Trinitarians what did Jesus mean when he called his Father the ONLY God.?

At John 17:1, 3 Jesus prays to the Father: “FATHER, …. this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” – New International Version (NIV).

Here the Father alone is not only very clearly identified as the only true God, but Jesus Christ is pointedly and specifically excluded from that identification (“AND Jesus Christ whom YOU [the only true God] have sent”).

Jesus’ words here are in harmony with what the Bible says about the Father being Jesus’ God: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ”. (1 Pet.1:3) Jesus said, “`I am ascending to my Father and YOUR Father and to my God and YOUR God.'” (John 20:17)

Some claim that the import of John 17:1-3 can be ignored because Jesus said this as a man on earth. But even in heaven, Jesus refers to HIS God and the name of HIS God. (Rev. 3:12)

One more thing to consider:
Jesus said in John 17:3 that it means everlasting life to know God (the Father) and also Jesus. So if the Holy Spirit really is God, then why isn’t the Holy Spirit mentioned here as well?

This would be an unforgivable slighting of the True God if the holy spirit were truly a person who is God (or 1/3 God, or anything else trinitarians want it to be), but it would be exactly what would be expected if the only true God were the Father alone (Jehovah alone), and if the Christ and savior were Jesus alone, and if the holy spirit were not a person but God’s active force and therefore had no personal name or identity.

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You realise that the whole point of the Trinity is that there is only one God, yes? And that that God is the Father, but is also the Son, and is also the Holy Spirit? And so, the Father is the only God? and the Son is the only God? and the Holy Spirit is the only God?

Because I think your question only makes sense if you assume that Christians think Jesus is another God, in addition to the Father.

EDIT: Yes, as I said, Christians agree that the Father is the only God. That is what the Trinity says. Jesus did not say “God is only one person”, which is what you are claiming he said.

Good question. Jesus meant exactly that. WHAT DID GOD IMPLY WHEN HE CALLED JESUS GOD IN HEBREWS 1:8. WHAT ABOUT VERSE 6 WHERE GOD COMMANDED THE ANGELS TO WORSHIP CHRIST, IF CHRIST WAS A MERE HUMAN ANGELS WOULD BE VIOLATING FIRST COMMANDMENT. WHAT ABOUT VERSE 10 WHERE GOD SAYS JESUS CREATED THE WORLD WHILE GENESIS 1:1 SAYS IT WAS GOD WHO CREATED THE WORLD. I can go on and on, but the truth is that is dangerous to build doctrine around one verse because Scripture is full of texts which literally refer to Christ as GOD. But we must understand that there is ONE GOD. And this is a study on its own, but to answer your question I would say, JESUS WAS RIGHT WHEN HE SAID THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD. Visit www.amazingfacts.org and search for study guide entitled “TRINITY, IS IT BIBLICAL.” And also visit http://lastdaystruth.blogspot.com

Jesus was God the Son, the second Person in the Trinity.

Philippians 2 (NIV)

6WHO., BEING IN NATURE GOD,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;

7rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.

8And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!

9Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,

10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

11and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father

John 1: 1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (NIV)

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Did Jesus have to ask God’s permission to walk on water. How about to turn water into wine. Jesus really caught flack forgiving people their sins. You are no different than the scribes in Jesus’ day asking similar questions. Jesus is 1% God. Always will be.

He also said that the Father and I are one.

Excepting perhaps the Mormons…

all Christians believe that there is one and only one God.

The doctrine of trinity *explicitly teaches* that there is one and only one God.

So: Jesus meant that the Father was the one and only God and that no other god exists – that is, in complete and total agreement with what the doctrine of trinity teaches.

You wrote:
you would have noticed that Jesus calls his FATHER THE ONLY GOD. ONE PERSON

“One person” cannot be found in that verse. Jesus is not recorded in the Bible saying that God is one and only one person. Rather: he is recorded as saying that the person we know as “the Father” is the one and only God – which thing the doctrine of trinity also teaches…*explicitly*.

– Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/

P.S. You have attributed meaning to the passage that the words themselves do not convey. You wrote:
“Jesus recognizes ONLY the FATHER, NO ONE ELSE as the true God!”
but that is definitely NOT what that passage claims. Jesus does not say, “only [the Father] is God” but – the quite different in meaning – “[the Father] is the only God”. What’s more, the meaning that you inaccurately assign to that passage – the meaning *not* conveyed by those words – *directly contradicts* what is taught in other Bible passages, such as this one:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea…

Conclusion: ***read more carefully***. Don’t blindly force YOUR beliefs onto the Bible (which is *exactly* what you have done here)! Instead, **force your beliefs to agree with what the Bible teaches**.

Like somebody once said, “He said it cause it’s so!” and that alone should blow the old pagan doctrine of the trinity out of the water. I think most “Trinitarians” are only regurgitating what they have been told and they have never even tried to find the truth of the matter.

If any Trinitarian wants to investigate that pagan doctrine, I have some things for you to look at. Definition: The central doctrine of religions of Christendom. According to the Athanasian Creed, there are three divine Persons (the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost), each said to be eternal, each said to be almighty, none greater or less than another, each said to be God, and yet together being but one God. Other statements of the dogma emphasize that these three “Persons” are not separate and distinct individuals but are three modes in which the divine essence exists. Thus some Trinitarians emphasize their belief that Jesus Christ is God, or that Jesus and the Holy Ghost are Jehovah. Not a Bible teaching.
What is the origin of the Trinity doctrine?
The New Encyclopædia Britannica says: “Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord’ (Deut. 6:4). . . . The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. . . . By the end of the 4th century . . . the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since.”—(1976), Micropædia, Vol. X, p. 126.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. But it is precisely this formulation that has first claim to the title the Trinitarian dogma. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective.”—(1967), Vol. XIV, p. 299.

In The Encyclopedia Americana we read: “Christianity derived from Judaism and Judaism was strictly Unitarian [believing that God is one person]. The road which led from Jerusalem to Nicea was scarcely a straight one. Fourth century Trinitarianism did not reflect accurately early Christian teaching regarding the nature of God; it was, on the contrary, a deviation from this teaching.”—(1956), Vol. XXVII, p. 294L.

According to the Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel, “The Platonic trinity, itself merely a rearrangement of older trinities dating back to earlier peoples, appears to be the rational philosophic trinity of attributes that gave birth to the three hypostases or divine persons taught by the Christian churches. . . . This Greek philosopher’s [Plato, fourth century B.C.E.] conception of the divine trinity . . . can be found in all the ancient [pagan] religions.”—(Paris, 1865-1870), edited by M. Lachâtre, Vol. 2, p. 1467.

John L. McKenzie, S.J., in his Dictionary of the Bible, says: “The trinity of persons within the unity of nature is defined in terms of ‘person’ and ‘nature’ which are G[ree]k philosophical terms; actually the terms do not appear in the Bible. The trinitarian definitions arose as the result of long controversies in which these terms and others such as ‘essence’ and ‘substance’ were erroneously applied to God by some theologians.”—(New York, 1965), p. 899.
Even though, as Trinitarians acknowledge, neither the word “Trinity” nor a statement of the Trinitarian dogma is found in the Bible, are the concepts that are embodied in that dogma found there?

(Philippians 2:6) 6 who, although he was existing in God’s form, gave no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God.

(Luke 3:21, 22) 21 Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized and, as he was praying, the heaven was opened up 22 and the holy spirit in bodily shape like a dove came down upon him, and a voice came out of heaven: “You are my Son, the beloved; I have approved you.”

If the trinity doctrine is right, Jesus landed on his own shoulder in the form of a dove and then Jesus became a ventriloquist and threw is voice into the heaven and said, “You are my Son, the beloved; I have approved you.” Does that make sense?

I shot this at the Trinity Church in Copenhagen Denmark. Does this look like God?
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=jtxz4l&s…

(Matthew 17:5) 5 While he was yet speaking, look! a bright cloud overshadowed them, and, look! a voice out of the cloud, saying: “This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved; listen to him.”

http://www.biblicalunitarian.com/article…

http://www.heraldmag.org/olb/Contents/do…

http://www.angelfire.com/pa/greywlf/trin…

Source(s):
76 years of common sense, 65 years of research and 50 years of Bible study.

yes, Jesus Christ was 1% God and 1% man. Fact.

means Jesus Christ was a MODEL for us to follow …
Jesus Christ spoke as a MAN … He was in the flesh, was He not …
Jesus did not come in the flesh to play God but to SAVE.

in the salvation process, He had to teach us about God …
thus, Jesus spoke to God as a man … to TEACH us, to be a model for us.

God is the being not a person. The person would be called Yahweh. Its like the spirit of a human saying the body is the only human. God by definition is 3 persons in 1 God being.

There is only ONE God. Trinitarians believe this. NOT three Gods.

1 John 5:7  For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. (KJB)

This verse has NOT been added.
Here is a useful timeline of references to this verse:
2 AD Tertullian quoted the verse in his Apology, Against Praxeas
250 AD Cyprian of Carthage, wrote, “And again, of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost it is written: “And the three are One” in his On The Lapsed, On the Novatians, (see note for Old Latin)
350 AD Priscillian referred to it [Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Academia Litterarum Vindobonensis, vol. xviii, p. 6.]
350 AD Idacius Clarus referred to it [Patrilogiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina by Migne, vol. 62, col. 359.]
350 AD Athanasius referred to it in his De Incarnatione
398 AD Aurelius Augustine used it to defend Trinitarianism in De Trinitate against the heresy of Sabellianism
415 AD Council of Carthage appealed to 1 John 5:7 when debating the Arian belief (Arians didn’t believe in the deity of Jesus Christ)
450-530 AD Several orthodox African writers quoted the verse when defending the doctrine of the Trinity against the gainsaying of the Vandals. These writers are:
A) Vigilius Tapensis in “Three Witnesses in Heaven”
B) Victor Vitensis in his Historia persecutionis [Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Academia Litterarum Vindobonensis, vol. vii, p. 60.]
C) Fulgentius in “The Three Heavenly Witnesses” [Patrilogiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina by Migne, vol. 65, col. 5.]
5 AD Cassiodorus cited it [Patrilogiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina by Migne, vol. 70, col. 1373.]
550 AD Old Latin ms r has it
550 AD The “Speculum” has it [The Speculum is a treatise that contains some good Old Latin scriptures.]
750 AD Wianburgensis referred to it
8 AD Jerome’s Vulgate has it [It was not in Jerome’s original Vulgate, but was brought in about 8 AD from good Old Latin manuscripts.]
10s AD miniscule 635 has it
1150 AD minuscule ms 88 in the margin
13s AD miniscule 629 has it
157-14 AD Waldensian (that is, Vaudois) Bibles have the verse
15 AD ms 61 has the verse
Even Nestle’s 26th edition Greek New Testament, based upon the corrupt Alexandrian text, admits that these and other important manuscripts have the verse: 221 v.l.; 2318 Vulgate [Claromontanus]; 629; 61; 88; 429 v.l.; 636 v.l.; 918; l; r.

There is ONE God. Three persons in the ONE God. The Father Son and Holy Ghost = ONE God.

Get used to it.

“Ironically Jesus recognizes ONLY the FATHER, NO ONE ELSE as the true God!”
By recognizing the Father as God He recognizes Himself as God.
John 10:30  I and my Father are one.

hi there.

it means that jesus cannot be “a” god.

there is only one true god.
jesus and the father are one.

NOT

jesus and the father are mike and jehovah !

can you identify a demonic teaching?
here are some channelled by johannes greber compared to what the watchtower really teaches.

JG: You see how illogical it is for your [Greber’s] former religion to base its contention of the Divinity of Christ upon the phrase: “I and the Father are one”, in the face of the fact that the same oneness that exists between them is promised to all who believe. (p. 333)

WT: This charge of blasphemy arose as a result of Jesus having said, “I and the Father are one.” (Joh 10:30) … this did not mean that Jesus claimed to be the Father or to be God … ((Insight on the Scriptures Vol. 2 p.54)

JG: After His resurrection, Christ said: “I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and my God and your God. (John 20:17) (p. 364)

WT: He taught men, not to worship him, but to worship Jehovah his Father … “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.” (Make Sure of All Things p.283)

JG: Again, nothing is known by the Son of the Day of Judgement, the knowledge of which is God’s alone: “The day and the hour of fulfillment are known to no one, neither the angels of heaven, nor to the Son, but to my Father alone.” (Matt 24:36)

WT: Also, Jesus explained that there were some things that neither he nor the angels in heaven knew, but that only God knew (Mark 13:32) (You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth p. 39)

do the demonic channellings seem familiar?
see how both of you agree?

christians do not agree with demonic deceptions like the watchtower does.

or are these truthful demons who are in the light of the watchtower?

or is the truth that demons hate god, hate his word, hate his people and preach against god?

who do you agree with – god? or the demons and the watchtower???

John 20:28
Thomas said to him “My lord and my God”

When I was a Baptist, I could never figure that out–but I converted after studying the Bible and now I understand the trinity!

In Matt.chapter six, Jesus taught us to pray for his father’s “kingdom to come his will to be done”–he did not say “my will to be done…” etc

And in John 6:38 which says “I have come down from heaven to do not my will, but the will of him that sent me.” if Jesus is God, who sent him down from heaven? And why did Jesus yield to the will of that One? Also In John 14:28 “You heard that I said to you, I am going away and I am coming back to you. If you love me you would rejoice that I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.” Jesus views his father greater than himself. Which would contradict the trinity. Also the word trinity isn’t even found in the bible. You can also reason on these scriptures at John 7:16, Matthew 28:18, Luke 3:21,22

Also consider John 6:38 which says “I have come down from heaven to do not my will, but the will of him that sent me.” if Jesus is God, who sent him down from heaven? And why did Jesus yield to the will of that One?

In John 14:28 “You heard that I said to you, I am going away and I am coming back to you. If you love me you would rejoice that I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.” Jesus views his father greater than himself. Which would contradict the trinity. Also the word trinity isn’t even found in the Bible. If it is such an important doctrine, why not?

You can also reason on these scriptures at John 7:16, Matthew 28:18, Luke 3:21,22 –pray before you look all these up and do more research, and you will find that this doctrine comes from pagan religion. Way back in the time of Moses God’s people got lead astray by false gods who were part of a trinity. Everyone should do the research on the subject, like you have.

I hope and pray they will. They have only a little time to lose, right?

The Illustrated Bible Dictionary adds: “The word Trinity is not found in the Bible. . . It did not find a place formally in the theology of the church till the 4th century.”

The New Catholic Encyclopedia admits that the Trinity “is not. . . directly and immediately the word of God.”

The Encyclopedia of Religion And Ethics states:” At first the Christian Faith was not Trinitarian. . . It was not so in the apostolic and sub-apostolic ages, as reflected in the New Testament and other early Christian writings.”

L. L. Paine, professor of Ecclesiastical History acknowledged: “The Old Testament is strictly monotheistic. God is a single personal being. The idea that a trinity is to be found there . . . is utterly without foundation.”

The Encyclopedia of Religion adds: “Theologians today are in agreement that the Hebrew Bible does not contain a doctrine of the Trinity.”

Jesus meant exactly what he said , he was saying the Father is the only true God , his God.

Wow you are tons braver than me lol bro. I wasn’t going to answer – until I saw your first answer and just have to respond to him!

@encouraging? Well I looked this scripture up not only in our version but another one two and guess what? They both say the same thing! There is no where in this scripture does our Creator say Jesus is Him. God is your throne for ever and ever, how pray tell does this make Jesus God eh? As for v 6, I am going to copy and paste what our society says, which can be verified by other sources too but since I am not affiliated with languages, it is hard for me to explain.

‘But,’ some may counter, ‘does the Bible not indicate that we must also worship Jesus? Did Paul not say at Hebrews 1:6: “Let all the angels of God worship him [Jesus]”?’ (King James Version) How can we understand this scripture in the light of what the Bible says about idolatry?
Worship in the Bible
First, we have to understand what Paul meant here by worship. He used the Greek word pro·sky·ne′o. Unger’s Bible Dictionary says that this word literally means to ‘kiss the hand of someone in token of reverence or to do homage.’ An Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, by W. E. Vine, says that this word “denotes an act of reverence, whether paid to man . . . or to God.” In Bible times pro·sky·ne′o often included literally bowing down before someone of high stature.
Consider the parable Jesus gave of the slave who was unable to repay a substantial sum of money to his master. A form of this Greek word appears in this parable, and in translating it the King James Version says that “the servant therefore fell down, and worshiped [form of pro·sky·ne′o] him [the king], saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.” (Matthew 18:26; italics ours.) Was this man committing an idolatrous act? Not at all! He was merely expressing the kind of reverence and respect due the king, his master and superior.
Such acts of obeisance, or expressions of respect, were fairly common in the Orient of Bible times. Jacob bowed down seven times upon meeting his brother, Esau. (Genesis 33:3) Joseph’s brothers prostrated themselves, or did obeisance, before him in honor of his position at the Egyptian court. (Genesis 42:6) In this light we can better understand what happened when the astrologers found the young child Jesus, whom they recognized as “the one born king of the Jews.” As rendered in the King James Version, the account tells us that they “fell down, and worshiped [pro·sky·ne′o] him.”—Matthew 2:2, 11.
Clearly, then, the word pro·sky·ne′o, rendered “worship” in some Bible translations, is not reserved exclusively for the type of adoration due Jehovah God. It can also refer to the respect and honor shown to another person. In an effort to avoid any misunderstanding, some Bible translations render the word pro·sky·ne′o at Hebrews 1:6 as “pay him homage” (New Jerusalem Bible), “honour him” (The Complete Bible in Modern English), “bow down before him” (Twentieth Century New Testament), or “do obeisance to him” (New World Translation).

As for Genesis: Since King James and other version use Lord for both Jehovah and Jesus, it can be pretty confusing as to which one is being referred to. But I would like to bring up a point about Moses. Jehovah said that He was going to make Moses a God to the Egyptians and yet we know that Moses was certainly not a God!

The father is the only God…the holy spirit is the only God…and jesus is the only God all three are one God.
The judicial branch is the only US government, The executive branch is the only US government, the legislative branch is the only US government, all three are one us government…easy concept to understand…I’m not sure what the problem is?….Jesus loves you very much

This is a very good point. Jesus, our Lord, plainly talking only to the Father (vs. 1 of John 17), not to the holy spirit and certainly not to himself, plainly calls his Father, THE Father, “the ONLY TRUE God.” (John 17:3), plainly saying that the Father, NOT the Son, and NOT the holy spirit, is the only true God. It should be obvious, shouldn’t it? We have to believe Jesus, don’t we?

But it’s just not obvious. Don’t expect everyone to see it right away, no matter how obvious it is…I am ashamed to admit it, but I AM a brother, one who has studied and paid scrupulous attention and listened SCRUPULOUSLY to friend and opponent alike for forty years, and ALWAYS wondered why the Watchtower Society kept pointing to John 17:3 to prove that ONLY THE FATHER is “the only TRUE God.” Even with Jesus, my Lord, plainly SAYING it. It took me forty years to see it. So most probably aren’t going to see it right away.

Their problem is a different one. They believe, and rightly so, that there is only ONE God, and in other places the Bible DOES call Jesus, if not “God”, at least “a god.” And the Witnesses do, too, and, to them, that makes TWO Gods, and in many places God plainly says that there is only ONE God. For example, James says, “You believe that there is one God, do you? And yet the demons believe and shudder.” The famous “Shema”, Deut. 6:5-6, says, “Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.” And in Isaiah God says, “I am Jehovah, and besides me there is no God.” So, to them, since they don’t know THE OTHER Scriptures, it sincerely seems that Jesus can’t be a different god. And really, how many of US could quote them off the top of our head?

For example, in John 10:34-36 it says, in the King James Bible,

“34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

Did you see it? GOD HIMSELF called his enemies “GODS”. God cannot be wrong. Obviously then, the way people today use the word, “God”, is not the Biblical way, because the Bible plainly says that there are other “gods”, just only one TRUE God, one ALMIGHTY God. A Hebrew interlinear Bible or Hebrew text (such as Kittel’s or Biblia Hebraica or Biblia Stuttgartsensis (spelling not guaranteed!!) at the library will show that in Psalm 8, “You made him a little lower than the angels,” actually says, “gods” (elohim) instead of “angels” in the Hebrew of the original Bible, which is why the Witnesses’ Bible says there, “a little lower than godlike ones”. The angels are not GOD, just powerful, godlike ones. Since God DOES call the angels his sons (Job 39:1-7) that isn’t hard to understand. And the apostle Paul plainly adds, at 1 Cor. 8:5,6:

“5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.”

Obviously, just as the Watchtower society has always pointed out, the word God also means any “powerful, godlike one”, and the HEBREW dictionary in the back of either Young’s or Long’s Exhaustive Concordance adds, ‘even judges were called “elohim” ‘, that is to say, “god”, as we would say, “Sir” (Sire), since they had godlike, life-and-death power over other humans.

So John 10 above, plainly said that he is a “god” in the same sense that God Himself called those “gods” in the Psalm 82:6,7, a powerful, godlike one. Since it’s, “Like father, like son,” how could it be otherwise? The Almighty does not get down on his knees and “ENTREAT” someone else, “not my will, but Thine be done,” does He?, as Jesus did in the Garden of Gethsemane.

This is the only explanation that agrees with both Isa., James, and Deut. saying that there is only one God and at the same time John 1:18, Isa. 9, John 1:1 and now John 10:34-36 saying that Jesus is a god, as Isa. says, not Almighty, but only “mighty God” (there were no capitals in Hebrew–the capital “G” is King James’, not Isaiah’s.) There IS only one Almighty God, as Jesus says in John 17:1-3, “the ONLY TRUE God,” and Jesus plainly says that it is NOT Jesus.

Thank you for making a valid and important point!! As Jesus says in John 17:3, it means our lives to understand and believe it. I hope you are able to “by all means save some.”
Steve Manili

Source(s):
God, in His own Word; Jesus, in John 17 and 10; Jesus’ brother, James; Jesus’ apostle Paul; the apostle and Bible writer John (John 1, 10, 17.) ; the apostle and Bible writer Matthew (26:39,42); the Bible writer and physician Luke (22:42).