IS JESUS CHRIST GOD?

The Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant (or Evangelical) churches say that Jesus Christ is God.

However, the Ebionites say that Jesus Christ is the Messiah (or Christ, or Anointed) who shall come, but is not God.

Who is right? The Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants (or Evangelicals), or the Ebionites?

To answer to this question, we must consult the Bible.

But before this, we need to discover which is the true Bible, because the Bible of the Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants (or Evangelicals) is composed by the Old Testament (Tanach) and by the 27 books of the New Testament, and the Bible of the Ebionites is composed only by the Old Testament (Tanach) and by the authentic text of the Gospel according to Matthew.

In order to know which is the true Bible, we need to know whether the true followers of Jesus Christ are the Catholics, the Orthodox, the Protestants (or Evangelicals) or the Ebionites.

Is written in Matthew 5:17-19 that Jesus Christ said:

5.17 DO NOT THINK THAT I CAME TO ABOLISH THE LAW OR THE PROPHETS: I CAME NOT TO ABOLISH, BUT TO FULFILL.

5.18 VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU THAT TILL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS AWAY, ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE SHALL NOT BE ABOLISHED FROM THE LAW OR FROM THE PROPHETS, BECAUSE ALL SHALL BE FULFILLED.

5.19 AND THE ONE WHO SHALL TRANSGRESS ONE WORD OF THESE COMMANDMENTS, AND SHALL TEACH OTHERS, SHALL BE CALLED SON OF THE LIE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD: BUT THE ONE WHO FULFILL AND TEACH, SHALL BE CALLED GREAT IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

Therefore, we see that Jesus Christ said that he did not come to abolish The Law of God (Torah) and that we must fulfill all the commandments of The Law of God, without exception, and that The Law of God will never be abolished.

The Ebionites follow this teaching of Jesus Christ, because they obey all the commandments of The Law of God.

Yet the Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants (or Evangelicals) do not follow this teaching of Jesus Christ, because they do not obey all the commandments of The Law of God.

The Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants (or Evangelicals) do not obey the commandment of doing the circumcision (Genesis 17:9-14 and Exodus 12:48 and Leviticus 12:3) and they do not obey the commandment of not eating the filthy animals (Leviticus chapter 11) and they do not obey the commandment of keeping the Shabbat (Exodus 20:8-11) and they do not obey the commandment of not eating leaven for seven days during the Feast of the Unleavened Breads (Exodus 12:19), and they do not obey several other commandments of The Law of God.

Therefore, we see that true followers of Jesus Christ are the Ebionites, and that the true Bible is the Bible of the Ebionites, which is composed only by the Old Testament (Tanach) and by the authentic text of the Gospel according to Matthew.

In Deuteronomy 6:4 is written the following:

DT 6.4 HEAR, ISRAEL, YAHVEH OUR GOD, YAHVEH IS ONE.

Therefore, we see that God is one, and not two, neither three.

So, we see that Jesus Christ is not God, because if Jesus Christ was God, God would be two.

In Deuteronomy 6:4 God said that He is one.

Therefore, we see that the doctrine of the Holy Trinity is a false doctrine.

Those who preach the false doctrine of the Trinity say that God is three but it is one, but that is an absurdity, because 3 is different from 1.

The equation 3=1 is a totally wrong equation.

Is written in Exodus 20:3 that God said the following:

ÊX 20.3 THOU SHALT NOT HAVE OTHER GODS IN FRONT OF ME.

Therefore, we see that those who believe that Jesus Christ is God, and that because of this do religious service to Jesus Christ, commit sin, because they have another god besides the true God, which is the Creator of all things, and thus they violate the commandment that is in Exodus 20:3.

Moreover, to say that a man is God is an absurdity, because God is the Creator of all things, and the man is a creature, so, no man can be God.

We must not deify any man, even though that man is the Messiah (or Christ, or Anointed).

The Satan launches false and absurd doctrines, and unfortunately many people believe in those false and absurd doctrines, and thus they sin against God, doing religious service to a man, as if he was God, disobeying the commandment of God, of not to have other gods in front of Him.

Blessed be God, who liberated us from those false, absurd and diabolical doctrines, making us know that the true followers of Jesus Christ are the Ebionites, and that the true Bible is the Bible of the Ebionites, which is composed only by the Old Testament (Tanach) and by the authentic text of the Gospel according to Matthew.

The people that preach the false doctrine of the divinity of Jesus Christ use as argument the verse Isaiah 9:5 (in some Bibles is 9:6).

In the referred verse it is written the following:

IS 9.5 BECAUSE A BOY WAS BORN TO US, A SON WAS GIVEN TO US, AND THE PRINCIPALITY WILL BE ON HIS SHOULDER, AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED PELE-YOETZ-EL-GIBBOR-ABIAD-SAR-SHALOM.

The referred name means "Miracle of the Counselor, Strong God, Father of the Eternity, Prince of the Peace".

With base in the meaning of this name, those people say that Jesus Christ is God.

However, the fact that God said that the Messiah would have this name does not mean that the Messiah is God, because this name just means that when the Messiah comes, God, that is the Counselor, the Strong God, the Father of the Eternity, the Prince of the Peace, will make a miracle.

Moreover, the verses Isaiah 8:3-4 show that God ordered that be put in a boy the name Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, that means "Hurrying the loot, he hurried the plunder", and that God said that this meant that before that boy knew how to call my father or my mother, Damascus and Samaria would be robbed and plundered, which shows that these names that God gives the certain boys in the prophecies sometimes mean something that will happen after the birth of that boy, and not what that boy will be.

Some people use as argument to say that Jesus is God the fact that God spoke in the first person of the plural in Genesis 1:26 and 3:22 and 11:7 and Isaiah 6:8.

However, this argument is not correct, for the following reasons:

The verses Job 38:4-7 show that when God created the earth the angels were near Him and they rejoiced.

The angels are referred in Job 38:7 as "sons of God ".

In Job 1:6 and 2:1 the angels are also called “sons of God ".

Therefore, we see that the angels were created by God before the creation of the earth, and they were with Him when He created the earth and when He created the man and when He expelled the man of the Garden of Eden and when He confused the language of the men in Babel and when He appeared to the prophet Isaiah.

The angels are servants of God, and they act fulfilling orders of him.

This explains why God spoke in the first person of the plural in Genesis 1:26 and 3:22 and 11:7 and Isaiah 6:8.

Some people use as argument to say that Jesus is God the fact that the Hebrew word “Elohim", that is used in the Tanach (Old Testament) as one of the names of God, and that it means "God", has the termination "im", that in Hebrew is the termination of the masculine plural.

These people say that God is more than one, because the word "Elohim" is plural.

However, this argument is not correct, because in Hebrew the termination "im" is not used only to make the plural, it is also used to form an abstract noun, and it is also used to make the augmentative.

In Hebrew, virginity is "betulim", what proves that in Hebrew the termination "im" is used to form abstract nouns.

In Genesis 24:9 the words "his master", that refer to Abraham, are the translation of the Hebrew word "adonaiv", that is the word "adonim" added with the third person singular masculine suffix, so that "adonaiv" means "his master".

This proves that in Hebrew the termination "im" (that added with the third person singular suffix becomes "aiv") sometimes is used to make the augmentative, and not to make the plural.

Therefore, the word "Elohim" (that added with the third person singular suffix is "Elohaiv"), can also be translated as "Divinity" or as "Great God".

In the cases in which the Hebrew word “Elohim" refers to God, the Creator of the Universe, the verb is placed in the singular, what shows that in these cases the word "Elohim" is singular, and it can be translated as "Divinity" or as "Great God".

When the Hebrew word “Elohim" refers to God, the Creator of the Universe, and is followed by an adjective, or by a participle used as adjective, this also receives the termination "im", that in this case is sign of augmentative, and not of plural.

In Genesis 20:13 and 35:7 and Psalms 149:2 and Ecclesiastes 12:1 and Isaiah 54:5 (twice), in the Masoretic Hebrew Text the verb appears in the plural, referring to God, the Creator of the Universe, but this happens because there were copy mistakes that unhappily were not corrected by the Masoretes, and it is evident that there were copy mistakes in these passages, because in the old translations (Septuagint, Syriac version and Vulgate) and in the Samaritan Pentateuch (in the cases of Genesis 20:13 and 35:7) the verb is in the singular.

The Masoretes made several corrections of copy mistakes in the text of the Tanach (Old Testament), that are called "Qere", but unhappily they did not correct all the copy mistakes, but it is possible to correct the other copy mistakes examining the Samaritan Pentateuch and the old translations of the Tanach (Septuagint, Syriac version and Vulgate) and the old manuscripts of the Tanach in Hebrew, including the Dead Sea Scrolls.

In the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia there are several footnotes with the variant readings that are in the old manuscripts and in the old translations and in the Samaritan Pentateuch, and there you can see that in the mentioned passages (Genesis 20:13 and 35:7 and Psalms 149:2 and Eclesiastes 12:1 and Isaiah 54:5) the verb is in the singular in the old translations and in the Samaritan Pentateuch (in the cases of Genesis 20:13 and 35:7), what proves that in the mentioned passages the verb is in the plural in the Masoretic Text for copy mistake and because the Masoretes, unhappily, did not correct those copy mistakes.

I already made several corrections of copy mistakes in the Masoretic Text of the Tanach (Old Testament), based on the old manuscripts and on the old translations (Septuagint, Syriac version and Vulgate) and on the Samaritan Pentateuch.

To see the Masoretic Text of the Tanach (Old Testament) with several corrections of copy mistakes made by me, based on the old manuscripts and on the old translations (Septuagint, Syriac version and Vulgate) and on the Samaritan Pentateuch, click on the following link:

http://www.servosdejave.org.br/tanach_metukan.htm .

Yahveh bless you.

João Paulo Fernandes Pontes.

Published in January 7, 2007.

Updated in March 21, 2010.

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