QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

A STUDY OF JOHN CHAPTER 1

By Jeffrey D. Dean, Sr.

There are many scriptures that are TWISTED by the Trinitarians (or
outright mistranslated) in order to prove that Jesus is God. We will
discuss some of them, culminating in the grand daddy of them all, the
1st Chapter of the Gospel of John.

Question 1:
1 John 5:20.
We also know that the Son of God has come and has given
us understanding so that we may know the true God. We
are in union with the one who is true, his Son Jesus Christ.
He is the true God and eternal life.

The Trinitarians do the same thing with this verse they do

with the Gospel of John chapter 1. The subject in that verse
is that the Son of God has come in order that we may
KNOW GOD. God is the context here, (and that the Son
has shown us God). The concluding statement "He is the
true God and eternal life" is a reference to the
CONTEXTUAL SUBJECT, God. It's not even talking
about Christ in that verse when it says "He is the true God"
it's talking about the "GOD THAT CHRIST HAS SHOWN
US."

This is typical Trinitarian trickery playing games with

context. It only works on the gullible and ignorant and
small minded. Any intelligent and sincere seeker of truth
who reads it for themselves quickly see through it!

Question 2:
Romans 9:5
To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to
the flesh, Christ descended, who is God over all, blessed
forever. Amen.

The word "descended" in this verse does NOT exist in the

original text! Do you know how I know? In the King James
Version it is the word "came" and is in ITALICS (which
anyone who is thoroughly familiar with KJV knows that is
an admission of the translators that the word is ADDED).

This verse actually says:

"Whose the father's (a reference to Israel), and of whom as

concerning the flesh, Christ. (Christ came to Israel first,
offering salvation). Who is over all. (It does not say "who is
GOD over all" again they add to the text to make their
Trinitarian teaching appear in scripture). God blessed
forever. Amen"

If Christ is God he cannot be "God blessed," for he is the

blessor, not the blessee! That Christ is "over all" is never
in dispute! He has been GIVEN a name (by God) that is
above all names, and he has been PLACED OVER THE
ENTIRE KINGDOM, BY GOD. That does NOT MAKE
HIM GOD INCARNATE!
Question 3:
Titus
2:13 as we wait for the blessed hope and the glorious
appearance of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Here the Trinitarians DROP a word. In the original text this

verse reads:

"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing

of the great God and OUR Savior Jesus Christ."

The placement of "and our" phrase completely separates

the two subjects, making them separate in the text. In other
words we are awaiting the appearance of TWO THINGS.
"the great God" and "our Savior Jesus Christ."
When Christ sets up his kingdom "God shall be in the midst
of us" through the HOLY SPIRIT! God shall be "all in all"
according to scripture. Thus, Messiah's appearing is also
the appearance of the "ancient of days."

That Messiah and God are ONE is not in dispute. (So

naturally the appearance of Messiah and the appearance of
God occur at the same time and we are awaiting the event).
The problem with Trinitarianism is that they want to make
the ONENESS of Christ and the Father means that they are
the SAME PERSON, and this is not supported in scripture.

When Christ appears, the believers appear WITH HIM!

Does that make the believers "GOD" too, (since God is
appearing at the same time the believers appear and
Trinitarians want to say that means God and Christ are the
same).
Question 4:
John 20:28
Thomas answered him, saying "My Lord and my God!"

Again, here Trinitarians play game with translation:

John 20:27-28 (a real term translation in bold)

27 Then he (Messiah Yeshua) said to Thomas, "Reach here
your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and
put it into my side. Don't be faithless, but believing."
28 Thomas answered him, "My Kurios and my Theos!"

Here is how it is translated properly

John 20:27-28 (The True "Implied" Translation in bold)

27 Then he (Messiah Yeshua) said to Thomas, "Reach here
your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and
put it into my side. Don't be faithless, but believing."
28 Thomas answered him, "My Supreme Master and My
Supreme Godly Leader!"

This Trinitarian insistence that Messiah continually

accepted "worship" from others, as "God Almighty," is
very dishonest! That people prostrated themselves before
Messiah (which is what worship means), cannot be denied.
That they declared him to be the King of Kings is NEVER
IN DISPUTE! Messiah is a KING and as such men
"bowed" to him and men prostrated themselves before him.
Does this mean he was claiming to be God incarnate? If so,
then evidently the Pope is claiming to be God incarnate for
men prostrate themselves before him. Every monarch who
ever existed was claiming to be "God Incarnate," therefore,
using their argument!

Question 6:

Rom 10:13
For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be
saved."
Rom 1:7 To all in Rome who are loved by God and called
to be holy. May grace and peace from God our Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ be yours!
Act 2:36 Therefore, let the entire house of Israel
understand beyond a doubt that God made this Jesus,
whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!"

The term "Lord" denotes not a God, but a KING. That's

where the Trinitarians are notoriously confused. Anyone
who examines the WORDS of the text used to denote
"Lord" is going to immediately understand that calling
someone Lord does not make them God!
THE FIRST CHAPTER OF JOHN
The first chapter of John only APPEARS to say this as long
as you have the PRECONCEIVED NOTION of it. If you
read it without the unproved premise of Christ's deity, or of
his "pre-existence" you can clearly see that the text by itself
does not support it. It's like an "optical illusion" which
contains an image that you only see because it was
suggested to you that it is there!

Question 7:
John 1: 1
“ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God.”

John 1: 1
"1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God."

Okay, yes, this makes sense. God's word was in his own
mouth from the beginning and his word is his bond! (My
father used to say a man is only as good as his word). In
these sense God's word is God!

John 1: 2
"2 The same was in the beginning with God."
Yes, indeed, the God's Word was in the beginning with him
because it's God's word!

John 1: 3
"3 All things were made by him; and without him was not
any thing made that was made."

Okay, the CONTEXT and SUBJECT HERE IS GOD!

Since we know that the WORD IS NOT A HIM (the Word
is NOT A PERSON) and this says "made by him" the
ONLY HIM IDENTIFIED IN THE CONTEXT SO FAR
IS GOD. Thus, this verse merely says that all things were
made by GOD! Something that Genesis teaches us. The
only way we can make verse 3 apply to the "Word" is if we
have the PRECONCEIVED and UNPROVED PREMISE
that the WORD IS A PERSON. (Basic Trinity). Without
that, we have to defer verse 3 to the CONTEXT and accept
that verse 3 is saying this.

"3 All things were made by him: (God) and without him
(God) was not any thing made that was made."

John 1: 4
"4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men."

Okay, in God was life. Torah tells us this. That all life
came from God! That LIFE came forth from God and has
ALWAYS been described as a "light."
 John 1: 5
"5 And the light shined in a dark place; and the darkness
comprehended it not."

Again, this light is the same exact light that Christ was
referring to when he said to his followers "YOU are the
light of the world." Trinitarians make "the light shining in a
dark place" some sort of proof that Messiah existed with
God from the beginning. HOWEVER, we know that this
LIGHT was CREATED in Genesis 1: 3 so when
Trinitarians state that CHRIST IS THE LIGHT they
inadvertently ADMIT that CHRIST IS A CREATED
BEING!

When I was young I was at a Bible study with a leader in

our church. I pointed out that the Light was created in
Genesis and he and the entire study erupted against me. I
remember him saying "you're denying the deity of Christ"
and of course I was, but didn't really understand that I was.
I denied it. He said "you are saying that Christ was
created!" I told him, "actually, no it is you who are denying
the deity of Christ when you make the LIGHT a PERSON,
for the LIGHT is CREATED according to scripture." I
drove away that day with him standing in the driveway
yelling at me "YOU'RE DENYING THE DEITY OF
CHRIST, YOU'RE DENYING THE DEITY OF CHRIST."

It took me years to understand the significance of that study

that day!

John 1: 6
"6 There was a man sent from God, whose name is John."

Trinitarians and those who think Messiah claimed to "pre-

exist" with God always like to point to the scriptures where
Jesus says that he "came from God" or "came down from
Heaven." Yet HERE is a verse that says that JOHN was
sent from God! Are we to then conclude that John was also
God incarnate, or that John also "pre-existed" with God
before his birth?

Nonsense!

John 1: 7
"7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the
Light, that all men through him might believe”

I will break this verse down.

The same (John) came for a witness, to bear witness of the

Light (the created light that shines in a dark place and is
not comprehended) that all men through him (through
John) might believe," (in the light, and ultimately in God).

John 1:8
"8 He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that
 light."

This merely says that John was not the light, but came to
bear witness of that light. Yet, I could easily do what the
TRINITARIANS do, take verse 8 of context and say that
"He" in verse 8 is talking about CHRIST. Like so:

" He (Christ, him that John bears witness of) was not that
light, but was sent to bear witness of that light."

I could do this, but it would be dishonest! Here is what the

verse is really saying:

"He (John) was not that light, but came to bear witness of
that light."

John 1:9
"9 That was the true light, which lights every man that
comes into the world."

This makes it clear that this is the SPIRITUAL LIGHT that

was created before even the FIRST DAY in Genesis. It's
not a HE or a PERSON (well actually it is since the LIGHT
was the PLAN OF SALVATION and pertains to Christ
directly).

John 1: 10
"10 He was in the world and the world was made by him,
and the world knew him not."
Trinitarians want the "He" in verse 10 to be CHRIST. Thus,
verse 10 is saying that the world was made by Christ. This
is NOT the case however. Again, the CONTEXT of John
Chapter 1 is GOD! So far the only TWO PERSONS
mentioned in John chapter 1 are GOD and John the Baptist!
Since verse 10 says "HE was in the world" we have to go
back to the CONTEXT to figure out WHO HE IS! Since
we know that John the Baptist did not create the world, we
know that the "HE" in verse 10 is GOD HIMSELF. The
only way you can make it JESUS is to make the LIGHT A
PERSON! You have to have a PRECONCEIVED
NOTION and have accepted a false and unproved premise
that the LIGHT, is a PERSON, in order to make verse 10
be a reference to Christ! Here's what verse 10 says:

" He (God) was in the world, and the world was made by
him, and the world knew him not."

God was in the world from the very beginning! There is so

much testimony of this in the Torah and the Tanakh that it
cannot be denied. God was in the world from the beginning
and the world never really KNEW him. (Only a chosen few
of whom God said, "you alone out of the nations of the
earth have I known).

John 1: 11
"11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not."
God indeed came to his own (Israel) and they rejected him
time and time again! Now the story begins to turn to the
SUBJECT OF SALVATION THROUGH ISRAEL'S
ACCEPTANCE OF THE LIGHT THROUGH MESSIAH
(of whom John the Baptist testified).

John 1: 12
"12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to
become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his
name:"

But as many as received the TESTIMONY OF JOHN, and

FOLLOWED MESSIAH, to THEM God gave power to
become sons of God, even to them that believe on His
(God's) name.

John 1: 13
"13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."

Those who received the testimony of God and followed

Messiah were "not born of blood, nor of the will of the
flesh," they are "born of God." Again, Trinitarians try to
make verse 13 talking about Christ but it's not it clearly
says "which were" and the context is "them that believe on
God's name" through John the Baptist's testimony!

John 1: 14
 "14 And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,
(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten
of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

Messiah was indeed "the created word of God." Every

word he spoke was "from the Father" by his own
testimony. This does NOT make him God incarnate! We
who believe ALSO become the "word of God" and "living
epistles." Saying that Messiah is "the word made flesh"
does NOT mean that he is the PERSON of God. The only
way this can be true is if we ACCEPT THE
PRECONCEIVED NOTION AND UNPROVED
PREMISE THAT THE WORD IS A PERSON! They
haven't PROVED this yet (and in fact they've never proved
it). They are simply ACCEPTING IT. To them, the logic is.
"The word was God, the word became flesh, Jesus is the
word made flesh, therefore Jesus is God." Yet the ONLY
WAY for this to work is if they PROVE the premise that
the WORD IS A PERSON!

Even the Catholics will tell you they have NO

SCRIPTURAL PROOF that the WORD IS A THIRD
PERSON of the TRINITY! It's something that they
DEMAND WE TAKE ON FAITH. But considering this
creates THREE GODS, and IS HERESY, it's not a wise
thing to take it on faith!

One has to take a lot of false premises on FAITH in order

for the 1st Chapter of John to be a DEFINITIVE PROOF of
the DEITY OF CHRIST! The Chapter simply DOES NOT
SAY THIS without preconceived notions of the TRINITY!

In fact, if the Trinitarians interpretation of the 1st Chapter

of John is TRUE then God is not a TRIUNE GOD, but is a
QUADRINITY! For the Trinitarians say that the LIGHT IS
A HE and that IT IS ALSO CHRIST! Thus the LIGHT IS
A FOURTH PERSON OF THE GODHEAD, according to
the Trinitarians reading of John chapter 1! Nowhere does it
say that the Light is the SAME PERSON as God, yet
Trinitarians state that the Light and God existed from the
very beginning together. Thus, the LIGHT is a FOURTH
PERSON of the GODHEAD and has completely been
OVERLOOKED by the Trinitarians!

Yet John Chapter 1 makes a statement that PROVES that

Jesus Christ is NOT GOD:

John 1: 18
"No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son,
which is in the bosom of the Father, he has DECLARED
him."

First John states that no man has seen God at ANY TIME!
(This directly contradicts the Trinitarians claims that Christ
claimed to be God when he said "he who has seen me has
seen the Father." We now know that Christ was speaking
figuratively, otherwise when John wrote his Gospel years
later and said "no man has seen God at any time," he would
have been MISTAKEN on that point). Yet, here in verse 18
John also says that Christ is "in the bosom of the Father."
He does not say that he IS the Father!

Anyone who wants to turn John chapter 1 into a teaching

proof of the trinity is just DISHONEST. Before you can
say that this chapter is proof of the trinity and deity of
Christ, you have to the following 3 things FIRST before
you ever even READ it:

1. The word is a person

2. The light is a person
3. Christ pre-existed

If you read the chapter WITHOUT the above 3

preconceived beliefs, it does NOT TEACH TRINITY AT
ALL but teaches quite the opposite in fact!