Deuteronomy 6:4ESV4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.

We believe in ONE

Genesis 2:24ESV24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

John 1:1AESV1 In the beginning was the Word

KEY POINT #1The WORD is eternal not the Son… The Son does not come into existence until Hebrews 1:5 and 5:5

Jeremiah 1:4-6ESV

4 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” 6 Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.”

Lord YHVHKEY POINT #2The LOGOS of the LORD appears many times in the old testament speaking as a person and is called LORD this is just one example

KEY POINT #3The LOGOS being called LORD makes him eternal and Divine…

The eternality of Christ

The great Isaiah scroll about 150BC

Isaiah 9:6ESV6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace

Originator of timeFather of time

The eternality of Christ

1 Corinthians 10:4Acts 7:37-38 1 Corinthians 10:9

State that is was Christ that was with them in the wilderness

Jude 1:5ESV5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

Codex Vaticanus about 320AD

Hebrews 1:10-12Colossians 1:16John 1:31 Corinthians 8:6

Jesus is also stated in the New testament as the creator in the following verses

KEY POINTWe have established that Jesus is eternal… that Jesus is also the creator…

The eternality of Christ

JESUS taking on human fleshPhilippians 2:5-8ESV5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

KEY POINT #1He emptied & humbled himself to become the 2nd Adam so he could redeem that which was lost…

KEY POINT #2By becoming the 2nd Adam he could take on the role of the kinsman redeemer and marry his gentile bride which is you and I…

KEY POINT #3Hebrews 2:7 says that he was made a little lower than the angels for a while…

John 14:28ESV28 You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

KEY POINT #4The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have taken on separate rolls in the redemption of mankind…

JESUS called GOD

John 1:1Colossians 2:9Romans 9:52 Peter 1:1Philippians 2:6Titus 2:13John 1:18Hebrews 1:8-9John 20:281 John 5:20Colossians 1:19

The first picture is from the Greek Septuagint and the second picture is from a Hebrew book of Psalms both were copied at about the time of the birth of Christ

KEY POINT #1By this time the Jews had developed the custom of NOT speaking out loud the name of YHVH…

KEY POINT #3The early Christians which were mostly Jews maintained this tradition in the Christian Septuagint and the New Testament of using ADONI in place of YHVH…

KEY POINT #2You can see this in the manuscripts pictured here with the red square around YHVH this switch of language or script would keep the speaker from making the mistake of saying the name of YHVH out loud they would say ADONI instead…

Adonee lord or master

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ADONI Lord

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YHVHLORD

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Nomina Sacra

Genesis 24:35ESV35 The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.

Chester Beatty Papyrus about 290AD

Psalm 59:11ESV11 Kill them not, lest my people forget; make them totter[a] by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!

Codex Vaticanus about 320AD

Psalm 68:17ESV17 The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them; Sinai is now in the sanctuary.

Bodmer XXIV Papyrus 175AD – 250AD

Ephesians 6:4-5ESV4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. 5 Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,

Codex Vaticanus about 320AD

Exodus 21:4-5ESV4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone. 5 But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’

P46 about 145AD

Philippians 2:10-11ESV10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Ephesians 4:5-6ESV5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Codex Vaticanus 320AD

P46 about 145AD

Codex Vaticanus about 320AD

1 Corinthians 8:6ESV6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

Romans 10:12-13ESV12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. 13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Codex Vaticanus about 320AD

KEY POINT #1The greek word κύριος is used over 700 times in the New Testament most of time it is used as the Title of Lord for Jesus

Now lets explain John 8:24…

Isaiah 41:4English Standard Version (ESV)4 Who has performed and done this, calling thegenerations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last;

Deuteronomy 32:39English Standard Version (ESV)

39 “‘See now that I, even and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Isaiah 43:10English Standard Version (ESV)10 “You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and my servantwhom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.

John 8:24English Standard Version (ESV)24 I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that you will die in your sins.”

John 14:16ESV16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,

The person of the Holy SpiritActs 13:2ESV2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

1 John 2:1ESV2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

Acts 5:3-4ESV3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? 4 While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”

Codex Vaticanus about 320AD

The person of the Holy Spirit

2 Corinthians 3:17ESV17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom

Trinitarian verses

2 Corinthians 13:14ESV14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

1 Peter 1:2ESV2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood:May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Matthew 28:19ESV19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Codex Vaticanus about 320AD

Trinitarian verses

ONE

YHVHGOD

Father

Son Holy Spirit

being that is