Trinitarian Theologians assume that God has to be divided up into different Divine Persons because their finite minds cannot fathom how God can assume different roles and manifestations of His presence and power in different locations all at the same time. Oneness Theologians do not insist on using non-Biblical terminology to try to explain how God can manifest His presence as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but rather, we turn to the scriptures themselves.
The Word of God gives us two illustrative examples explaining how Jesus is both fully God and fully man: In Revelation 22:16 Jesus stated that He is both “the root and the offspring of David.” Here we have a clear illustration proving that Jesus is both “the root” of David [the Creator of King David], and “the offspring” of David [the descendant of King David] in one person. How this is so is perhaps the greatest miracle of all time. How Yahweh God can become a man to save us from our sins is incomprehensible for our finite minds to fully figure out. God never gave us the mechanics explaining exactly how He became a man in the womb of Mary but we must by faith accept it as fact because the Word of God says that it is so.
Perhaps the clearest illustration that God has given us to understand how God became a man was foretold by the prophet Isaiah: “Who has believed our report? And to whom is THE ARM OF YAHWEH revealed? .. He is despised and rejected of men …” Isaiah 53:1-3 Anyone who reads Isaiah 53:1-12 in its entirety will know that Jesus is the one spoken of as THE ARM OF YAHWEH God Himself! Just as a man cannot make his own arm into a different person from himself, so God’s revelation of Himself in Christ Jesus is not a separate Divine Person from Himself.
Jesus is the arm of Yahweh because He is an extension of the Eternal God Himself. Yahweh God does not have a literal physical arm because the scriptures state that God is an invisible Spirit (Colossians 1:15). God’s Word speaks anthropomorphically (attributing human attributes to God) to help us to understand that the Son of God is God extending Himself to become a man in order to save us. Therefore it was God the Father who manifested Himself from heaven to earth as a man rather than as a separate Eternal Divine Person called God the Son. Jesus is clearly “the arm of Yahweh revealed.” He is “the express image of His [God’s] Person (Hebrews 1:3)” – The express image of God the Father Himself.
The apostle John identified Jesus as “the arm of Yahweh revealed” in John 12:37-41, “But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: That the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Lord, who hath believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of Yahweh been revealed? Therefore they could not believe, because that Isaiah said again, He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
These things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.” Isaiah 52:10 “Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations …” King David also being a prophet, predicted that Yahweh Himself would “become our salvation” and that the Messiah would be “the right hand of Yahweh.”
Psalm 118:14, 16-23 “Yahweh is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation … The right hand of Yahweh is exalted; the right hand of Yahweh does valiantly. I will not die, but live, and tell of the works of Yahweh. Yahweh has chastened me severely, but He has not given me over to death. Open to me the gates of the righteous, I shall enter through them, I shall give thanks to Yahweh.
This is the gate of Yahweh; the righteous will enter through it. I shall give thanks to You, for You have answered me, And You have become my salvation. The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner stone. This is Yahweh’s doing; It is marvelous in our eyes.” Notice that David also predicted that the righteous would enter “the gate of Yahweh” because Yahweh Himself would become our salvation. Who else but Jesus could be identified as Yahweh who became our salvation? Since Jesus said that He is the only door to the Kingdom, He must be that Yahweh who is the door or gate into the Kingdom of heaven.
When David wrote, “I will not die but live,” he obviously meant that he would not remain dead but would have everlasting life through the right hand of Yahweh, Jesus Christ our Savior. Christians believing in Oneness Theology do not believe in adding to the Word of God to prove our doctrine because Proverb 30:6 states “Do not add unto His Words, lest He reprove you, and you be found a liar.” We simply take the Word of God at face value which states that “God was in Christ reconciling the World to Himself (2 Corinthians 5:19).” 1 Timothy 3:16 states that “God was manifest in the flesh.” Jesus is also called Emmanuel which literally means “God with us (Matthew 1:23)”as a man. Our great God has warned us not to speak inaccurately concerning Him.
Job 42:7 states that “Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, ’My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because YOU HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF ME WHAT IS RIGHT AS MY SERVANT JOB HAS.’” Nowhere in the Bible do we find that a second divine person was manifest in Christ. The Bible simply states that the Word of God was made flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14) and that the Holy Spirit of God overshadowed Mary to supernaturally conceive the Christ child (Luke 1:35).
True Christians must speak that which is right and accurate concerning God and His Word without adding or detracting from that Word. “Let God be true, but every man a liar (Romans 3:4).” Luke 1:35 states that the Holy Spirit of God came upon Mary to supernaturally conceive the holy child Jesus. If a second divine person of a trinity became the holy child Jesus then Luke 1:35 should read that the second divine person called the “Eternal Son” came into Mary to become the Christ child.
How could Jesus be a second divine person and the Holy Spirit a third divine person if the alleged third divine person called the Holy Spirit was the person who incarnated Himself into the womb of Mary? Since the Bible states that the Holy Spirit is the manifestation of the Spirit of God the Father, we know that Jesus is the incarnation of all the fullness of God’s deity in bodily form (Colossians 2:12). In the incarnation, God the Father had to miraculously provide the Y chromosomes through His Holy Spirit to unite with Mary’s X chromosomes. Otherwise, Jesus would have been an exact clone of his mother. This explains how Jesus can be called both God and Man.
Note: I just heard a little whisper in my spirit that some will condemn me for using the word “Incarnation” to describe God being “manifest in the flesh (1 Timothy 3:16).” The word “Incarnation” is scripturally sound. The Wikipedia Encyclopedia defines Incarnation as follows: “Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh … In its religious context the word is used to mean the descent from Heaven of a god, or divine being in human form on Earth.” Since Jesus is “God manifest in the flesh (1 Timothy 3:16)” and since in Christ dwells “all the fullness of the deity in bodily form” (see Colossians 2:8-12 NIV); THE DEITY OF GOD ALMIGHTY WAS INCARNATED IN THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST.
As long as a word harmonizes with the clear meaning of inspired scripture there is no disobedience in using it. Another example would be the usage of the word “Rapture” in Christian circles. Since the word “Rapture” means “caught up,” it clearly harmonizes with the “catching up” of the bride of Christ to meet the Lord in the air. “We who are still alive and are left will be CAUGHT UP together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.” 1 Thessalonians 4:17 The Wikipedia Encyclopedia says that the word rapture means “being caught up” as it refers to 1 Thessalonians 4:17.
Another definition states, “The transportation of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven.” Therefore the word incarnation is scripturally sound but a trinity of three coequal and coeternal divine persons is not. Just as a man’s own arm cannot be called another person apart from himself, so Jesus as the arm of Yahweh God revealed could not be a separate divine person apart from God the Father.