We believe in ONE
Deuteronomy 6:4
ESV
4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
Genesis 2:24
ESV
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they
shall become one flesh.
The eternality of Christ
John 1:1A
ESV
1 In the beginning was the Word
KEY POINT #1
The WORD is eternal not the Son… The Son does not come into
existence until Hebrews 1:5 and 5:5
Jeremiah 1:4-6
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the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” 6 Then I
said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.”
4 Now
Lord YHVH
KEY POINT #2
The LOGOS of the LORD appears many times in
the old testament speaking as a person and is
called LORD this is just one example
KEY POINT #3
The LOGOS being called LORD makes him eternal
and Divine…
The eternality of Christ
The great Isaiah scroll about 150BC
Isaiah 9:6
ESV
6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon
his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace
Originator of time
Father of time
The eternality of Christ
1 Corinthians 10:4
Acts 7:37-38
1 Corinthians 10:9
State that is was Christ that was with them in the wilderness
Codex Vaticanus about 320AD
Jude 1:5
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5 Now I want to remind you, although you once
fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out
of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those
who did not believe.
Jesus is also stated in the New testament
as the creator in the following verses
Hebrews 1:10-12
Colossians 1:16
John 1:3
1 Corinthians 8:6
KEY POINT
We have established that Jesus is eternal… that Jesus is also the
creator…
JESUS taking on human flesh
Philippians 2:5-8
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5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the
form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by
taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
KEY POINT #1
He emptied & humbled himself to become the 2nd Adam so he could redeem
that which was lost…
KEY POINT #2
By becoming the 2nd Adam he could take on the role of the kinsman redeemer
and marry his gentile bride which is you and I…
KEY POINT #3
Hebrews 2:7 says that he was made a little lower than the angels for a while…
John 14:28
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28 You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you
would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
KEY POINT #4
The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have taken on separate rolls in the
redemption of mankind…
JESUS called GOD
John 1:1
Colossians 2:9
Romans 9:5
2 Peter 1:1
Philippians 2:6
Titus 2:13
John 1:18
Hebrews 1:8-9
John 20:28
1 John 5:20
Colossians 1:19
The first picture is from the Greek Septuagint and the second picture is from a
Hebrew book of Psalms both were copied at about the time of the birth of Christ
KEY POINT #1
By this time the Jews had developed
the custom of NOT speaking out
loud the name of YHVH…
KEY POINT #2
You can see this in the
manuscripts pictured here with
the red square around YHVH this
switch of language or script
would keep the speaker from
making the mistake of saying the
name of YHVH out loud they
would say ADONI instead…
KEY POINT #3
The early Christians which
were mostly Jews maintained
this tradition in the Christian
Septuagint and the New
Testament of using ADONI in
place of YHVH…
Nomina Sacra
YHVH
or
LORD
=
ADONI
Lord
=
Adonee
lord or master
=
Chester Beatty Papyrus about 290AD
Genesis 24:35
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35 The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks
and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.
Codex Vaticanus about 320AD
Psalm 59:11
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11 Kill them not, lest my people forget; make them totter[a] by your power and bring them down, O
Lord, our shield!
Bodmer XXIV Papyrus 175AD – 250AD
Psalm 68:17
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17 The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among
them; Sinai is now in the sanctuary.
Codex Vaticanus about 320AD
Exodus 21:4-5
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4 If his master gives him a wife and she
bears him sons or daughters, the wife
and her children shall be her master's,
and he shall go out alone. 5 But if the
slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my
wife, and my children; I will not go out
free,’
P46 about 145AD
Ephesians 6:4-5
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4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to
anger, but bring them up in the discipline
and instruction of the Lord.
5 Bondservants, obey your earthly
masters with fear and trembling, with a
sincere heart, as you would Christ,
Philippians 2:10-11
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10 so that at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, in heaven and on
earth and under the earth, 11 and
every tongue confess that Jesus Christ
is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Codex Vaticanus 320AD
P46 about 145AD
Ephesians 4:5-6
ESV
5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 one God and Father of all, who is
over all and through all and in all.
1 Corinthians 8:6
ESV
6 yet for us there is one God, the
Father, from whom are all things and
for whom we exist, and one Lord,
Jesus Christ, through whom are all
things and through whom we exist.
Codex Vaticanus about 320AD
Codex Vaticanus about 320AD
Romans 10:12-13
ESV
12 For there is no distinction between
Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is
Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all
who call on him. 13 For “everyone who
calls on the name of the Lord will be
saved.”
KEY POINT #1
The greek word κύριος is used over 700 times in the New Testament most of time it is
used as the Title of Lord for Jesus
Now lets explain John 8:24…
Deuteronomy 32:39
English Standard Version (ESV)
39 “‘See now that I, even
and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I
wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
Isaiah 43:10
English Standard Version (ESV)
10 “You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and my servant
whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that
no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
Before me
Isaiah 41:4
English Standard Version (ESV)
4 Who has performed and done this, calling the
generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last;
John 8:24
English Standard Version (ESV)
24 I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that
your sins.”
you will die in
The person of the Holy Spirit
Acts 13:2
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2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me
Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
1 John 2:1
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2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does
sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
John 14:16
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16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
Acts 5:3-4
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3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep
back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? 4 While it remained unsold, did it not remain
your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived
this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”
The person of the Holy Spirit
2 Corinthians 3:17
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17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom
Codex Vaticanus about 320AD
Trinitarian verses
2 Corinthians 13:14
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14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit
be with you all.
1 Peter 1:2
ESV
2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for
obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood:
May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
Trinitarian verses
Matthew 28:19
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19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in [a] the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Codex Vaticanus about 320AD
Father
ONE
being that is
YHVH
GOD
Son
Holy
Spirit