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is the Father. The other is the Son. One is called Yahweh. The other is called Yahshua. One is Spirit
whom no man has ever seen at any time, the other was incarnated in the form of man, and the
disciples saw Him, handled Him, and spent several years of their lives walking with Him.
Furthermore, we have Christ’s own confession that the Father is greater than Himself.

John 14:28
“You heard that I said to you, 'I go away, and I will come to you.' If you loved Me, you would have
rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.”

None of these truths diminish the honor and glory of the Son of God. Christians need not be afraid
that acknowledging the Son as subordinate to the Father, and the first creation of the Father, in any
way is a denial of His preeminence, or of His identity as God.

On the other hand, I have had conversation with numerous individuals over the course of my
ministry who deny that Yahshua is God. It was not atheists making this claim. It was men and
women who profess to be Christians. The views on this are many. Some claim that the Son of God
is the same being as the archangel Michael. Others who are non-trinitarian in their beliefs, deny that
Yahshua could be God, for the Bible says there is only “one God.”

Deuteronomy 6:4-5
“Hear, O Israel! Yahweh is our God, Yahweh is one!”

I Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Yahshua...

Some who oppose the trinitarian view would point to the verse above from Timothy and confidently
assert that only the Father is God, and Christ is a man, albeit a glorified man. This reveals the error
of focusing too narrowly on a single passage of Scripture. For a doctrine to be true it must accord
with the entire testimony of the Bible. There are numerous passages that attest to the truth that Christ
is God.

John 1:18
No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has
explained Him.

John 20:28
Thomas answered and said to Him (Yahshua), "My Lord and my God!"

Philippians 2:5-7
Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the
form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking
the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.

Titus 2:13
Looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ