Facts about Jesus and God

• 2 Corinthians 11:31 demonstrates that Jesus cannot be God. The Father is God in this verse as in 1300 hundred verses in the NT. Not only is the Father God, He is also “the God and Father of the lord Jesus.” God is not the God of God! Think about this, and receive a moment of illumination, that the God of the Bible is the one and only personal God of Israel and of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the God of the lord Jesus the Messiah. The Messiah lord was born (Luke 2:11) and he died.
• With perfect precision Paul distinguishes between God, who is the Father, and Jesus who is the Messiah (Christ). Thus he habitually writes “God, the Father of our lord Jesus Messiah.” “God-Father” is precisely distinguished as the one God from “our lord Messiah Jesus.” Jesus is the “my lord” and thus “our lord” of Psalm 110:1, where the one God, Yahweh, addresses in a prophecy one who is not God but “my lord” (adoni). Adoni, my lord, is never a title of Deity. There is only one Lord God, not two!
• Think about this: If Jesus has a God, Jesus cannot be God! Both while he was with us and even now when Jesus is exalted at the right hand of the Father, Jesus still has a God! Therefore he cannot be God! Jesus addressed the Father as “my God” (Matt. 27:46). He spoke of “my God” while he was on earth (John 20:17) and even now (Rev. 3:12). Thus it is impossible that Jesus is himself God. He is the unique Son of God as defined with simplicity in Luke 1:35. Revelation 3:2, 12 prove that Jesus still has a God. This will make you rethink your view of God.
• The Bible provides us with a very easy definition of who Jesus is as the Son of God: “The Son of God came into existence as a lineal descendant of David.” This is the information given by Paul in Romans 1:3. This is exactly in harmony with the words of Gabriel to Mary in Luke 1:35. The Son of God is caused to come into existence (=begotten) by a miracle performed in Mary. There is no such person in the Bible as God the Son! Jesus is the unique Son of God on the basis of these passages.
• “I am the Lord God” ought to tell us that God is one Person. He, not they, is a single Person. We have all surely learned to recognize a single person by singular personal pronouns! Why is this difficult? The crippling power of tradition has deafened us to the simplest of truths. “The Lord our God is one Lord.” If you want the health-giving mind of Jesus, those are his lucidly simple words. The Son of God cannot be God! God cannot be born and cannot die. Nor does God have a God. Jesus had a God.
• Jesus was not a Trinitarian. He insisted that only his Father is true God (Jn. 17:3). If Jesus is God, then he is immortal, and that means he cannot die! But Paul said that the Son of God died (Rom. 5:10). Again, an immortal God-Jesus cannot die. The doctrine of the immortal soul is Platonic and pagan. It has infected popular Christianity with disastrous effects. When we die, we are dead, not alive! The only way out of death, in the Bible, is via the future resurrection. This will happen when Jesus comes back and that is after the Great Tribulation, not before. “Pre-tribulationism” is wrong.
• An amazing paradox confronts the honest seeker for truth: that the Church which loudly claims his name and authority has deliberately chosen not to accept and believe his creed! Jesus did not believe in the Trinity (see my book Jesus Was Not a Trinitarian). His creed was Jewish and unitarian. He claimed to be the unique Son of God, certainly not God. Jesus said that believing his creed was the most important consideration in true faith (see Mark 12:29). Revival means a return to Jesus’ God.
• A singular personal pronoun in Hebrew, Greek and English designates a single person. Thousands of these singular personal pronouns define God as a single Person in the Bible. Jesus echoed this easy truth by affirming “The Lord our God is one Lord.” The scribe agreed by saying that Lord is “He”! This is one Person, not three! It would be wise for us all to heed the words of the Son of God who declared that God is a single Person, one Lord and one Father. Malachi 2:10 is enough to confirm this.
• If you say “Jesus is God,” and you certainly believe that the Father is God, you commit yourself to belief in two who are God and thus in two Gods. This is not the creed of the Bible, not the creed of Jesus given in Mark 12:29. God is one Lord (certainly not one essence!). It is a form of intellectual suicide to say “this Person is God and that Person is also God, and that makes one God”! That belief will not work and should be abandoned in favor of the creed of Jesus, whom you say you accept!

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