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Another way in which John’s Gospel affirms Christ’s divine prehuman existence is in its contrasting Jesus as the true living bread from heaven with the manna which Jehovah rained down upon the Israelites during the Exodus: “Jesus answered them, ‘Truly, truly I say to you, you seek Me not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. Do not work for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will g

In this post, I am going to revisit the Old Testament (OT) texts that speak of Jehovah God visibly appearing to the OT saints in order to show that this was none other than the Lord Jesus Christ since he is the One who reveals the Father to mankind. The God Whom Abraham and Isaiah Saw The God-breathed Scriptures testify that Jehovah appeared visibly to Abraham: “ The LORD appeared to Abram  and said, ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ So he built an altar to the LOR

I come to the final installment of my discussion: TRINITY APPEARS TO ABRAHAM & DAVID PT. 2 ( https://www.samshmnthelogy.net/post/trinity-appears-to-abraham-david-pt-2 ) . JEHOVAH AT JEHOVAH’S RIGHT HAND The prophet David foresaw and spoke of Jehovah his Lord coming forth Jehovah’s right hand to slay wicked kings on the day of his wrath:   “Of David. A melody. The utterance of Jehovah to my Lord ( ladoni )  is: ‘ Sit at my right hand  Until I place your enemies as a stool for

I continue from where I left off: TRINITY APPEARS TO ABRAHAM AND DAVID ( https://www.samshmnthelogy.net/post/trinity-appears-to-abraham-and-david ) . I will be quoting the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ 1984 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References  , due to the Society “restoring” the divine name YHVH in all the places which the sopherim changed to Adonay. JEHOVAH APPEARS AS THREE MEN According to Genesis 18 Jehovah appeared to Abraham and that the latter then look

In this post I will provide some evidence that the Trinity appeared to Abraham as three distinct men, and that David identified both the Father and the Son as Jehovah God Almighty. According to Jewish tradition, a group of scribes called the sopherim changed the divine name YHVH to Adonay in 134 places. Three of these places are relevant to my discussion. These scribes also made eighteen changes to the Hebrew manuscripts, which also have a direct bearing on my interpretation

GOD STANDS AT ABRAHAM’S DOOR In this post I will provide an example of how rabbinic Judaism deliberately perverts the plain reading of the Scriptures. I will be using the case of Genesis 18-19 where the narrative explicitly states that YHWH God and two other individuals appeared to Abraham as men, in human form, to announce to him the birth of Isaac from Sarah and their plain to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah for all of their wickedness. The readers will see how the rabbis tried

Another clear example where the rabbis perverted the explicit, plain reading of the Hebrew Bible is found in the following Talmudic reference: עָמַד רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ עַל רַגְלָיו וְאָמַר: ״לֹא בַשָּׁמַיִם הִיא!״ מַאי ״לֹא בַּשָּׁמַיִם הִיא״? אָמַר רַבִּי יִרְמְיָה: שֶׁכְּבָר נִתְּנָה תּוֹרָה מֵהַר סִינַי, אֵין אָנוּ מַשְׁגִּיחִין בְּבַת קוֹל, שֶׁכְּבָר כָּתַבְתָּ בְּהַר סִינַי בַּתּוֹרָה ״אַחֲרֵי רַבִּים לְהַטֹּת״. אַשְׁכְּחֵיהּ רַבִּי נָתָן לְאֵלִיָּהוּ, אֲמַר לֵיהּ: מַאי ע

Further Proof that Jesus isn’t an Archangel I arrive at the final part of my series ( https://www.samshmnthelogy.net/post/is-michael-the-ruler-of-israel-pt-3 ). According to Hebrews, God will not subject the world to come, i.e., the new heavens and earth, to angelic creatures, but will place all things under Christ and the human beings that he has redeemed: “ For it is not to angels that he has subjected the inhabited earth to come , about which we are speaking. But in one pl

Variant Readings that Essentially Say the Same Thing In this post, I am going to focus on one of the most explicit witnesses to the essential Deity and eternal prehuman existence of Christ, namely, Jude 1:4-5. The reason why I chose this particular text is because of the variant readings that we find among the extant textual witnesses, and the significance they have concerning the Person of the Lord Jesus. Here is the passage in question: “For there are certain men who crept

The Quran proclaims that Allah does not allow his followers to serve any prophet as their Lord: It belongs not to any mortal that God should give him the Book, the Judgment, the Prophethood, then he should say to men, ‘Be you servants to me apart from God .’ Rather, ‘Be you masters in that you know the Book, and in that you study.’ He would never order you to take the angels and the Prophets as Lords ; what, would He order you to disbelieve, after you have surrendered? S. 3:7

According to the inspired Scriptures, the risen heavenly Jesus is the believers’ only Master and Lord: “For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into sensuality and who deny  our  ONLY  Master and Lord, Jesus Christ ( ton MONON despoten kai kyrion hemon ‘Iesoun Christon ) .” Jude 1:4 Interestingly, the majority of Greek manuscripts actually describe Jesus as our

In this post I will present evidence from the epistle of Jude showing that this inspired author believed that Jesus is YHWH God Almighty who became flesh.   THE GOD OF THE SHEMA The inspired letter begins with Jude describing himself as the servant/slave of the risen Jesus and then goes on to identify Christ as the only sovereign Master and Lord of all believers: “Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ ( ‘Iesou Christou doulos ) and brother of James… For certain intruders have stol

This post expands on the following article that I wrote on this subject: Michael’s Contention With Satan . As I showed in my previous post, what Jude says about Jesus and Michael clearly shows that they cannot be one and the same Being. Whereas Michael is depicted as a mighty spirit creature and ruling angel, Jesus, on the other hand, is described as YHWH God Almighty. Jude sets forth the archangel Michael as an example of a being who wouldn’t dare exceed the limits of his au

The Jehovah’s Witnesses assert that Jesus in his preincarnate state was the archangel Michael. They further state that after Christ’s earthly mission, Jehovah God recreated him once again to his original mode of existence as Michael, thus denying his bodily resurrection: “Scriptural evidence indicates that the name Michael applied to God’s Son before he left heaven to become Jesus Christ and also after his return. Michael is the only one said to be the archangel,’ meaning ‘ch

In the epistle of Jude, the inspired writer brings up a dispute that took place between the archangel Michael and Satan over the body of Moses: “Yet in the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority, and slander the glorious ones. But when the archangel Michael contended with the devil and disputed about the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a condemnation of slander against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!’” Jude 1:8-9 New Revised Standard Vers

Further Proof that Jesus isn’t an Archangel In this post, I am going to provide further proof that Jesus cannot be the archangel Michael if we assume that Michael is a spirit being created by Jehovah God. (1)   I will also address some of the arguments set forth by Arian apologist Gregory Stafford, founder of a recent cult group called Christian Witnesses of Jah ( http://elihubooks.com ). Stafford produced a series of 7 youtube videos where he presents what he believes to be

In this post, I am going to show a quick way of refuting the belief of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other Arians, that Jesus is the archangel Michael. I will be using the book of Hebrews to make my case against this false, heretical view. According to the inspired author, Christ is the exact representation of God’s infinite Being: “He is the reflection of God’s glory and the EXACT REPRESENTATION of his VERY BEING, and he sustains all things by the word OF HIS POWER . And after he

Among the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS), a scroll was found in cave 11 at Qumran portraying Melchizedek as a heavenly divine Being. What made this document rather interesting is that texts about YHWH and God were attributed to him (Cf. Pss. 7:7-8; 82:1; Isa. 52:7), as well as OT citations typically associated with the Messiah (Cf. Ps. 110; Isa. 61; Dan. 7; 9). Suffice it to say, this has else some scholars to conclude that Melchizedek is being described as the second Divine Power wh

In this post, I am going to appeal to the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) to provide further proof that Jesus cannot be the archangel Michael. Even though he is not dogmatic about this identification, cult leader Gregory Stafford believes that there is an association between Melchizedek and Michael in the Dead Sea Scrolls. This leads him to accept Melchizedek’s identification with Michael. Check out, for instance, what he says in one of his youtube broadcasts titled, “Pre-Christian Ev

In this post I extract the section on Melchizedek from James Kugel’s book, Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible as It Was at the Start of the Common Era , Chapter 8. Melchizedek (GENESIS 14:17-20), published by Harvest University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts/London, England, in 1998. All emphasis will be mine. MELCHIZEDEK is something of an enigma in the Bible. We are not told the name of his father or his mother, or anything about his family. He is not mentioned