One God Report

This episode proposes that one of the main original audiences, perhaps even the main audience, of the Gospel of John were Greek speaking Hebrews. A first step in understanding that a main target audience of John’s Gospel were Greek speaking Hebrews is to understand that in the Gospel of John the word often translated as “Jews” can and does mean “Judeans”. Jesus is received by Hebrews (Jews or Isra...

We conclude a three-part interview with Dr. Andrew Perry on the Prologue of the Gospel of John. In this episode Dr. Perry: 1. Explains how he understands when and how “the word became flesh” (John 1:14). Dr. Perry understands the phrase “the word became flesh” to be about empowerment to speak and make things happen or come to be, and not about divine incarnation. Dr. Perry sees the baptism of Jesu...

This episode is part 2 of our discussion with Dr. Andrew Perry about themes in the Prologue of the Gospel of John. In this episode Dr. Perry explains why the human Christ Jesus is called the Word in John 1:1, and gives reasons how we can know that the man Christ Jesus is referred to in the Gospel’s opening statement, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”...

This episode is “New Creation in the Gospel of John 1, with Dr. Andrew Perry. A subtitle for the episode is “The Beginning of John 1:1 is a New Beginning, not the Genesis Creation”. This episode is the first of a series in which Dr. Perry will explain reasons why the prologue of the Gospel of John is best understood to be introducing the new creation in the man Jesus, who is referred to as “the Wo...

In this episode we show why the Trinitarian and “deity of Christ” understanding of Jesus’s words in John 8:58 are wrong. In neither Hebrew nor in Greek is the phase “I am” in the Bible a title for deity. In Hebrew, God says in Exodus 3:14 “I will be who I will be”. In Greek, it is the “Living One” who speaks to Moses. “I am”, in Greek, ego eimi , is not a divine title. We show that the “deity of C...

In this podcast I translate a few verses in the Book of Genesis (1:1, 26-27) in a way that many Trinitarians read or understand the text. I address the question if the word for “God” in Hebrew Elohim, which is a grammatical plural, is a hint or means that God is more than one. 1. No, this grammatically plural form does not mean more than one numerically. 2. Hebrew grammarians call this the “plural...

A Trinitarian Baptist pastor says the Father veiled himself in flesh, bled and died. Really? Why such confusion? Does the New Testament really tell believers in Jesus to take a little wafer and cup of juiced or wine to remember Jesus’s birth? What did Jesus mean when he said, “Do THIS in remembrance of me”? Resources for this episode: Video: The Promised Land is not a Desert and is a Paradigm of t...

This episode is part 3 of the three part series, “Finding the Deity of Christ in the Old Testament is not a New Testament Exercise”. In Part 1 we saw that on the day of his resurrection, as recorded in Luke 24, Jesus appealed to the Old Testament Scriptures not to proclaim his deity, but to proclaim that the Messiah would suffer and die before being resurrected and exalted. In Part 2 we saw that w...

In the previous episode, "Finding the Deity of Christ in the Old Testament, Part 1", we saw that Jesus believed that the Old Testament spoke of the death and resurrection of the Messiah, not deity.   In this episode we examine the sermons of Peter and Paul as recorded in the Book of Acts to see if they ever appealed to Old Testament Scriptures to find evidence for the deity of Christ.  W...

Jesus believed that the prophets spoke of the death and resurrection of the Messiah, not deity. Neither Jesus nor any author of the New Testament appealed to the Old Testament in an effort to find evidence for the deity of Jesus Christ. Finding evidence for the deity of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament is an activity which began in the centuries after the New Testament was written. Such efforts a...

We continue our discussion with Troy Salinger concerning the "Pre-incarnate Appearances of the Son of God in the Old Testament". In this episode we examine Genesis 18-19, where Yahweh appeared to Abraham via three messengers.   No one in the Bible claims that these visitors were a literal pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus, but ever since the mid-second century AD, beginning with Justin Martyr...

We continue our discussion with Troy Salinger on the “Pre-incarnate Appearances of the Son of God in the OT: Truth or Myth”. In this episode Salinger leads us in a discussion about the “Commander of the LORD’s Armies” who appeared with a drawn sword in Joshua 5:13-15, just before the Israelites attacked and conquered Jericho. The Trinitarian world strongly suggests, sometimes insists, that this Co...

We continue our discussion with Troy Salinger on the supposed pre-incarnate appearances of the Son of God in the Old Testament. In this episode we look at three events which Trinitarians have claimed to be a pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus in the Old Testament. 1. The burning bush incident in Exodus 3 (did Jesus claim in John 8:58 to be the God that appeared there?). 2. Melchizedek – was he a pr...

In this episode we ask the dual-natured, “100% God 100% man” Jesus some questions and find him to be at best a double-minded person, at worst a schizophrenic liar. Traditional Christianity has maintained for centuries that Jesus is one person but has two natures, that Jesus is a God-man.  The claim that “Jesus is God” or that Jesus is a “God-man” is thought to honor and exalt Jesus Christ, bu...

In this second episode we continue to discuss the claim that Jesus the Son of God made pre-incarnate appearances in the Old Testament period.  We focus in this episode on the angel of the LORD. No New Testament author claimed that Jesus made pre-incarnate appearances as the angel of the Lord. The claim begins in the AD 2nd century, with Justin Martyr being the first one on record to make such...

Interview with painter and theologian Troy Salinger. Troy Salinger's blog is Let the Truth Come Out : https://letthetruthcomeoutblog.wordpress.com/ In this first episode of a series, we discuss motivations for why some Christians feel the need to find pre-incarnate appearances of Jesus in the OT. Their motivation is based on the pre-supposition that Jesus was more than a human being. That he was a...

In this episode (Part 2 of a 2 part episode) we continue to examine and comment on John 5, where Jesus healed a lame man at the Pools of Bethesda in Jerusalem.   In Part 1 (One God Report Podcast episode #52) we discussed the meaning of what it means biblically to be sent by God, and how a sent agent of God is given by God a defined equality to God, and represents God. We gave two reasons why...

In this episode (Part 1 of a 2 part episode) we examine and comment on John 5, where Jesus healed a lame man at the Pools of Bethesda in Jerusalem. We focus on John 5:17-18: "And this was why the Judeans were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I am working." 18 This was why the Judeans were seeking al...

Pakistani Haroon Gulzar was studying in a Catholic seminary when he began to understand that God is not a Trinity, but is one, and that Jesus is God's human Messiah. In this interview Haroon's wife Maryam explains about how they came to a Biblical Unitarian faith, and how she, her husband and a team of others are ministering in Pakistan. Related web links: Abraham Church: Pastor Haroon Gulzar http...

Jesus said “I am the Root of David” (Rev. 5:5, 22:16, cf. "Root of Jesse", Isaiah 11:1, 10, Romans 15:12). Being the Root of Jesse and the Root of David does not mean that Jesus is God, but rather that Jesus is a descendant of Jesse and David. Some Trinitarians claim that since Jesus is called the Root of Jesse and the Root of David, Jesus must have preceded both Jesse and David, and is the source...

In this episode I examine parallels between modern deviant gender and sexual claims and the claims of traditional Christianity for a dual-natured (God and man) Christ. The parallels are striking, and suggest the dual-natured Christ of traditional Christianity is a deviation, a perversion of the true. 1. A non-binary gender claim is that being one gender does not exclude a person from being another...

Many Christians seem to think that because Jesus is worshipped, he is God. We examine that claim and find it lacking in a number of respects. The claim "Jesus must be God, because he is worshipped" is: 1. biblically ignorant. There are many humans in the Bible that are properly worshipped. 2. anti-Christ, a denial that Jesus Christ is a man. The claim “Jesus must be God if he is worshipped” is in...

I took the Trinity quiz on The Gospel Coalition's website (link below). - I make some comments along the way about the quiz, and about a few biblical verses that are presented on the website as evidence that God is a Trinity, and about two lectures on the Trinity by R.C. Sproul. - The Gospel Coalition is an evangelical Protestant organization. I was frustrated and surprised that during the quiz, o...

The Bible is clear that there is only one God. (Deuteronomy 6:4, 32:39, Mark 12:29, Isaiah 44:24, John 17:3. 1 Cor. 8:6, Gal. 4:6).  The name of God in the Bible appears over 6800 times and is spelled with the four Hebrew consonants יהוה. Here is an example of what יהוה the God of the Bible says: Deuteronomy 32:39 “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me.” The Bible is al...

Why don't Trinitarians or those who believe in the deity of Christ, love those who believe that Jesus is the Christ? Why do Trinitarians shun and reject those who believe that Jesus is the Christ? Comments of 1 John 5:1: "Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whomever has been born of him." - For full text of this podcast, see...