Isn't this exactly the same claim, tied to the same verses, as the previous claim: 291. Jeremiah 23:5-6b...The Messiah would be God... John 13:13? The list maker has to find some way to reach the magic number of 365! 1 Timothy 3:16 doesn't say (in so many words) that Jesus was a god or G-d -- but it would not matter if it did. The T'nach (bible) makes it clear time and time and time again that G-d is NOT a man. The messiah will be a normal human being, not a god. . . Shmuel Alef / I Samuel 15:29: 29. And also, the Strength of Israel will neither lie nor repent, for He is not a man to repent." T'hillim / Psalm 8:5: What is man that You should remember him, and the son of man that You should be mindful of him? and “Don’t rely on ‘princes’ or on that ‘son of man’ —he has no ‘salvation’! When his spirit departs he will turn back into his dust; on that very day all his schemes will be destroyed!” (T'hillim / Psalm 146:3-4). These are a mere sampling of passages making it clear that G-d is not a man. . . To add to the clarity that G-d is not a man we add the fact that the T'nach makes it very clear when He revealed Himself to the entire Jewish nation at Mount Sinai that we are not to pray to any "god" our fathers did not know (at Sinai). This is the absolute death knell to the missionary claim that Jesus IS G-d. If we did not "know" Jesus at Sinai he is a false god. Read D’varim 11 and D’varim 13 (Deuteronomy). Anyone claiming that something which came after Sinai (progressive anyone?) is false. . . Jesus obviously came long after Sinai -- and the Jews at Sinai "did not know him." Thus Jesus could not possibly be G-d or a god. . . Which brings us back to the passage claimed to say that the messiah will be G-d. . . Y'rmiyahu / Jeremiah 23:4-7 says: "And I will set up shepherds over them and they shall pasture them, and they shall no longer fear nor shall they be dismayed, nor shall [any of them] be missing, says the L-rd.? Behold, days are coming, says the L-rd, when I will set up of David a righteous shoot, and he shall reign a king and prosper, and he shall perform judgment and righteousness in the land. In his days, Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is his name that he shall be called, The L-rd is our righteousness." The list maker seems to think that because Jeremiah says he shall be called, The L-rd is our righteousness." this must be speaking of Jesus. Totally ridiculous. Many Jewish names have one of G-d's names as part of them -- including G-d's holiest four letter name, the tetragrammaton. Consider עִמָּנוּאֵל / Immanuel. It is a name, and is identified as someone from the Tribe of Judah (presumably Isaiah's son of Y'shayahu / Isaiah 7:14) In Hebrew עִמָּנוּ mean "with us", and אֵל / el is one of the many titles of G-d found in the T'nach and it means "mighty" or "powerful.". The verb "to be" is implicit in the expression עִמָּנוּ אֵל. Even modern names, like Benjamin Netanyahu have part of G-d's holiest name. ־יָהוּ -yahu are the first three letters of the Tetragrammaton (with vowels added to make them pronounceable). The passage is simply saying that the messiah will be called "The L-rd is our righteousness." -- a name also given to the city of Jerusalem. "In those days, Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell securely and this is the name that He shall call it the L-rd is our righteousness." Y'rmiyahu / Jeremiah 33:16.
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