Isaiah 53 Suffering Servant is NOT God

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  • @jeffreypogue2579
    @jeffreypogue2579 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    That was worth waiting for! I would love for you to do a teaching on comparing the first Adam and his humanity, mission and failure to the second Adam and whether Adam was dropped into the world where human's already existed.

    • @RalphHumphries-th1ym
      @RalphHumphries-th1ym 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jeffreypogue2579 the second Adam was given life by the one true God by the his power supply and his breath, and was human and the second Adam was the one true God's ONLY BEGOTTEN SON and he is the life giving spirit thou he WAS HUMAN he was without
      Sin and purchased OUR sins on the cross for his God and he and his father are one in purpose of mind yet if Jesus is God it's worthless, because that makes God a lier and his Son a lier because then God died for God and he is not God the Father and he is not the Messiah who is savior Jesus is a fraud and like Paul said our faith is useless and the lies of the Trinity destroys the one true God because he alone is the father and if we mock him and say he is a lier and I'm not trying to be arguing but for me and my household I don't want to do anything to disturb him, but love him because he is the best father ever and his Son the Messiah shed he blood to reconcile the world back to his God and he said he could do nothing on his own but the Father did it and he said he was given all authority and power to be given something you didn't have it to begin with, sir trinitarians need to wake as it's still light out of darkness because the day is coming when we all will stand before guess who? The man CHRIST Jesus he is not just Any man true he is the Son of God and not God the Son and he has a God and I love him also and not confused by who's who and if not then repentance is of the most important part of the whole time and repentance is from changing the mind and confession of you are the Christ the Messiah the son of the living God just like Matthew 16:16 makes perfect sense and Jesus is the way the truth and the life and what is the Trinity the wrong way the darkness and death why don't trinitarians stop being fools? and stop? Because of there father love's to tell them just the opposite of the truth, brother I ask you do you even care about anything? Is eternal life even a dot on your mind? do you know what time it is? Just like Paul said in Ephesians it's time to wake up out of sleep of darkness and all stop snoring so loud and sleepwalking cause if the Trinity is all you know then read the Bible and start by separating how piece by piece Jesus was brought into the world by his father who is the spirit and the messenger what's the angel sent to tell Mary an God can speak through a donkey he can send a angel to tell Mary and Joseph the good news and she didn't say o God the angel lol she was overwhelmed and she was the woman who the father God chose and the Father didn't have intercourse with her of course not, but she was told she was going to have a son and he. Shall be called Joshua and as he grew in statues and strength with who? God and man, and if he is God then why did he grow in statues and truth? And trinitarians should at least take as much time to look into the Old testament and learn how that happened to say even hi to a trinitarian they go into their own minds and probably think o he's a God man and he might take off into the clouds in front of me, that's how insane trinitarians think things happen so learn how to get the who's who right first then you who knows the One true God could forgive you through his Son the Messiah and saviour, but will warn you if you don't think he's the only true God then sorry you don't have a chance because you did just like the. Jews and wanted to throw the Son of God off a Cliff

    • @robertrecchia2642
      @robertrecchia2642 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It’s interesting that the genealogy in Luke refers to the 1st Adam as the original “son of God” The 1st Adam was also “created” SINLESS, in God’s image & granted dominion over the earth. He didn’t have to be God in the flesh! He wasn’t eternally begotten or divinely procreated. So, requirement was there for the 2nd Adam to be God? None! Now, the big question I have is “Did God see the Trinity coming?”

    • @RalphHumphries-th1ym
      @RalphHumphries-th1ym 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@robertrecchia2642 doesn't the Almighty God know everything of course he did, did he not say chose this day whom you shall serve,is the only God a Three headed Trinity or oneness or changing face so fast you start to pray go/Jesus/hol yeah modealism would be a insane God to serve shapshifting so fast LoL the Trinity is basically the same thing cause not sure if you prayed to the right person and you only hope you did the right thing

  • @Acts24.5
    @Acts24.5 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    You legend for doing this. I think we need to spend more time doing response videos.

  • @loveofthetruth9398
    @loveofthetruth9398 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Excellent points! There are SO many texts that clearly differentiate between YHVH and Jesus !
    We KNOW Jesus was foretold by YHVH in Deut 18:15-19 that YHVH would put HIS words in "a prophet like Moses", and that prophet would speak in YHVH's name. Peter states that this prophecy was about Jesus in Acts 3:20-24. Jesus himself stated in John 12:49-50
    49 For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me, he has given me a command as to what to say and what to speak.
    50 And I know that his commandment is life in the age to come, so whatever I say, I say just as the Father has said to me.”

    • @robertrecchia2642
      @robertrecchia2642 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yep, Stephen actually points back to Moses with the Angel of the LORD being together in the wilderness (Deuteronomy 18:15-18) in Acts chapter 7. You would think that would be an ideal time to make the claim that the Angel of the LORD was the pre-incarnate Christ.

  • @bowmanaus
    @bowmanaus 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thankyou Bill a great presentation of the truth! Shalom from Australia

    • @pilgrimmum
      @pilgrimmum หลายเดือนก่อน

      Heh from Australia too!

    • @bowmanaus
      @bowmanaus หลายเดือนก่อน

      @pilgrimmum I'm in nsw.

  • @kevingeorge1095
    @kevingeorge1095 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Excellent teaching!

  • @sidighiles9522
    @sidighiles9522 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Hallelujah. Do you know Tobia. I would love to see SAB and you have a debate style conversation with him. Who is the suffering servant. God doesn’t suffer Dr.Brown has always ignored certain aspects of text. Israel 🇮🇱

    • @robertrecchia2642
      @robertrecchia2642 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do you mean Tovia Singer?

    • @billschlegel1
      @billschlegel1  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't know Tovia Singer personally. My friend, (youtube Unitarian Anabaptist), has interviewed him a couple times.

  • @Zipfreer
    @Zipfreer 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    The truth is, it is not two Messiahs, it is one Messiah coming twice- Ben Joseph n first as the Lamb of God, the suffering servant of Isaiah 53, and then as the reigning King Messiah Ben David when Yeshua returns. Yeshua’s first coming fulfilled the prophecies of the suffering servant. With Yeshua’s Second Coming, we will see the fulfillment of the victorious, reigning Messiah of Isaiah 11:1-9! The Hebrew word for an emissary or agent is shaliach (sha-LEE-ahk). The Trinitarian God is a new god. A three person god was not the God of the Israelites nor was a three person being the God of Yahshua. We have absolutely no reason to believe the Old Testament Jews, or Yahshua "Jesus", knew anything about serving a three person God. The Israelite God was not a three person God. Yahshua, an Israelite, also served a one person God, his Father and only his Father. Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God (Acts 7:56) pre-existing God in the Flesh is a pagan concepts added into scripture by men!.Christians are being “set up” to reject the Messiah when he returns! Another great video Bill Thanks !

    • @jeffreypogue2579
      @jeffreypogue2579 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Right on!!!!!! Quick question for you. Was Adam put into a world where humans already existed or was he absolutely the first human and father of all humans that ever existed?

    • @Mckaule
      @Mckaule 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@jeffreypogue2579this question is not possible to answer because we have no clue, and scriptures doesn't tell us anything, and any answers on that are not trustworthy. It would be a pure speculation..

    • @ken440
      @ken440 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@MckauleAgreed!!

    • @Zipfreer
      @Zipfreer 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jeffreypogue2579 Only clue is Cain built a society totally detached from God. The Bible tells us that the children of Cain followed in his path and established a godless civilization (Genesis 4:16-24).The land of (Nod )Hebrew, means “wanderer, exile, or fugitive.” where Cain settled after he was punished by God for the murder of his brother Abel (Genesis 4:8). The Bible reads, “Then Cain went away from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden” (Genesis 4:16). No one knows where the land of Nod was located, only that it was east of Eden. The Bible does not mention the land of Nod again. Who were the people that Cain made civilization with? As it clear they are not of Yahweh of belonging and identification with a community. Living in the “land of Nod,”Cain built a society totally detached from God. The Bible tells us that the children of Cain followed in his path and established a godless civilization (Genesis 4:16-24).

  • @GregKirkwood-zf3uh
    @GregKirkwood-zf3uh 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks Bill, ❤ The Truth

  • @sheepfarmer164
    @sheepfarmer164 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Paleo Hebrew faith--H530 (early Hebrew picture language): [Strength, Blood, Pierced, Son, YHWH...Strength through the blood of the pierced son of Father Yah]. Father is so complete, so perfect. Praise Father Yah. The Jewish people understand this yet still deny it.

    • @robertrecchia2642
      @robertrecchia2642 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also, Elohim is broken down in ancient Hebrew pictographic script as EL (Aleph / Lamed) meaning “strong authority” (Ox’s head & Shepherds staff) Expanded out Elohim means “strongest revealed authority” So “Tri-personal being is a lying option & misuse of the “plural form” of Elohim.

  • @ken440
    @ken440 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Absolutely top notch points made here. Well done Bill.
    You would marvel how triniarian believers will come and comment against this logical analysis, but they will.
    Its simply stunning that they will refuse to think through this logical explanation.
    Instead they will believe that God is totally in control of how the majority read their translation. They will believe that God is totaly in control of the brains and choices made by translators (without considering why therefore there are so many translations).
    They will believe that their particular position is the pinnacle of revelation and correct belief.
    They will NOT doubt their own "rightness" because that doubt would be lack of faith, and lack of faith would be sin.
    They will sound much like the pharisees who opposed the messiah, just like Isaiah foretold.

    • @robertrecchia2642
      @robertrecchia2642 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ken440 Well, you can’t logically defend the Trinity but when you are “born again” into it, I believe God has to factor into our “deliverance!” That’s because Satan is the author of all lies, which obviously includes the Trinity. So, God has to shed light on the truth. The “ISM wars” are fought intellectually, but they are actually spiritual wars based on strongly held presuppositions

    • @ken440
      @ken440 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@robertrecchia2642 I dont understand your point. you prove trinity a lie, yet claim christians are "born again into trinity" which is non biblical. Perhaps you omitted a few words which has changed your meaning.

    • @robertrecchia2642
      @robertrecchia2642 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I meant most just get there start in Christianity & immediately believe God is a Trinity because that’s the “orthodox” belief of the Church so they have no reason to question it in the beginning. To me it was always a divine mystery. I’m convinced it was God who led me to question it & led my out. That’s all

    • @ken440
      @ken440 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@robertrecchia2642 clear now. I totally agree, thats been my experience as well.
      Most accept the orthadoxy that "God is totally in control" and assume therefore that all bible translation is perfect, and all sermons are God breathed.
      They leave logical thinking at the church door. They fail to think that if God was totally in control then God ordained all death and destruction, the failure of Israel to recognize their messiah, all the different denominational conflicting beliefs, all the different translations, the existance of devil and demons, and Adams transgression.
      They fail to see mans bad choices leading to flood killing majority, mans disobedience leading to Babel separation, Israels failure to adhere to Gods revealed word leading to them rejecting their promised messiah, the error of church tradition at reformation, and the conflicting theology we have at present as being mans traditions defying scripture.
      im just rubbing it in for trinity readers here..
      blessings.

    • @robertrecchia2642
      @robertrecchia2642 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ken440 I agree. But I also believe God knows the end from the beginning without violating man’s free will choice. Do you believe God was completely caught off guard by a change of “orthodoxy” with the Trinity or did He see it coming & does it play into the entire STORY of the Bible which has already been written in advance with a set outcome.

  • @Mckaule
    @Mckaule 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's absurd when you have to explain to grown people about what is the meaning of "he, his, him, of, e.t.c" and it's mind blowing when after that they still can't understand that "Jesus can't be the One whose son he is". With a serious face, they say "If you are a son of man it means you are a man, if you are the son of God, you are God, see ? Jesus is the son of God, it means he is God." This is their wisdom, and their logic. There's no need to keep conversation with them any longer.

    • @robertrecchia2642
      @robertrecchia2642 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @Mckaule Well, truth be told, when I was a Trinitarian, I believed Jesus was God in the flesh & if a Unitarian were to attempt to tell me Jesus was fully human at birth, I would have considered them a heretic or apostate at the time. Now, that’s exactly what I’m considered to be as a “Biblical Unitarian” (for lack of a better title) But I’m convinced it was God who delivered me out of Trinitarianism according to His timing ⏱

    • @ken440
      @ken440 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@robertrecchia2642 absolutely. Yes we are called heretics. I dont mind at all because unless they are Roman Catholic they too are heretics. All protestants are heretics.
      If the meaning of heretic, is one who defies the majority religious position, then Elijah, all the prophets, and even Jesus and the apostles were all heretics.

  • @Mckaule
    @Mckaule 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Satan is laughing about how he duped the minds of people that they just can't comprehend simple fraze or sentence. I quoted to one christian 1 Ephesians 1:17. Then I quoted verse from revelation where Jesus 4 times in a row said "My God".. I ask if it's true. He said "YES, BUT I BELIEVE DIFFERENTLY". So I had nothing more to say. They are uncomprehensibly deluded.

    • @robertrecchia2642
      @robertrecchia2642 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @McKaule Well, most Biblical Unitarians are former Trinitarians, like myself. So, I believe until God brings the truth to their attention, they are just not prepared to question it.

  • @sheepfarmer164
    @sheepfarmer164 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If God had died, the universe would have crumbled. But God's true DNA son, a human man could die and did die for my sins, fulfilling the curses of the law unto grace. But only for those willing to die to themselves and be reborn in spirit. Jesus said, you MUST BE BORN AGAIN, Father Yah now guiding your life through his Messiah our mediator in the heavens. Father now sees his son's perfection in you, allowing you intimacy again with him. Live for Him,die for him if need be. He will NEVER forsake you, if you forsake not him. Blessings

    • @loveofthetruth9398
      @loveofthetruth9398 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Please show Scriptural support for the idea that Jesus is "God's true DNA son".

    • @sheepfarmer164
      @sheepfarmer164 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @loveofthetruth9398
      John 3:16...the only begotten son of God.
      The definition of
      begotten - is brought forth by reproduction.
      Adam was created, the second Adam was begotten.

    • @loveofthetruth9398
      @loveofthetruth9398 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sorry, your attempt to limit the definition of begotten to DNA reproduction is inaccurate, and inconsistent with the Scriptures. By contrast the Scriptures clearly use the term in several ways. For example, Paul told the church at Corinth that he had begotten them through the gospel (1 Cor 4:15). And Jesus is described as the "first begotten from the dead" .... which we KNOW was not a DNA reproduction, but YHVH God brought Jesus back to life.
      There is ZERO evidence that Christ's birth involved any of YHVH God's DNA .... nor is there any evidence that YHVH God HAS DNA.

    • @mercinc2926
      @mercinc2926 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@loveofthetruth9398 1 Cor 4:15 and Col 1:18 don't use the same word as John 3:16 (monogenēs) and in John 3:16 it seems like it means Jesus is the only son God "begot"

    • @loveofthetruth9398
      @loveofthetruth9398 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mercinc2926 Monogenes is a compound word, made up of Mono ... meaning one or only ... and gennao ... or a form of that word, which means to generate, sometimes by procreation and sometimes through other means, like Paul's begetting of the Corinthian church.
      Scripture is VERY clear that YHVH God's power caused Mary to conceive, and that Mary was still a virgin.
      Luke 1:34-35
      34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
      35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

  • @monicashuart-ls1hw
    @monicashuart-ls1hw 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why do trinitarians judge us non trinitarians as heretics? Are we not both followers of Christ the SON of GOD?

  • @RalphHumphries-th1ym
    @RalphHumphries-th1ym 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The servant is not greater than his master Jesus said and he has a God so it makes no sense to say God died for God and Jesus is the Messiah and saviour and Lord but not God thanks bill biblical Unitarians like us understand who's who and the Trinity destroys the Father and his Son and add a third person,as God began to show me the truth about who he is and his Son is I was a mess and was praying as trinitarian for truth and when I was going to church all the time and trying to be right, but doing the Trinity way was difficult sometimes I just figured wasn't going to make it, but that's what happens when got so many rules and regulations to obey and feeling like I hope nobody notices me in church, churchianity is the burden so is being under the thumb of people who dictate to you and your walk and you try and try to do it but that's the problem it's the spirit of antichrist and as I left church and study the Trinity doctrine and what first century believers it was eyes opening completely different from who I thought God was to see the truth about one God, yeah trinitarians say that and I thought and bought Jesus is God and holy Spirit is God but was trying to figure out what I thought he was the Messiah was told but how he could be God was the thing that couldn't figure out how, but it's been 6 months since I left Trinity world LoL and like majority of people who were trinitarians and did homework about Trinity and prayed for forgiveness and believe in one God and the Trinity is a lie I believed for 24 years because I thought that was the only way but now not being scared of people thinking did i say something about the Trinity wrong is holy Spirit going to leave me because I offended him,all the time thinking about the Trinity and that burden is heavy to carry but thank God for people like you and Anthony and biblical Unitarian broadcast because i was scared of what trinitarians would think, but now I could care less, I pray for trinitarians but don't have them as friends anymore because i dont believe in the Trinity and once you say that they turn their back on you and your a ghost and you remember how it was, but i still care about t

    • @robertrecchia2642
      @robertrecchia2642 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @Ralph Well, in 2024 when everyone has all the information they need, available from the palm of their hand, I believe the Trinity is losing its grip who can check the history on it, quite easily. But Satan has “back up” sects on standby for those who have “escaped Trinitarianism” primarily Islam & Judaism. So, we need to understand the “war” over God & Yeshua (Jesus) is spiritual

    • @RalphHumphries-th1ym
      @RalphHumphries-th1ym 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Does God know everything? Does he care about people who never heard the gospel? Does he need to be reminded of who he is? Did he see the Trinity coming? All those answers are yes!! The question is are we sharing the gospel to people outside our house like someone did for us and the answer is yes for sure, but chopping people apart or hating others and arguing with them and their idol is something totally different, because where is the love of God in Christ Jesus in that?

  • @mercinc2926
    @mercinc2926 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And what about John 1 and 1 John 1? The Father speaking to the son this way is actually a reason to be Trinitarian instead of Modalist. Who is Jesus because he is not simply a man nor a very special man.

    • @billschlegel1
      @billschlegel1  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hi. This post is about Isaiah 53. The suffering servant is not God, but is the servant of God.
      You can find lots of posts on this podcast about John 1.
      In short: the beginning of John 1 is a new beginning (not the Genesis creation beginning) that God brings about through the man Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, who is metaphorically introduced in John's Gospel as the Word. If you are interested, maybe start here: th-cam.com/play/PLUqWXumvcp5oTh8KhdYpIGhrH11AXnxtM.html

  • @JohnLLJ
    @JohnLLJ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why is this even a video?
    This could have been like one minute long....but oh yeah, we need perpetual repetition.

    • @ken440
      @ken440 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      have a look at the views below, the ones which deny this teaching, they still dont seem to see the simple logic. They need even more repetition it seems.

  • @Benandlandon
    @Benandlandon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Of course the servant isn't God. Despite the lies, Christians only believe in ONE GOD. Jesus, the suffering servant, is the messiah, as described NOT GOD. The SON of God AND man. Never have Christians believed Jesus is God. That would be idolatry. Shalom.

    • @billschlegel1
      @billschlegel1  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Unfortunately, the word "Christians" has been hijacked by those who should really be called "theusians" or "deusians", or really just "trinitarian".

  • @economician
    @economician 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bill the prince of peace at the end of days, the Messiah who restores the third temple will make an offering for his sins:
    ”On that day the prince is to provide a bull as a sin offering for himself and for all the people of the land.”Ezekiel 45:22
    So the suffering servant Isaah, the prince of peace in Ezekiel, the Messiah is not God but he is neither sinless.

  • @euston2216
    @euston2216 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    In summary...

    The unipersonal God - the *omnipotent* unipersonal God - is *_not_** capable* of expressing himself on earth in genuine human form and being a servant to his own eternal self.

    "Biblical" Unitarianism. Every bit as carnal minded as Trinitarianism.

    • @robertrecchia2642
      @robertrecchia2642 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @euston2216 Are you a “Oneness” believer?

    • @euston2216
      @euston2216 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@robertrecchia2642
      I believe *God the Father died for us,* as his own Son, and was raised from the dead by his own eternal self. I never hear this from "Oneness" theologians, so I would have to answer "No" to your question.

    • @mbeckford
      @mbeckford 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@euston2216 read what you just typed. It is not logical and I do not mean this to sound insulting. The sentence does not make sense. God the Father died, as his own son? (God cannot die) Are you referring to God the Father dying or the Son of God dying? And was raised from the dead by himself? The dead cannot raise the dead. Do you know what dead means and what happens when you are dead? One who is dead cannot resurrect himself. Your statement shows you do not have an understanding of death. There is no scripture declaring the dead raise themselves from the dead. God cannot even do this because he cannot die - he can literally never die. He could not even will to die - it is not plausible. Your sentence is not coherent. Please feel free to restructure it if you wish, but as it stands now it is inconsistent, does not align with basic sentence structure, does not align with the word of God, is ambiguous and more.

    • @euston2216
      @euston2216 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mbeckford _>>> "One who is dead cannot resurrect himself."_

      JOHN 2:19 (KJV)
      Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days **I** will raise it up.

      That's Jesus, promising he would die and raise himself from the dead. And he delivered on his promise, because while he was on earth, he was also in heaven, as his own Father.

      If you're willing to believe the Father loves you enough to have laid down his own life for you, then he will show you who he truly is.

    • @mbeckford
      @mbeckford 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@euston2216 my friend John is simply telling us about a statement Jesus made. Jesus can only make this statement because of the authority God gave him (key point - GOD GAVE HIM - Separate person). He is making a declaration, not literally saying he is going to raise himself from the dead by his own power. For example I can personally declare I will die and be raised again in a glorified body. Does this make me God? Does this mean I will raise myself from the dead? God gave him the authority to say this, but it is God who does the work - not the man Christ Jesus. Again, if you read the scriptures and have an understanding of what death means you would never draw this conclusion. Read Romans 10:9: “that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” It says God raised HIM from the dead. Do you see the pronoun use? If you understand grammar this clearly shows two separate people. It is impossible for this sentence to mean God raised himself from the dead. The grammatical structure replaced Jesus with the pronoun “him”. God is not “him” or “Jesus.” Have you heard of the term “antecedent”? Research how a sentence uses an antecedent. You will realize in this very sentence alone it is not possible Jesus and God are the same people - they are two separate individuals otherwise we might as well throw out everything we know about grammar out the window. You can ask an atheist english major who has no stake in this game and request they read the sentence. He or she will conclude “I may not believe in God, but this specific sentence says God and Jesus are two separate people - it is impossible they are the same based on how this sentence is written.”