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Orthodox Messianic Judaism
"The case for Yeshua's Divinity spans all of Scripture." The same could be said for the case of Yeshua's dismissal of Torah. However we have come to believe exactly the opposite, How? A carefull study of said passages that tend to form this "overall" picture;
The same could be done on the investigation of the trinity issue.
J. Dunn's "Christology in the making" show's, in my opinion with very solid ground, that the case for Yeshua's pre-existece as a person only really stands on the gospel of John. Although I do agree with him that Trinity doctrines do not find clear ground on the rest of the New Testament, I find it hard to agree on the Johaninne issue.
Two great books by John A.T. Robinson (The Priority of John and "The human face of God") make the case that John does not really mean that Jesus was a pre-existent person before becoming a man.
Bryan t huie biography of abraham lincoln for kids Bill Muehlenberg. No one is good but God alone. He was obviously very proud of his family and my heart goes out to you. Joel Littlefield.Other great books on the issue are Dunn's "Did the first Christians worship Jesus" and James McGrath's "The one true God". I would also recommend McGrath's "John's Apologetic Christology", although I have not read it completly.
Of course Jesus is the Memra, the Word, etc., but does that has to mean the memra was a person before becoming a Human being?
Does that has to mean that it was God himself? Or is the Memra a way of talking about God's self expression?
Traditional Judaism also says the Messiah is somehow preexistent, but it does not preach a God-Messiah, or one that pre existed/pre exists as a personal divine being before his coming.
John Ronning's "The Jewish Targums and John's Logos Theology" is a book that, although in a vein very contrary to what I believe, being a trinitarian, show's the clear identification for the Apostle between the Messiah and the Memra.
However, maybe a better understandment of the Memra and the Messiah would have led him to a different approach where this identification is not a support for the trinity, but show's the real importance of the Messiah.
As for the unity of God, we can't distort what was explicitly said in the Bible base d on what was said not so clearly.
That's my take on the whole PaulxTorah issue. As much as his reasoning sometimes seem's to mean Torah is abolished, that cannot be so, since he expressly says "do we annul Torah, no we stablish it" and "the Law is good and the commandment is Holy".
The same goes about God's unity, if sometimes the text seem's to say otherwise, we have to stick to what it says clearly, and understand the obcure on it's light, not the other way arround.
And the following is pretty much clear to me:
"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one." Dt.
"Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,
who formed you from the womb:
&#;I am the Lord, who made all things,
who stretched out the heavens alone,
who spread out the earth&#;Who was with me?&#;" Isaiah
"And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, &#;Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?&#; And Jesus said to him, &#;Why do you call me good?
No one is good but God alone." Mark
"And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." John
Jesus said to her, &#;Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.&#; John
"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" 1 Timothy
It could not be more clear.
I don't deny the passages that seem to say otherwise, but they are not as clear as those I've brought.
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