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If people were to read the Bible form cover to cover without any preconceived ideas. How would they veiw the Bible and Jesus?
What comes througgh ver clearly to an impartial reader is the God alone is the Almighty, the Creator, separate and distict from anyone else, and that Jesus, even in his prhuman existence, is the Son of God.
The Bible teaches that God is "one" is called "Monotheism". Ecclesiastical history indicates that monotheism is its prurest form does no allow for only One God. The Old Testement is stricitly monotheistic. God is a single personal being. The idea that there is more than one God in the Bible is utterly without foundation.
Was there any change from nomtheism after Jesus came to the earth? On this point ther is NO break between the Old Testement and the New. The monotheistic tradition is continued. Jesus was a Jew trained by Jewish parents in the Old Testement scriptures. His teachings was Jewish to the core; an new gospel indeed, but not a new theology. And Jesus accepted as his own belief the great text of Jewish Monotheism Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Isreal, the Lord our God is one God". In the grammar of that verse, the word "one" has no plural modifiers to suggest that it means anything but one individual.
Thousands of times throughout the Bible, God is spoken of as one person. When God speaks, it is as one undivided individual. The Bible could not be any clearer on this.
Why would all the God-inspired Bible writters speak of God as one person if her were not? What purpose would that serve, except to mislead people? Surely, if God were composed of more than one person, he would have had his Bible writers make it abundantly clear so that there could be no doubt about it. At least the writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures who had personal contact with God's Son would have done so. But they did not.
What comes througgh ver clearly to an impartial reader is the God alone is the Almighty, the Creator, separate and distict from anyone else, and that Jesus, even in his prhuman existence, is the Son of God.
The Bible teaches that God is "one" is called "Monotheism". Ecclesiastical history indicates that monotheism is its prurest form does no allow for only One God. The Old Testement is stricitly monotheistic. God is a single personal being. The idea that there is more than one God in the Bible is utterly without foundation.
Was there any change from nomtheism after Jesus came to the earth? On this point ther is NO break between the Old Testement and the New. The monotheistic tradition is continued. Jesus was a Jew trained by Jewish parents in the Old Testement scriptures. His teachings was Jewish to the core; an new gospel indeed, but not a new theology. And Jesus accepted as his own belief the great text of Jewish Monotheism Deuteronomy 6:4 "Hear, O Isreal, the Lord our God is one God". In the grammar of that verse, the word "one" has no plural modifiers to suggest that it means anything but one individual.
Thousands of times throughout the Bible, God is spoken of as one person. When God speaks, it is as one undivided individual. The Bible could not be any clearer on this.
Why would all the God-inspired Bible writters speak of God as one person if her were not? What purpose would that serve, except to mislead people? Surely, if God were composed of more than one person, he would have had his Bible writers make it abundantly clear so that there could be no doubt about it. At least the writers of the Christian Greek Scriptures who had personal contact with God's Son would have done so. But they did not.