John 14:23 clearly proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Words of Jesus are not His own Words but the Words of God the Father Himself: “The words that I speak are not mine but of the Father.”
Here we have clear evidence to prove that the Word which was with God and was made flesh and dwelt among us is the Word of God the Father Himself and not the Word of another alleged divine person of a three person deity!
If Jesus is a second Almighty Divine Person who is coequal with the Father then why would He not claim the Words that He spoke to be His own? An Almighty Divine Person could not be Almighty at all if He could not speak for Himself. Hence, the deity that was in Christ had to have been the deity of God the Father. For the words that Jesus spoke were in fact, the words of God the Father.
Trinitarianism alleges that each divine person shares equal power. If Jesus were really a second separate and distinct coequal divine person who had His own divine prerogatives separate and distinct from the Father then why would He not be able to speak for Himself?
If Jesus were a second coequal divine person who shared the same amount of almighty power as the Father then why would He need to depend upon God the Father? His humanity could have submitted to the authority and words of the alleged coequal and omnipresent divine person called “God the Son.”
But if the words of Jesus are in fact the Words of God the Father (as the scriptures clearly state) then He must be that God, THE FATHER! In this light we can understand why Jesus said, “He that has seen me has seen the Father (John 14:9).” And “I and my Father are ONE (John 10:30)!”
Oneness and Trinitarian adherents both believe that the scriptures prove the full humanity and the full deity of Christ but Trinitarians believe that we must add to the Word of God to be able to correctly understand Biblical Theology.
For their theology to make any sense they have to believe that an alleged coequal and coeternal separate and distinct divine God called “God the Son” altered and changed Himself to become a man. Yet this theory diametrically opposes the words of God found in Malachi 3:6 which states,
“I am YAHWEH, I CHANGE NOT.” A God who loses His divine attributes of Omnipresence and Almightiness cannot be a true God at all. Oneness Theology does not teach that God the Father lost His divine attributes of omnipresence [omnipresence means being everywhere present] and almightiness to become a man.
Oneness adherents believe that the scriptures prove that God sent His Word [The Fathers Word] and His Spirit [The Fathers Spirit] to miraculously conceive the Christ child who was fully God (possessing all of the attributes of God the Father from God the Fathers Word and Spirit) and fully man from his mother Mary (like Adam, he possessed all of the attributes of humanity).
Jesus is called “the last Adam” (1 Corinthians 15:45) because, like Adam in the Garden of Eden, he was supernaturally created by God without possessing a sinful nature.
In the incarnation, God the Father continued to rule and reign from His throne in heaven while manifesting Himself on the earth as the man Christ Jesus. Hence, God the Father retained all of His divine prerogatives and attributes while all of the fullness of His deity also dwelt in Christ (Colossians 2:8-12).
Unlike angels, demons, and humanity, the Spirit of God the Father is the only Spirit who can fill heaven and earth and simultaneously speak and act in many places all at once. God the Father declared in Jeremiah 23:24: “Do not I fill the heavens and the earth.” Note the words, “Do not I fill …” God never says “Do not WE fill the heavens and the earth.” Nor does God ever state that He has three divine Spirits.
In Genesis 1:2-3 we read that “… THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED upon the face of the waters. And GOD SAID, ‘Let there be light …” Here we have God’s Spirit moving over the face of the water covered planet and then God uttered His Words saying, “Let there be light.”
Here we have the Spirit and Word of One God moving and acting simultaneously while His Spirit continued to “fill the heavens and the earth (Jeremiah 23:24).” Trinitarian theology would have us believe that the Spirit of God (an alleged third divine person apart from God the Father) and the Word of God (an alleged second distinct person apart from God the Father) acted independently as if they were two other God Persons who carried out the orders of another God Person called God the Father.
Yet how can a God who has to submit too and carry out the orders of another be called a God at all? In contradistinction to Trinitarianism, Oneness adherents point out the many scriptures which clearly prove that God always spoke of Himself as One Divine Individual rather than three divine individuals. “I am Yahweh, the maker of all things; who ALONE stretched out the heavens, who did spread forth the earth BY MYSELF.” Isaiah 44:24 Yahweh God says in Jeremiah 33:5, “… I have slain in MY anger and in MY fury, and for all whose wickedness I have HID MY FACE from this city.” Where are the other two faces of the alleged trinity? Isaiah 52:10 “Yahweh will lay bare HIS HOLY ARM in the sight of all nations …” According to Isaiah 53:1; Jesus is the arm of Yahweh revealed, “Who has believed our report? And to whom is THE ARM OF YAHWEH REVEALED?” If Jesus is the arm of Yahweh how could He be another?
Yahweh God says in Ezekiel 38:18 “… when Gog shall come against the land of Israel …MY FURY SHALL COME UP IN MY FACE.” If God were three separate and distinct divine individuals of a three person trinity then how is it that God only speaks of Himself as only ONE divine Individual in creation, salvation, and in judgment?
And how can God have only ONE FACE when there are suppose to be two other alleged faces of two other divine people? Where are the other divine faces of the alleged three divine persons of the trinity in scripture? Can any Trinitarian find just one single Bible verse to show us that God is three divine individuals with three faces? If not, then let us be silent where the scriptures are silent. God must be ONE DIVINE INDIVIDUAL and not THREE! Since the scriptures clearly state that “God is a Spirit” (John 4:24) and since that Spirit is only One Spirit (Ephesians 4:6) there could not be more than One Spirit of Yahweh God.
If God the Father is a Spirit then the Holy Spirit must be that Spirit of God the Father. There is not a single verse in the entire Bible using the plural words “Spirits or Persons” for the deity of God Almighty. Yet Trinitarians insist that all orthodox Christians must speak of God as a plurality of divine Spirit Persons. If anyone dares not to use the Trinitarian creedal language of the Roman Catholic Church he or she is cast out as a heretic.
Christians who go to Trinitarian Churches ought to ask why their Pastors are not calling the first century apostles heretics for not using later Trinitarian jargon. Since the first century Christians clearly were not heretical for not using later Trinitarian terminology how is it that modern day Christians who do not use Trinitarians terminology are now called heretics? When a thinking person looks at the Trinitarian position with a rational and open mind he or she will come to the conclusion that there is something very fishy going on in Christendom throughout much of Christian history.
Trinitarians insist that every Christian and every Christian church must use the word “trinity” along with the Trinitarian terminology of calling God “three separate and distinct divine persons.” Yet if this kind of unscriptural creedal language is so necessary, then why did not the original apostles ever use this kind of language to describe the essence of God’s Being?
And if this Trinitarian creedal language is so necessary, then why did it take four centuries for this doctrine to be fully developed by the Roman Catholic State Church? In contradistinction to Trinitarianism, Oneness Christians believe in using the scriptures themselves to define theological doctrine rather than the creedal doctrine of the Catholic Church. Unlike Trinitarianism, Oneness believers do not have to add to the Word of God in our belief that God is ONE in His Divine Essence of Being.
The Word of God clearly states that Jesus is the express image of the invisible God’s Person (Hebrews 1:3 / Colossians 1:15). Galatians 3:20 clearly states that “God is ONE PERSON.” The word “PERSONS” PLURALLY IS NEVER USED IN THE BIBLE. Therefore Oneness adherents strongly oppose the use of the plural word PERSONS to describe the essence of God’s Being.
If Christians must believe that God is a trinity of three divine people in order to have everlasting life then why does not the Bible itself use this kind of phraseology? If a trinity of three separate divine people is scriptural then the Bible should plainly tell us that there are three “coequal and coeternal” divine persons with three separate and distinct Spirits, Minds, Names, and Thrones!
Oneness believers use the Word “One” to describe God’s Essence of Being because the Bible repeatedly uses the Word “One” hundreds of times to describe the divine essence of His Being. To believe in the “Oneness of God” is to believe that God is absolutely and indivisibly One.
Even God’s Name of Yahweh which is used over 6,800 times in the Bible literally means “the Self Existent One.” Yahweh God did not choose a Name for Himself that means “the Self Existent Three” but rather, the “Self Existent One.” Deuteronomy 6:4 reveals the true number of God‘s Being: “Hear O Israel, Yahweh your God is One Yahweh.” If we translate this verse with the English rendering of God’s Name we could read Deuteronomy 6:4 as follows: “Hear O Israel, The Self Existent One your God is One Self Existent One.” God could not have chosen any more descriptive language to describe the essence of His Being.
This is the reason why Apostolic Faith Christians who believe in Oneness Theology appeal to the faith of the original Hebrew Apostles and Prophets for their emphasis on the word “One” to describe God’s divine essence rather than the word “Three.” Since the Name of Jesus in the Hebrew (Yahweh Hashua) literally means the “Self Existent One Saves,” He must be that Self Existent One who has come to save us.