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Re: NT verses about who Jesus was/is
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Originally Posted by Costeon
In Scripture, Jews never believed in a multipersonal God. The Old Testament does not teach that God is a trinity of divine persons. If God is a trinity, none of God’s people before the Christian era understood this. None of the prophets understood this. Abraham, Moses, David were all ignorant of God’s basic nature.
It’s inconceivable that a new revelation about, of all things, the nature of God would not be explicitly stated in the NT. Jesus could say things like “you have heard it said . . . but I say to you.” Paul is very plain in explaining the differences in the new covenant regarding the marks of the old covenant, like circumcision, sabbath, and food laws. What is new is explained. Yet no one gives a simple unambiguous statement to the effect, “God’s people worshiped a unipersonal God in the past; but now it has been revealed that he is multipersonal.”
Short of an explicit statement to the contrary, we should assume that the Jews did in fact understand the nature of the one God, and so all teaching about the the nature of God and the person of Christ have to begin with and harmonize with the OT revelation of the one God.
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Very good post.
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