WOW!!! THIS is such a BIG subject with SO MANY areas to look at and discuss! I'm not sure I can even begin to cover it... especially without drawing it out SO LONG that people either STOP reading it before it's completed-- OR don't even begin to read it at all (after seeing its length)! This will be a tough one to discuss (because of that issue)... BUT I feel I SHOULD (TRY) to discuss it, because it is THAT thought (that Jesus IS God) that so many people dismiss SO MANY of the Hebrew Scriptures (or the "Old Testament") "condemning" Jesus (or ANY man) from being worshipped, etc. When I was a Christian and read the Hebrew Scriptures that talk about "YHWH ALONE", I didn't even CONSIDER it meant ALONE or ONE-- *ENTIRELY*... rather, I viewed it as meaning "not all those OTHER pagan gods/idols". It COULDN'T have been talking about JESUS, TOO!! Jesus IS God (and "somehow" the son of God, at the same time). Therefore, YHWH wasn't talking about THAT... just Baal, Dagon, and "all those others"....
WRONG.
YHWH ALONE, is ONE-- and ONLY "ONE"-- by HIMSELF; NO OTHER. PERIOD. Let us take a look...
*Remember, this is *MY* perspective-- from the understanding of the Scriptures that *I* have, coming from a literal/physical/concrete mindset (see "A Key Difference")...
IS Jesus GOD?? NOT according to my understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures...
WRONG.
YHWH ALONE, is ONE-- and ONLY "ONE"-- by HIMSELF; NO OTHER. PERIOD. Let us take a look...
*Remember, this is *MY* perspective-- from the understanding of the Scriptures that *I* have, coming from a literal/physical/concrete mindset (see "A Key Difference")...
IS Jesus GOD?? NOT according to my understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures...