I think a review of what Ray has recently said on this subject.
This is an excerpt from the note page of the 'Who and What is Jesus" conference.
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" Hear O Israel the Yehwah our Elohim is ONE Yehwah" (Deut. 6:14)
"The Yahweh your Elohim, He is Elohim, the faithful El which keeps covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments" (Deut. 7:9).
"For the Yehwah your Elohim is Elohim of Elohim and Adon Adon of Adon Adon a great El"(Deut. 10:17)
"I am the Yahweh, and there is none else, there is NO ELOHIM beside Me" (Isa. 45:5 & 6).
Notice that there is "NO ELOHIM except Yahweh." Then where does Jesus’ Father come in?
We know that there is a "God the Father," for Jesus Himself spoke of "God the Father" (John 6:27). And we have this: "God the Father AND the Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom. 1:7). They are even contrasted "not as I will, but as THOU" (Matt. 26:39).
ANSWER: God the Father and Jehovah [Jesus] Elohim, ARE ONE GOD. "I and My Father are ONE" (John 10:30). "One" what? O-N-E G-O-D!
"THE Lord [Jehovah]" of Psalm 110:1 becomes GOD THE FATHER in Heb. 1:1 & 13. The "God" Who spoke to the fathers was "the LORD THY GOD [Jehovah your Elohim]" Who was Jesus, was also GOD THE FATHER. How so? They are ONE.
"The God OF OUR FATHERS raised up JESUS, Whom ye slew and hanged on a tree" (Acts 5:30). But in the Old Testament, Jesus Christ was Jehovah Elohim to the fathers.
THEY ARE ONE: "I and My Father ARE ONE"
Jesus was "Emmanuel" which means "God with us.." (Mat. 1:23).
"he that has seen Me HAS SEEN THE FATHER, I am in the Father and the Father in Me, Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me." (John 14:9-11).
Jesus has taught us that when TWO are in spiritual harmony, THEY ARE REALLY ONE (Matt. 19:5)
Marriage is the closest physical analogy of this truth (Eph. 5:28-32).
THE ONE GOD IS CHANGELESS:
"I am the LORD [Jehovah] I change NOT" (Mal. 3:6).
"Jesus Christ the SAME yesterday, and to day, and for ever" (Heb. 13:
. But what about the FATHER? Does He change?
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the FATHER OF LIGHTS, with Whom is no variableness [no variation, ASA; never subject to change, TCNT] neither shadow of turning [shadow do to a change]" (Jam. 1:17).
UNCHANGEABLENESS speaks of TOTAL PERFECTION. When total perfection is achieved, THERE IS NOTHING MORE TO CHANGE IN THAT WHICH IS ALREADY PERFECT!
"Be ye therefore [Gk: Ye will be] perfect even as your Father which is in heaven IS PERFECT" (Matt. 5:48).
"those whom You have given Me, that they may be ONE, AS we are ONE" (John 17:11).
"That they all may be ONE; as You Father, are in Me and I in Thee, that they also may be ONE IN US.that they may be ONE even as We are ONE that they may be made perfect [future tense I John 3:2] in ONE" (John 17:21).
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This is an email from May 2011.
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The key to understanding just Who God is. We will also delve into the "What" aspect of God. All of the Scriptures must agree or we are not understanding or teaching properly.
I have said for many years that "Jesus IS GOD" (see pp 22-23 of my article "God is NOT a Trinity.") But if Jesus IS God and His Father IS God don't we then have TWO GODS? There is ONLY ONE GOD! Yes, this does appear to be an unsolvable enigma, but it is not unsolvable.
I have said and taught further through the years that not only is Jesus God, but He is the ONLY GOD that we will every truly know in this life. And why do I say that? Well for one thing, that IS what the Scriptures teach:
"And this IS life eternal [eonian--'And this is the Aionian Life..."--Emphatic Diaglott."], that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou has sent" (John 17:3).
Yes, it will take "aions/eons" to come to know God the Father. It won't happen in this life. So what is the purpose of us receiving eonian life? To come to "...know Thee the only true God..."
There is so much more to this teaching that just solving the riddle of how the Father and Son can both be God if.....I say IF they are separate Beings with separate personalities.
"Hear O Israel, the LORD thy God is ONE LORD" (Deut. 6:4).
"I and My Father ARE ONE" (John 10:30).
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word [singular] WAS GOD" (John 1:1).
"I am the LORD, and there is non else, there is NO GOD BESIDE ME" (Isa. 45:5--"none
else" ver. 14; "none else" ver. 18; "none beside Me" ver. 21; "I am God, there is none else"
ver. 22; "I am God, there is none like Me," Isa. 46:9; "I am and there is none else beside
Me," Isa. 47:.
"There is none other God, BUT ONE...But to us there is BUT ONE GOD" (I Cor. 8:4 & 6).
"And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, 'Hear, O Israel; The Lord
our God is ONE LORD" (Mark. 12:29).
As to how many "Gods" there are, there is no argument! There is but ONE GOD! I have now given you part of the answer, but there is much to follow. We know what the Scripture says, but how is it possible for two to be one God? There is an answer.
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mercy, peace and love
Kat