האם
ישוע הנצרתי
הוא אלוהים? JESUS O NAZARENO É DEUS?
IS
JESUS THE NAZARENE GOD?
The Christians
say that Jesus the Nazarene is God.
However, the Jews say that Jesus the Nazarene is not
God.
Who is right? The Christians or the Jews?
In order to answer to this question, we must consult
the Bible, because the Bible is the
collection of the books that are inspired by God.
But before this, we need to discover which is the true Bible,
because the Bible of the Christians is composed by the books of the
Old Testament (Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible) and by the books of the New Testament, and the Bible of the Jews
is composed only by the books of the Old Testament (Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible).
There is no doubt that the books of the Old Testament
(Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible) are inspired by God, but there is controversy about
if the books of the New Testament are inspired by God or not, because the Jews
say that the books of the New Testament are not inspired by God, and the
Christians say that the books of the New Testament are inspired by God.
Therefore, In order to know which is the true Bible,
we need to know if the books of the New Testament are inspired by God or not.
The books of the Old Testament (Tanakh, or Hebrew
Bible) were written in the period between 1506 BCE and 330 BCE.
The books of the New Testament were written in the
period between 48 CE and 97 CE.
In the books of the New Testament there are words that
contradict the words that God had already spoken before, that were written in
the books of the Old Testament (Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible).
For example: It is written in the Old Testament
(Tanakh, ou Hebrew Bible), in Genesis 17:9-14 and
Exodus 12:48-49 and Leviticus 12:3, that God commanded that all men be
circumcised, and that, when a boy is born, he be circumcised when he is eight
days old and, nevertheless, it is written in the New Testament, in Galatians
5:2 that we must not make the circumcision.
Another example: It is written in the Old Testament
(Tanakh, ou Hebrew Bible), in Leviticus 11:1-30, that
God commanded us not to eat the unclean animals, among which are the pig, the
camel, the rabbit, the ostrich, the fishes without scales, the shrimp, the
lobster, the crab, the squid and the octopus and, nevertheless, it is written
in the New Testament, in Matthew 15:11 and Mark 7:18-19 and Acts 10:9-16 and Romans
14:14 and 14:20 and 1 Timothy 4:1-5, that everything is clean, and it is
allowed to eat any animal.
Therefore, the books of the New Testament are not
inspired by God, because their message is totally opposed to the message of God, that is in the books of the Old Testament (Tanakh, our
Hebrew Bible).
The
Christians say that Jesus the Nazarene is the Messiah,
but they are mistaken, because Jesus the Nazarene is not the Messiah. The Christians
mistakenly interpret the prophecies that are in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh). The
messiah prince mentioned in Daniel 9:25-26 is not the Messiah son of David, but
rather a priest ruler, because the priests also are anointed, and anointed is
synonymous of messiah, and in Daniel 9:26 it is written that after the sixty
and two weeks the messiah will be cut off, and he will not have, what means
that the mentioned messiah will not have the kingship. The messiah prince
mentioned in Daniel 9:25-26 was King Antigonus, who was High Priest and king of
Judea from 40 BCE until 37 BCE, and was decapitated by the Romans in 37 BCE.
For more details on this subject, see the page http://www.caraita.teo.br/what_is_the_correct_interpretation_of_the_prophecy_of_the_seventy_weeks_of_daniel.htm
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In Deuteronomy 6:4 it is written the following:
DT 6.4 HEAR, ISRAEL, YAHVEH IS OUR GOD, YAHVEH IS ONE.
Therefore, we see that God is one, and not two, neither three.
So, we see that Jesus the Nazarene is not God, because
if Jesus the Nazarene were God, God would be two.
In Deuteronomy 6:4 God said that He is one.
Therefore, we see that the doctrine of the Holy
Trinity is a false doctrine.
Those who preach the false doctrine of the Trinity say
that God is three but it is one, but this is an absurdity, because 3 is
different from 1.
The equation 3=1 is a totally wrong equation.
Is written in Exodus 20:3 that God said the following:
ÊX 20.3 THOU SHALT NOT HAVE OTHER GODS IN FRONT OF ME.
Therefore, we see that those who believe that Jesus
the Nazarene is God, and because of this do religious service to Jesus the
Nazarene, commit sin, because they have another god besides the true God, the
Creator of all things, and thus they violate the commandment that is in Exodus
20:3.
Moreover, to say that a man is God is an absurdity,
because no man can be God, because God
is the Creator of all things, and the man is a creature, and it is totally
impossible the creature to be the Creator. This is a logical impossibility.
We must not deify any man, even though that man is the
Messiah (or Christ, or Anointed).
The Satan launches false and absurd doctrines, and unfortunately
many people believe in those false and absurd doctrines, and thus they sin
against God, doing religious service to a man, as if he was God, disobeying the
commandment of God, of not to have
other gods in front of Him.
Blessed be God, who has freed
us from those false, absurd and diabolical doctrines, causing us to know that
the true Bible is the Bible of the Jews, which is composed only by the books of
the Old Testament (Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible).
The persons who preach the false
doctrine of the divinity of Jesus the Nazarene use as argument the verse Isaiah
9:5 (in some Bibles is 9:6).
In the referred verse it is
written the following:
IS 9.5 BECAUSE A BOY WAS BORN TO
US, A SON WAS GIVEN TO US, AND THE PRINCIPALITY WILL BE ON HIS SHOULDER, AND
HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED PELE-YOETZ-EL-GIBBOR-ABIAD-SAR-SHALOM.
The referred name means
"Miracle of the Counselor, Strong God, Father of the Eternity, Prince of the Peace".
With base in the meaning of this
name, those people say that Jesus the Nazarene is God.
However, the fact that God said that the
Messiah would have this name does not mean that the Messiah is God, because
this name just means that when the Messiah comes, God, that is the
Counselor, the Strong God, the Father of the Eternity, the Prince of the Peace,
will make a miracle.
The verses Isaiah 8:3-4 show that
God ordered that be
put in a boy the name Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, that means "Hurrying the loot, he hurried the
plunder", and that God said that this meant that before
that boy knew how to call my father or my mother, Damascus and Samaria would be
robbed and plundered, which shows that these names that God gives the certain
boys in the prophecies sometimes mean something that will happen after the
birth of that boy, and not what that boy will be.
Moreover, Jesus the Nazarene is
not the Messiah, as I have already demonstrated above, so that the verse Isaiah
9:5 does not apply to him.
Some people use as argument to
say that Jesus is God the fact that God spoke in the first person plural
in Genesis 1:26 and 3:22 and 11:7 and Isaiah 6:8.
However, this argument is not
correct, for the following reasons:
The fact that in Genesis 1:26 and
3:22 and 11:7 and Isaiah 6:8 God spoke in the first person plural does not mean
that He is two or three, it means only that He used the majestic plural,
that is a way of speaking that is used by kings or very important persons, only
to indicate the majesty of the person who is speaking.
In Hebrew, and in many languages,
including in English, the plural is sometimes used with the meaning of
greatness or importance.
That is why in English we use the
plural second person pronoun, “you”, to address an important person, or simply
to demonstrate respect for the person to whom we are speaking. The singular
second person pronoun is “thou” (in the objective case, it is “thee”), but in
the Middle English period (from the 12th century to the 15th
century), people began to use the plural second person pronoun “you” to address
one person, in order to show respect for that person, and they used “you” to
address only important persons like kings, nobles, judges, etc.
For example: somebody says to the
king: “Majesty, you are a good king”, using the pronoun and the verb in the
second person plural, to demonstrate respect for the king, but this does not
mean that the king is two, or three.
Another example: we use the respectful
treatments “Your Excellency”, “Your Majesty”, “Your Lordship”, “Your Grace”,
etc., where the word “Your” is plural, but this does not mean that the person
to whom we are speaking is a double or triple person.
Afterwards, people started to use
the plural personal pronoun “you” to address every person, but this does not
mean that we all are double or triple.
This explains why God spoke in the first
person plural in Genesis 1:26 and 3:22 and 11:7 and Isaiah 6:8.
Some people use as argument to
say that Jesus is God the fact that the Hebrew word “Elohim",
that is used in the Tanach (Old Testament) as one of the names of God, and that
it means "God", has the termination "im",
that in Hebrew is the termination of the masculine plural.
These people say that God is more
than one, because the word "Elohim" is
plural.
However, this argument is not
correct, because in Hebrew the termination "im"
is not used only to make the plural, it is also used to form an abstract noun,
and it is also used to make the augmentative.
In Hebrew, virginity is "betulim", what proves that in Hebrew the termination
"im" is used to form abstract nouns.
In Genesis 24:9 the words
"his master", that refer to Abraham, are the translation of the
Hebrew word "adonav", that is the word
"adonim" added with the third person
singular masculine suffix, and
Abraham is only one, so that in this verse "adonav"
means “his great master”, and not “his masters”.
This proves that in Hebrew the
termination "im" (that added with the third
person singular suffix becomes "av")
sometimes is used to make the augmentative, and not to make the plural.
Therefore, the word "Elohim" (that added with the third person singular
suffix is "Elohaiv"), can also be
translated as "Divinity" or as "Great God".
In the cases in which the Hebrew
word “Elohim" refers to God, the Creator of the
Universe, the verb is placed in the singular, what shows that in these cases
the word "Elohim" is singular, and it can
be translated as "Divinity" or as "Great God".
When the Hebrew word “Elohim" refers to God, the Creator of the Universe, and is followed by an adjective,
or by a participle used as adjective, this also receives the termination "im", that in this case is sign of augmentative, and
not of plural.
In Genesis 20:13 and 35:7 and
Psalms 58:12 and 149:2 and Ecclesiastes 12:1 and Isaiah 54:5 (twice), in the
Masoretic Hebrew Text the verb appears in the plural, referring to God, the Creator of the Universe, but this happens because there
were copy mistakes that unhappily were not corrected by the Masoretes, and it
is evident that there were copy mistakes in these passages, because in the old
translations (Septuagint, Syriac version and Vulgate)
and in the Samaritan Pentateuch (in the cases of Genesis 20:13 and 35:7) the
verb is in the singular.
The Masoretes made several
corrections of copy mistakes in the text of the Tanach (Old Testament), that
are called "Qere", but unhappily they did
not correct all the copy mistakes, but it is possible
to correct the other copy mistakes examining the Samaritan Pentateuch and the
old translations of the Tanach (Septuagint, Syriac
version and Vulgate) and the old manuscripts of the Tanach in Hebrew, including
the Dead Sea Scrolls.
In the Biblia
Hebraica Stuttgartensia
there are several footnotes with the variant readings that are in the old
manuscripts and in the old translations and in the Samaritan Pentateuch, and
there you can see that in the mentioned passages (Genesis 20:13 and 35:7 and
Psalms 58:12 and 149:2 and Eclesiastes 12:1 and
Isaiah 54:5) the verb is in the singular in the old translations and in the
Samaritan Pentateuch (in the cases of Genesis 20:13 and 35:7), what proves that
in the mentioned passages the verb is in the plural in the Masoretic Text for copy mistake and because the Masoretes, unhappily, did
not correct those copy mistakes.
I already made several
corrections of copy mistakes in the Masoretic Text of the Tanach (Old
Testament), based on the old manuscripts and on the old translations
(Septuagint, Syriac version and Vulgate) and on the
Samaritan Pentateuch.
To see the Masoretic Text of the
Tanach (Old Testament) with several corrections of copy mistakes made by me,
based on the old manuscripts and on the old translations (Septuagint, Syriac version and Vulgate) and on the Samaritan Pentateuch,
click on the following link:
http://www.caraita.teo.br/tanach_metukan.htm
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Yahveh bless you.
João Paulo Fernandes Pontes.
Published
in January 7, 2007.
Updated
in June 29, 2014.
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