Whom Did Jesus Identify As God? Book Recommendation

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Introduction: 

In John 17:1-3 Jesus prayed,

"Father...this is everlasting life, that they know You the only true God, and Jesus Christ who You have sent."

In English the pronoun you can refer to one person or to more than one person. However, the language Jesus spoke and the language in which this was recorded have a singular [one person] form and a plural [more than one person] form for the pronoun of you. Here the singular form is used.

Jesus addressed this prayer to his Father, used the singular form for the pronoun, and described this one person as "THE ONLY TRUE GOD."

Thus, according to Jesus,

HIS FATHER ALONE IS GOD!

With this the apostle Paul agrees. At 1 Corinthians 8:6 he wrote,

"...yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and from whom we exist..."

and at Ephesians 4: 4-6, 

"There is... one God, and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all."

However, an almost universal belief among Christians is that the God of the Bible is a Trinity of three divine Persons called God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit; each Person individual and distinct, yet fully God: co-equal, co-eternal, and possessing all the same attributes of deity. Even so, there are not three Gods, but one God.

Those puzzled by this mathematical Mystery may well wonder; What did Jesus have to say about the Trinity? Answer: Nothing! Nowhere did he say anything about God's being a Trinity. 

[If Jesus had not wanted to exclude himself as a deity, he could have said 'that they know Us the only true God or rearranged the phrase saying, 'that they know the only true God, You and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.' But he did not.]

In fact, nowhere does the Bible reveal that God is a trinity. Trinitarians can only infer their doctrine by sewing together a tapestry of proof-texts.

However, these texts of Scripture can be understood in ways that do not imply that doctrine, and, more importantly, do not contradict Jesus' statement that his Father is the only true God.

This booklet considers 30 such trinitarian propositions. This information is of the utmost importance. Jesus charged the religious leaders of his day,

"Thus, you nullify the word of God by your tradition." (Mark 7:13)

Examine this evidence carefully and prayerfully so you may not be guilty of nullifying the word of God as they were.

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