THE GREATEST LIE IS COMPOSED OF 95% TRUTH.
This way, the unwary agree wholeheartedly with the LIAR and is taken into their confidence (taken into the Bosom of the false speaker).
Once the hearers are captured by the Satanic speaker, the same drops in the fallacy that drives the hears towards the DARK SIDE.
Brian, that’s exactly what you just did - except that my name is not Anakin Skywalker (“The Betrayer”)!
From experience I know it can be hard to keep faith in the face of resistance.
Some people lose their faith unfortunately and the faith of others is changed for the good or not depending which direction they take on hearing that what they believe is not completely true and hearing what the scriptures actually say.
Everything you said up to thus point is true… in fact it’s more like that there is nothing to deny!
That is the 95% worth!
But then you drop in the 5% lie:
In that vein I would point to your last line.
>>>God our Father alone be worshipped: Yahweh alone be worshipped!<<<
and point out that the scriptures do tell us that Jesus is Yahweh. I have shown you this in other posts.
The scriptures also tell us that Jesus is God, also shown in other posts.
The scriptures also tell us to worship God. I do not see places where they say to worship the Father alone.
And if you can find a place where it says this I would say that in worshipping the Father alone we should also be worshipping the Son who is in the Father.
Jesus is not YAHWEH. But that is the hook that you use to try to deceive readers of this post and elsewhere that you may post the same fallacy.
Jesus is named from birth, with the Hebrew name, ‘
Yeshua’ - which is ‘
Joshua’ but westernised into ‘
Jesus’.
Names gave meanings so far higher than how we name our children today as to be almost attributes of a person. The name (let’s use ‘Jesus’) means (and this is open source):
which conforms with Matthew 1: 21 where the Angel tells the Virgin Mary that:
- "She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name ‘Jesus’, for He will save His people from their sins”
Not only this but Jewish boys were named with a name from at least one of their ancestors. Searching the lineage of Jesus shows that there was indeed an ancestor in the line of Mary whose name was ‘Joshua’. So no problem there as it is to be noted that Mary did not raise any objections.
Now contrast this with the what the Angel told Zechariah. The devout Jewish priest of the Jerusalem temple was told to call the son from his wife, Elizabeth, ‘John’. But Zechariah was anxious that, as such a devout priest and part time HIGH PRIEST in the temple, he should be seen to conform with Jewish laws… and he baulked, no doubt railed, against the instructions of the Angel because there was no one in his lineage called by the name ‘John’ (or Hebrew equivalent). It is no doubt, pretty obvious indeed, that this would be why the Angel clamped his mouth shut until he agreed, nine months later, to follow the angels command (
but yet the command of YAHWEH who dispatched the Angel to deliver the command to Zechariah. The Angel has authority to force God’s commands since what God says must be accomplished!! There should be no disagreement on that score!)
There are more points regarding the births of John the Baptist and Jesus but they are not for discussion in this post!
So, ‘He saves’… Joshua, of Moses and Joshua, was the one who led the children of Israel into the promised land. In effect, Joshua ‘Saved’ them into the promise land! And it is Jesus’ mission to do the same to the children of God.. Save, or lead, them into the kingdom of GOD:
- “For the Son of Man has come to seek and save that which was lost.” (Luke 19:10)
It is the ‘
Son of Man’ whom Jesus refers himself to as being the saviour. And, indeed, GOD, YAHWEH, appointed this ‘Son of Man’ to that position:
- “Again Jesus said, ‘Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.’” (John 20:21)
- “Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will bring justice to the nations.” (Isaiah 42:1)
- As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. Yahweh, the Father, spoke from Heaven saying: “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil... (Matthew 3:17-17, 4:1)
- “You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached—how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.“ (Acts 10:37-38)
All these verses point to Jesus being EMPOWERED …BY YAHWEH and shows that Jesus was the ‘Servant’ of Yahweh as seen in:
- Jesus said, “For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day” (John 6:40). ... Jesus also said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God” (Heb. 10:9)
How do you say that the great God, Yahweh, is the one who is a servant to himself?
The name, ‘Yahweh’ (“YHWH”),
means “I Am”. This is to say that the attributes of the naked one NEVER CHANGE, they are from ETERNITY TO ETERNITY:
- “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” (Rev 1:8)
In contrast, Jesus says:
- “I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.” (Rev 1:18)
Yahweh was never ‘Dead’… but Jesus was ‘Dead’.
I shouldn’t waste time and effort pointing this out to you as I know you actually don’t believe it - you just say it as you had no where else to go with the trinity fallacy.
No one reading the scriptures in a true light EVER says that Jesus is YAHWEH.
Yahweh said he would send a saviour in time to come to save the people from eternal death. And indeed, in the fullness of time YAHWEH’s words ‘put on flesh’ / ‘came to fruition’ - for what Yahweh speaks must be accomplished!
That saviour was Jesus, called ‘Christ’… and ‘Christ’ means ‘Anointed One’.
And who ‘anointed’ Jesus: GOD! The Father!:
Jesus is entitled:
Messiah, Savior, Son of God, Son of Man, etc. Jesus is also called a
High Priest (
Hebrews 2:17;
4:14).
A “priest” means ‘one who mediates in religious event or service’. It also means ‘one who is
holy or
set apart’ to perform those services.
And these aspects are exacted by:
- “For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Jesus Christ (1 Tim 2:5)
- “If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside, what about the one whom the Father set apart [Sanctified] as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? (John 10:35-36)
Brian2, how much more should I write showing that you are an unjustified opposer… you do not believe what you write but are merely opposing the truth … for what? For why?
