Keep Your Mind Clear

Keep Your Mind Clear 

Echad 

I must point out as a language teacher and ordinary speaker of English that it is dishonesty to say that echad (Hebrew for “one”) can mean more than one! That is false, very false. Echad, like “one” in English, can modify any noun in the universe. Any noun whatever — one nose, one zebra, one loaf of sliced bread. The word means one and not more than one. Of course it can modify a collective noun, like “one family.” But it is utterly false to say that “one” means more than one. It is a slippery argument! Very slippery. “One zebra” does not mean that one means black and white, and “one tripod” does not mean that one means three!

Alpha and Omega 

Jesus as the “alpha and omega” in Revelation means that he is the ultimate in the category under discussion. Jesus is the alpha and omega, the first and the last, who died in Revelation 1:17-18
and 2:8.
God cannot die!
Jesus is “the author and finisher of our faith” (Heb. 12:2). Please note that Jesus said that the Father is the only one who is true God (John 17:3). Romans 3:29 says that the God of the Jews is the same as the God of the Gentiles, showing that the Trinity is foreign to the whole Bible.
See John 17:3; Neh. 9:6; 2 Kings 19:15; Isa. 37:20.
Show this to all your friends: Cars do not fly; God cannot die! The Son of God, Jesus, died (Rom. 5:10).

Then show them a quote from a standard theological dictionary: “God is not just any Deity, but a distinct divine Person. The LORD is His name” (Theological Dictionary of the NT, single volume, p. 489). It is an obvious contradiction of this easy evidence to say that God is three Persons. He is one Person.

Then show them the crime scene: Basil of Caesarea (330-379 AD), one of the architects of the detail of Trinitarianism, said, “We confess one God not in number but in nature.” Jesus said nothing of the sort!

One is a number! Is that so hard? Remember too that Augustine, desperate to support the Trinity, forged the text in John 17:3, claiming that it should read: “That they may know You [Father] and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent, as the only true God” (Homilies on the Gospel of John). Scripture was thus violated and the unitary monotheism of Jesus and of Israel was obscured.

The above was taken from
Focus On The Kingdom Vol. 18. No. 4

Don’t Be Tricked by the Word “Worship”

Don’t Be Tricked by the Word “Worship” 

To “worship” in the Bible does not mean what we hear in English — that the object of worship must be God. That is false. Here are two of many examples. Human beings can be worshiped too! This does not mean that they are God.

• 1 Chronicles 29:20: “And David said to all the people, ‘Now give praise to the Lord (YAHWEH) your God.’ And all the people gave praise to the Lord (YAHWEH), the God of their fathers, with bent heads worshipping the LORD (YAHWEH) and the king” (BBE). 
• Revelation 3:9: “Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie — indeed I will make them come and worship before your [the saints’] feet, and to know that I have loved you” (NKJ). 

The use of the word “worship” in no way proves that the recipient is God.

The above was taken from
Focus On The Kingdom Vol. 18. No. 4 

For more information on how the word worship is used in Scripture see also

• Can we “worship” Jesus Christ?

• The Worship of Christ