Does Your Room Have a Door?

The motion picture, Room, tells the true story of a woman who is held captive for 7 years in a storage shed behind her captor's house. During that time, she has a child, a boy. The room is the only thing he has ever known. He watches videos and some television. Such information is the sole source of understanding of the world around him. Eventually the mother devises a plan to free the boy so that he might contact authorities. They are freed and the boy spends the rest of his days confronted with the truth and reality of world that was kept from him.

This true story is illustrative of the dogma of the Trinity in which many are confined. Surely God is "one", but "God" has been dogmatically defined as consisting of three "persons" -Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is all they have ever known. They were shown it, they heard it, they believed it and never knew to even question the limited and skewed reality they were presented. They have never approached the door. They were told not to. The other side of the door is a mystery. That's the way it has been. That's the way it is. That's the way it will be.

There is a resurgence of the Biblical understanding of the nature of the Father and the Son and the holy spirit. Those who have escaped the Room are facing reality for the first time. It is liberating and makes so many other things make sense. Those still in the room can only see the four walls, the glimmer of sunlight that streams through the window and have no idea what is on the other side of the door. 

"Look! I am standing at the door and knocking. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he with me." Revelation 3:20

There is One God. His name is Yahweh. There is one son, a human, conceived by the holy spirit, born of a virgin and anointed by Yahweh to be the messiah, the king of kings, lord of lords. His name is Yeshua. He is "a man, Christ Jesus." The holy spirit is the omnipresent activity of Yahweh among men. It is not a separate entity and has no name.

"For there is one God and one mediator between God and humankind, a man, Christ Jesus..." 1 Timothy 2:5

" 'one mediator between God and humankind, a man.' This is one of the great and clear texts in the debate as to who Jesus really is. If Jesus were God, this would have been a wonderful place to say it. Instead, Jesus is clearly called “a person” using the Greek word anthrōpos, “person, human, man.” The lexicons state that it is “man” in contrast with animals, plants, angels, and of course, God. The Greek text reads that there is one mediator between God and “humankind,” or “people” (the noun is plural in Greek; anthrōpōn, ἀνθρώπων), and that mediator is “a person” or “a man” (the noun is singular; anthrōpos, ἄνθρωπος), Jesus Christ. Although Trinitarians say that the referent to Jesus as “a man” is only referring to his human nature, that is their theology adding things; the Scripture never says that.

Actually, Jesus cannot be God or a God-man in this verse. The whole point of a mediator between people and God is that “God” cannot be the mediator. The mediator in this verse is “between” God and the people. If the mediator is God, then he is not between God and the people. In this verse, the mediator is playing part of the role of the priest, one who stands between the people and God. In fact, Jesus is called our High Priest in the New Testament (e.g., Heb. 2:17; 3:1; 4:14, 15; 5:5, 10; 6:20; 9:11). Both as our mediator and as High Priest, Jesus cannot be God or a God-man. The priest is a person who stands between God and people, and we learn from 1 Timothy 2:5 that this is also what a mediator does, which is why the verse specifies that Jesus is “a man, Christ Jesus.” That is the simple truth of Scripture, that Jesus was a man, a flesh-and-blood human being.

If Jesus were a God-man, this would be one of the many places to say it, but Scripture never says it, ever. Instead, Jesus is stated to be a member of the human race, just as the Old Testament prophecies foretold he would be." [REV Commentary]

Does your room have a door?