, p. 23:  “Within one Being that is God, there exists eternally three coequal and coeternal persons, namely, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit”   Athanasian Creed:  “Anyone wh...

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...