Ever since I’ve come to believe that God is the Father, and that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that the spirit is the Spirit of God, people have said – actually Christian people have said - that I’m part of a cult. They mean it, of course, in a derogatory, pejorative sense. If the belief in the Trinity, three divine persons in one essence, and the belief in a fully-god-fully-man-Christ, a Christ who is a divine person with two natures – if these beliefs are developments made after the...
Jun 27, 2025•20 min•Season 1Ep. 143
Isaiah 42:8 I am YHVH (Yahweh, Yehovah), that ismy name; my glory ( cavod , כָבוֹד) I give to no other,nor my praise to graven images. Deityof Christ theologians claim that since Jesus has (God’s) glory, or was given glory by God, he must be God, because God doesn’t give His glory to anyone else. That claim is a philosophical, rationalistic kind of claim that no one in the Bible makes. It’s kind of an end around claim that runs into dead ends. For instance, if Jesus is God, why did God have to g...
Jun 14, 2025•27 min•Season 1Ep. 142
This episode continues the contrast between the biblicaldoctrine of the hope of resurrection of the dead compared to the common mainstreamChristian expressions about death being only the separation of the soul fromthe body and so-called promise of going to heaven. Whilethe New Testament emphasizes the bodily resurrection of Jesus and the futureresurrection of believers, many Christians today speak of the dead asimmediately entering heaven as disembodied souls. The person never really dies. But w...
May 30, 2025•21 min•Season 1Ep. 141
Fuel, Church of God General Conference Youth Camp, July 13-18, 2025. North Manchester, IN https://register-online.org/FUELRedirect.php What is Fuel Youth Conference Like? https://youtu.be/l7VPCLbVDD0 UCA International Conference, July 24-27, 2025, Denham Grove Hotel, Uxbridge, (London), UK https://sites.google.com/unitarianchristianalliance.org/ucaukintconference2025 Converge, August 1-3, 2025 Hiram College, SE of Cleveland, OH https://www.eventleaf.com/e/converge...
May 27, 2025•3 min•Season 1Ep. 149
Many mainstream Christians claim that at death, only thebody dies while the soul lives on, consciously entering the presence of God. In this view, believers never really die—they skip over death entirely by transitioning instantly into eternal life. There is no place in the Bible that defines death as the separation of the soul from the body. So where did this concept come from? Plato’s Influence: Not the Bible The idea that "death is the separation of the soul from the body" comes from Greek ph...
Apr 25, 2025•15 min•Season 1Ep. 140
Doctrinal Statements of Trinitarian Seminaries, Universities and Churches have problems, such as: 1. The first two statements often contradict each other. Protestant institutions declare the Scriptures are the sole authority for belief and practice, and then in the next breath describe and eternal multi-person god who is never described in such terms in the Bible. 2. Doctrinal statements off refer to God with the singular pronouns he/him/his, but then suddenly describe god as multi-persons, whos...
Apr 13, 2025•29 min•Season 1Ep. 136
In this podcast we take a closer look at the historical context in which 1st century readers of John’s Gospel would have understood this Gospel to be about a new beginning. We will also see how other New Testament authors saw in Jesus a new beginning, the beginning of God’s new creation. Finally, we will note one big problem with the typical “deity of Christ” interpretation of John 1:1. For full written text of this podcast click here . https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-gospel-of-joh...
Apr 06, 2025•35 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Many Trinitarians claim the Trinity is "biblical". This episode presents two reasons why that claim is faulty: 1. The Trinitarian methodology - how they arrive at believing that the one God is multi-persons - is not biblical. 2. The language used, in fact needed, to describe the Trinity and the "deity of Christ is is not biblical. #trinity, biblicalunitarian, #deityofchrist
Mar 28, 2025•21 min•Season 1Ep. 138
In this current podcast we discuss another HIGH cost to payfor any deity of Christ interpretation of Scripture. All deity of Christ claims not only dishonor the Father, but they also dishonor the Christ, the man Jesus of Nazareth, the Jew who was born in Bethlehem some 2000 years ago. In fact, all deity of Christ claims in the end deny that the human person Jesus Christ ever existed.
Mar 14, 2025•17 min•Season 1Ep. 137
Deity of Christ Interpretations of the Bible Dishonor the Father, the Only True God If Jesus is God, then God the Father is not the one true God. The claim that “Jesus is God” becomes the main building block used by humans to construct a multi-person god. If Jesus is one member of a multi-person (or a Triune god) then the multi-person god is the one God, and the Father is not. Mainstream Christians agree that there is one God. “Weare monotheists. We believe in one God”. But for mainstream Christ...
Mar 07, 2025•14 min•Season 1Ep. 136
In previous episodes, we saw that no one in the Bible - notJesus, not Moses, not Isaiah or any other prophet, not Peter, not Paul or any other apostle – no one proclaimed or described that God is three in one. Rather, we saw specifically that God is the Father alone, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ. We looked at Paul’s description of God and the Lord Jesus Christ in Ephesians 1.To Paul, God is not the Trinity, but the Father alone. And, Paul says the LordJesus Christ has a God. The Lord Jesus C...
Feb 21, 2025•18 min•Season 1Ep. 135
00:00 God is Never a Trinity in the Bible. 03:14 God is always referred to with singular pronouns.HE did great things through Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is someone else, a different “person and being” thanGod. 04:18 Typical Responses from the Previous podcast,and why they fall short. No one showed a place in the Bible where God is described or revealed to be a Trinity. Trinitarian apologists construct their god. Matthew 28:19, John 10:30, Genesis 1:26? 06:26 So much confusion in Trinita...
Feb 08, 2025•21 min•Season 1Ep. 134
In the Bible, God is never a trinity. Neither in Hebrew Scriptures, nor the New Testament is God ever a Trinity. God is never declared to be triune by anyone in the Bible: not by Moses, the prophets, Jesus or the apostles. No one in the Bible ever mentions the “mystery” about the Triune nature (persons) of God. The Bible never records any opposition to the Triune nature of God being proclaimed – because no one in the Bible proclaimed God as triune. The claim that God is “three-in-one” comes from...
Feb 01, 2025•16 min•Season 1Ep. 133
In this episode we explain how the deity-of-Christ interpretation of John’s Gospel is wrong. Three, Yea verily Four Keys to Understanding John’s Gospel 1. The Purpose statement of the author, John 20:30-31 “Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” The original target audience of the Gospel of J...
Jan 24, 2025•20 min•Season 1Ep. 132
A brief description of four main beliefs of Biblical Unitarians. 1. God Is One, the Father. · Deuteronomy 6:4 “YHVH our God, YHVH is one”. Mark 12:32 “He (not they) is one.” · John 17:3 “Father…this is eternal life, to know you, the only true God…” · 1 Corinthians 8:6 “As for us, there is one God, the Father…”. 2. Jesus Is the Messiah, the Son of the Living God 3. The Holy Spirit Is the Spirit of God We believe in God (the Father), in Jesus the human Son of God, and in the spirit of God. A “tria...
Jan 17, 2025•9 min•Season 1Ep. 131
For full written text see here: https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2025/01/agency-in-bible.html In the Bible, God is often represented by the messengers he sends. Even beyond just representing God, God’s very presence was in and with the messenger. When God gave words to his messengers to speak, it was God speaking. When God gave authority and power to his messengers to perform miraculous deeds, it was God performing those miraculous deeds. When the messenger was at the scene, it was to be unders...
Jan 04, 2025•38 min•Season 1Ep. 130
The key error of the "pre-incarnate" Christ understanding of John 8:58 is in translating Jesus’ statement about Abraham in the past when it refers to Abraham coming to be in the future. In all other occurrences in John of the word under consideration (γενέσθαι genesthai) does not communicate something in the past tense but rather denotes someone or something that potentially could be or will be in the future. This is strong evidence that the word in John 8:58 relates to Abraham coming to be in a...
Dec 13, 2024•14 min•Season 1Ep. 129
Christians often say, “Jesus paid the penalty for my sin”. But we will be hard pressed to find that declaration in the Bible. Is such a declaration biblical, or does it stem from the traditions of men? In this episode Kevin George, author of Atonement and Reconciliation: A Search for the Original Meaning, Contrasted with Penal Substitutionary Atonement , explains what Penal Substitution Atonement is and then some of the problems with Penal Substitutionary Atonement. https://www.amazon.com/Atonem...
Dec 06, 2024•56 min•Season 1Ep. 128
A description of the mosaic inscription "to God Jesus Christ" found at Megiddo/Legio and on display at the Bible Museum in Washington D.C. Presentation on what Christians meant when they called Jesus G/god in the early A.D. 3rd century. Video version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/Hg6Dm4mx_SU Sources and Resources: One God Report Podcast, Bill Schlegel YouTube Channel. Episodes 10-11 The Evolution of the Trinity, with Dr. Dale Tuggy. Rollston, Christopher. “A Stunning Trio of Early Christian ...
Nov 30, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 127
Glen Kay tells his faith journey, describing how he came to understand and believe that the God of the Bible is not a triune being, but is one, the Father, and that Jesus is a human Son of God, the Messiah/Christ. Resources for people and websites mentioned in this episode. Gary Steven Simons (Brother-in-law to Joel Osteen) How A Sunday Mega-Church Pastor Came To Torah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tu7wh9QMio Who is Yah? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbcadAKHrZE Biblical Unitarian Webpage: ...
Nov 14, 2024•38 min•Season 1Ep. 126
PART 2 What if John 1:3 is translated as "all happened through him, and without him nothing happened. That which happened (came to be) in him was life, and the life was the light of men"? Compare the Literal Standard Version and Young's Literal Translation. Would you think John 1 was describing the Genesis creation? Probably not. Almost all deity-of-Christ and Arian readers of the Bible understand John 1:3-4 to be a statement about the involvement of the Logos of John 1:1 in the Genesis creation...
Nov 09, 2024•19 min•Season 1Ep. 125
What if John 1:3 is translated as "all happened through him, and without him nothing happened" (compare the literal translations: the Literal Standard Version and Young's Literal Translation)? Would you think John 1 was describing the Genesis creation? Probably not. Almost all deity-of-Christ and Arian readers of the Bible understand John 1:3-4 to be a statement about the involvement of the Logos of John 1:1 in the Genesis creation of the physical universe. The Logos of John 1:1 is taken to be a...
Oct 25, 2024•31 min•Season 1Ep. 124
Stories of how former Trinitarians, Atheists and Jehovah’s Witnesses are coming to know and believe that God is the Father, and that Jesus is God’s human Son, the Messiah. Book available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cost-Truth-Biblical-Unitarian-Christians/dp/1736918052 #biblicalunitarian, #bible, #Jesus, #countthecost, #billschlegel, #walkaway...
Oct 08, 2024•20 min•Season 1Ep. 123
Who is the Servant described in Isaiah 53? Israel? Jesus Christ? Someone else? Whoever the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53 is, it is clear that the Servant is NOT God. The servant of Isaiah 53 is the Servant of God. #isaiah53, #michaelbrown, #toviahSinger, #benshapiro, #bible, #sufferingservant, #Jesus
Sep 13, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 122
Dr. Tim Mackie appeared on the Transfiguration Podcast, describing some of his recent thoughts about the Trinity. In this video/podcast I review and point out some errors in Dr. Mackie’s claims. 0:00 Intro: Dr. Mackie’s search: How are Trinitarian expressions of God derived from the Bible? 02:20 Definition: What is the Trinity. Confusion between God as the Father alone, Trinitarianism, and Modalism. How many persons/selves is God? 08:03 Partial Knowledge. “Our knowledge of God will always be par...
Aug 28, 2024•42 min
1. The claim is non-biblical, philosophical speculation. This claim is not something argued or presented in the Bible. 2. The Bible says exactly the opposite. The Bible says that Jesus had to be a man, a human being, not just a human nature, to bring about God’s plan of redemption for humanity. God was at work in and through the man Jesus of Nazareth. Who the man Jesus was and is, and what he did, was necessary, sufficient and acceptable to God. Problems: The claim that Jesus had to be God to at...
Aug 02, 2024•17 min•Season 1Ep. 120
Most scholars say the Gospels were not written until the mid AD 60s. Is that right? This podcast describes why they think that, and gives suggestions as to why the Gospels may have been written much earlier. For full text, see here: https://landandbible.blogspot.com/2024/05/when-were-gospels-written-historical.html Resources: Link to Fuel Youth Camp Registration: https://register-online.org/FUELRedirect.php Podcast describing Fuel Youth Camp : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7VPCLbVDD0 UCA Conf...
May 31, 2024•23 min•Season 1Ep. 119
Some Biblical Unitarians (believers in the One God, the Father), don’t see the man Jesus in the first verses of John’s Gospel. Instead, they understand the Word/Logos” as an abstract plan, design, promise or wisdom that is only personified (described as if it were a person). Trinitarian “diety-of-Christ” and “Arian” believers likewise don’t see the human person, the human being Jesus of Nazareth in the first verses of John’s Gospel. They see only a “divine being/person who became flesh” – but th...
Apr 26, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 118
For those who come to understand and believe that the God of the Bible is the Father alone (John 17:3, 1 Cor. 8:6) and that Jesus is God's human Messiah, the Christ, the Son of God --- you will be condemned by many religious leaders and even family and friends. This podcast gives some examples :). Other resources: Bill Schlegel Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@billschlegel1 Blog https://landandbible.blogspot.com/ Lecture: Denying Christ: "Jesus is God" Denies that Jesus is the Christ htt...
Apr 12, 2024•19 min•Season 1Ep. 117
Pastor Finnegan has written a book called, “Kingdom Journey: A Call to Recover the Central Theme of Scripture .” Pastor Finnegan describes how God’s central promise for humans is not a disembodied escape to heaven, but of resurrection to a full immortal life on a renewed earth. In other words, restoration not relocation. See the show notes for links to Pastor Finnegan’s book, and also to a previous podcast where Pastor Finnegan discussed “Where do we go when we die?” Book: Kingdom Journey: A Cal...
Apr 05, 2024•43 min•Season 1Ep. 116
